HOLA!

We had an awesome week again here in Argentina, and I know we are being blessed by the Lord. We had a great lesson with a girl named Analia whose mom is less active and she was going to get baptized when she was 12 but then the missionary that was teaching her got transferred and so she didn´t want to. 

She is 19 now and we asked her if she believed that the Book of Mormon was true she just said, "Yeah, I think I´ve always known it was true, I´ve never really had doubts about it" and then she said the closing prayer and asked that Heavenly Father bless us, the missionaries, that we can go and teach people about the true church. She has some problems with smoking, so we took her cigarettes away from her. It was funny because they didn´t believe that it was our first time ever holding a pack of cigarettes.

We had stake conference this weekend and it was really difficult to focus for me because I couldn´t understand what they were saying. When they are bearing their testimonies and teaching gospel principles I can understand, but as soon as they start telling stories, forget about it. 

The session on Sunday was a broadcast to the whole country and Elder Bowen of the Seventy, Elder Clayton of the Presidency of the Seventy, and Elder Russell M. Nelson all spoke to us in Spanish. I think Elder Bowen and Elder Clayton both served as mission presidents in spanish countries, but we´re pretty positive that Elder Nelson was just reading his talk from Spanish. I could mostly understand what they were saying. 

We also had the baptisms of Kevin and Uriel yesterday, and that was so awesome. We were going to baptize their adopted uncle, but he didn´t have permission from his mom yet. Elder Pastrana baptized Uriel, who is the cutest little 10 year old kid and I baptized Kevin, his 12 year old brother. They are the sons of Alejandra, the woman we baptized last week. Uriel is so cool, he was so excited for his baptism and Kevin kept making jokes that he wasn´t going to get baptized. 

We´re planning on focusing on finding this week, so we´ll be asking referrals from everyone, so pray for us! Loved hearing that Nana is out of the hospital, woohoo! 

I love you and I just know how true the Gospel is, because there is no way we are convincing people that the Book of Mormon is true or that Joseph Smith was a prophet. All we do is try to set up some kind of atmosphere where the Spirit can testify the truth of these things. We as missionaries just get the privilege of being here when miracles happen. 

Con amor,

Elder Wardle

Fun facts: Everything is made out of concrete here. EVERYTHING. All the buildings, they don´t have any steel or anything. As soon as the Second Coming comes and there are earthquakes in diverse places, Buenos Aires is going to collapse.

Oh and milk here is sold in bags. I have no idea why. I´ll take a picture and send it.