July 9, 2012

Know that my family is my pride and joy. I love you all so much. Don`t think I`ve forgotten about you and Jordan, Melyn! I love you, too! (Even though you don`t write me like you promised... ahem, ahem... ;)) Hahaha! 

So Marta and Jorge are doing fantastic! They had gone to church last week, and the next time we went over was Thursday night with Alan Krebs, our ward mission leader and good friend of mine. We kind of drilled baptism and marriage... I asked them how they felt about the church and the BoM, if they thought itwas all true. Their answer was beautiful. They both said... Yes, I believe that everything you guys have taught us and are teaching us is true. I believe it with all my heart. The Book of Mormon is true, and we know the church is true. We feel so good there. What a wonderful answer!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyway, they still haven`t made any wedding preparations... They want to be sure of the ir feelings and their answers before they make a concrete decision, which is good I guess... Haha! OBviously it`s better than them just jumping into the water without putting their foot in to make sure it was warm enough. Sometimes, people get baptized so soon, that they forget to get converted and somewhere down the road... Lose their way.

Anyway, so they came to church yesterday, and we taught them about the Sacrament. One of the things that has been bothering Marta was the fact that after being baptized, she would have to be PERFECT. She was worried that failing God would make her even MORE condemned and all of those worries and stuff. We explained that the Sacrament is like a mini baptism! That every week we have the opportunity to be clean of all our sins, she took that and began beaming... I asked her to say the closing prayer, and in it... She declared to God that she was so grateful for having listened to the lesson because it was something that help her step closer to being baptized. Those were her words. WOW!!! They loved it all. We are going over tonight for Family Night to watch the Testaments with them and eat pizza or something like that... 

E. Healey is doing well! We actually get along great! Personalities are really different, but I`ve learned to love anyone... (just about anyone) ;) And We are doing well together, happy and working well. His castellano needs work, obviously... But he gets better every day. He`s from Alpine, Utah. He comes from a family of 7. Really good kid. Really happy and willing to work all the time. It`s good motivation for me to always do my best and set that good example that will mirror how he will be for the rest of his mission. 

Anyway, I have to go... I still have to write the new president who we will meet tomorrow in the morning. I love you so much, Mom, Jared, Dad, Melyn. Family and friends, I love you all as well. The Gospel is true. Marta and Jorge know it. Their family loves the church and we are having so many spiritual experiences with them. When people are open and willing to the Gospel... Miracles happen! It`s wonderful. Anyway, Until next week! 

Amor, 

E. Cuthbert 

July 2, 2012

So E. Wagstaff left on Monday, he was crying a lot... Well, yeah, the first area is hard! Leaving an area is always a big pain in the behind. It`s terrible leaving so many wonderful friendships and family. But anyway, he left and I stayed with my best friend in the mish, E. Lee. We were both going up to Neuquèn to grab children... Haha. So we stayed until Tuesday afternoon, and then got on the long bus up to Neuquèn! Such a long ride... We started at 5:30pm and didn`t get to Neuquèn until 8:00am the next morning... What a long ride! Anyway, we got to the mission home and did service for Pte. Peterson. They were cleaning up the entire house and grounds in preparation for the new mission president. So we were doing that, and then we saw all the new missionaries walk by... FOUR Gringos!!! Me and E. Lee were hoping and hoping that we would get a gringo! So we had lunch, and then a metting with everyone. Then Pte. went into his room to pray and receive the revelation as to who would go with who. I was looking around at the newbies, and picked out two that I didn`t want. I know, bad, but... It was a subconscious thing... I just did it. Anyway, One was this gringo that was really short, with REALLY pale skin, who didn`t say anything to anybody. Just sat around and was being awkward. The other was a mean Latino who wasn`t being cool at all. Really rude. Anyway... So the Pte. came out and said, alright, let`s put you with your companions.

