pan de azucar 10/21/2019

Whats up everyone another week down here in the arg. 

So this week was pretty good, so first off we ended up finding the family the had the little boy pass away from the car accident and now we are teaching them and its super cool we already have a special relationship with them and they are very interested in the plan that god has for each one of us.

This sunday was mothers day here in argentina... haha dont know why its different here and in like every other country its the same as the states. But shout out to my mom love her to death shes my everything and ive never been more proud to be anyones son she is such a stud and example to me, even when her face is have swollen up from getting stung by a bee lol haha.

So Today for p day we decided to go climb another mountain here in argentina this one was called pan de azucar or sugar bread haha super orignal names here always. it was pretty cool and fun the view was sick but it makes me miss the mountains from utah. also summer is here haha we are hittin 90s and 80s everyday now so its the season of bad tan lines, and sweaty yellow/white shirts haha. alright love you guys have a good week.

love elder singley

transfers and asados 10/14/2019

Hey guys whats going on? so this week capilla del monte pulled a classic utah it was scorching hot for like three days and now its freezing cold and hailing haha so just brings me back.

Alright so this week was pretty chill we taught a bum ton of lessons to all our new investigators which was pretty cool to see which ones can progress with us.

One of the investigators who im in love with ahaha is horacio he is like 50 years old and has had his fair share of time in other churches but hes a stud. we met with him for the third time the other day and asked how the book of mormon was going and he had read the whole thing!!!!! then recited the story to me haha it was so cool then he asked if he could be baptized and if he could plant some plants at the church house cause winter killed all the ones outside of the building haha so yeah he is a stud. he aslo made up a song for us on his guitar about the holy ghost and he kills it so watch the vid till the end

Next we got transfers!!! elder leon is headed to a new area and im getting elder larain from chile!!! so now my list of latin comps is bolivia, el salvador, argentina, and chile. im trying to get all south america haha.

We had a pretty awesome weekend and it started off with an asado saturday night where i ate a lot of steak then in church we had two investigators in church so that was freaking awesome then for lunch we had asado with another family and that night for dinner we had another asado with a different family haha so 3 asados in less than 24 hours and i have now eaten my body weight in steak i think haha.

One of the investigators that made it too church was brisna she is 17 and a stud but she likes to go out at party saturday which is the youth argentine culture to party till the next morning at least. haha we tried to encourage her to go home early saturday and she said she would try but promised to go to church. so at church i asked her what time she went home at and she said at 9. i was so happy i said brisna way to go but you could have stayed out a little later and she said no because then i wouldnt have made it to church at 9:30 haha then i realized she partied literally all night. haha but hey she made it to church and did not drink at all during the night so woot woot for her.

alright thats all for this week from cap love you guys have a great week.

oh also i completed a year woot woot.

G Conference 10/7/2019

Hey guys so this week was pretty sweet, we started off with a conference of the mission and it was pretty good we learned a lot about faith and what type of faith we need. One of my favorite examples of faith was elijah he was such a stud and didnt have a single doubt that he told the people to pour water over is burnt offering and then called fire down from the heavens, i want my faith to be as strong as the examples of old i want to be able to everything in the hands of god and not worry even a little, thats what he wants of us, if we can give him everything he will take care of us.

Alright then came general conference. now i loved general conference but this time i had to watch it in spanish ahhh and it hurt my brain so much haha. i was able to understand everything so that was cool to see with my spanish. but conference isnt the same without the voices of the prophet and apostles so remember how blessed we are to listen the their voices with the power and conviction they give off haha cause its not the same for everyone else. But my favorite talk was given by elder uchtdorf he talked about if we want to progress we do it by helping others progress. so our purpose on this earth is to progress and have joy, so our purpose in life is to serve others which helps us progress and our life will be full of joy, kinda a cool way to think about it.

So not much else happened we played soccer for p day with a bunch of elders from around this area so that was pretty fun.

Alright thats all for this week love you guys have a great week and keep listening to the talks from general conf.

AL AGUA POR FIN!!!!!!!!!! 9/30/2019

Hey everyone spring has officially hit argentina although the temperatures are the same as a blazing hot summer in utah. The bronzing process has begun haha.

So this week was super awesome close to one of the best in my mission. so first off at the beginning of the week we had a killer two days where we found like 10 new investigators that have a lot of potential.

Next this week we were pretty focused on hernan and preparing him for his baptism. thursday he had his interview and he passed with flying colors!!!!!!! we were so stoked zone leader said the hernan was the most ready person he has interviewed in his mission so we were super hyped.

