how was conference weekend!?!? hope you guys have had a great week! sorry to had forgotten to mention that I would be writing on Tuesday this week! I forgot that with transfers (every 6 weeks) our p-days are moved to Tuesday's so i apologize but just to keep you updated on transfers, me and Elder Orozco are still in the same area and are still companions but we received new district leaders! Pretty crazy week with transfers and with conference weekend but it's been a great week!
Quick shout out to two of my best friends, Bayley Cook and Ashlyn Jensen who both submitted there mission papers this week and who are both preparing to be amazing missionaries so insanely proud of both of them!! Cant wait to hear when and where they will be reporting! love and best wishes to both of them!
Quick experience- I was out on day splits and me and the other missionary were both new missionaries (he came in to the mission the same time as me) and he is from Chile and he is just an awesome guy!! but while we were knocking doors we were getting a bit discouraged! It was getting dark and we had about another 20 min to knock until we had to be back and so we said a prayer and asked for the gift of tongues and interpretation and that me and my comp would be led to a person who;s heart was prepared to hear our message! the last street we knocked there was a woman who answered the door and she said that her husband had died almost exactly a year ago and she has 3 kids and we taught her about the plan of salvation and she was in tears the entire lesson! powerful spirit! I took about half the lesson that I felt comfortable in the language sharing and then at the end of the lesson me and my comp both bore our testimonies of the truthfulness of the message we shared and she then desired to come to general conference the next day with us so we brought her along to hear from the Apostles and then she came Sunday as well and heard from the prophet! such an awesome experience but i remembered after our discussion she was asking a bit about our missions and she asked where we were from and then she talked to me a bit about the language and she said she could tell that i was learning the language but that she understood all I had to say and the power behind what I had to say confirmed to her that the message that we were sharing was true!!
questions-
Has the language "clicked" yet? What's your favorite phrase?
-the language has not clicked (its coming slowly but surely/line upon line and precept upon precept) but i have been continuing to be diligent and in studying and giving my best effort to learning the language of the people i have been called to serve! my favorite phrase- "todo tranquilo" which means "all is good"
What is your favorite food to eat there?
-the food here isn't that great not gonna lie but they have milenasa which is kinda just like breaded chicken and we eat that a lot with rice but Argentina has really good snacks so my favorite snack would have to be, dulce de leche alfajores! its kinda like a triple layer chocolate cookie! pretty great stuff!
Are you sleeping better?
-not really, my companion told me you never really get a great night sleep and it's more of a miracle if you can sleep through the whole night without waking up! its not to much to worry about but we just wake up a few times a night! also in Argentina there is always someone blasting music so its kinda hard to sleep in general with the music going 24/7 but yea sleep is interesting
is it getting hot there yet?
-so were officially in spring so other then the days it rains its pretty warm out! just think that every day it get colder where you are its getting hotter here!
What was the highlight of your week, well, besides conference?
-conference for sure, and we watched 17 miracles in spanish which was pretty cool but we could only watch between Saturday afternoon and priesthood because it was to late to contact in between that session so we got to watch the movie for a bit but other then that session we were out contacting between sessions on Saturday and Sunday! also with the time change here we watched priesthood session from 9pm-11pm and didn't get back to the house till midnight which was interesting but yea conference weekend as a whole was just such an awesome time!
conference quotes-
"may our motive be our love of god and for his children"-Elder Uchtdorf
"using your time and talents and sharing your testimony will help you to grow spiritually"-Elder Hales
"Jesus Christ is the mark"-Elder Cook
"Stumbling blocks may be made into stepping stones"-Elder Cook
"there faith will be made manifest through diligence and work"(talking about missionaries) -Elder Bassett (of the 70)
"take over the priesthood care and keeping"-Elder Holland
"let us seek out, find, and inspire"-Elder Uchtdorf
"united in whole heart service of Christ"-Elder Eyring
"we need to work, search, and pray"-Prophet Thomas S. Monson
"the joy we have has little to do with our circumstances but rather our focus"
-Elder Nelson
"the missionaries are not leave there homes just to increase the numbers of the church but to share and proclaim joy"-Elder Nelson
"think of the times that the spirit has born witness of these truths"-Elder Ballard
"kindness is the key that unlocks the heardened of hearts and the stubborn souls" -Elder Gobbins (of the 70)
"that they may look to know the source for remission of sins"-Elder Nattress
"salvation comes through him (christ) and no other way"-Elder Nattress (of the 70)
these are just some of the highlights i had written down and i wanted to thank you for the chance to share a few of the quotes that stood out to me!
thank you for all of the love and support!! if you feel like I'm not getting back to you or I'm not saying all i can it's because i feel like my computer time is always rushed but i promise you that if you send me a letter i will respond with my full thoughts and feelings and that includes to many questions as well! it takes about a month for letters to get back and forth so keep that in mind as well! hope you all have an awesome week! love you guys and miss you all!!
mucho amor,
Elder Tutton
address for mail and packages:
Candido Pujato 3269
3000 Santa Fe
Santa Fe, Argentina
SHOUT OUT TO ELDER NATTRESS (both of them)
(one of my best friends is now serving in turkey/germany and his dad is in the quorum of the 70 and gave an awesome talk during conference)