 

And guess who I`m with? The short, awkward gringo. Hahahahahahahahaha! How Heavenly Father LOVES kicking us in the butt! Heh, His name`s E. Healey! He doesn`t understand a lick of Castellano, obviously, I know that I was put with him for a reason. Pte. looked around and said: I had nothing to do with these companionships... The Lord wants you two together. You are all together because the Lord know`s that you two were meant to be together. And so, here we are! E. Healey and I have been working the week together, and it hasn`t been... THAT bad. Ha, I don`t have anything to complain about, really... He is just really indifferent about everything. I ask him what he wants to eat: I don`t know. What do you want to do? I don`t know. Are you alive? I don`t know. HAHA! But anyway, he obviously didn`t socialize much before the mission. He is a ballroom dancer, and that is what he said was his favorite "sport". I just kind of stood there when he told me that was his favorite "sport". I was expecting something with a little more action. When we`re in lessons, he begins speaking in english, supposing that they`re going to understand. But anyway, it`s awesome! We`re getting along well... Haha, he`s really funny, but not by what he says. He HATES the cold, so he puts on a giant scarf and hat and gloves and GIANT coat... He does`n`t want to be cold!!!

 

MARTA AND JORGE CAME TO CHURCH!!!! WHAT A ¨WONDERFUL family!!!! WHOOOOOTTT!!! I`m FLYING through the air! So we went by Saturday night, but they had visitors... So we couldn`t teach them, but I wanted to hurry and invite them to church. I said, hey, you`re invited to - - - She cut me off right there with - Tomorrow? Church, right? Yeah, we`re coming! My jaw dropped to the bottom of the floor, E. Healey had to grab it and start cramming it into my back pocket because it was so long. After cleaning up my surprised jaw, and after it was all crammed in my pocket, I said, YES! COME!

That morning, bright and early at 9:30, they showed up on the DOT! What a wonderful family! Through the entire church service, they were such good sports! They loved everything. Jorge, who had never been to a church in his life, felt like he was "at home" he said. "I felt really comfortable there! Almost like I had already been there!" I was just grinning from ear to ear. What miracles... What absolute, miracles. I am so happy with them. So it was fast and testimony meeting, so a lot of people were talking about Joseph Smith. They asked me afterwards, Why so much about Joseph Smith? So we promised to come by that night and explain it.

 

We went over and explained the importance of the prophets, and then how Joseph Smith was called. Then we watched the first half of Joseph Smith: `Prophet of the Restoration. I left my DVD over there so they could watch the rest. At the end, they both had the lightbulb on top of their head blinking a million miles per hour, They understood EXACTLY why everyone testified of him. What an incredible... Family. Jorge met a member who he had picked up a few days before off the side of the road when it was FREEZING cold. This member saw him and Jorge saw him and they started freaking out, What a SMALL world this is! And Marta knew a sister who had worked her in the hospital clinic before. Miracles and wonderful blessings from on high! I`m speaking like I`m from the Middle Ages, but I don`t care! This family is the Leprochans pot of GOLD! I did NOT spell leprochan right! Mirta had an experience where she and Valentina got locked inside their house. COMPLETELy locked. She began to pray to God that he would help them, and then their door magically unlocked itself and they were able to leave... UHHHHH, MIRACLES??! How many times do I have to say that sweet word? MIRACLES!!!!!!!!! Anyway, I love them to death. Jorge wanted us to know that he wanted the best for his family, he began to tear up again. Wow.

 

We`re doing well. We`re happy. I`m super happy. Doing P90X every day and loving it! Send my best to everyone... I love you all.

E. Cuthbert

June 25, 2012

You bought a SCOOTER??! What is happening to my family right now?! So many things have changed! Hahahahaha, I love you guys so much! I can only imagine you guys scooting around on a scooter! Heh! What model and make is it? Is it FAST? Ha, Mom, EVERYONE rides scooters here. Ha, it`s so funny. The majority of all people have a scooter, because cars here are SUPER EXPENSIVE. But that`s so cool that you did that! You still have the Camry, right? Haha, Mother, that`s so funny! I told you to stop sending me packages! When are you going to listen to your son? Anyway, I won`t argue, I`ve got A LOT of stuff to say.

 

First of all, I did get Dani`s letter this last week, made me really happy.. :) Anyway...

