Monday, January 19, 2015

Ethans 49th Letter - Nechochea, Argentina 12-15-14



Dear Family,

     Alright a pretty amazing things happened to Elder Hansen and I, We were working and we had plans to contact people, knock on doors, etc... So we started working and talking with people, and i got the feeling to go down a road, and then to just keep following it. We had never gone so far in this direction, and we entered into a road with open fields around it, the we got to the Street 91(here the streets are all numbers). We turned because we had to and I felt to turn right and we went and then we knocked on the first house that we saw. We see a house finally, and we go up to it to knock. There was a Mother (65 years old ish) and he younger son outside of the house. We started talking to them, and there dog that was tied up started to bark, so i went and played with it for a couple seconds and then I look to the back yard and saw Rottweiler puppies. I said, " how cute, rottweiler puppies" and the son leaned over and was about to say something as the Mom Rottweiler came around to corner off its chain. They started Freaking out!!! haha He grabbed a broom, and told us to get into the house. We heard him yelling at the dog so that it would go back to the backyard, as if it was a murderer type dog... haha Then he calld a 19 year old little girl Camilia to come and chain the dog back up, because the dog only likes her. hahah it was funny. but back to the spiritual part, after all this we start talking with the them and the mother said that her husband had lung cancer and just got his lung taken out in surgery. Right after she said that, my Companion fastly said, " we can give him a blessing like Christ gave to the people." She got emotion and said she would ask her husband, he said he would like that a lot. So we gave him a Priesthood Blessing from God, and now hes doing a lot better! They said they will go to church when he gets feeling better.
  This was an answer to my prayers, when i was asking how to become a worthy priesthood holder who can follow and notice the promptings of the Spirit. Yeah the Spirit guided us to find this man to give him a blessing, i know that we can hear and follow the Spirit, we just have to Listen and act on what we hear. After we act, we will know if it was a prompting from the Holy Ghost.
   Yeah we were walking in the street right after this amazing experience and we were heading back to the house to get home in time, and my companion and a huge craving for Toddy(its like chips ahoy or chocolate chip cookies) So we were on the way home and the Wind picked up and was super super strong, it was throwing dirt all over the place! Then a down pouring of Rain came.... and we got soaked!! haha It was a super wind slash rain storm. I asked my companion," Do you sill want Toddy?" and he said "Yup!" haha so we took like 5 mintues extra to go and get him his cookies. We got to the house and we notice we had two missed calls, I call the number back and its our Investigator Mailén, she was asking if we were okay because apparently this storm was doing some major damage. It ripped the roofs off houses, threw down power lines, and knock over hugest trees or twisted huge branches and ripped them off..... hahah and we were in the street for all of that and we had no idea it was such a bad storm... just two Missionaries who wanted Cookies.... hahaha The Savior is always protecting us!(dont worry Mom!)
   Also we came to find out that we are friends with all the dangerous people! haha its kinds of funny, one of the guys we know is a always on drugs. the first day we met him he yelled at us about some guy named Smith( Joseph Smith) and then the next time he was still drugged and apologized for what he had done. We have always found him on drugs, so we can talk all that much with him, but He say that we are his friend and hes got our back and he showed us a gun he has hidden under his shirt. like i said before dont freak out mom(or anyone else), I tell you these things so that you know that the Lord is protecting us so much! and we are safe. even though we are friends with all the theifs. haha

  In the Week we found a two less active sisters, Debura with 3 kids and Cintia with 4 kids, and the all the kids need to be baptized! all but 2 of the kids showed up at church with Debura and loved it! I so hope that i stay in this area to see them enter the Waters of Baptism! Also we had 2 others investigators show up and it was a miracle!!! We had 5 Investigators in the church!

WHAT AN AMAZING WEEK!!!!
The Lord is protecting us always, and he is there! I love you all!
Con Amor,
Elder Ethan C. Durocher!
 
 


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