It is hard to believe that Christmas is staring at me right in the face. It seems like last night that I was finishing up with the pilots license, attending all the family parties, opening up my call, and all that stuff we were doing a year ago, but seeing how time is impossible to rewind, we will just have to accept it. To be honest we don´t have very exciting plans for Christmas here in Alvear. We were going to go to the house of the bishop to eat some pig, but we have to be inside the apartment at 11 and nobody here eats before that time, so we might just have another killer asado and kick it in the pench watching the fireworks. Tomorrow we will be travelling to Mendoza for a zone conference/Christmas Party with the mission so that should be pretty fun. We have to wake up at like 2 30 in order to make it to the terminal on time, but we have about a 5 hour drive to sleep and relax, so I´m not too worried. And another good note... we have successfully reached our goal of 1000 baptisms on the year 2010!! About 4 months ago we were 400 baptisms behind, but it is safe to say that we have all seen a miracle. I am sure President is just stoked out of his mind, and we, as missionaries, are pretty happy as well.
This week here was way good. Elder Benitez and I worked our butts off and started to see many miracles. Yesterday we left with members to go visit all the nonmembers in the ward list and committed a bunch of members to start helping us with the work, so we are expecting to see some great changes here. It is getting pretty warm here and Elder Benitez and I are enjoying a quarter kilo of ice cream on the daily. The ice cream here is heavenly, but they are seriously lacking a cold stone... HMMM cake batter with brownie... What a dream that would be. Anyway I guess I have to add a cool story of the week. On Tuesday we got a phone call from the daughter of the bishop. Complete snake. But she told us that she had one of her friend there at her house and she wanted us to meet him. We told her that it wasn´t going to be possible because we were super far away, but that we wanted to meet him the next day (Wednesday). On Wednesday we made our way to their house and met the kid. His name is Nahuel and he is 21 years old. A year ago he tried committing suicide, but it failed. since then he has been deep in the game with cocaine and was abusing it so badly that he developed a serious case of Schisophrenia. He has been suffering with that for the past year and told us that he wants to completely change his life in the year to come. He was previously assisting an aventist church, but said he didn´t find anything there. We invited him to come to the family night that night, and to our surprise, he came. He also showed up the the ward activity and all 3 hours of church. The kid is golden. He has a fecha for the 8 of January and we are working with him to quite smoking. He is awesome though and has had a great impact on my testimony. He is another answer to my prayers.
I know that Jesus Christ lives. He is our older brother. He really was the only perfect being to come to this earth and He is our perfect example. I know that if we strive to become like Him we will find ourselves at the right hand of our Heavenly Father. I love this Gospel. It is the biggest blessing in my life. You guys are the best family I could have ever asked for. I wish you all a very merry christmas and look forward to talking to you on Saturday. It´s been 9 and a half months since I have heard from any of you so don´t be bailing on me now!!
Love
Elder Burr
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