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ola Familia!
> api! 　eliz Cumple!!! it磗 your magic birthday too! jajaja. i
> hope i can live to my day too... at 91. pero no creo. jajaja. i am
> going to be thinking about you a lot tomorrow. this weekend, elder
> aidukaitis spoke in our stake conference and it was incredible. one
> thing he said to the young women, was that they should look for
> awesome guys to be their husbands because a father is the greatest
> gift that mothers can give to their children. that made me think of
> you, and i磎 grateful for all the things you have done for me and
> because you have always been there for me. I love you Dad!!
> this week was awesome! elder zarce駉 and i are rocking it in cinco
> saltos. right now, we are preparing 12 people to be baptized in the
> next few weeks. most of them should be ready for the 24th of march,
> so we are praying we can make it with all of them. we are really
> excited, and we are working really hard. there are a lot of inactivos
> in cinco saltos, lots of people that haven磘 attended in years. we
> found a whole bunch of cool people that want to come back, and some
> have kids that really want to be baptized. we are so pumped and
> excited! we know that a lot of these people we found will be awesome
> leaders in the church once they start coming. a lot of ex misioneros
> that stopped going because of 创vagancia创 or laziness.
> my district is doing awesome too. they are preparing some others for
> baptism and i think that we are going to do divisions again this week
> so i can interview them for baptism. this week was difficult because
> our stake conference was an hour away in neuquen, so we didn磘 have
> many investigators in church, but next week is going to be awesome,
> even better than this week
> i learned about some new skills that i have this week! i cut elder
> hernandez磗 hair with scissors on top and with the machine on the
> sides and it turned out really well. he is really happy with it and i
> never knew i could do that. another skill i found is that i磎 good at
> hitch hiking. i can lift my thumb and get anywhere i want, and nobody
> picks up my comp if he sticks his thumb out.
> we go hitch hiking to get to centenario for meetings with the other
> missionaries in my district. my district is really cool, i sent
> pictures of them. my comp, elder zarce駉 is the smallest of us and he
> is really cool. he is from guatemala and has 13 months on the
> mission. elder hernandez is from oaxaca, mexico. he just started a
> few months ago and is excited to work hard. then me, the only gringo.
> elder gomez is the giant. he is from rosario argentina and he has a
> little more time than me. like a month or two. he was in my district
> when i started the mission in comodoro, so it was awesome seeing him
> again. hermana rosas is half way done with the mission with 9 months
> and is from buenos aires. hermana rivera with the glasses has a
> little more than a year and is from guatemala too. we hung out with
> her on pdays in trelew. she磗 pretty cool. we all get along really
> well and we are going to eat at a restaurant called bambu in neuquen
> with elder castillo and colombres (because they are in roca and they
> are coming for lunch). bambu is an all you can eat buffet and i磎
> really excited! just have to make it on the bus...
> momma- my package arrived in rawson because elders in the office
> messed up... but elder escobar promised me that he will send it to me
> through the bolsa this week. he calls me and tells me about all the
> cool things that are happening in rawson after i left. he is really
> funny and the people we found together are really progressing now.
> raul, the drunk-drug addict, cleaned up everything and no longer
> drinks or smokes. i have no idea what happened but miracles do happen
> every week, and he is going to be baptized next week. ue kpo!
> i have on question- how long is a cubit from the bible? i磎 studying
> the old testament in spanish and it gets into the measurements of
> everything. it would be cool to know that.
> i just finished reading the story about moses when the people were
> bitten by the poisonous snakes and all they had to do was look up to
> the brass snake to be healed, but wouldn磘 do it because it was so
> simple. there are a lot of 创snakes创 in the world today (especially
> in the mission, jajaja) but the worldly snakes that want to destroy
> families. all that we have to do as a family is do the simple things
> to keep ourselves intact and to protect our families but a lot of
> people don磘 do those things because they are so simple. things like
> family prayer, studying the scriptures as a family, and having family
> home evenings every week. i have noticed a difference in the families
> that do these things and the families that don磘. the simple things
> help a lot, and make a huge difference. these are the things that we
> are sharing with the less active families. in alma 31:5-
> 5 And now, as the preaching of the word had a great tendency to lead
> the people to do that which was just梱ea, it had had more powerful
> effect upon the minds of the people than the sword, or anything else,
> which had happened unto them梩herefore Alma thought it was expedient
> that they should try the virtue of the word of God.
> this is what will help my families in cinco saltos return to church,
> and we are putting it to the test.
> i know that throught the small and simple things, we are going to see
> many miracles in this area. i know that through the word of God
> alone, we can help these people more than doing anything else and we
> love these people in cinco saltos. being here on my mission at this
> time means everything to me and i磎 very grateful for the priviledge
> of serving God and leading these people back to where they are
> supposed to be. i love being here.
> oh! and my address here is 425 Ant醨tida and the church is 98 Avenida
> Argentina so you guys can look it up on Google if you want. and we do
> walk through that plaza everyday!
> bueno, i love you guys, and i磎 looking forward to next week. oh! and
> i couldn磘 watch the videos that you sent me because this computer
> doesn磘 have a program to watch anything...
> con mucho amor, y mucho 醤imo,
> elder summers
>