Life of a Uruguayan Missionary

Found a Jewish family

Elder Albrethsen

Colonia, Uruguay

Comp: Elder Heaps

Monday, 6 Feb 2012

Staying up all night at transfers. This week was a lot of work and, wow, a rough week energy wise. We had changes this last week and it was cool haha. I was super tired cause me and Olsen stayed up talking forever about great times during our short 6 weeks together. But 5 am came around and we went to the terminal to drop him off and I went with Elder Lopez from El Salvador back to his place. We worked in my area all day.

(Elder Olsen is on the far left)

We picked up my new comp, Elder Heaps from Idaho, at 2 in the afternoon and continued working as a trio ‘cause the new comp for Elder Lopez (Elder Fleming, my old comp) slept through his bus leaving in the morning. He wasn’t going to make it till midnight. (Elder Heaps is on the left)

We went on some crazy adventures down in Centro to work in Elder Lopez’s area. There are some weird families over there in his area, haha. But we worked till nine or so and went home. This was my first moment to sleep in almost 36 hours.

We woke up at 11:30 pm or so to go pick up Fleming. Luckily, he made it and we went home and went to bed. 6:30 am came all too soon haha. Goodness! Wednesday and Thursday were some of the longest days ever just ‘cause my body was hurting from lack of sleep, but now things are good, haha. (Elder Fleming is on the right)

We did have lots of great lessons. Our main investigators are Vilma and Jorge, and Marcelo and his wife Catalina, who went to Chile this week. Vilma has promised us to work for the baptism date of the 18th of this month!! So we are super stoked for that! With Marcelo, he works a lot ‘cause his new hotel is asking that he goes in every day now to manage and take care of problems. So we rarely see him.

We found a Jewish family who had just moved in a couple weeks ago in the far corner of our area. They were super cool, haha. They have a son, 2 or 3, who was running around in the buff, to put it lightly. Crazy lesson, but we have at least one more visit with them this Wednesday. It should be pretty interesting. They don’t really believe in Christ and have a lot of other religious books and different point of views. It’s super interesting to talk with them. We hope to have a great conversation and lesson on Wednesday.

Half our zone played volley ball down on the beach this morning. It was cool!

We have more service in a couple hours. I’m going home to take a nap… I’m so tired, haha but keep up the good fight and stay awesome everyone! I’ll be seeing you soon!

[Jon will be home in 5 weeks]

The Church is TRUE!!!!