Well this week was filled with so many exciting events and I will make a sad attempt to relate what all happened. So to start things off...
[Gringo listening to the conference in their native tongue]
We had multi-zone conference in corrientes on wednesday. It was a typical and was pretty fun. But an hour into the training, Elder Cortés(from our zone) got sick... well he had been uneasy for a couple days and he got anxiety in the 3 hour shuttle ride and by the time the conference started, he wasnt looking very good. He spent an hour in the bathroom and finally president sent him and his comp to a medical clinic to get checked out. Turned out that he had an ¨Ataque de hígado¨ and they gave him some medication. Sister Patanía(presidents wife) didnt want him to travel with the rest of the zone. So I stayed with him in corrientes capital for the night and we traveled thursday at noon. There was an exciting change to mission rules. Now, there is a list of 55 approved movies that we are allowed to watch. Ranging from toy story, Emperor's new groove, to coco and moana.... So I will be making trips to the local ¨Video Club¨ here in Goya and buy as many pirated disney movies as I can. [^^ Group of us at the multi-zona]
General conference was historical and amazing. We had a great time watching the conference from the family history room in our church as gringos. There was an endless supply of donuts made by Elder Rubisch, A sad excuse for peach cobbler from Elder Keicher, and some amazing zuccini and apple bread from the hermanas. Needless to say conference was uplifting physically and spiritually. I had so many favorite talks and loved and the new progams and reorganizing of organizations. To me, it is a way to break tradition and focus on the center of the gospel. In the book of mormon, I have been taking to notice how much it warns us about the ¨traditions of our fathers¨ and how such traditions can cause us to fall and miss the point of the gospel. I feel that our Heavenly Father wanted to break such traditions in our church so that we, his servants, can hasten the work more effectively. Without a living prophet, such revelation couldnt be recieved.
Well I am drawing a blank on what else to relate. The work is moving along. We had an investigator come to the sunday morning session who hadnt gone to church in over 2 years. It is an investigator that we dropped because she wasnt progession at all and was flat out lying to us . But we decided to go back this past week and invite her to conference. andshe went! So we will be doing some following up with her. Joaquin wont be baptized this saturday abecause we need him and his dad to come to church first. So I´ll keep you updated on that!
I hope you all have a great week and will follow the prophets adivce to really study these conference talks as they come out! have a great week!
Elder Keicher
[FHE with the Rodrigues family]
[Me with one of my favorite comps in the mission]
[This was my friday lunch!!]
[The zone (most of it)]
