Monday, March 24, 2014

B-ball!

Note from the editor: Happy 9 months Hermana
Alley! (Mom, she really ISN'T pregnant!)
Hello family! to start out let me just mention how serious fall is taken here, one day, the official start of the season, and I am already shivering in my dansko missionary walkers... that's right fall has started and I do not know how I am goinig to make it though the winter. it just chills right through you with the ehaven wind.  brrrr. maybe I will make a trip to Italy to start out the spring! I didn't mind missing the us of a winter this year and I don't think I would mind missing a humid one either!  brrrr

Someone once said... "I know that which the lord hath commanded me, and I glory in it.  I do not glory of fmyself, but I glory in that which the Lord hath commanded me; ayea and this is my glory, that perhaps I may be an instrument in the hands of God to brign somem soul to repentance and this is my joy. and behold when I see many of my bretheren truly penirent, and coming to the lord their god then is my soul filled with joy then do I remember wat the lord has done for me, ye even heard my prayer ye then I do remember his merciful arm which he extended towards me, ye and that same God did establish his church among them; yea and that same GOd hath called me by a holy calling to preach the word unto this people (argentines) and hath given unto mem much success, in which my joy is full."  alright can you guess you sait it?  Ok its alma, you smart people you!  its good old alma glorying in the Lords work and in the success of ammon and his brethren! Look it up alama 29.  Well this week I could just say amen to this scripture, and end the letter .  so amen. talk to you next week.   

Wow what a great week to have in the field!  I was gone three of the days on divisions to bragado., which is just a bigger 25 de mayo.  Divisions are always fun and I always return home happy and ready to get to work with my people!  We had a wonderful family home evening this week with Gabriela and Diego, who are living together and have three kids.  Benjamin their 9 year old son got baptized this past satudrday!  Gabriela wants to get baptized but they are not YET married so she cant YET. Notice my faith?  I have never wanted so badly for two people to put a ring on it!  seriously their family is so wonderful and everytime we visit them I can see the difference with the gospel. they are progressinig wonderfully just have that paper commitment issue! They are living proof that the gospel makes for a happier family!

Saturday we had our baptisms! Marcos and Benjamin!  they entered the waters of a tiny little pool and walla, yesterday confirmed memebers and now our rama is even bigger! everything went perfectly and they both gave sweet and simple testimonies after.  Yesterday we also reached a record in the chuch of 43 people in church!! can you believe that we are growing!!!  we even have to look for a different place right now until we have enough people to build a church! I think we need to ask the catholics if we can just rent theirs for awhile. Theirs is big enough... and hey its right next to a panaderia and gelato. PERFECT!  but hey I am happy as can be, as 25 de mayo was struggling really hard for a while but now the blessings are flowing from every direction!  the Lord has lots of good things headed for this place and the members!!
well I am sorry this is short but once again its some strange holiday and all the cybers are closed so I am using the famila ashtons computer and for some odd reason the elders want a turn soon.. werid....  Just read the scriptures time and time again and in them you will here the voice of Hermana alley, and if you listen closely you can hear from the distance me singing a tune of Oh what a beautiful Morning, and count thy blessings. and today I officially have 5 months in this good old land of argentina! wow.  

SHOUT OUT TO MY BIRTHDAY BUDS THIS WEEK!!! STEPHEN AND TINNIE!!! I COULDNT ME MORE THRILLED TO CALL YOU SQUEAKERS MINE! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ROCK SOLID EXAMPLES (Stephen probably thought I was going to say abs) AND LOVING SUPPORT! I AM SO GLAD YOU WERE BORN (thanks parents)  HAVE KILLER DAYS AND MAY THE NEXT YEAR BRING YOU ENDLESS GIGGLES AND LASTING MEMORIES!!! GET R' DONE!! (that was for you tinnie. you should figure out how to translate it..) 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEFFANY AND TINNIE BOPPER!


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