Querida Familia,
How are you? I am well—this has been a bit of a busy week! We taught a
total of thirty-seven lessons, and talked to more people than we ever
have before in this area.
I was pleased to see two of our investigators at church. Though more
had committed, the ones that are actually reading the Book of Mormon
were the ones who kept their commitment. Hno. Alvarez and his son
Kevin came to church—the Hermano had read up to about 2 Nephi 9 after
having the Book of Mormon for two days, and is coming to know more and
more that it's true. His comment at church last week was “I lose
three-hundred and fifty pesos for keeping the Sabbath Day holy [coming
to church instead of working], but Jesus Christ kept on prompting me
to come.” This past Sunday, he volunteered the use of his barbeque for
an activity in two months, so I was pleased to see that he considers
that he's come to stay. The branch is working hard to fellowship him,
and our sacrament meeting attendance this week was a bit higher than
average (forty).
Thus, all is well in the Quebrada!—or, in other words, we have even
more work for this coming week!
I enjoyed the photos that you sent me—I’ll try to label more of mine.
They’re mostly from inside the apartment because we're not to be using
cameras while proselyting; hence, there’s an unnatural proportion of
lunches in the photos.
I like being a missionary! I know that it’s a decision with eternal
blessings, and, as Elder Holland says, ‘Every good thing that has ever
happened to me has been a result, in one way or another, of my
mission.’ I think that this will be true for me too. I know that the
gospel of Jesus Christ is really the only way to have lasting peace
and happiness of an eternal nature.
One strange thing this week is that many of our investigators or
contacts have been referring to me as a “tú” instead of a “vos” or
“usted”—the tú is not much used here, but I think that they think that
the usted would be too formal, and the vos too informal, entonces, tú
it is then!
Hope you have a good week, love you all a lot!
Love,
Elder Schlachter