 

So on Monday we went to Sarmiento, about 2 hours away from Comodoro with the Bishop to see the Petrified Forest. A desert with a bunch of scattered petrified trunks! It was pretty cool, it reminded me a lot of Zions or Moab, Goblin Valley. I would totally send pictures of that, the baptism, and everything else, but the comp isn`t working with the pictures today! :( Oh well, there`s always next week! So we did that on monday, it was a lot of fun! We were walking home on Tuesday from work, and when we went to cross the freeway, yes, the freeway, while we were in the middle of it, waiting for the cars to pass so we could run across such a dangerous, hazardous zone... (Heheheh!) Some drunks on the other side saw us and began throwing rocks at us. Fist sized rocks. One fizzed past the head of E. Wagstaff, just shaving his hair. He felt it blow past his head, and his heart was pounding for the rest of the night. We felt just like Samuel the Lamanite... with so many arrows/rocks going past, but not one actually hitting us... The Lord protects his messengers.

 

The Paolisso family got REALLY sick on Wednesday, Dante fainted THREE TIMES in school! His dad who has been going through a giant battle with smoking to stop before the baptism so he can baptize him got incredibly sick with a ton of throw up and terrible aches and pains in the stomach. They were out for a LONG time. We were worried. On Wednesday, we gave them Priesthood blessings, blessing them that everything would be ok, that they would be healthy before the baptism, and that the dad could achieve baptizing his child. We were fasting and praying A LOT this week. So we had that worry on our shoulders. On Friday, Dante and his dad came to the interview at the church, and the dad was DYING. He was in so much pain. He asked us if it would be possible if one of us could baptize Dante... I said, yes, we could, but we`re not going to. We know that by tomorrow night, you will be healthy, up and about, ready to baptize your son. He was doubtful, so I took him aside and said, we need your faith in this. He said, Ok... Let`s do it. We were praying that he would be alright to baptize his son on Saturday.

 

After the interview, we hurried off to our area to an appt. we had with Marta and Jorge... OH MY GOSH. Talk about GOLDEN FAMILY. So we got there, we found out they`re not married, so we had the goal to teach them about keeping the commandments, the blessings we get from doing it, and then the commandment of marriage. We started talking about Mosiah 2 which has a ton of stuff on keeping the commandments, we really buttered it up nicely. Ha, then we threw down the Proclamation to the World pamphlet... Such a good message, you should all read it. We told them about the commandment to get married, and they both got really quiet. We explained it, and then, surprisingly, Jorge said: I would love to get married, honestly I would love to do this and keep these commandments and everything. I want to feel what you guys feel, I want to have what you guys have, I want it all. He began crying, AGAIN. Marta was super surprised, she exclaimed that only once she had ever seen Jorge cry, when Valentina was born, but other than that, NEVER. Now, he had cried TWICE in less than a week! She was super surprised! They said they would pray and continue studying to know if they should get married and everything, promising us that they would come to the baptism on Saturday. They then surprised us with pizzas!!!! We had some delicious pizza with them, and cow tongue, which was delicious! Lucia, their 7 yr. old daughter warmed up to us and was talking up a storm, and then they took us home in their truck! What a wonderful family!

 

Saturday was the baptism, thanks to all the prayers, the Dad baptized his wonderful son, Dante. It was such a good baptism. The testimonies that Dantes mom and Dad gave were incredible. I had never heard such a powerful testimony from anyone than I had from Dantes Dad. INcredible... Marta came to the baptism, Jorge had to stay home with some guests that had arrived unexpectedly, but she CAME! She loved the baptism, and was such a good sport throughout the entire thing. We have formed a good relationship, we were laughing and joking about some of the members and how some talk too much, and little stuff like that. What a wonderful family... I`m in love all over again! AH, how can this happen so many times?? I have my heart ripped and torn in between Esquel, San Martìn, and now, Comodoro! All for the most wonderful families... What a blessing to be a missionary. What a blessing.

 

So, E. Wagstaff is leaving. We got the transfer calls, and he is leaving to Trelew to be with his first latin comp! And guess who`s coming here?? E. Cuthbert is going to be a Father!!!!! I`m training, and I`m going to Neuquèn on Tuesday to pick up my son! Haha, It`s going to be so awesome. I`m really excited to train a misisonary and help him learn how to be the best, how to let HF mold him into who he really can be. It`s going to be so fun, It will probably be a latin, because the gringos still can`t get into Argentina because of the Visas. The presidente of Argentina isn`t letting in anyone into Argentina. But whoever it is, it`s going to be great! So I`ll let you know how everything is going next week with my son!

