Life of a Uruguayan Missionary: Lots of Construction!

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Si! Constructión!

Elder Albrethsen

Colonia, Uruguay

Comp: Elder Heaps

Tuesday, 31 Jan 2012

Another change come and gone... o seá 6 more weeks has passed by here in Colonia. It really seems like just yesterday I got here; time is passing by faster than I thought it would. Some crazy news with changes!!! It’s absolutely not what we were expecting!!! News for the week first, tho, as always, haha.

Exciting weather in Colonia. Hurricane explosions of greatness happened this week as it usually does this time of year, but it was great either way! It is getting hot again. But it’s completely bearable compared to how Rivera was last year.

I will be able to build my own house pretty easily when I get home. We logged a lot of service time this last week and this week while helping a couple members build their houses haha. One’s name is Adan—this guy is awesome! He has been our best bud since I got here, haha. He is a member recently reactivated when his son, 13, got baptized a few months back. He has been great in helping us out by going to lessons with us and every Saturday giving us lunch which consists of an asado or a quick grilled meat and cheese sandwich!!!! Oh, man, I look forward to lunch every Saturday! Haven’t had a bad meal yet!

Since I’ve been here, we have raised the great wall of Berlin at his place to seclude him from his neighbors, hahaha, long story. We are building a shed out back for his tools (he has almost more than my dad and that’s saying something) and other things of grave importance! Haha.

Amazing lessons with family. We had a long week of work with our now decent pool of investigators, compared to the ones we had when I got here. One family we found while out knocking with a member is half Chilean—the wife, who is from Chile, is super cool. So is the husband! They are about 30 years old. She has a son in Chile and she is going this week to pick him up or to visit. We had some amazing lessons with them. They were super pumped to come to church. The ONLY thing was that Marcelo is a project manager over a hotel that opened up this last Sunday and he had to work. So they didn’t make it! Ahh, but they are a great family! They will get baptized! They are awesome!!!!!!!

Disappointment turns to surprise! Another family, Vilma and her son Gorge, are super cool! We invited them to church and Gorge was super excited to come. His mom had been before. We went to go pick them up and they weren’t at home, unfortunately! Ah, so we went to church kinda bummed ‘cause we had no investigators there. I was scheduled to give a Sacrament talk for 15 minutes, but they left me 40 minutes to speak, haha. The two previous speakers gave a quick 2-minute scripture and then finished. Fun time… But right after the Sacrament was passed, in walked Vilma and Gorge!!!!!. So it was great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In Sacrament meeting they announced that our ward council meeting was right after church. So me and Olsen went to the meeting . . . and were the only ones who showed up, haha. Guayan.

Changes—to stay or not to stay . . . Well, clean cut and straight to the facts, I’m staying and my comp, Elder Olsen, is going to Salto. Ah.... we are super bummed. We had a great change and we figured he would “kill” me (be my last comp until I leave for home.)

My new comp is Elder Heaps from Idaho. He sounds like a stud! (No picture yet) But, yeah, I’m finishing here in Colonia!!!!! Woot! So, we have some early morning buses to catch tomorrow to get everything set up. So, yeah, gots to go!