This letter was too great not to post!! He made this song up! Sing it to A Child's Prayer. It sure does a mama's heart good to read this. He sounds so great. I am so thankful to a loving Heavenly Father for the restored Gospel.
July 1, 2013
July 1, 2013
7:04 AM (4 hours ago)
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Earthly Mother are you really there
and do you read and reply to every email
some say that saffor is far away
but I feel it close around me as I email!
Type she is there
send she is waiting
I am her missionary
her love now sorounds me
Earthly Mother I remember when
Jesus told desiples long ago
suffer the missionaries to go to cyber
mother in cyber Im coming now to you
type she is there
send she is waiting
I am her missionary
her love now sorounds me
hahah I hope that you liked the song that I sing on the way to email haha! Thank you so much for the letter Dallin! It made me really happy to hear from you and all of the adventures that are going on! That is great that you found a job and are doing so well with your callings! You sure do make me a proud brother! I only have one question why are you dating so much! I already had a moment of silence for the loss of my older sister I do not want to do the same for you! haha no chesday en serio!
El Baptismo del tres jovenes: This last weekend we were able to baptize three young men. Two from a less active family and one from a family that is investigating. (the parents are on the way) The baptism went well and the spirit was really strong, it didnt start til 45 minutes late but that is the same with everything here in Argentina! After wards we were cleaning up and draining the faunt, the faunt does not drain directly into the sewer it has a pump and has to be pumped out but the pump wasnt working. After playing around with it for several minutes I grabbed some buckets from the cleaning closet and intended to bucket it all out. After realizing that I wasnt playing around my companion sugjested that we say a prayer so we could get out and work. That day the Lord showed us in his inffinait mercie that he blesses us with miracles or he blesses us with the ability to do it ourselves. We drained the whole faunt by hand! Haha it was a interesting experience, we would fill the bucket and dump it in one of the toilets and then do it again. It took a fairly decent amount of time but we gotit done and then we got out there and went to work! Nothing crazy happened that day but we worked hard and we were dedicated to find, teach, and baptize. It was a good feeling! I dont know how to describe it but I am always afraid that I am not doing enough. I am so afraid that I am going to come back from my mission and feel like I could have been a better missionary and done more and worked harder. It is like the feeling I get when I am in the middle of a big test. It stinks but it keeps me working hard and pushing myself and I dont think it will go away until I am released. The mission has been amazing for me, in such a loving way the Lord has shown me that I am nothing, that without me his work would progress without faultering. But at the same time I know that my being out here will be monumental, and has been thus far! If for no one else other then myself! I am come so far as a person and as a missionary but I can see more clearly the amazing amount that I lack and every aspect! It is amazing that the Lord can teach me these things but I still feel so loved, and it is through these experiences that I have learned the absolute most important thing in missionary work is love. If you truly love the people you are serving then you can call them to repentance and teach them doctrine and they will know that you are doing that because you truly want the best for them and they will respond in such ways that would never be posible with the lack of that love! Oh mi palabra the church is true! haha It is hard to explain how you feel as a missionary but it is something that is different for sure!
A little more about Argentina: I dont know what pictures you are looking at because I cover some pretty ghetto areas. Like people have cement/mudd walls, dirt floors, and pull their matresses out of the dump. Like there are some pretty under developed areas out here. But I do have some pretty nice homes as well, nice for Argentina of course. But I am pretty much aclitmated to it now and I havent really got sick from the food. I have been eating pretty normally. Okay so some odd things I have seen here, there is this guy who drives around a horse and buggy with a mega phone and announces what he has in his cart at that time. I saw some lady breast feading on the bus the other day without covering up at all, haha I guess that is pretty common and is really distracting during lessons haha. And a run away horse running down the road away from his owner! haha also all the missionaries have told me to watch out for worms,snakes, and dragons not in the literall sence; snakes are girls that are really flirtasious with the gringo missionaries. Worms range from really young to about 15, from 15 to 29 the are snakes, and from 30 and up they are dragons. hahaha I guess there is an old lady that likes to pinch the missionaries behinds on the busses haha! oh argentina!
But yeah everything is great! I have been working hard and studdying really diligently and have learned so much, both spanish and doctinal things. You are all amazing and I love you all so much! Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers (please pray that I will get taller)! Much love,
Elder Evans El Meno
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