May 23, 2016

Awe familia! Estoy agradecidos por ustedes! Enserio! I’m so grateful for you guys! Seriously!  I’m glad that those experiences were good! I hope my Castellano is getting better. I have noticed that even now while I write I am thinking of the Spanish words that I want to say. I’m glad that my testimony and messages are helping. It’s hard sometimes because I don’t know what to say. The week is full of little experiences but they go by so fast.

This week was a little frustrating because I had to take the lead in planning and I am still getting used to it, haha but I did it and it was good. 

Right now our goal is to reactivate members with our branch. There are members but we only have a few active. It’s so interesting to me because it’s so easy to go back to your old life. It’s so easy, and Satan knows that. He uses that and it’s really hard to reactivate people sometimes because once they go back to their old lives it’s more of an effort to return to this gospel. One thing that we preach a lot is action with your faith. In this gospel we need to act in our faith. It’s a constant effort. Fe sin obras es muerta. (Faith, without works, is dead, James 2:26)

We went on divisiones (splits) this week two times. I am always scared to do them but when I’m doing it, it’s such a great opportunity for me to take the lead and get to know the people better. I went on divisiones with the president of the rama (the branch) and then yesterday I went with an Elder! It really helps us when we can do that.

Sundays usually are the highlight of our weeks unless we have a baptism, but this Sunday was really awesome. We had 9 investigators in church and there are some really awesome people. 

This week we had to take a remis (taxi) and I was paying so I was in front. Usually the person in front is the one that talks to the person. I started to talk with him and have a conversation, and talk about religion and family and my companion helped me invite him to church. It was an amazing experience for me because, when I got here I thought, “Wow how am I ever going to be able to do that?” And now I can do that better.

In this gospel, families are so important, and I know that when you share with people that our gospel is about families they listen. Family is something that is so close to us. It’s close to us because it’s such a divine unit. familias son de Dios. Families are of god. After all we have a celestial family. I know that it’s true.

Mauro and Pablo are brothers and their baptism is this Saturday. They really like going to church. Pablo is about 13 and Mauro is 11. They are good most of the times, but sometimes they are a little wild. But it’s always fun getting to know the children.

Other than that, that was my week. I love you all and am so grateful for your examples and your testimonies!

Elder Wolf

The jersey that I have is a river jersey. Here you are either River or Boca and I just chose one to choose one haha.

Also a family gave us avocados! I am still in awe with how big they are!!

A sunset

This is churrizo on the grill.  Se llama churripan! We eat it like a hotdog.

Elder Vonasek, I got to see him today.

This is a picture of both the zones.