Last week on tuesday we had our zonemeeting. Elder Garcia and i made licenses to place date, baptize and confirm for all of the missionaries in our zone so that they lose their fear and always focuse their teaching on helping people live the gospel of Christ. Each missionary had to come up to one of us and invite us to be baptized to be able to recieve their licence. We also shared Mate de la vida with them. When we were planning the meeting I felt like we needed to include a video called ´missionary work and the atonement´, which is a ten minute video of clips from two talks by pte eyring and elder holland. It is amazing. At the end of the meeting there was very little time left or rather,we had gone like 40 minutes over and the elderes were going to get late to lunches and i was thinking maybe we should just cut the video but elder garcia decided that we would go ahead and watch it. It was a great end to the meeting. The spirit was really strong and an elder, that i{ve been in the same zone with for like 10 months and part of that the same district, and has a hard time being serious about the work, got emotional as he said the closing prayer.
After the meeting we did exchanges. I went to be with a fairly new elder from nevada. I love serving with new elders. We brought two books of mormon with us and had a prayer in our hearts to be able to hand them out. We met and taught a lady that was a little interested but then we went to visit some members and two nonmembers were there. We had brought the restoration for another lesson that we were going to have but then decided to watch it with them. They loved it and really got a lot out of it and had great comments. We left them both with a book of mormon and invited them to read ponder and pray.
On thursday we had a zone conference where president and hna goates came. It was great! Lots of activity and really fun and spiritual. We are going to be working a lot more with new converts. We invited President Zanni to come for a segment we had about working with members and leaders. He gave a great presentation. He invited all the missionaries in our stake to work more with the members and help them to have missionary experiences by coming with us to lessons to share their testimonies.
On friday we went with a priest to go visit a few investigators including sabrina salinas. She is doing well and has been reading!!!!!!!!! woooo! She has also not been smoking as much.
On saturday and sunday we had stake conference. It was great. We have a great stake presidency! Really focused on missionary work. In priesthood they showed the numbers from the past 7 years of converts and atendance levels in the stake. They showed how if we had conserved all of the fruits from those 7 years our stake could have split by now. We will be working with lots with the members and leaders to activate and rescue those people.
On thursday the mission secretary called me because theres a group of us that have to go to chile to be able to renew our visas. Elder Magdaluyo and Elder Conolly were both in the group. We went to the offices on sunday night and got on a bus monday at about noon the was full of elders and sisters from two other missions here in argentina that also had to renew their visas. So we spent 3 hours going their a couple hours waiting at the border then we went to the first town in chile to go eat and then came back waited a couple more hours and then came backto argentina at about 7 oclock in the morning on tuesday. We watch the testaments, work and the glory 2 and 3, 17 miracles and ephraims rescue. It was way fun! It was also great catching up with elder magdaluyo.
Also, family, I love the ties and pants and insoles you sent, but not as much as you you see, but i still love the ties and pants and insoles, always and forever. Really good taste on the ties! I got it all in the offices yesterday.
Last night we taught a couple of really good lessons. One to the nonmember dad of a part member family. It was great!!! He{s really interested in discovering for himself if its true. This week on friday I{m going with another elder from the states to the college class of an investigator we have, to teach them in english about what we do as missionaries and what we share. So that will be sweet! Then on saturday morning we are getting together as a zone to paint the school where an investigator in the zone works. So that will be wayyy cool! Then saturday evening we will be having an activity where we will put all of the members through lehi´s dream!!! and then transfer calls on sunday night.
I love the mission and I love you all!!!
Elder Fullmer
I love you all
[A few photos from the trip to Chile]
[Argentina flag on left, Chile on right]
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