hey you guys!!!!!
ah man, this past week has been so great!!! the temple was amazing!! i´m not gonna lie i was super nervous to have to go through a session that wasnt in english, but it was great! and afterwords presidente da silva and his wife had a great zone conference with us. We got to discuss some great things about the temple!! things that i had never ever thought of before!! anyways, changes came, but i am staying here in san jose one more change at least, ahh, and i can hardly believe that i will be approaching 5 months already in the mission, which is practically already six and that mean that i am nearly a third way through the mission? but who´s counting right? haha it is crazy how fast it is going!! i cant say that i am a greenie anymore!! or as they call us here i am no longer an oro....anyways...next week we will be back to our regular schedule and pday will be on monday as usual...
ok, so something big that we have been planning that we are going to be doing here is we are planning to have a family home evening with the entire ward led by the missionaries...and we have been planning it for a long time, because honestly the situation here is pretty grim, and the progress slow!! we are going to teach the members the importance of the social role that they play in missionary work and how for any investigator to recieve a true conversion they have their are 2 types of conversion...the social and the spritual, and how important it is that they do the social part, which is the easiest part!!! anyways, we have been planning a ton of practices and want the ward to be involved, basically its like an interactive fireside, but i am kinda nervous because the other 3 missionaries that are in our ward are pretty much depending on me to make this happen, but i know that if we plan it well this activity is really going to make a difference in the ward we are in...there are so many things that need to change here!! and we need to start with building up there families and encouraging them to live the gospel more fully, because until they do, we will be knocking doors all day everyday, doing the work alone...but that is not the way it should be, their is so much success if we can get them reactivated and invloved in a very personal way...i have sent a bunch of pics from zone conference and the temple...you can see the missionaries in my district, and the one with the four of us is me and my comp and the elders that are also serving with us here in the same ward....there are four of us here, but even if we had six more missionaries the work would stay the same, we need the members so much! but yeah---i am gonna try and send more letters soon!! i love you and miss you all and i can not wait to be able to call you in a month and talk on christmas!!!! ahh its gonna be great, i hope you all can be there together so i can hear from all of you guys.
here is the address again...to send any letter or package to
MisiónUruguay Montevideo
Dalmiro Costa 4635 bis
C.P. 11400
Montevideo, Uruguay
