Week 26 in Uruguay: With Faith and a little Hope Miracles can happen"

2/5/18-2/12/18

“With Faith and a little hope miracles can happen”

Tuesday-Wednesday
     We taught this lady named Gladdis and I said a prayer with her. It was one of my most sincere prayers in Spanish I have given. The words were just coming out. It was pretty cool, the spirit working miracles. Afterwards, we had lunch with our stake president and his kids. I spun the basketball on my finger and switched fingers. They thought it was magic lol. It was so cool to see their faces! After we taught this 17-year-old named David. He is so funny, I love him! He likes to tease my companion. He is literally one of my favorite people.
     Wednesday, we had a district meeting. The older lady that loves me was there again at the church. She interrupted our meeting 3 times to give me presents and food. She told everyone that they should follow the things I do and I’m going to baptize a lot of people. After we gave a blessing to one of the hermanas and then we bought a huge pizza for us. We only ate half of it and then I gave a little to a hungry dog and the rest to a homeless man. He was so excited to get something to eat. We taught the couple that got married last week. She is a member but I had to make a deal with Albero, her husband, if he gets baptized, he gets one of my ties. Haha.

Thursday-Friday
     Today was a complete down pour, we froze! We were excited because we found a zoo though. Hopefully we can go on a pday. We then taught a couple of people and taught Civa Y Peda. It seemed like I gave the entire history of the United States to them during the lesson. Haha After, we went to a family home evening with our Bishop. He is so cool. There was a couple of families there and they made us food. It’s the best thing ever! I love love the people here! Pretty special place!
     Friday was so fun! We went to see Julio Y Anna. Love them! After, we made popcorn and cookies for our family home evening. We watched 17 miracles. We had 8 people that came. My companion and I started having a family night with whoever wanted to come. We sing hymns and read scriptures. After we watch a church movie that they love. It was great; I understood what most of the movie was saying in Spanish. When we got home my comp and I had a good talk. You never know how much you can impact someone’s life.

Saturday- Sunday
     Well, today we did a service project! It was so cool! This guy didn’t want anything to do with us so we just grabbed a shovel and helped him. He loved the help. We made cement and started building a house. We got so dirty! Later, we found out he worked on the Angel Moroni on the temple in Uruguay, how cool! After we planned an activity to play sports with just investigators. Sadly, not one of them showed up but I got to shoot a little bit while waiting for them. On the way back, we taught a couple more people but it was carnival night and they weren’t about it. Haha
     Sunday was fun. In Sacrament meeting, they didn’t have people to speak so we had to talk. After church, I played catch with the cutest little boy ever! I love the little kids here! We taught this family and I did my basketball tricks for them. This time I did dribbling drills for them too. It’s great, they love it. On the way home, we taught David. We had fun with him at first and then we got serious. I told him about baptism and how he needs to stop smoking and drinking. Pray for him! Well, this week was on faith and hope. Please don’t lose your faith or hope in difficult times. I promise it will get better! Just smile and look forward not back!

Elder Knelly

Elder Trevin Knell
Misión Uruguay Montevideo
Dalmiro Costa 4635 Bis
C.P. 11400 Montevideo
Uruguay

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