Well it is Carnaval! And you know what that means? Basically we have to stay inside Monday and Tuesday unless we email the fam (as in right now) or have set appointments.Why, you ask? Well ya see, basically Carnaval is this giant South American holiday (probably the biggest of the year) where everyone throws water balloons and eggs and flour, etc. at each other. So yeah- us missionaries get some good ol' cabin fever time hahaha.
I don't know if I brought it up last week, but we went to a mall called El Recreo on Pday to get matching ties as a companionship and eat McDonalds. I never thought the day would come when I would crave McDonalds (of all things), but there we were. Me and my McNugs. :)
As far as the work goes, it's been goin'. When I first got to Salvador Celi, we only had 1 good investigator (the one that weas baptized last week), so we've been working hard to find more. And it's been like your local hamburger joints. Some are hit and some are miss. That is to say, some are more prepared than others. But we'll keep looking, and Heavenly Father has blessed us to find them when we've been diligent.
One thing that has really just been spiritually impacting me this week has been about the Book of Mormon, and how this (South America) is where most of it all happened. We had a member tell us the other day all about how they were taught in school about their ancestors that had a visit from a god (which said it would return), and worshiped the sun and moon afterwards as a result. Well, from an LDS perspective, that's SO COOL cause we know that that was Jesus Christ when he visited the Americas, and that he is going to return. It's just interesting how the story's been changed, cause after the nephites were destroyed, the Gospel wasn't here to keep the complete truth preserved, When the Spanish Conquerors came, the Natives thought that they were "gods" that had returned, and instantly embraced their religious beliefs, language, everything. Which is why today most of South America is Catholic and speaks Spanish, even though that's not the original indigenous language. I am constantly learning new things that just point to how this is where the Lamanites were (and are), and it just continues to build my testimony of the Book of Mormon-that it's true, and that Jesus Christ really did come here to the Americas.
I hope you all have an incredible week!
Love,
Elder Stolle
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