Monday, April 26, 2010
April 26, 2010 update
Hey everyone! Hey so wanna know something crazy that I forgot to tell you guys about last week? Before I came to this sector, I had a dream about it. I dreamt about the pension, the streets, and even the courtyard that´s in front of our house. It was weird though because I didn´t remember about the dream until I got here, and then everything began to seem so familiar and I realized the night before that I had a dream about it all. It was strange. Oh I also forgot to tell you last week that the week before I received that package with the 8 books that ana and add sent. Thank you very much for sending those. I´ve been using and reading them quite a bit now and I am learning bunches.
Hey I attached some pics. The first is of Marcelo, our investigator that got baptised by Marco a member in the ward. The second is of Pablo, our other investigator that wants to get baptised. He might even be baptised by now, heheh. the third is of my MTC group while we were at changes. The forth is of my new comp Elder Soto and I.
Hey so Mom you´re gonna be happy about this. Elder Soto drinks mate and I might get in to it. I had mate at a member´s house the other day and it wasn´t bad at all, it was just super hot and searedmy tongue when I drank it. It was still good though, and I wouldn´t mind drinking it again.
So we´re gonna have 2 baptisms this weekend. One´s name is Ignacio and he has 11 years and the other´s name is Cristian who is 9 years old. They both had their baptismal interviews yesterday and are now ready to be baptised. We might even have one of them get baptised by his father. He just needs to have an interview with the bishop and we´re hoping that everything pulls through because it would be a whole lot better to have the dad do it rather than one of us.
Last night was pretty cool. We were going to our last appointment to share our family mission plan with a ward family and on our way this guys said hola elders to us. We asked him where he was from and he said just around the corner, and then we kind of got into a little conversation and it turns out that he is a member, but the rest of his family isn´t. So we´re planning on going over to his house soon to share with him this message we have here called permanaced and it´s directed towards activating members and keeping them active. We´re also hoping that we can get the children to listen and the wife too and maybe they´ll eventually end up getting baptised. Hopefully.
Hey I´m gonna be able to call you guys May 7-9. So hopefully you guys don´t have anything planned those days because it´s gonna be awesome talking to you all again. It´s been about 4 months or so since we last talked. Even more crazy it´s been 8 months since I left for the MTC. I can´t believe how long I´ve been out here! Time flies as a missionary.
I have a favor to ask you Mom. Could you obtain Jon Duerden´s mission address for me? His mom might have a facebook and you could get it from her. If not, that´s OK. I could mail one of my friends and ask them for it.
Hey I also wanted to thank Slade for his letter. Thanks for the letter Slade! Man you´re getting good at painting. Maybe you´ll grow up to be like Picasso some day.
Oh yeah, our zone is going to the temple this thursday. It´s gonna be awesome! I haven´t been in half a year and pretty soon you guys will be able to go as well! Aw how awesome.
Well I think that´s it. I love yall and the church is true.
Elder Steinagel
Hey I attached some pics. The first is of Marcelo, our investigator that got baptised by Marco a member in the ward. The second is of Pablo, our other investigator that wants to get baptised. He might even be baptised by now, heheh. the third is of my MTC group while we were at changes. The forth is of my new comp Elder Soto and I.
Hey so Mom you´re gonna be happy about this. Elder Soto drinks mate and I might get in to it. I had mate at a member´s house the other day and it wasn´t bad at all, it was just super hot and searedmy tongue when I drank it. It was still good though, and I wouldn´t mind drinking it again.
So we´re gonna have 2 baptisms this weekend. One´s name is Ignacio and he has 11 years and the other´s name is Cristian who is 9 years old. They both had their baptismal interviews yesterday and are now ready to be baptised. We might even have one of them get baptised by his father. He just needs to have an interview with the bishop and we´re hoping that everything pulls through because it would be a whole lot better to have the dad do it rather than one of us.
Last night was pretty cool. We were going to our last appointment to share our family mission plan with a ward family and on our way this guys said hola elders to us. We asked him where he was from and he said just around the corner, and then we kind of got into a little conversation and it turns out that he is a member, but the rest of his family isn´t. So we´re planning on going over to his house soon to share with him this message we have here called permanaced and it´s directed towards activating members and keeping them active. We´re also hoping that we can get the children to listen and the wife too and maybe they´ll eventually end up getting baptised. Hopefully.
