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I apologize for that,
it was uncalled for, but I´m just so darn happy right now! So we had another
amazing week, we found another 23 new investigators, and Gabriel got baptized!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He had such a long journey to get there, he had a lot of problems. He was a
drinker, a smoker, he went to clubs with the ladies, he had 2 kids, and a
broken relationship with the mother. When he came to the missionaries he said
he had to change to be a better father for his kids. He stopped drinking,
smoking, going to the clubs. This experience has strengthened my testimony
about the power of the atonement, that no one is truly too far gone. It makes
me think of something President Uchtdorf said in a talk he gave a while back,
"Just as the Good Shepherd finds His lost sheep, if you will only lift up
your heart to the Savior of the world, He will find you." I absolutely
love this quote, and it applies to each and every one of us.
To make this baptism
happen was not an easy task. Satan was putting in the work to make it not
happen, the hardest part was getting Gabriel to his baptism, sooo it was a few
minutes before his baptism was supposed to start, and he still wasn´t there, so
we went to look for him. We get to his house, and a river had flooded everywhere,
sooo we had to find some higher ground and fight through weeds that were my
height, I fell into a ditch, then eventually we see him throwing bricks across
the water to make a path to walk, he took a while but eventually we all got out
and got to the baptism. We started almost an hour late, but it happened.
So interesting thing
happened this week, we meet this guy right, and he showed us a special plant in
his house... he grows his own marijuana. Then he explained all the different
ways to use it, he said he really likes to make brownies with it, and then
explained how one time when he made those weed brownies he left them on the
table to cool down, and when he got back little children had eaten half the
pan. So that was interesting...
Hey guys next week if
things go well we will have another baptism, sooooo we are pretty happy.
I also got to go on
exchanges with Elder Thompson, he´s the GOAT. I love that man.
That´s all I got this
week! BYE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Elder
Keaton Jorgensen
Argentina
Mendoza Mission
Description of photos:
Baptism
We
made empanadas again, cuz why not, we are really talented
weed
guy
Elder
Thompson
