Bonjour mes chers freres et souers,
Christmas in the mission field is wow. We sat in our appartments and studied/watched mission videos/ made cookies all day. It was really interesting haha.. BUT talking to the fam and Jango was great. There weren't any members who we could go over to visit because half of them moved south for winter (florida or south america) and the rest were somewhere else in canada.. BUT it was awesome. LOVE YOU FAMILY
To start off.. The champion Investigator is 10 days smoke free: One of our members asked her to be baptized again.. She said yes but she isn't on date yet.
Tonight, we are going to a german family's home for dinner! The husband invited us to eat lobster:) We will be teaching them tonight as well so pray for us!
Fun thing of the week.. Elder Portellano got mad at me because I never slip and I'm wearing church shoes... but he slips a few times a day and he has boots. I "Banned" him.
"You merely adopted the ice elder, I was Raised in it!"
This week was pretty spiritual. I read a letter that was written to a missionary about 30 years ago about An Elder Ricciardi.. In the letter this RM describes the difficulties of serving with him. Elder Ricciardi was a missionary who devoted everything, LITERALLY to preaching the gospel. He has a famous saying that some apostles have talked about.. "I fear no man"
So this elder was having a tough time in his first couple of weeks.. one day Elder Ricciardi went on a walk with him because he had a particularly bad day. he sat him down on a bench and asked the elder,
"Do you know who you are?"
the other elder replied "A child of god"
Ricciardi laughed and gave him 3 Nephi 5:13
"Behold, I am a disciple of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. JI have been called of him to declare his word among his people, that they might have everlasting life. YOU fear no man ELDER!"
Its silly but it is true.. There was a lot of things that happened in this letter.. its about 10 pages front and back long. But the one that touched me most was the prayer room story. He talked about a difficult time he had in an area. 5 months without any real investigators and a lot of slammed doors. He prayed in a room in the apartment and his companion saw him and how emotional he was in his prayer.. so his companion tried after.. and it became a prayer room. I can't tell you the whole story.. but a sincere prayer brings power... and when a few sincere prayers happen.. there is a lot of power. I love you all :)
2 Timothy 3:15 "And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus."
If you aren't searching your scriptures... you are missing out on your own salvation. love you all.
Elder Argyle
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