Well I would just like to start off by saying
happy fathers day to all the dads out there reading this. Thanks for all
that you guys do for your families and I hope that you all enjoyed your
day. Of course I already sent an email to my dad wishing him a happy
fathers day but I will go ahead and say it again that I love you dad and
thanks for all that you do for me. I wouldn´t be anywhere near what I
am without you being who you are. Thanks for everything!!
Well this past week was a bit of a slow one as far as the work
goes. It rained almost 2 or 3 days straight and for some reason here
people use the fact that it is raining as an excuse for not letting you
into their home to talk for a few minutes... We literally would knock at
investigators homes and would ask if we could come in and talk and they
would just be all like no it is raining come back when it stops. I
really have no idea how that logic works out but whatever haha. Anwyay
that also put a damper on the motivation of the members to come out with
us but I guess that didn't change much cause not many people wanted to
talk to us anyway haha. We also had some promising investigators tell us
that they didn't want us to come by anymore right out of the blue which
was kind of a blow to my companion and I, but it is all good we were
able to see those who really wanted to listen to us and learn more about
the Gospel of Christ and those who were not interested but just did not
want to say no to us. This week in my studies I was thinking a little
about how people could say no to learning more about the Gospel of
Christ and the plan that our Father in Heaven has for us and for our
families. I had no idea how someone could say no to the prospect of
eternal life and eternal families. Then I realized that all throughout
the Bible and Book of Mormon are stories of prophets who were called to
preach to a people that wanted absolutely nothing to do with God or his
commandments. Many of them faced mocking and scourge at the hands of
wicked people too hard of heart to see the glorious hope that comes from
knowing of God´s love for us. Some of them even died striving to
declare repentance to God´s children. I realized that it should be no surprise that many people want nothing to do with their Father in Heaven
because it has always been that way. I may not understand why it is that
way but I do understand that it is reality and all we can do is live
what we know to be true and serve God faithfully until the end.
Well like I said before this week was a pretty slow one in terms of
finding new people to teach. On the bright hand I have gotten used to
using a bike all day and my legs are only a little sore and I am only
exhausted halfway to death at the end of each day haha. Some days we get
so tired of biking around that we just leave them at the apartment and
go walking to our visits. It takes a little bit more time and my feet
hurt sometimes but man is it good to get away from that thing for a bit
haha. So far we have not had any problems with them it is just annoying
after a while! At one point this weekend we were biking and it started
to rain really hard. We both got completely soaked but we just kept
going anyway. We got to a house of a lady we wanted to contact and
knocked on the door. She came out and was really surprised to see two
young men completely soaked standing in the rain wanting to share a
message with her about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and His plan for us.
She said she would have normally said no to any missionaries on her door
but that just the fact that we were still working in that pouring rain
had to mean that we had something good to share. We spoke with her for a
while and left her a pamphlet on the Restoration and a Book of Mormon.
She said that she would read and pray about it but that she was going
to be leaving for a week and would not be able to come to church. We
will be going by her house tomorrow to see how it all went. Hopefully it
went well!!!!
One nice thing about being on the bikes is that I don´t spend as
much money on transportation like the buses and subways in the city.
Therefore I have more money to spend on food haha. Needless to say my
comp and I are eating well and enjoying the time together haha. About my
companion he is a really good guy. Like I said he is from Peru and he
is 21 years old like me. Everyone in his family are members besides his
dad. He is the second in his family to serve a mission and he has 8
months so far, 2 months less that me. He loves to work and is a really
good planner which helps me a lot because I seem to be a bit more yeah
lets just go work and baptize everybody haha. We make a pretty good team
if I say so myself. The thing is that he already has over 4 months here
so he will probably be heading out this next transfer and I will stay.
There are also a lot of new missionaries coming in this coming transfer
and the next so it is possible that I could be training soon! I have yet
to train someone so I guess we will see what happens with that!
Well anyways that´s about all I have for this week. The work just
keeps on progressing and the time just keeps on passing by. It is funny
to see the changes of the expression on people´s face as they ask how
much time you have in the mission and the number of months just keeps
getting bigger. The have stopped telling me that I am new in the mission
and it has changed to a more oh, you've got experience but still have
time left sort of thing. Haha I am interested to see how that goes as I
get closer to my year mark.
Anyways thanks for all that you all do for me and the great family
and friends that you are. I appreciate the prayers on my behalf and
assure you that they help me out every day! I am so grateful to serve
the Lord here in Argentina and am just trying to make the best of every
single day, because they go by fast. I love you all and I look forward to
hearing back next week!
Love,
Elder Zollinger
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