With Elder Stokes taking over a lot of the secretary responsibilities, I was available to help the other office elders out this week. On Friday, I drove Elder Bravo to Baradero and then to Zarate and then to Liniers and then back to San Fernando. We almost covered the entire mission in one day! (considering the fact that our mission is one of the smallest in South America). I'll send some pictures and videos of the drive. On Sunday, I went to Benavidez to work with Elder Arroyo for a day. It was good.
On Saturday, Robbin was baptized!!!!!! He was so excited and the baptismal service turned out great! I'll send a picture of his baptism.
We had a good experience finding a new family to teach this week. We were planning on Saturday morning (our only full day in teaching being missionaries in our area) and were so excited because of the number of set appointments that we had. Nine in total! (that's a good day for us day). As we discussed how to best go about the day, we felt the impression that we should knock some doors on a street named "Ambrosoni." We did so when and the second house we "clapped" was the Muchoquintos! Their two youngest daughters answered the door (11 y 9 years old) and said that no one was home. We went ahead and taught them about the Book of Mormon, because, hey, everyone deserves to hear the gospel, even little girls. The older sister said, "meh!" but the younger sister, Mariana, said, "I'll read it!" We gave her a Book of Mormon and told them that we would come back on Sunday afternoon. Sunday afternoon, Elder Stokes and Elder Mitchell went back and taught the whole family about Joseph Smith and the First Vision! (I was in Benavidez). The whole family of five listened and willingly accepted the invitation to read the Book of Mormon!
We're going to go back on Thursday to teach more!
I am grateful that we listened to the little prompting to knock doors on that street. It is incredible to me to experience being led by the Lord's spirit. I know that God is constantly working to help everyone receive the gospel.
Scripture study has been going well! I've been thinking a lot about D+C 11:21 this week: "Seek not to declare my word, but first seek to obtain my word, and then shall your tongue be loosed; then, if you desire, you shall have my Spirit and my word, yea, the power of God unto the convincing of men." This together with Pres. Nelson's invitation from conference in April to seek more personal revelation has made me think that I need to make it a daily pursuit. Do you have any tips of how I can do so?
I love you! Have a good week learning more from Nephi! I'll think of questions about Grandpa Garth and send them to you next week!
Love,
Elder Smith
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