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Ethan's 42nd Letter / Photos Necochea, Argentina October 27, 2014

Dear Family,

Well first to explain the pictures that I sent, after writing last week we went straight to a members house. We went with there 3 sons to do something called Sand Boarding!!! Its like snowboarding but on sand, down like Sand Dunes!!! It was so much fun to have a good relaxing and time to have fun kind of P-day! We were there for a couple hours playing on the Beach and walking on this old Pier thing, and sand boarding! Probably one of the best P-days i have had, and I took some videos with my camera.

Not much happen during the week...A LOT of Rain again!... we moved once again to another place that is even farther away from our area... so we lost almost a whole day with moving houses...

On Saturday we went to a city called 3 Arroyos(3 streams) to do Re-enforcement type thing with all of the missionaries in our zone. So we took a big van thing 2 hours to this city and worked all day there. It was SO HOT!!!! and there was a bunch of humidity, I'm not the biggest fan of the humidity... At the end of the day, with our last contact.. I started talking with a women named Soledad. She was going to hang some clothes on the clothes line, and we help here with that. We just started of getting to know her and try to find our what she needs from the gospel. We found out that she has 3 kids and is a single mom, so i shared that for my mom at times in the house it was 6 kids 5 of which are boys who were a lot a bit crazy, and she had to maintain things alone. I connected it to that the Gospel and the Church is what helped my Mom and strengthened her to be able to do the things that she had to do with us 6 kids. That experience really hit her and she wants that help, she wants to keep her kids in a better place, because she sees kids 4 to 5 years old smoking cigarettes and Marijuana (Weed) in the streets. So she said that she wants to go to church and wants to be baptized, Her and her little kids agreed to be baptized and go to church!!! It was a huge blessing!!!

I know that the Lord is preparing the people to accept the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and hear our message. The Lord has been blessing me so much in the last weeks with spiritual experiences. I know that this is his work and it is a blessing to be a tool in the Lords hands in the Mission Work.

I love you all so much and pray for you always!

Con Amor, Elder Ethan C. Durocher!

Ethan and Elder Porter

Sand Boarding off the Dunes!

Ethan's 41 Letter Necochea, Argentina October 20, 2014

Dear Family,

First of I want you to put another name into your prayers and into the Temple, his name is

Joshua Pukahi.

He is the brother of a sister missionary here, he has Cancer and Sister Pukahi was told that he doesn't have much more time, so she will be returning home, but i would appreciate it a lot if you could pray for him.

Alberto and Company!! Alright Alberto is this 18 year old guy who we found a couple weeks back. He has a daughter and is on House Arrest.... BUT he is a chosen Son of God, he wants to know about everything, he wants to be baptized and he introduced us to his family and now his Mom Nora, brother and sister Milargros (Miracle is the name), Roberto and Alberto want to be baptized!. The Mom is a little slow with the whole talk of baptism because she was baptized in the Catholic Church and didn't want her kid baptized out of that tradition, but after talking she accepted it. Later she told us that 10 years back she was assisting our church and having the missionary lesson, but didn't want to be baptized. Now we found her son, and her family! They are awesome and the Lord really is helping us and them so much so that they can be baptized! Like he was on House Arrest in the house of his Girl Friend(breaking the law of Chastity) and days later the Judge told him he has to move to his house with him Mom and family!!! What a Miracle!!! We have taught him almost everything and has agreed to keep all the commandment(L.of.C. and W.of.W.) The Lord is blessing this family again so that they have have to Gospel in there lives! We are just waiting until Alberto can get permission to go to the church from the Judge. Please pray for that!

The last things is what the title of this email is,

Remember who YOU are!

This is our message to the whole world! We all know what the Gospel of Jesus Christ is, We as missionaries are just reminding them again of what they have forgotten. I know that we are Sons and Daughters of our Heavenly Father! He and his son Jesus Christ love us! They are always there trying to bless us and help us in all the things that we do! I pray that ALL of us can remember this phrase and always REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE!!!

I love you all so much!!!! I'm always praying for you!

Con Amor,

Elder Ethan C. Durocher!

Ethan's 40th Letter - Necochea, Argentina October 13, 2014

Well to start off my letter it will be about the Rain that we got! Wow that was a lot of Rain! It started raining early in the week and it just didn't stop, there were moments when it was light rain and other that it was a heavy down pour!!! haha We went to work and got totally soaked!!!! haha we just kept on going and trying to talk and share the gospel with all the people we can. My companion actually has and waterproof jacket but mine.... not so much waterproof... i called it a Rain Catcher..... haha We were in the Center part of the city and looking at our plans and a guy came out of his Store which was meat shop where he sells meat like in the old times when we didn't have Walmart and Costco! haha He came out and we started talking and he invited us in to get out of the rain and we started to talk. He had a old school Book of Mormon and had read it all, he thought it was super interesting and thought it was cool that there were Apostles of Christ here. It was super cool to find him, later we just continued in the rain and just got more wet to the core!! haha

We got to the house and we never had problems with the house..... but we opened up the door and it had rained so much the sewer got filled and came up through the bathroom drain and water went everywhere!!! but not only water.... also POOP!!!!!..... its smelt so bad in our house and we were all wet and we couldn't do much so we just cleaned up all that we could and got dryish and the 10(the assistants came for a visit) of us Elders tried to go to bed.... hahaha Great experiences!!

