April 18, 2011

Hey from Fray Bentos!

First of all, to answer your questions, I'm in the 3rd branch, and ya there's wards 1and 2 here in the city. We are 8 missionaries. Also in the zone are 8 missionaries from the city Mercedes and 4 from Dolores. No, there's no car. Not even bikes haha. I wish.

Ya, the plans to tour here and go to Iguazu is perfect! I'll talk to Dani (Elder Grau haha) and see if he can plan things with his studies all right.

Here in the city, it's way different than anywhere else I've ever been. I feel like I'm in the US. The city was founded in 2 little neighborhoods be England and Germany, so everyone is blonde-haired and blue-eyed, and talks weird. They are great people and I'm super excited to see the miracles that wait.

This Sunday a family of investigators (Familia Durè) came for the first time, they are already married, and were so prepared to hear the gospel. The father, mother, and 2 kids (11 and 15) will be baptised together on the 7th. I think its the following day that I talk to you, but I can't remember, is it the 1st or the 8th? They are excited to progress!

The branch is pretty small, about 25-30 people, and 20 of those are assigned to this branch from other wards to keep it going, so in reality, theres about 10 active members in our little branch hahaha this family will nearly double things hahahaha Javier is a stud and will probably be branch president in about 3 months no joke!

Since we have to travel for district meeting, now I have the meeting and P-Day on the same day! Today we had breakfast all together and then had a video scavenger hunt where we had to take video of funny things (scaring a dog, teaching a statue, starting a debate between brands of mate, etc...) it was a lot of fun.

Thats funny Arloa ran into Elder Squires! He's from Yuma, super good guy! How do they know him? Just ran into him at the airport?

I'm living in a NICE house here and next door are the Elders from the next ward over, they are all good friends from the whole mission, so it's going to be a lot of fun to be together. We are working really really hard to build the work here, so I hope we can animate the zone to make good things happen :)

This is the Lord's work and it's so good! Make good things happen to those around you! Find opportunities to teach and testify and be good friends and neighboors!

Love you all,

Elder Magnusson