Hey Capos!
How goes it! Man you guys are awesome! Super spiritualized
with fasting and temple work, I’m super glad to hear that Marlowe and the rest
of the family are doing alright! And that you guys are doing great!
Recreo is the bees of knees. I almost forgot what normal was
while I was in Galvez, for reals. I love Galvez but there are so many weird
people there, and in Recreo I’ve met a ton of super cool families.
I met Olga and her family. Her daughter was visiting from
Rosario and we were able to teach them about faith. Olga was recently baptized
and she was very excited when we came over. Now when her daughter is in Rosario
she can have the confidence to talk to the missionaries there.
Later I met the family Brito (burrito) and we were able to
talk to them about the plan of salvation, especially after this last conference.
And the father expressed some super cool feeling about the fact that this is
the only church with all of this plan, and is the only path where he can have
the most happiness with all of his family forever. That seems like what really
is god’s plan for him and his family.
Later we met Monica and her super funny kids that are
totally down to do our laundry. So my clothes finally got a full wash in a
washing machine! This family is totally sassy but they were recently converted
and have plans for going to the temple and we were able to show them the Mormon
message on temples. If you haven’t seen this video, it is super cool and called
“Temples Are A Beacon," and President Monson talks about how there is no
sacrifice too big to receive the blessings of the temple.
We have a family of investigators, mostly the son Kevin is
interested in the church, and he has come a few times. But we’ve been teaching
them all. The other son has a huge drug problem, and he is totally fried, and
not there, and can’t sit still or anything. So we gave him a blessing, later we
came back and taught the plan of salvation, and they knew this plan was true,
because since that blessing, her son has not taken any kind of drug since. And
for the first time in a long time, he has been able to sit down and have a
conversation with his mom. That was a huge testimony builder on this family, of
the reality of priesthood power.
Check it… we have been getting lunches and dinners all over
the place. And they are way good. The family Villagrez invited us over for
lunch, and this family is nutz at lunch time. Once 12PM hits, everyone gets
back from work, and everyone is about 20 years old or more with wives and babies,
and they eat lunch together every day. So we show up at this house for lunch
and we are waiting to eat with the parents, when… boom! This huge crowd of
Villagrez comes in just going nutz with the Millanessas! It’s totally fun,
because one is a cop, another is an artist. One loves twilight, another loves
making fun of everyone, and they are totally cool.
Also the family Chavez feeds us too, they are not members,
but they kind of feel like they are, except for the fact they are not baptized
and never come to church. But they make good food. They made us some kind of
crepe enchilada. It was crepes filed with spinach, covered in some kind of chicken
sauce. They are super cool with a bunch of younger kids that love scary movies,
especially Chucky. They think Chucky is a great movie. Especially Joaquin. He´s
like 6 years old. Elder Andrew tried bringing up Lord of the Rings and they
made fun of him hard core. Saying, “What, do you like Harry Potter too?" Then
we just had a long conversation on the crazy fanatics of Lord of the Rings and
such.
I had some really legit asado the other day. Our lunch fell
through on Friday so we just put out a mass group text to the ward saying whoever
can answer first can eat asado with the missionaries, we´ll bring the meat and they’ll
cook it. That gets the old Argentinian guys every time! So we ate with Lalo. He’s
a champ and kills it with the asado. And he made us some salad and bread also. It
was so much meat though, because we showed up and he was like "no way that’s
not enough!" And he went and bought another kilo and a half more of meat.
Son we had already bought a kilo. It was good times with Lalo.
Church was awesome because there were like 89 people there. Apparently
there is only like 50 most Sundays, but a huge combination of menos activos and
investigators showed up. So church was pretty cool. It’s totally a legit
chapel. And it was a great testimony meeting, and I really appreciated Lalo´s
testimony when he said that this could only be the church of Jesus Christ
because it is the only church that can clean us from sin, because it is the lord’s
church. It reminded me of that talk that Elder Ballard gave at conference that
I really like, where he explains, "Where will you go?" If you leave
the church of Jesus Christ. It’s only through the Church of Jesus Christ that
you can completely be healed of all pains and receive all the blessings he´s
laid before us. It’s true though, where would you go if you left the Church of Jesus
Christ?
After church the bishop invited us over for lunch with all
of his family and extended family. It was a crazy lunch also because at the end
of every lunch they have mandarins. And apparently it’s a thing for the family
members to save up their mandarin peels, then randomly at the table the bishop
will start throwing mandarin peels, and it turns into a giant mandarin peel
fight. I had no idea and I totally had a disadvantage. Elder Andrew says they
do it every time they have lunch with them. It’s just a thing they do.
The bishop is hilarious. He knows a little English, and you
know that the missionaries taught him, because he says some things he probably shouldn’t
say. But he loves it.
So far Recreo is awesome, it’s another campo town, and campo
towns are awesome because you still get those crazy people and good times.
I love you guys. The work is too awesome. We are putting the
puzzle back together. It’s fantastic!
Elder Greene
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