 

We went to Marta and Jorge`s house on Sunday so E. Wagstaff could say goodbye. We had a little bit of small talk, and then we told them that E. Wagstaff was leaving. He then bore his testimony, and begged them to continue with the lessons and reading the BoM and everything else. He started crying, Marta started crying... Then I began speaking, talking about how a lot of people take the impression that we`re here only to bump up the numbers of our church, when it isn`t like that. We`re here to change lives. Marta started crying even harder, Jorge bore his own testimony, saying to E. W... You can be at peace, I promise you that me and my family are going to continue listening to E. Cuthbert and his companion. I want to know all of this stuff, I want the feelings, I want it... It was such a spiritual experience... One of the most spiritual experiences I`ve had on the mission. What a Golden Family... Jorge took us to the bus terminal afterwards because a few missionaries were going home, and we went to see them off. Including... My dear Father, E. Slaugh. He`s finally going home. How FAST the time flew... How fast it flies. Jared scared me a little bit when he said that he`s excited for me to come home... Home? Wha?? When? I realized that on the 2nd of July, I have 8 months left. WHA??!! Is it possible? No. It kind of scares me a little bit. Not a little bit. A lot bit... ;)

 

Anyway, that is the current state of events here in Comodoro Rivadavia... I`m training, I`m almost home, we baptized, have an incredible family that is ready for the water like... NOW, and I`m happy. Really happy. I love you guys so much. Thank you for the packages, Mom. You are my Wonder Woman. Jared, I want you to come down with Mom! Dad... You are obviously needed here too. I want you here, I want to see you, I want to show you all the good I`ve done, and all the miracles that have happened to me over 2 years. COME to Argentina to see your SON. I love you so much.

 

Amor,

E. Cuthbert

June 18, 2012

HAPPY Father`s DAY!!! I love you Dad. I`m so glad that YOU are my Dad and that I am YOUR son. Please forgive me for what I`ve done, as I desperately want your counsel, your words, your love and praise. I hope you had a great Father`s Day, and enjoy the new blender! Ha!

 

Well, this Monday we are going with the Bishop to Sarmiento, which is 2 hours outside of Comodoro to see the Petrified Forest... It`s going to be COLD. But we`ll be taking cameras to take pictures of everything, so it will be great! I`m really excited.

 

The Transfer is coming to a close, we have one more week, this Saturday that`s coming up, we`ll get the call telling us if E. Wagstaff or I leave Comodoro. Obviously we`re betting on E. Wagstaff, and it`s almost 100% certain that a change will be coming up. It`s been a good 3 months with him, but I always welcome change. I need baptisms... Everyone is saying that I might be training, but we`ll see what happens. It would be awesome to train a newbie! If that`s the case, I want a little Gringito! Haha. So that`s what`s happening next week, transfers and the news of a new comp! Hopefully he`s ready to work and baptize!

 

So yeah, we`re baptizing Dante Paolisso this Saturday... Ha, he`s 9 yrs. old. He is the son of an inactive family that we have activated. They`re a great family. Wè`ve been working on the dad for awhile now, he smokes, but we want him to baptize Dante. He`s been through a HUGE battle for awhile now, trying not to smoke to be worthy to baptize his son. I know that he can do it, we`ve been fasting every single Saturday for him, and for the rest of our investigators. So, we will have a baptism this week! FINALLY. It`s been too long without a baptism. It`s pretty difficult, because with it being so cold... No one wants to venture outside and go to a place they`ve never been before (Church). We haven`t had too many people at church... I`m praying and fasting to find out how we can get the work rolling forth. But I know that this is the Lords work, and when He wants things done, they get done.

