email 7/18/09
Next week is Luke’s farewell and Matt will be married in a few weeks. I rolled my ankle this morning playing basketball. It hurts. Two unrelated statements! How does he do it?
So I was working in Tacuarembo with Elder Ahlstrom last week. We had a really good time and found some good investigators and had a baptism. And then President and his wife picked me up in Tacuarembo with my companion and we traveled doing interviews and yearly house inspections all this week. I never thought traveling would be so tiring, but I am just as tired as when I walk in the street all day.
Transfers are next week. Elder Harmon will no longer be my companion. I am really bummed about that. I thought I was going to get to kill him, but I thought wrong. My new companion will be Elder Clark. He is from UT and has a transfer less than I do. He is cool.
I wanted to give a shout out to Grandpa and Grandma Shepherd. I am not sure if I remember right, but I know their anniversary is coming up or just recently past or something like that. Is it number 50? I am not quite sure. I am a bad grandson and I apologize, but I wanted you to know that I love you both so much!! I have such fond memories of being in your home and being with family. Thank you for everything!!
Time to go! Take care! The church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is the true church! I love you all!
Andy
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Traveling
email 7/8/09
Hey, I just wanted to write you all and let you know that you are off the hook this Saturday. I will not be having a P-Day. I am going on divisions this whole week and then we have an interview tour and so I won’t write again until Saturday the 18th.
The baptism of the Garcia Family was AMAZING!! Dardo, Gonzalo, and Santiago all received the Aaronic Priesthood on Sunday, and the ward received the family really well. Everyone bore their testimonies and said "congratulations Garcia family. Welcome to the ward!" There was a real spirit of brotherhood and friendshipping of new members that I have never had with a baptism. Perhaps it is because the whole family got baptized together. Dardo, (who is tall and with dark hair and an intense man with a deep voice), bore a sweet testimony in the baptism. He said, and I quote "I wasn’t sure about the whole religion thing. And they talked to me about Joseph Smith and baptism and a few times I just wanted to ask them to leave. But I remember one day when they were there I felt something that I couldn’t deny. I wont try to describe it because you all must have felt the same thing and that is why you are here. I received my answer from the Holy Ghost and I knew that what the missionaries taught me was true." :) - I think that about says it.
Well, it isn’t my P-day so I gotta go. I just thought I would throw you a quick line en vista de que no tengo un dia de preparacion esta semana. Cuidense! Les quiero!!
Andy
Hey, I just wanted to write you all and let you know that you are off the hook this Saturday. I will not be having a P-Day. I am going on divisions this whole week and then we have an interview tour and so I won’t write again until Saturday the 18th.
The baptism of the Garcia Family was AMAZING!! Dardo, Gonzalo, and Santiago all received the Aaronic Priesthood on Sunday, and the ward received the family really well. Everyone bore their testimonies and said "congratulations Garcia family. Welcome to the ward!" There was a real spirit of brotherhood and friendshipping of new members that I have never had with a baptism. Perhaps it is because the whole family got baptized together. Dardo, (who is tall and with dark hair and an intense man with a deep voice), bore a sweet testimony in the baptism. He said, and I quote "I wasn’t sure about the whole religion thing. And they talked to me about Joseph Smith and baptism and a few times I just wanted to ask them to leave. But I remember one day when they were there I felt something that I couldn’t deny. I wont try to describe it because you all must have felt the same thing and that is why you are here. I received my answer from the Holy Ghost and I knew that what the missionaries taught me was true." :) - I think that about says it.
Well, it isn’t my P-day so I gotta go. I just thought I would throw you a quick line en vista de que no tengo un dia de preparacion esta semana. Cuidense! Les quiero!!
