Matt's email 11/1/2010

Man halloween definitley isn´t as cool here as it was back home. The people here had no idea what it was, but it was a great tool to use to talk to people and share the message of the gospel, so it was all good. This week was awesome. We have continued finding a lot of new people and many of them have been committed to baptism. With the help of the Lord, we will be seeing many miracles here in Albardon. I believe the greatest miracle of the week came just yesterday. After church and the siesta we set out to contact a few references that we had received. It was all going pretty well until the last guy. He was a brother of one of the members in the ward and he and his wife had recently lost a baby. He lived in a shack. The dumpiest house that I have ever seen, but he was still too pridefull to let the missionaries in. It was pretty hard being rejected by someone like that, but we continued, trying our hardest to help the people. A few hours later we saw a lady out watering her front dirt, and me, being the professional dirt waterer that I am, asked her if I could help. She accepted and bam, the Spirit took over. Before I knew it she had turned off the water and told us to sit down. We began talking about the church and explaining where it was when she said, ¨Oh the big beatiful church on the Nacional? I always thought that it was just an abandoned building. I have always wanted to go inside, but nobody is ever there.¨ As a missionary, you dream for times like this. People that are willing to come to church without putting up a fight. Then after saying that, her 18 year old daughter came out and her mom explained everything that we had told her and the daughter told us that she has dreamed about going into the church. It was amazing. They both accepted to come next sunday, and they both seemed really excited. The only problem is that the daughter recently converted to an Evangelical church, so we have to save her before she goes too far. It was an awesome experience and taught me that following the Spirit is the only way to do this work. You can knock every door in the city 10 times over again, but it won´t do you any good until you have the Spirit.

I am glad to hear that everyone is doing good back at home. It sounded like you all had a very happy halloween. It seems like the past 10 halloweens have been rainy and cold. Maybe it is because of the global warning. One last quick fact... The ex president of Argentina passed away on Wednesday. You would have thought that he was best friends with everyone in this country. Everything closed down for 2 days to mourn his loss. These people will use whatever excuse they can to get out of work. You used to think that Marcus and I are lazy, you should see an Argentina. Anyway I love you all. I pray for you daily. I know the Lord lives and He directs this church. The Holy Ghost is the spirit of God given to all who are worhty and have been baptized. It is the most valuable gift we could every have.

 

Have a great week

Elder Burr