 

So, Marta and Jorge. They`re wonderful. We went to their house yesterday and Jorge told us of an experience he had at work where some fellow worker was doing something, and Jorge was going to lie to him about something, or make a joke that would provoke the other guy, because that`s how he`s always been... But something stopped him. He said that he thought about "Los Chicos" (Us) And what we had been doing with them. Teaching them more about the Gospel and helping them to follow Jesus Christ, and he thought to himself... You know what... No. I don`t need to do this foolish thing, and he walked away, and kept working. This surprised him! He had never done such a thing! We testified to him that that was the Holy Ghost that had prompted him to behave in such a way. That it was an answer to his prayers. We taught them the Plan of Salvation, and it was an incredible lesson. Speaking about the Atonement of Jesus Christ and how through Him, we are able to be saved through Faith on His name, Repentance, Baptism, Receiving the Gift of the  Holy Ghost and Enduring to the end... And how we can return to the presence of our Father in Heaven in the Celestial Kingdom if we do these things... It just makes me happy to teach it. And they loved it. They know that they have to do those things to be able to receive the blessings. What we did find out is that... They`re not married. Oh.... No. Ha, That`s going to delay things for awhile. Comodoro isn`t like San Martìn... The wait to do a marriage isn`t just a 2 day notice in advance... It`s a 2-3 MONTH notice in advance, and it`s a lot more expensive... BUT, WE KNOW THAT WITH GOD, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE. It will be EXACTLY like Mirta and Ramòn. We have a lesson with them planned for Friday night, where we will talk about marriage and the Proclamation to the World. Read it. They`re going to make us dinner! Haha, Pray and fast for them that on Friday night, we can help them to plan a date to be married... Help us to be able to achieve this great miracle. When they say yes to marriage, we can help them get married faster and baptized sooner. That is what Heavenly Father wants, include them in your prayers, please. I love that family, ALREADY! They`re a wonderful family, very kind, respectful and full of happiness. They`re GREAT!

 

How is everything going for the trip here to Argentina? I still have yet to receive word from Mirta and Ramòn how things are going along in San Martìn, I`ll talk with the Branch Presidente Di Stefano to tell him to help them and support them in everything so they can be married when we`re here. I love you all so much.

 

Have a wonderful week, Dad, Happy Father`s Day! I love you all, I am doing great, IT`S FREEZING down here!!!!!! The wind and air is biting my face off! It is literally... A little chilly. Haha! Anyway, I have faith that my package from the ward will get here soon with those wonderful glove/mittens... For now, have a wonderful week!

 

Amor,

E. Cuthbert

June 11, 2012

I don´t have a lot of time, the place we´re using is REALLY expensive with computers... So I´ll make it as fast as possible, but with as much information that I can...

 

First of all, YES, I got the package... Thank you SO much for the Hot cocoa!!! COCOAAAA!!! It reminded me of the time in summer where I was on my fifth mug of hot chocolate for the night and dad freaked out because I had drank so much, he ended up pouring the recently opened giant can of hot chocolate down the drain... HAHAHA! That brought a smile to my face, it made me happy to think of that moment. Such a funny thing... :) So thank you for the journal, the protein and the hot chocolate, they are all being put to good use. :)

 

So yesterday we had the birthday party of Dante Paolisso who will be baptized on the 23rd... FINALLY a baptism! We made him an AWESOME brownie with dulce de leche swirled into the mix, and a cream oreo pudding type thing as a frosting with crushed up oreos to top it off. We called it a: Chocolate Brownie Dulce de Leche Swirled Oreo Cookie Crumble. Beat THAT! :) It was DELICIOUS!!! Anyway, Finally we´ll be getting him baptized, it will be awesome. What a delicious dessert it was... I need to make one especially for me. Yeah, definitely. HA! So their family is doing well.

 

