Franco Got Baptized

Well this week was a fight with the adversary for sure. It was a super stressful week. Super tired, some couple scary experiences, some funny ones, and weird ones haha we had it all this week. Overall it was a well balanced week!:)

Franco got baptized and it was an interesting baptism with some arguments here and there about Franco not going all the way under the water. Franco is extremely scared of the water and he had to gird up a lot of courage to be baptized.( With the help of ice cream and food after haha) We also had to talk with president about it so it was a good learning experience but one of the most strangest baptisms ive probably been to.

Other than that the next day on Saturday we had Jennifer and Rubens baptism and it was awesome!! I got to give a talk on the holy ghost and I felt it was good! Even though being asked in the meeting to give it haha! Which is pretty common here in Argentina haha but its a good skill to have! At Jennifer baptism we invited a bunch of kids that were playing basketball on our court outside to come inside and watch the baptism! Before hand we were playing with them and got to know all of them. One of them is named Juliana who lost her grandpa last week and another 5 months ago and talked to us really openly. The kids here are very mature to for the things they go through but not just that. There

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s kids there age (about 11-12) smoking in the streets that weve seen before and its always wayy weird to see and they'll offer it to us and say other stuff haha. primary kids ages! Anyway but the kids enjoyed the baptism a lot! We got to talk to one of their parents that came in from asking her daughter where she was and she wants to hear our message! Also many of the other kids want us to come by and I

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m going to be teaching English with my comp. Way excited! 

Anyway those are some of the good things that happened this week! Much love to you all!

Elder Chamberlain

Reactivating a Family

Hola a mi fam y mis amigitos,

Sooo this week was pretty hard--more soo last night with Maicol who we've been focusing on a lot. Last night, and I don't want to focus on this too much, but we basically found that he's not been understanding anything of what we've been talking about and told us about some extremely...different beliefs that he's had--but its OK!! We keep going because that's who we are and it's our duty to keep trying. We really had to study the scriptures with him last night and I had to throw some references down on him.  A lot in James 2 about faith and how it's a principle of action...it's given from God by our actions to receive it...it doesn't just appear out of nowhere...

A blessing that happened this week is that we've been able to help a family reactivate in the church with 2 amazing kids (Lorenzo and Valentina) who aren't baptized. They are 9 and 11 in that order so now we have to give them the discussions but it's cool to see how the Lord will have 2 more people make that covenant with him. We're going to teach them tomorrow and put the date for the 12th of March to be baptized and work with Franco (who was scared of the water) to have a family night with the Luna kids (Lorenzo and Valentina) so they can help him do it. Some awesome kids that are helping their own parents come unto Christ again.

Anyway that's something from this week-- much love to you all!! Always count your blessings because there are many!! Especially in the world's most blessed country!:)

Aguante los Estados Unidos!

Elder Chamberlain

Weeks Flying Past

Hey everybody!

This week was a good week but went by wayyy fast!  We had exchanges with the zone leaders and had interviews with president and several meetings this week it was a lot of fun but we didn't get to work a whole lot:/ but it's ok!  Maicol is progressing and isn't going to go to Buenos Aires yet so we can still work with him! Also we're going to baptize Franco and that's going to be way exciting! Other than that not a whole lot happened other than the usual contacting/knocking on doors and visiting people.  That's all I can really remember right now! But it was a great week! 

That is so cool how Spencer wrote his testimony in a Book of Mormon and gave it to a friend at school.  I feel like I need to share this video that the church shared in a world missionary conference a week or so ago. I don't know if you've seen it.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jbRUXWVMlw

I promise that the Lord will continue to bless us as a family and even more if we participate in this work. If God has placed someone who's interested in the church, Spence should continue with that and you can help him get the missionaries over. Just tell Spencer to not be scared of what he would say.  This will be a great experience for him before his mission--something I wish I would've had before serving my mission. 

Anyway much love to all of you guys!

Elder Chamberlain 

Elder Bennett, Marcelo Riveros, Elder Chamberlain