Hi Everyone! Oct.
4, 14
Wow, that
was a great first session of conference that we had! I’m writing between
sessions right now. I didn’t know that
they were going to have the foreign speakers speak in their native languages,
so when President Eyring announced that someone was going to be speaking in
Cantonese, it caught me by surprise, but I like it. It makes it fun to see the
diversity in the church.
In other
news, last Sunday, Rodrigo was confirmed a member of the church! And now begins
his journey as a disciple of Christ. And I get to see him grow! As far as
teaching goes, we have been doing a lot of finding, so it has been a little
slower. But we know that there is someone waiting to be taught.
Honestly
there isn’t a lot to write about this week. I had an interview with President
this week, and he said that I will leave the office at the end of the transfer
in two weeks, which is expected. It’s amazing how fast these transfers have
passed by. It is a blessing to serve here and I will miss it. It’s been fun,
and I have learned a lot about who I am and what I want to do. Plus it will
help me work even harder the last little bit of my mission.
It sounds
like you are having a fun autumn trip in the mountains! It is weird hearing
about changing leaves and pumpkins when leaves are sprouting and people are
selling flowers preparing for Mother’s day (it happens in October in
Argentina). So it’s hard to picture a fall day at home. Some other quirky things about Argentina is
that toasters don’t exist, and milk goes bad after 3 days of being in the
fridge. Oh, and sometimes we have to wear underwear 3 days in a row because we
wash our clothes by hand. If we don’t
have time, we got to wear something! Plus it takes about 2 days to dry in the
humidity. Lastly, there are no Falkland Islands ,
they are the Malvinas. Argentina
still can’t get over the fact that they lost that war, and so they plaster
propaganda everywhere that the Malvinas are always Argentina ’s. Let’s just say Argentina doesn’t like Great Britain
very much.
Something
that I learned this week is the role of the spirit in our lives. Being a
confirmed member of the church, I have always been told that I have the gift of
the Holy Ghost and its constant companionship. I always thought that I knew
what that meant. But this week I was able to ask President Thurgood how we can
differentiate our own thoughts and the impressions from the spirit. He told me
that he is convinced that the grand majority of the uplifting, good promptings
and thoughts that we receive in every day are from the spirit, because he
really is our constant companion. If we really are worthy, we can trust that we
will receive guidance in every aspect of our life. That’s why it truly is the
greatest gift that we can receive in this world.
Anyway,
thanks for all of your support! I love you all!
I’m sorry all of your flowers are dead from the hail storm. If I get a
chance, I will take pictures of the flowers here because, well, they are still
here!
Hope you
have a good week!
Elder
Chipman
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