16 August 2010

“Tell us a story of your favorite investigator.” That’s what Brad asked me to write about. That was what I was planning on doing. My companion and I are teaching a couple, Cindy and Nicolas. They have 2 kids, Mauro and Bruno. The four of them went to church this week. They are an awesome family. Their two trials right now are that they are not married and Nicolas is out of work. They are going to the marriage place to get a date so that they can get married. And we visited them with our branch president one day and the president just so happened to need a worker for a few weeks. They are doing construction work outside of the city. They leave for four or five days and come back on the weekends. It’s awesome knowing that our investigator has spent two weeks now working with the branch president and a handful of other members. The kids are 5 and 2. The 2 year old was having fun during sacrament meeting and wasn’t very reverent. But that’s okay, because the Lord wants his 2 year olds at church. So we’re excited about them and hopefully they can get married soon so that they can get baptized.

We also found a new family to teach this week. It was cool and it just so happens that the lady is a relative of a member. That’s always cool. We went to visit them with a Brother Machado. We call him the district ward mission leader, but some might know that that isn’t a calling. He’s a high council member over missionary work, and he does his job really well, which is interesting down here in Uruguay, but it shows that the church is really developing down here.

I love you all and thank you for the support and prayers.

Love, Elder Whitaker