Monday, October 21, 2024 6:01pm
Hi there everyone, yes, I am in fact still alive, apologies for not getting the weekly out last Monday, it was a bit of a wild day haha.
Well, the last couple weeks have been alright, everything is starting to warm up a bit more, you can definitely tell we're heading towards summer. It has an interesting effect on the work, it means there's a lot more people outside enjoying the nicer weather, but puts a damper on us because we have to walk around in pants, shirt, and tie. Doesn't mean the work stops though!
Nothing too wild the 63rd week or whatever you'd like to call it, what I really enjoyed about the week was going over all the General Conference talks in English, my favorite thus far being God's Favorite, given by Elder Karl D. Hurst. The whole talk was basically about how we can find our personal worth in Christ, and how through that worth and knowledge of our heritage, we can more easily overcome the trials of this world and at the same time appreciate joyful moments much more deeply. It's a lovely message and definitely something I've been trying to transmit in our lessons and contacts.
Last Pday I didn't have a lot of time because we had our Zone Pday, where all the missionaries in the Zone get together to hang out, do activities, what have you. A lot of the missionaries here are fresh out of the MTC, so it was a lot of fun getting to know them and sharing my own mission experiences with them as well. They're a great group and I'm sure they'll take great care of the mission once all us old guys are out of here haha. Anyways, we were all in a beautiful park for the Pday, so Elder Senador and I took advantage of the moment to take some fun photos of everything there. It had been a while since I'd seen a park so nice, it was quite refreshing!
The next day, we had our Zone Conference, which was great, President Antuña and the APs spoke a lot about different ways we can find people in the mission, especially working through the members. What he has invited us to do is help the members pick one of the many videos from the Gospel Library to share with their friends and be able to invite them to a lesson or church through those means. We're still working with a few families in that regard, but a lot of companionships are already seeing the fruits of that labor!
I also had the chance to have an interview with President and we talked a lot about what he can do to help some of our friend progress towards baptismal dates, which was a bit new to me but still appreciated. I also mentioned to him that my brother (Hi Eric/Elder Montgomery, love you!) was leaving that same day for the MTC and was going to be serving in the Salt Lake City West mission, and to my surprise, he let me know that a member who lives in the Bahía mission was called to that same SLCW mission just the week before! How exciting! The member from here will be leaving morr towards January, so there's a chance I'll be able to meet him before he leaves, but we'll see!
On that note, this week is the last one of the transfer, so we should be receiving the information of where we'll be going sometime this weekend. Everything's pretty up in the air about what could happen, but whatever does, I'm know the Lord wants me wherever I'll be for a reason, and I'll be sure to find it!
Well! That's just about been the last couple weeks for me, nothing too crazy, as always, but also as always, I'm so glad to be able to serve here in Argentina! I know that every day I'm here, I grow a lot as a person and learn even more, and I'm so happy to be living this mission life! Hope yall know I love and appreciate all of you, you all are amazing and so so so beloved!
Stay safe and stay cool, yall
Élder Montgomery (the elder)
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