Life of a Uruguayan Missionary

The Torah

Elder Albrethsen

Colonia, Uruguay

Comp: Elder Heaps

Monday, 13 Feb 2012

Well, well, another wonderful week has passed by and have I got a couple wonderful stories for you! I’ll tell about our three main families . . .

An enormous birthday celebration! First, Vilma and Jorge!!! They are not getting baptized this weekend. It was Vilma’s birthday yesterday and she couldn’t make it to church due to an enormous celebration of family!! So…. maybe next week. We are praying for her.

My favorite family—Marcelo and Catalina. Marcelo is missing Catalina so much that he is thinking of spending a couple weeks down in Chile with her. If he goes, I won’t be here for the baptism of their family, but they will be getting baptized, that is 100 percent sure. We had a couple great lessons with him by explaining more of the gospel of Christ and watching the film on the Restoration of the Savior’s church. It was great. He is rededicating himself to reading the Book of Mormón due to the fact that it was Catalina who read most of it to him and did the studying. We will have to see how things go.

Gabriel, our Jewish friend, is finding answers in the Book of Mormón. Our fam that lives out in the boondocks—Carmen and Gabriel, well, we got there and did service for him by cleaning up a tree that the city came to cut down in their yard. (It was about 50 some feet tall, no joke) We went in and began talking about all the things they had been studying and what they believe. I had done some research to find out the book they believe in, the Torah, is the name given by Jews to the five books of Moses that begin the Hebrew Bible (Exodus through Deuteronomy.) He told us how he had read the first two episodes of Nefi and I was thinking that he meant the first 2 chapters of 1st Nephi. He meant the first two books of Nephi! It was awesome! He was starting into Jacob and going strong. Lots of his complicated questions were answered by the Spirit. It was great!!! He wanted about a week before our next visit. I’m assuming he will almost be done with the Book of Mormón by then. We made sure to invite him to commit to pray every time he reads the Book of Mormón to ask God if it is true and the revealed word in these latter days. He committed to do so! So we will see how it goes

We are working with a couple part member families and hoping the parents change their mind about the church and come back (less active.) So we continue to pray and work!