Aaron

Hey everyone.  Hope you all are doing well as always!  Stay healthy.  Everything is pretty good here in Puno.  It´s starting to rain less so it´s not as cold.  I´m excited for Christmas and tomorrow we will be in December.  I´m older than I´ve ever been and now I´m even older.

This week was a pretty good one.  We started off doing divisions.  I went with a Mexican kid in my district.  In the past he hasn´t made the smartest dicisions in the mission although they aren´t terrible things, but just talking with him and asking questions, I was able to find out that he really does want to be obedient but his companion doesn´t help out a whole lot.  So I told him to be the person to start.  He is a good missionary and a funny kid.  His namej is Elder Blancarte.  He lives pretty close to Texas (about 4 hours) and he speaks pretty good English (which he learned in the mission).

My companion and I have been working with some of the investigators that lost their baptismal date the last week and we were able to get a lot of them back.  We now have 6 with a baptismal date.  4 of them are pretty sure and the other 2 are a little bit more difficult because they need permission and their parents don ´t want to give it super easily.  But we are still working with them.

This week I found my new favorite song as well.  It´s called "Good to be Alive".  It´s on LDS.org and it´s a pretty good song.  I don´t know why I like it so much.

That´s pretty much about it this week.  Not a whole lot, but it was good work.  There is also a new video out for Christmas that we will be showing to all of our investigators.  I would challenge you all to share this video with one of your friends, neighboors, family, etc. that isn´t a member and later bring the missionaries!  The video is called A Savior is Born.  Here is the link for all of you who accept the challenge!  I would hope you can all do it!  

Well, I love you all and thank you all for your support.  Keep safe and sane.  Love you all!

"¡Oh ese sutil plan del maligno!  ¡Oh las vanidades, y las flaquezas, y las necedades de los hombres!  Cuando son instruidos se creen sabios, y no escuchan el consejo de Dios, porque lo menosprecian, suponiendo que saben por sí mismos; por tanto, su sabiduría es locura, y de nada les sirve; y perecerán.  Pero bueno es ser instruido, si hacen caso de los consejos de Dios"

2 Nefi 9:28-29