It´s over all been a good week here in Rivadavia, definitely some struggles, but we´re figuring things out. So on monday night the assistents told us we would be cancelling the zone meeting on tuesday and have the zone meeting this week instead, with the information from the counsel with pte Goates. So Tuesday evening we left for mendoza. It was fun seeing all of the other zone leaders even though we saw them all just a week before haha. In the morning we were ate facturas (Argentine wannabe donuts haha) and drank some juice while waiting until presidente and hermana Goates walked in. He´s pretty tall!!!!!! They are both so nice and happy to be here. We could tell that they already love us so much! They both speak spanish really well, with lots of accent but great grammer. She spoke about the atonement and everything Christ went through and suffered during his life and at the end of his life. She counseled us to mark and study the character of Christ in the scriptures. President Goates talked a lot about unity. and read lots of scriptures from D&C. One scripture i loved talked about how a group of early church leaders united their hearts and then were able to recieve a revelation which is related in the rest of the section. He talked about how the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are one in purpose and how Christ mentions that over and over again, which shows how important that is to Him the relationship that he has. All that he said about unity was very applicable to Elder Garcia and I. We´re were like floating on different boats generally headed in the same dirrection but not really on the same page. But we´ve been able to talk and work a lot better since then. Pte also talked about the quality of baptisms. We are going to be teaching lesson 5 before baptism now and then working a lot more closely with investigators to fulfill the baptismal requirements in d&c 20:37. And then after baptism we will be working a lot more with them to keep them active with their eyes on the Temple. He told us that the Apostles had promised that by focusing on getting conversions and not just baptisms the number of baptisms would increase. The recent converts will be sharing the gospel, members will be more animated and willing to help with the work. He also told us that the act of baptism isn´t what cleans us of our sins. But rather that keeping that covenant. And so if we are really desiring the salvation of these people, we should be looking for more than just the number. It was a really good meeting! They didn´t talk much about themselves because they are going around to all of the zones to do that and wil. be coming here tomorrow.
The work has honestly been pretty hard. Appointments have been dropping left and right like flies, but with the new unity that we have we are staying positive and hoping for things to get better. We stopped to buy some asado on the street and one of the guys that worked at the meat place spoke really really good english. He was really interested in talking to us and got our number and we got his and we may go to his english class at college in a few weeks to talk to everybody about what we do. and should be going to teach him on wednesday. Really cool guy! Also, an active family brought a nonmember youngman friend to church on sunday that we´ll start teaching this week! So we´re excited about that!
Have a great week!!!
Love,
Elder Fullmer
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