this week has been a great week, it was stressful but in the end turned out great. biggest event of the week was passing november 1st the day i arrived to argentina one year ago, i bought myself a pizza and soda and celebrated. its was a great year, and i cant wait to see what the second year has in store.
so this week was fairly normal, i spent most of the work traveling around tacurambo (the state of uruguay in which i am in right now) seeing how the other missionaries are doing, i ran into an old buddy of mine elder vera from paraguay, i met him when i was in rivera and had just begun, he was at his year mark, now hes getting ready to go home in december, we celebrated my year mark together. saturday all the leaders of the church of tacurambo ( more or less 200 people) came to the stake center (the main church building in tbo) and my companion elder silviera and i had to give a training seminar on how the members and leaders need to work with the missionaries. i was super intimidated and felt very very inadequate before hand, but its amazing how powerful the Spirit of God is, and how it can direct us in times of need. in the end the seminar went well even though my spanish kind of went hay wire because i was nervous but i think they understood for the most part. this week all the missionaries of tbo are traveling to another state called artigas along with all the missionaries of rivera to have a conference. there will be 100 sum odd missionaries there and many of my friends that i cant wait to see.
This week we have been working with the rodriguez family even more, they came to church this sunday all dressed up. their 7 year old daughter has SOOO much energy, she was going crazy in the church, but she followed me around everywhere, and would not stop playing with my scriptures, i think she has a crush on me (what can i say im a lady killer) but shes adorable. the whole family is changing, the father was an alcoholic but has given up drinking, the wife didnt have a belief in God, and they were on the point of getting divorced. time and time again its amazing to me, what a small belief can change. all the had was the desire to make things better and the smallest sliver of hope, that they could save their family, and thats enough, if we let that hope work in us, until it slowly but surely grows into a tiny seed of faith, and when we nourish that tiny seed of faith, it grows into a great testimony, with the strength to wishstand the mightiest rain storm that this work can throw at it. if all we can do is hope and desire, it is enough if we let it grow within us. the Rodriguez family has been a giant example to me, of the power of even the smallest sliver of hope can create, and i know it is the same for every one of us.
love you guys.
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