Homemade Tortillas - Week 28

This week was another amazing week! I mean of course it had some downs like every other week, but it definitely more ups! It's seriously just so awesome to be able to serve the Lord every single day even if we don't always have success.

We had a few really good lessons this week! We thought we were going to get a baptism on saturday with our investigator Ezequiel but his parents kinda freaked out on him and so he wants to ease them into the idea of getting baptized :( He's awesome though! He goes to church every week, and institute every friday. He said to our mission leader (they are good friends) that if it was his choice he would have already been baptized. So we are praying for him. Hopefully he will be able to get baptized this month! (march). We have transfers in 2 weeks so I'm hoping i don't get transferred. We also put a baptism date with our other investigator Brian for April! We've contacted a lot this week and found 10 new investigators that i'm pretty excited for!

I've been really focusing on studying for my investigators and for the lessons i'm about to teach them instead of for myself, and i've learned so much! This P day we explored the calvario (calvary). It has a ton of statues of Christ, starting with gethsemane, and leads up to him on the Cross. Its catholic of course but the statues were pretty amazing. Our district leader Elder Gonzalez and his comp Elder Rasmussen use our same Cyber (computer place) so they came over and made tacos for us. He is from mexico so the tacos were pretty dang good haha he made some Homemade tortillas and everything!

The church is true! It's so amazing to be able to serve the Lord every single day. Even when i'm dead tired from walking miles on miles i always feel so much joy when i'm doing His work. Seeing people feel the spirit is the absolute best! Love you all! And Give the missionaries references!!! They really like them haha. Have a good week!

• Elder Tanner

He Got Us Good -Week 27

¡Hola familia! This week was crazy. It definitely had its ups and downs haha.

We found some awesome new investigators that only speak english. They are from India and are down here studying Spanish for a year! They were super interested in going to church and the Book of Mormon. They even read the introduction and said they were going to read it. They seemed super excited. Here's the thing though. With our luck, the numbers they gave us didn't work because they were long distance numbers, so we've been praying to run into them on the street.

We found out that our investigator Ezequiel told his gf (who is a member) that he wanted to get baptized ASAP! He really is the most golden investigator. So we planned a lesson that would finish teaching him everything, but last minute he had to cancel on us (he's never cancelled on us so it was weird). So hopefully we can teach him this week and set a new date for 1 or 2 weeks! We are super excited for him.

We had a really spiritual lesson with a woman named Martha. She is about 60 or so, and we teach her in a little store thing she owns with her husband Hector (Hector is basically deaf and doesn't want to try to listen to us haha). But we taught all of lesson 1 and she had tons of good questions. At one point, super randomly, she stopped and said “whenever you guys are here I feel so much peace. I just feel so good. Do you guys try to do that or something?” I felt the spirit so strong when she said that, and I told her how  we do actually and the spirit is what brings that peaceful feeling. It's awesome to see how much the spirit can actually work inside of people. I love when I am able to provide people with the opportunity to feel the spirit because that is really what will help them become converted.

We've been playing a lot of futbol and last friday we had like 6 non member kids show up so we are gonna try to visit them this week. Once again, I killed it in soccer ;) I got a hat trick haha I love playing soccer it's so much fun.

Today we had a SUPER fun P-Day with our ZLs. We took them sight seeing a little bit, and we hiked a huge mountain that overlooked the whole city. It was prob like a 6 or 7 mile hike. But it was super fun. We made friends with some dogs at the beginning and they followed us the whole entire hike.

Funny story - We had some investigators numbers in our phone, and we didn't know who they were. So I decided to call them and try to set up some lessons! Well it worked really good actually, I set up 4 lessons from like the 8 numbers we had. Well 3 of them lived in the Hermana's area so we were bummed about those, but we had 1 in our area! His name was Ariel. He seemed super cool and willing for us to stop by. He said the address was Belgrano 551 and so we go to the address and it's the huge catholic cathedral. He thought he was funny. I thought it was hilarious. I just started dying laughing hahah (He got us good!)

Hope everyone had an awesome Valentines day! I love you all! Valentine's day as a missionary is nothing special but I got to eat some candy and read some cards! Have a good week!!

• Elder Tanner
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

  

They Call Me Messi ... Week 26

Hi Friends and Fam,

This week has been super hard but also super fun! We found a lot of our investigators and had some pretty good lessons! (sadly none showed up to church though) that's always such a bummer. Every time you think they will come and every time they don't haha it sucks. But it's all good we will get em in there next time!

We found a GOLDEN investigator. He's 12 years old and the son of a less active who we have been talking with. We invited this kid to play soccer with us and he loved it. We are like best friends with this kid. He is most definitely going to get baptized probably this month. Here's the catch…. He moved on Saturday, 2 streets into the Hermanas area in our ward. So we aren't allowed to teach him anymore :( We were so sad. We even helped them move.

Soccer was super fun and somehow I balled out. We were playing with some really good guys and somehow I got 4 goals. They all happened to be luck cuz I was in the right place at the right time but still. These Latinos were thinking that I was good or something haha

We had a district meeting in Olavarria (2 hours away) so we took a little charter bus thing that we rented out with the 12 missionaries from Tandil. Our new zone is awesome! It has so many hilarious people. Elder Anderson and Brian are still in our zone, and My mtc comp elder Stott is now in our zone! My “dad” elder Hayes and elder Scheiss are our Zone Leaders and they are super chill too. I love our Zone. We have 28 missionaries (biggest zone in the mission). We have our Zone meeting and interviews tomorrow with president!

We had a lesson with Ezequiel who is ready to be baptized this transfer we think but if it doesn't happen this transfer it will for sure happen next transfer. So I hope I stay! His parents don't really support his decision, but he's 22 so he doesn't need their permission technically. He's awesome though. We taught him the commandments (all of them) and he accepted all of them with ease.

I have been really trying to focus more on my studies lately and I have been feeling the spirit way stronger. We had some awesome lessons where I totally had the gift of tongues. One highlight of the week was when Marcos (our 12 year old friend) asked my comp why he has such a bad english accent, and he said that I don't have one haha. Love that kid

Love you all,

Elder Tanner