Hey I´m gonna be able to call you guys May 7-9. So hopefully you guys don´t have anything planned those days because it´s gonna be awesome talking to you all again. It´s been about 4 months or so since we last talked. Even more crazy it´s been 8 months since I left for the MTC. I can´t believe how long I´ve been out here! Time flies as a missionary.
I have a favor to ask you Mom. Could you obtain Jon Duerden´s mission address for me? His mom might have a facebook and you could get it from her. If not, that´s OK. I could mail one of my friends and ask them for it.
Hey I also wanted to thank Slade for his letter. Thanks for the letter Slade! Man you´re getting good at painting. Maybe you´ll grow up to be like Picasso some day.
Oh yeah, our zone is going to the temple this thursday. It´s gonna be awesome! I haven´t been in half a year and pretty soon you guys will be able to go as well! Aw how awesome.
Well I think that´s it. I love yall and the church is true.
Elder Steinagel
Monday, April 5, 2010
April 5, 2010 update
Hello everybody. Aw this is so nice. They just recently changed the myldsmail website so now it is so much easier to use and more useful. Well, this weekend was great. On Saturday we had general conference and we were able to watch it in English. So we watched the first 2 sessions and then following the second our district leader interviewed our investigator named Marcelo. He's getting baptised this weekend! Wooohooo! the weekend before I leave this sector. We have changes next week on Tuesday and it is very probable that I get changed. Anyway, conference was amazing and I took a lot of notes. I just thought Elder Holland's talk was incredible, as did many of the other missionaries. He always speaks with such power. All of the apostles speak with a lot of power, but Elder Holland just has that way of speaking, that just astounds. Then between the second session and the priesthood session, we did divisions and went out to proselyte. After that, we got back and watched the priesthood session, which was also amazing. It was so cool because the morning before conference, I decided to write down a few questions to see if I could get the answer, and then I went to Moroni 10 in the Book of Mormon and I looked at the part where it talks about the gifts of the spirit. I saw the gift of healing, and I really felt like I should write the question down of how can I get the gift of healing. So that's what I did and voila! There was a whole talk about healing by the priesthood. It's awesome how miracles happen like that. Another awesome thing is our investigator named Pablo came to most of the sessions and he even brought a notebook and pen to write down stuff during conference. He's way receptive and we have a baptismal date for him on the 24th. He's gonna make a great member.
Oh yeah, one more really cool thing. Our stake president, president Nuñes is getting released this next stake conference and wanna know why? Because he just got sustained to be a seventy. It was crazy because he said that him and his family were gonna leave last week to go to Utah so that they could see conference. Then on Saturday he ends up getting sustained as a seventy. So I thought that was pretty cool.
Oh man, I thought that story about Mario's (the hamster) leg was pretty funny. It's funny how he chewed it off afterward and then gave it to you guys as a token of his gratitude. Hahaha, that made me laugh Dad.
Hey, last night we had another aftershock. It was a really weird one, because it started out as a loud noise that just sounded like a big tractor driving outside, but then suddenly the whole house just started shaking, and then it stopped just as fast as it came. It was strange, but then I just went to sleep.
Well, I think that is it for this week. Oh Mom, I still haven't gotten my package yet, but we get pouch this wednesday, so maybe it will come then. Hopefully :)
I love ya all and I'll talk to you some more next week.
Elder Steinagel
Oh yeah, one more really cool thing. Our stake president, president Nuñes is getting released this next stake conference and wanna know why? Because he just got sustained to be a seventy. It was crazy because he said that him and his family were gonna leave last week to go to Utah so that they could see conference. Then on Saturday he ends up getting sustained as a seventy. So I thought that was pretty cool.
Oh man, I thought that story about Mario's (the hamster) leg was pretty funny. It's funny how he chewed it off afterward and then gave it to you guys as a token of his gratitude. Hahaha, that made me laugh Dad.
Hey, last night we had another aftershock. It was a really weird one, because it started out as a loud noise that just sounded like a big tractor driving outside, but then suddenly the whole house just started shaking, and then it stopped just as fast as it came. It was strange, but then I just went to sleep.
Well, I think that is it for this week. Oh Mom, I still haven't gotten my package yet, but we get pouch this wednesday, so maybe it will come then. Hopefully :)
I love ya all and I'll talk to you some more next week.
Elder Steinagel
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