OSCAR BENITO GALLARDO is his name, he is a member here who is less active and his family asked us to pray for him, so i thought that you guys can too, also if you can put his name in the temple that would be awesome!

Finally!!!!!!!!!

WE BAPTIZED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

His name is Alexi Casco, he is 9 years old and hes awesome! his two other siblings who are 11 and 13 years old were already baptized, they just showed up to church and started going! haha now we have to work with the parents and get the closer and going to church haha.

Also we were walking in the road and we passed to people and we keep walking.... we flip around and we those two people happen to be right behind us. we stop them and talk to the and just so happened that they have gone to the church before and stopped about 6 years back, but never were baptized so we invited them to be baptized within 2 minutes of talking to them and they both said yes!!!! Roberto who is 20 and Gisella who is 19 and there family!!! its awesome, we will be working with them so that they can be baptized!!!

I know that the Savior lives and that he truly knows everyone of us. He knows us better then we know ourselves and he knows that we can handle the challenges that are put in our way! Its called Tough Love but its a perfect love!

Con Mucho Amor,

Elder Ethan C. Durocher

AF Canyon Outing with Nick & Family and Camrie & Morgan October 11, 2014

Hello Elder & Family,

Nothing like mild temperatures to make the world a better place. I love the fall colors and mild weather, but looming is the cold temps of winter.... But with winter brings the beautiful white wonderland and then the warming of Spring. I'm very grateful to live in an area with the 4 seasons and the nearby access to the mountains and lakes that bring such diversity and color.

During the week Nick suggested a 4-wheeler outing to American Fork Canyon and he'd bring his Rhino over from Tooele. I loved the idea so Morgan asked Camrie and her sister, Sierra to join us. Nick arrived at 10am and we got Morgans wheeler loaded to the front tongue of the red trailer that had the Rhino on it and then a red wheeler was in his truck bed that was Dan's. My 4-wheeler was on my trailer pulled by David's Jeep that Morgans been driving. We arrived to Tibble Fork Reservoir and headed up the trail. Nick lead the way and Oh boy, he headed up the difficult trail to Forrest Lake! He took me on it one other time and I had to get rescued a couple times. Well, I had hoped to manage this trip without assistance over the huge rocks, and got past the first segment well, but later got tilted in a deep rut and Nick and Michelle had to keep me from tipping too much. Whew! It's a lot of fun but tiring! I thought my muscles would be more sore today, but their not! We got up to Forrest Lake and enjoyed the beautiful colors and gentle breeze. I was surprised how many full size vehicles try making (and succeeding) at this trail with their expensive rigs. I took photos of one Rubicon heading down the bolder strewn trail. Crazy! I had packed a lunch for all so it was nice to have a rest. Morgan and Camrie were catching peanuts with their mouths and that was fun to watch. The dynamics of heading down the trail was much easier so we arrived at the bolder patch to see another full size newer Jeep trying to get up the huge rock field. He either broke or just took off his fender flairs to clear the rocks. Again....crazy. We had to hustle down as Sierra had to get back in time for work at 4pm in Provo. After we got things cleaned up a bit the rest of us went to dinner at Chubby's in PG. It's a great place for burger/fries and we did just that. Camrie and I got the Chicken Hawaiian that was super good. Nick got the Chubby's Challenge, but didn't care to eat it in 15 minutes to win. Nick had to head off for home as Michelle had to work the night shift. Such a great time together. Morgan and Camrie headed off to see the movie, Meet the Mormons. I came home and did laundry and finished preparations for my lesson on Isaiah.

I got to see Avery on Saturday morning too! He dropped by to give me back the house key and I was so glad to see him! He was on his way up the canyon as well to do some trail riding too.

Yep, the lesson I'd been really looking forward to teaching as I've prepared for the last month. I really came to appreciate the literary style of Isaiah and the ways to overcome the barriers to his difficult context. I likened the style of Shakespeare or Talmages, Jesus the Christ as difficult text. All of these have a style or rhythm that after you get used to the imagery or metaphors, you begin to understand the language and use of words. I stressed the point that with the power of prayer, and the gift of interpretation, we can all be blessed to understand the message. After all I'd studied, I hoped the class would be motivated to not shy away from such great scripture. The best part is that when Jesus visited the Lamanites he commanded us all to learn the words of Isaiah. 3Ne. 23

Well I'm guessing this is long enough and I need to post a few pictures! Have a great week and know that I love you so much!

Love, Mom