Well, I will talk about one more thing, then I have to go. Marta and Jorge are like the SPITTING IMAGE of Mirta and Ramon!!!!! SPITTING!!!!! They have two little daughters, Martas name is Marta... like Mirta just changing the a to an i. So last time we were talking with them, we gave them a BoM and they said they would read. Later that week I got a text message from Marta asking me specifically what the Doctrine of Christ was, which means... She READ! She had read and had questions, couldn´t wait until Sunday, so she asked! We started to get excited. We had an appointment for 4 o clock yesterday, she called to cancel. Bummer. We thought that she would try to reschedule for the next Sunday, because that´s normally what péople do here, they cancel and reschedule for another day, but NO! She asked if we could come by a little later, at 7 o clock. HECK YEAH! So we went by and we were invited in, Marta was on their couch, studying the BoM and Jorge seemed happy to see us. Jorge doesn´t know hardly anything about the Gospel. When we asked him what the HOly Ghost was... He didn´t know. And Marta is a very innocent Catholic with nothing in the head, they´re PURE! Nothing tainted by false doctrines!! Anyway, so we asked them if they had read, they had done it and we began talking about their questions they had, then we began talking about the Plan of Salvation, that Heavenly Father has a plan for all of us. I showed them the picture of our family, Mom, Dad.,.. They think you guys look extremely young! You guys still got it! ;) Anyway, we testified a bunch, and then Marta exclaimed. When you guys left the other Sunday, the rest of that day, I was so calm and peaceful... It felt as if I´d already received my answer that these things are true! The Spirit was so strong when she said that. We testified that that is EXACTLY what had happened. She already knows. What a blessing... I am so happy. Miracles... Anyway, we kept talking about the Plan of Salvation, but then left the rest of the lesson for next Sunday. When we asked one of them to pray, Marta clasped her hands together really quickly, you could tell that she wanted to pray. I asked her to pray and she did it!!! Right after the prayer, we look up to see Jorge CRYING!!! CRYING!!! If you will recall, when we had Mirta and Ramon for the first lesson, we asked Ramon to pray and Mirta was crying afterwards, now it´s Marta praying and Jorge crying! He didn´t understand why he was crying. We testified that it was the Spirit, because he doesn´t know anything about the Gospel, but yet... he was crying profusely about those exact things! It was a double miracle! Jorge exclaimed that he wanted to see the baptism on the 23rd and wanted to come to church. When we left the house, we hugged each other and were on Cloud 9 for the rest of the night. I testify that the Gospel is TRUE! What a miracle and what a blessing! I am so happy, that we have found a true family who wants to hear the Gospel. What an incredible BLESSING!!!!!! I have a feeling that they aren´t married though. I haven´t seen any wedding rings, or anything like that, so I think Heavenly Father has given them their answers early so they will be able to begin the process to be married much more quickly. If they are married, even better. But I know that they will be baptized. They are a wonderful family. Their daughters, Lucia 7 yrs. old and Valentina 3 yrs. old are so cute!!!

 

Mom, Dad, family and friends... Heavenly Father is aware of his children. What miracles that we can experience if we will just listen to the promptings of the Spirit and follow the commandments of God! How lucky we are to be apart of the Church of Jesus Christ. I know with all my heart, that a GROWN MAN that has no spiritual background and knows nothing about God, the Bible or Jesus Christ WOULD NOT CRY during a prayer directed to that same God through the name of Jesus Christ. Things just don´t HAPPEN like that! I know that God lives, and I know that I carry the most important message in the history of the world. I love you all.

 

E. Cuthbert

June 4, 2012

I have to say that I love my family, I love my friends, and everyone in between. Wow... What a wonderful life I have. I am so blessed to be the family member and friend of so many people. I love you mom, Jared, you are a CAPO for doing that for mom, Dad, you`re my hero... Omi, Buppi... I love you guys so much, and want to spend some time with you guys when I get home to ask you questions about... about whatever! Gma, Gpa... You guys are such examples to me of what I want to be, I love you so much. Aubs... You`re MARRIED!!! Lucky Duck! Chris... 9 fast Sundays to go... Only NINE! I`m a pregnancy away, if Melyn and Jordan will just get on with it and get PREGNANT!!!"!!!! HAHAHA! Congratulations with the HOUSE! My lil` sister is growing up and getting her own house! Wow! Kimbo... I miss ya to death! I miss all my friends to death, but this week in the mission went very, very well. 

 

Last Monday for Pday we played soccer... and I owned. I SUCK at soccer, but my inner Messi (The best Argentine player and best soccer player in the world) burst forth, and I was a flippin` lion! All the latinos were so surprised! Some street kids, who thought they were so cool, came onto the field and asked if they could play, we had to go. So we said first to three wins. We OWNED them. 3-0. GO GRINGO!!!!! :) Funny experience.