Andy
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Baptisms
email 7/4/09
Yesterday I went down the street to my last area of Barrio 12 to baptize Kariza Nuñez Vargas, an 11 year old girl of a member family that I was teaching while I was there. When the Elders gave her a baptismal date they asked who she wanted to baptize her and she said "the tall blonde that used to come". And thus I was called upon to baptize Kariza. Her parents are both police officers, named Leonardo and Mariza, and they are way cool people. I like them a lot. It was really good to see old friends and my old ward. My old ward mission leader’s wife is pregnant. I asked her what they were going to name the baby girl and she said "Mía", which means "Mine". I said that that wasn’t a good idea and that they would regret that when she was a teenager because she would have teenage boys calling her "Mine" all the time. So I suggested a middle name to make the name more safe: "Mía No-Me-Toques Gutierrez", or "Mine Don’t-touch-me Gutierrez". I thought it was a hilarious idea and it made her laugh, but I got a scold look from our Zone Leader Elder Perez.
Tonight we have the baptism for Dardo, Graciela, and Santiago. They had their interviews this week and Elder Layton, my old companion, did the interview and said that they seemed REALLY prepared. Elder Harmon and I are going to do another musical number. We have done so many musical numbers together that I have lost count.
I am driving now. I got lucky because my Utah license expires next month but my Uruguay license doesn’t expire until 2019. At the DMV place down here the lady asked me if my name was spelled right and then looked at me and said "I think we will just give you a license for 10 years, is that okay?" And I replied "That’ll be fine." That was a real blessing because had she wanted to she could have expired my license in August with my Utah one. The good news: I can drive without any problems in Uruguay until July 2019. I compared the pics of my 16 year old license to the Uruguay one and I have concluded that I have grown up a lot in 4-5 years.
This week Elder Harmon went up to Rivera and I stayed in our area with an Elder Martinez from El Salvador. He was really cool and really good at English. We had some good lessons together, including a lesson in the chapel with Lorena, the girl I wrote about last week. We do divisions every week for half the week or more. It gets tiring because we come and go on buses and don’t get much sleep at nights on the buses. I am really tired today and I didn’t even have to travel this week.
Have ye any questions for me? Anything y'all wanna know? I don’t know if there is much left to tell. Take care! I love you all!
Andy
Yesterday I went down the street to my last area of Barrio 12 to baptize Kariza Nuñez Vargas, an 11 year old girl of a member family that I was teaching while I was there. When the Elders gave her a baptismal date they asked who she wanted to baptize her and she said "the tall blonde that used to come". And thus I was called upon to baptize Kariza. Her parents are both police officers, named Leonardo and Mariza, and they are way cool people. I like them a lot. It was really good to see old friends and my old ward. My old ward mission leader’s wife is pregnant. I asked her what they were going to name the baby girl and she said "Mía", which means "Mine". I said that that wasn’t a good idea and that they would regret that when she was a teenager because she would have teenage boys calling her "Mine" all the time. So I suggested a middle name to make the name more safe: "Mía No-Me-Toques Gutierrez", or "Mine Don’t-touch-me Gutierrez". I thought it was a hilarious idea and it made her laugh, but I got a scold look from our Zone Leader Elder Perez.
Tonight we have the baptism for Dardo, Graciela, and Santiago. They had their interviews this week and Elder Layton, my old companion, did the interview and said that they seemed REALLY prepared. Elder Harmon and I are going to do another musical number. We have done so many musical numbers together that I have lost count.
I am driving now. I got lucky because my Utah license expires next month but my Uruguay license doesn’t expire until 2019. At the DMV place down here the lady asked me if my name was spelled right and then looked at me and said "I think we will just give you a license for 10 years, is that okay?" And I replied "That’ll be fine." That was a real blessing because had she wanted to she could have expired my license in August with my Utah one. The good news: I can drive without any problems in Uruguay until July 2019. I compared the pics of my 16 year old license to the Uruguay one and I have concluded that I have grown up a lot in 4-5 years.
This week Elder Harmon went up to Rivera and I stayed in our area with an Elder Martinez from El Salvador. He was really cool and really good at English. We had some good lessons together, including a lesson in the chapel with Lorena, the girl I wrote about last week. We do divisions every week for half the week or more. It gets tiring because we come and go on buses and don’t get much sleep at nights on the buses. I am really tired today and I didn’t even have to travel this week.
Have ye any questions for me? Anything y'all wanna know? I don’t know if there is much left to tell. Take care! I love you all!
Andy
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