Hello fellow humans;
I excuse myself, I had to write some other letters today so this one might
be short. However, I would encourage you all to read Mosiah 14-16, in particular
15:9,22-25. Those scriptures stuck out to me very strongly during study this
week. It's a lot of material and some Isaiah prophecy. Very good, kind of
doctrine heavy but good.
So this week our numbers of lessons taught and other such things have been
rather low- for the third week running, we've been on a declining slope. Not
ideal, but keeping in consideration the changing nature of missionary work in
Argentina as the country continues to degrade economically, it's not really a
surprise. if you take a look at a membership over time graph for the country, in
the 1980's, the last major economic collapse, baptisms stopped (missionaries
where actually all pulled out) and you can see that same cycle repeating it
self, starting around 2001. I have been assigned to labour in some interesting
conditions, and all we can really do is continue to be obedient and seek out the
people who are searching for the truth.
The good thing is, Elder Ballard of the Quorum of the twelve apostles came
to Buenos Aires and offered a Re-Dedicatory prayer over the church in the
country of Argentina specifically, in the same place where the dedicatory prayer
for missionary work in the South america south region was offered may years
previously. If any of you are interested, I believe you can find it on LDS.org-
it was a strong spiritual experience for me to hear those revelatory words of
strength and guidance read in our sacrament meeting.
On another note, I'm almost done my training period. I find myself much
more able to teach and communicate and Spanish, and have gained a much stronger
grasp of most of the basic conjugations. I'm going to try additional to improve
my form and correctness in the language over then next few months.
Also, Moroni 9: 11-14
Have a most excellent week,
El. Backstrom
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