Week 66- Week Before Transfers = Busy

This week was full of adventures, activities, meetings, lessons, and divisions. On Saturday we had an open park which is like an open chapel or open house but in a park. (check out the pictures for more info) We had a great time and a lot of success. 

On sunday Emilia came to church again and loved it! We are super excited for her and are expecting her baptism within the next few weeks! Monday-Wednesday we had a meetings with President in the morning to talk about transfers, have interviews, etc. 

On Tuesday we found out about the earthquake in Mexico and called the families of the missionaries from the affected region. We were happy to discover that all the families were safe and sound. 

On Wednesday and Thursday we did some activities in Corrientes to pump up the zone and get them more excited! On Wednesday we had another open park in corrientes and had a successful night. 

Thursday we did divisions with some elders in Corrientes and had a great time helping them. 

Friday was supposed to be p-day but was moved for a bunch of things that came up. Its so awsome to be a missionary! Hope you all have a great week. Enjoy the pictures:)

Elder Mason Tuttle

Week 65- Another Normal Week

Hola Todos!

Just a normal week this week:) (and by normal I mean lots of unexpected stuff haha)

The highlights of this week are that on Friday we had a family home evening at the church and had an activity about the General Authorities of the church and had a great time learning there names. Saturday we had a few great lessons with new investigators and cleaned the church. On Sunday we had an investigator at church! And she stayed the whole three hours! We took the opportunity to teach the message of the restoration with her during gospel principles class haha. On Tuesday and Thursday we had multizona and Wednesday we spent painting and moving from a pensión in Itatí because we were closing it. Thursday we had an English class and Friday is pday!!

Hope you enjoy the pictures!

Week 64- Potrillo

What a wonderful week!

This week we had the opportunity to go to a place called Potrillo which is a small small native village in northern Argentina and do interviews so that they could go to the Temple for the first time.

 

On Friday we had a very short P day. We filled up the gas tanks, bought some food, wrote our families, and left we left for Ibarreta. Before we got there we passed a roadblock by Aborigines. We got to the the roadblock at 4 and they told us that no one could pass until 6. We decided to try a different route and get past the roadblock by using a dirt road that went through the aborigine village. We successfully passed the roadblock that they put up and continued on our way. We arrived at Ibarreta and continued to Las Lomitas and once we got there we picked up an elder and continued on our way. At 7 at night we arrived at Ingeniero Juarez. The hotel was actually pretty nice and we all got ready for bed.

The next day we woke up and headed off to Potrillo. It was about a two-and-a-half-hour ride to Potrillo and when we got there we were greeted by about 50 members of the church who are aborigines that live there. The two days that we were there we were able to talk with them and I was really humbled by the type of lifestyle that they had to live and the sacrifices that they made not only to live day-to-day but to be members of the church. These people barely have any money and they still give tithing every week. They don't have cars or motorcycles or even bikes yet they some of them walk days to get to church for General Conference. That was a testimony to me of the sacrifice that we can make as members of the church two be disciples of Christ.

 

On Sunday we we're able to listen to a few testimonies and it was interesting because it was translated from Spanish into their native language, it was a very spiritual sacrament meeting. I loved feeling the spirit that was there. We were able to hand out candy to the children and it was really fun to see how they we're so excited to receive a few pieces of candy. We were also able to play with them and even though we couldn't talk with them because of the language barrier we were able to have a great time with them and laugh and play. When we finally got home on Sunday night we did some work in the office and went to bed.

 

Monday we had meetings in the office and then went out to teach at night.

Tuesday we did some office work as well and we went to teach some people in the afternoon. In the afternoon we had a missionary that was leaving from this mission to another and he stayed with us.

 

On Wednesday we went and did multi-zona in Corrientes and taught about finding new ways to teach new ways to find new investigators.

 

Thursday we did divisions with the Zone leaders and were able to have a few very spiritual experiences with them and with members of the church who we visited.

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Hope you have a great week!

Elder Mason Tuttle