Week 99 --- 3 Weeks


SQUAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well this week was pretty good, I´m gonna tell y’all a story, soooo for 2 weeks I´ve been sick, and last Monday, I decided to go to a doctor, and he was like bro you got pharyngitis, you need to rest! So I was pretty bummed, and I was in the house of our mission leader for lunch, and his dad who works in radiology heard my cough and he said “I need to take you to my work for an x-ray of your lungsS.”  o we went, and he did the x-ray, and told me bro I´m pretty sure you got bronchitis, so he sent me to another doctor who specializes in that kind of stuff.  He looked at the x-ray, and listened to my breathing, and my cough, and was like bro that´s bad, you got bronchitis. Then they gave me a bunch of meds. So you could say these last 2 weeks I haven´t been 100%, but regardless we were able to have success.

So remember Serigio, well he´s dope, he continues to come to church each week, and our branch organizes a Family Home Evening kind of activity every other Sunday, and now Sergio goes to those activities, and he doesn´t just go he participates. It´s so hard for me knowing that he has a testimony of the restored gospel, but still can´t make the decision to be baptized.

Also we had zone conference this last week, and every zone conference the missionaries who are going home that transfer have to share their last testimony, sooooooooo I had to share my last testimony, it´s getting real that I´m ending my mission. 3 weeks left!

Sorry the email isn´t too long, but like I said I´ve been sick for the last 2 weeks, and I just don´t remember a lot of what happened.

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Elder Keaton Jorgensen
Argentina Mendoza Mission

Week 98 - Elder Castro's birthday

No group email this week, but Facundo did post photos from Elder Castro's birthday party on June 14th.

Week 97 --- Progreso will be the death of me...

SQUAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How y’all doing? I know I didn´t write last week, and I´m sorry. I have some things to share. To start I should probably explain the title, because just reading it, it might seem like there are some problems going on, but it´s not true. I was simply referring to the fact that I will die here in Progreso which is missionary slang to say that I will be end my mission here. I got a new companion, and for those who aren’t keeping track that would be 3 companions in one area. WOW!  Sooo yeah, we had a pretty good week. We were able to teach a lot. 15 lessons this week! We also found 14 new investigators. 

So my new companion is Elder Castro, he´s from Mexico, he speaks really good English.  When we are in the apartment, we pretty much talk only English.

Sad thing, Sergio, our investigator who was supposed to be baptized, told us he isn´t ready which to me is kinda weird, because he told us that he knows the Book of Mormon is the word of God, he believes everything we have taught. He said he´s just a little scared to make such an important decision. So we are gonna see what we can do to help him.

Sorry I ran out of time, I´ll tell y’all more next week.



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Elder Keaton Jorgensen
Argentina Mendoza Mission




Week 96

No group email again, but Facundo posted a picture of Keaton with his new companion.



Week 95 --- It's been a minute

SQUAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I´m sorry that it´s been so long since I´ve written. Sooooo I thought I should probably write something. Well right now we are teaching this guy, Sergio, he´s been to church 4 times already, and if all goes well he´ll be baptized this Saturday. He at first had doubts about the Book of Mormon, so he decided to do something he had always done with the Bible when he needed some help, he opened it up to a random page and reads, and many times when he did this he opened up to a chapter that started with "My son" He always felt that was God´s way of speaking to him, and he opened up to Alma 41 and the first thing it starts off with " And now, my son," Then that chapter answered many of his questions and doubts. People the Book of Mormon is powerful. Read it, ponder it, pray about it.  It will help you.
Another dude, Manuel, he´s dope, he came to church for the second time yesterday, and he will be baptized June 9th. In our second lesson with him he said the Book of Mormon was true. I say it again the Book of Mormon is powerful.

Well that´s all I got for this week, BYE!

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Elder Keaton Jorgensen
Argentina Mendoza Mission

Just so you know I cook and clean now, yes that´s my bed
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Week 94

Radio interview with the local station

Elder Jorgensen cooking Chilean food (photos courtesy of Facundo)


Week 93

No group email today, so I will just post pictures from our Mother's Day Skype as well as pictures taken earlier in the week by Facundo.