10.7.14

Ok, before I forget, I'm going to write down what I wrote in my agenda. We now have a part of Brazil and Argentina in our mission! It's so sick. I probably won't be able to go to Quarai because I was already there in Artigas but I want to serve in Argentina so bad. How cool will that be to be able to serve in basically three countries!? 

Next... so I wanted to buy a USB to download the Conference so we went to our favorite cyber. While we were there, a man looked at us and was like, “FINALLY!” He told us that he was a member of the church from Venezuela and that he and his family were escaping from their country and they have been traveling for 40 days to get to Montevideo because their government wanted to kill them or something like that (I don't know what's going on with the US and Venezuela). They were looking for missionaries to help them seek help from our Stake President. We helped them move all of their bags and stuff into the church and spend a good amount of time with them. They talked SO funny... like little Mexicans with squeaky voices. But they were super nice and loved all of the help we gave.

“El” (the wife of “R” who was going to get baptized) repented! She said that she was very selfish and that she had could never stop her husband from gaining eternal life. We helped her understand that the Lord's church is perfect and after the conference, “R” was like, “when are you guys going to baptize me! I'm getting sick of waiting!” He loved the talks and he was SO impressed with the speakers, how there were speakers in Spanish, Portuguese and whatever that other one was in. He will be baptized tomorrow!!! WOO HOO!! 

Next week I will write the email about my thoughts on the conference. I have so many things I want to say about it that I'd be here for the entire time trying to explain it through email. By far, the best conference ever though! Our church is just SO perfect! The whole time I was like... “easy guys, you can't direct the entire conference to the Uruguayan Nation!” Everything was perfect for them. Not only for them but for me! I'll explain more later. It's just incredible. 

 

Important stuff I need:

So I'm going to need some information on Family History. Four generation information. I have everything besides for Grandma Merideth's parent's information and Grandad's parent's information...when and where they were born and when and where they died. The rest I'm pretty sure I have on Family Search. 

Now about that Casita in Jared's back yard... that's what I'm talking about! When Gavin, Abbie and I are done with missions we all have to live close together and where better a place than the Lord's chosen state? We're all going to be there anyways and I don't care how much Gavin, Abbie and Conner don't want to hang out with me, we're going to be doing everything together. And when you guys retire in 12 years (which will fly by) we can all be together. Play golf all the time, volleyball in Jared's backyard, watch all the cool religious/sporting events together. E' Neilson was talking to me about all the stuff his family did in Utah together and there is so much stuff. I loved going on vacation to Utah. Our family is so perfect. Just thinking about it makes me stoked! I miss Jared. I miss everyone. Can you send me more pictures of family members and stuff? 

Things are going well though over here. In these next two weeks I'm going to be running around like crazy trying to visit everyone. There is not a lot of time left for me here and still so much to be done! We met the goal of our visits for Home Teaching. We got 6 visits and in total as an Elder's quorum 11. Only 1 companionship didn't do their visits. It's a start but I want EVERYONE to do their visits! 

Thanks for everything though. I know that this is the Lord's work. I couldn't have a stronger testimony about the church after conference. It's so crazy how the Lord can talk to everyone at once...people here think that it is impossible for there to be only one true church if there are so many people in the world. If they would just watch conference or test the apostles’ invitations, they would understand that there is one church, one Christ, and one doctrine. 

E' McRae