Elder Bryce Whitaker: Spiders Trojan Horse

Monday, 24 November 2014

so our investigator Matilde is just such a champ its incredible. =)

we teaching a lady that is just accepting all of this to the point where neither i nor my comp can fully believe it. =) she quit smoking, tea, coffee, and drinking, the DAY we taught her the lesson. she said that now she doesnt feel anything when she sees people smoking and that its not even a temptation any more. =) she came to church yesterday and loved it! she is going through a really hard time right now, like super duper rough, but i was really grateful that the Spirit helped us out, it brought a lot of scriptures to our minds that really helped her. the scriptures are so cool. =) i love how we can read and depending on where we are at in life the same verse means something completely different. =)

then mis chiquitas, my little ones, they are awesome. they finally like us now!!!!! hahaha it was a battle, at first we showed up and it was like, ugh, hey come sit and listen, and now they come up, we have sick handshakes, and we have a lot of fun teaching them. Karina y Roxana are their names. they and Matilde will be baptized this friday=) so we are super stoked for that. Roxanna and Karina chose me to baptize em but then we talked it over for a minute and imma baptize Karina and my comp is going to baptize Roxanna=) hahaha we dont really know who is going to baptize Matilde yet. we will see.

Elder Armstrong es my new comp. hes a stud. hes the first comp i have had that is taller than me! hes a big dude=) but we are getting along great. its going to be a really fun transfer. i think at the end of the year they are going to transfer me outta here. so that will be sad. but i got a month and a week to go hard!!!!! =) i seriously love my area. the pench is getting sketch. haha there are just a LOT of spiders. they are coming from everywhere and are really big. OH MY GOSH last night!!! there was a big spider on the ground while we were taking dats, so my comp got up and stepped on it. well he stepped on it, and like 100 baby spiders came flying out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he stepped on it and it went from bad to way way way horribly, just so much worse. we were both running around yelling and just stomping out anything black that moved. hahahaha

so we were in a lesson with a recent convert and had a really cool experience. we shared a scripture where Crist talks about his lineage, who he is and what he came here to do. then shared about this is my beloved son in whom i am well pleased, hear him.

the invitation i want to extend to all of you is that you think about this relationship. the one that we have with the Father, and then, think about this: What words would our Heavenly Father use to present us? and what are we doing now to make him proud of us.

there is a massive power in prayer. something i am working on is trying to really close my eyes and then really talk to someone. not just pray, but really imagine that hes right there. sometimes we just say things in prayers cause there are other people listening, but really i want you all to get up there, especially on your thanksgiving prayers right before the food when everyone wants a short and sweet one, i want you to get up, and really tell him what you REALLY feel. but of course, keep it short and sweet, the foods getting cold. were not monsters here=) hahahaha

i love you guys, but i might love this work more=) its so much fun, its hard sometimes but if you keep the miracles youve seen in your head all the time its always awesome=)

loves from ARGENTINA

Elder Whitaker

haha we are havin a lot of fun. we get along really well

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