 

This week, we have found many new families, and placed many new baptismal dates! The work is rolling forth like a stone cut out of the mountain, and I must say... I am so blessed to be apart of it. I love this work. It is the best thing in the entire world. So we have this family named Marta and Jorge, with their two daughters Lucia and Valentina... The exact same combo as Mirta and Ramòn in San Martìn! Anyway, last Monday we found Marta with her two daughters in their house doing homework. We knocked on the door, and she answered, and we were able to explain the pamphlet that explains the Restoration. We put a date to return for yesterday, Sunday. When yesterday came around, E. Wagstaff was feeling TERRIBLE. He almost threw up! So after church, he fell asleep for a little bit. While he was sleeping, I kept thinking about Marta, and I knew we had to go to her house. I went to check on E. Wagstaff, and he was already getting out of bed, getting ready to go kick some Argentine butt! ;) So we headed out there, and guess what we found? Jorge, her husband answered the door and said that she was sleeping. We asked if there was any way we could come in and talk with him. He let us in and went to go see if she wanted to get out of bed, something that NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER happens in Argentina. When an Argentine gets in bed for their siesta, they`re in bed till for at least 3 hours. SHE GOT OUT OF BED TO LISTEN. I was amazed. We taught a very good lesson about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon, they accepted dates to be baptized the 30th of June, and it was AWESOME! Jorge doesn`t have much religious backgruond, Marta is catholic. Awesome!

 

We`ve also found other people that are really good, but I don`t have much time to talk about them. There`s the boyfriend of a new member in the ward, he has a baptismal date, there`s a girl named Vanina who is Catholic and has a baptismal date, There`s an older lady named Dominga who lost her husband 2 years ago, she has a baptismal date as well. We`re finally doing it! We`re seeing the success! We`ve got 10 dates for baptisms right now, and the President Peterson wants at least 100 baptisms this month of June. Possible! EASY!

 

We fasted yesterday for these things to come to pass, and I know that the Lord is with us. I love the scriptures... Never have I loved something as much as I love those pages that have been marked so much! I love them to death! Nephi is... He`s an inspiration. What a prophet. We testified of the importance of prophets to a kid who will be baptized the 23rd, and I almost teared up, overwhelmed with the gratefulness I feel to my Lord and my God for giving me a prophet. I love this Gospel, and I KNOW the church is true. I know the Book of Mormon is the word of God.

 

Anyway, the days here are COOOOOLD! FREEZING my missionary-rear-end! The days are getting shorter and darker, I`m working out a lot, I`m going to eat a GIANT sandwich today, I will send pictures next week. I love you guys so much. Until next week! :)

 

Amor,

E. Cuthbert

May 28, 2012

That`s so cool about school getting out and watching the Avengers (NINE MORE MONTHS, NINE MORE MONTHS...) Hahaha, I`m sure you guys had a blast. Dad, I know you can do it with the workload, with an iPad... Anything is possible! ;) Hahaha! I am so proud of you.  Thank you for sending the pictures of Jareds photography. I really appreciate it! It will be great to be able to show people more about my life! My keyboard sucks, that`+s why there`s so many mistakes... Sorry! 

Well, I said goodbye to my Mission President, Pres. Peterson and his wife for the last time on Thursday. They came down to Comodoro one last time before they leave at the end of June. We had a good talk together, and we laughed about how when I get home, we`ll get together for a lunch or something, they live in Bountiful.

Me, E. Slaugh and two other Elders did a musical number... We sounded beautiful. I sang bass while E. Slaugh sang tenor, E. Jewkes with the alto and E. Marriott with the melody. Abide with me tis eventide. Great hymn. Anyways, good stuff. So I saw E. Slaugh there, again and we were able to talk. Really awesome.

Well, the 25th of this month was Independence day for Argentina, so we the missionraies threw an acivity for the entire ward. We had a delicious GIANT pot of what`s called Locro, look it up, we made enough for 120 people. Then, we had a talent show, and we four missionaries did the best skit/lip sync to Backstreet Boys EVER. I don`t have the time to explain it... I feel really bad, but suffice it to say that we will be famous forever in this ward for the show we put on. It was so funny. SO SO FUNNY!!! :) :)

We put three baptismal dates yesterday night with a new family that are really awesome! They`ll be baptized this next month, June. I`m so happy, missionary work is awesome. Mom, has Hermana Peterson emailed you back about what you have to do t come down to Argentina and pick me up? Anyway, I love you all so much. I want you o know that I have a strong testimony, and I won`t let you guys down!!! Until next week!

Amor,

E. Cuthbert