We then got everything ready like his clothes, the place, and the meeting and talks. Then we decided instead of me baptising him it would be better if someone from the branch did it so then when i leave he still has that connection with someone in the ward we asked hernan if he was cool with it and he was all down.

So friday night came and i couldnt sleep one bit i was so nervous i tried listening to hymns to get me to sleep nothing worked, then when i finally got to sleep i had a horrible dream that hernan backed out of the baptism so i sent him a scripture in a text at like 4 in the morning haha. but the next morning all was good he was baptized at 1 then we had lunch with some members, empanadas the best. And sunday he was confirmed it was so cool to see this ward take him in like a brother. Super happy with him and im confident he will continue strengthening his testimony all his life.

Alright not too much else to update but yeah super cool week and im so gratefull the lord helped hernan get to this spot and he allowed me and my comp be a part of his journey getting to know this gospel. the lord is so amazing how he can work through us. love you guys and love my heavenly father and savior.

elder singley

Weird Week 9/23/2019

Hey guys so this week was one of the stranger weeks in my mish but it was still pretty good.

So we started working with a different family of my comps that lives a little futher away and they are so awesome we already are super tight with them and have began to teach them and they said they want to come to church sunday woot woot!!!!!

other news i had asado here 4 times it was a ridiculous amount of meat honestly and i have gone up in weight by at least 5 pounds but it was so freaking goood.

Big story: so me and my comp were finishing up work saturday night walking home on the side of what is the argentine equilavent of a freeway but less busy and no guard rails. as we were walking in the dark we passed a family of 5 walking in the same direction as me and my comp kept walking we heard the heart wrenching sounds of squeaking breaks and then something hit a car and we heard a woman scream me and my comp looked at eachother and sprinted as fast as we could and i dont think ive ever run faster in my life. as we got to the family we found a little boy laying limp in the middle of the street next to a car with a dent in front. the family was histerical and we didnt really know what to do but my comp picked up the little sister age 4 and i slowly picked up the boy and brought him to the side of the road and put him in my lap and this point i was panicking a lot but i asked the mom if i could give him a blessing and she said yes. i was very scared to give a blessing to the little boy knowing that the family wanted me to save his life. so i gave him a blessing saying that the lord will watch over him in that moment and that if it was the lords will to take him back that the family could be strong during this hard moment. Afterwords the only think i could think to do was start cpr thanks to scouts i knew how but it was so scary honestly then finally the ambulance arrived and they continued cpr for 20 more minutes then rushed him to the hospital. me my comp the little sister and older brother age12 ran following the ambulance to the hospital. we got to the hospital and waiting for a couple hours trying to help comfort the family and then the doctors said that he had passed away. He was 5 years old. It was super hard for me to see the family break down after and hear the older brother scream i want to hug my brother one more time. I thought about my own family and how hard it would be to lose one of them. We were able to share a little bit about the plan god has for him and his family and that one day they will be together again. Then today was the funeral and we went to give support.

sorry for kinda a sad story but we are so lucky that god really has a plan for all of us and that the sting of death can be lifted through our savior jesus christ and his redeeming atonement. 

love all you guys and i love this work with all my heart we are all here to help one another and be tools in gods hands to help other.

What a week 9/16/2019

hey guys hows everything going hope you all had an amazing week.

So im gonna start out with out investigator hernan i havnet said anything about hernan in my emails because it seems like everytime i talk about an investigator in my email they drop but pero bueno so hernan we have been working with him for a while now and the other day he called us asking if we could meet up and of course we said yes and that night in the church he told us that he has now had his two trials of faith one that god exists second that this church is true. i didnt really respond and then he said and now i want to be baptized!!!!! i almost started crying honestly i couldnt stop smiling and then he asked me to do the ordinance. and ive been on cloud nine since. this will be my first baptism after almost a year of trying as hard as i can to help someone recieve this gospel and ordinance. his baptismal date is for the 28th of september( his one condition for baptism was that we did it in the river)

We have also been working with my comps family and now his cousin has a baptismal date for the 5th of october. We have two more investigators a mom and her son and they also have a date for the 5th of october. im so excited for the work moving forward here in capilla im so grateful god is permiting his work to go foreward through me and my companion.

Our activities have continued and the attendence is growing every week. i love doing stuff with the branch here i feel like this is the branch i grew up in and have known these people for my whole life. i love capilla with all my heart and im trying to serve the people here with everything i can offer to them.

Other news our land lord has been having us redo a couple parts in our apartment like painting and stuff and then this past week we planted a palm tree haha now i study our back with my hammock, mate, and a palm tree its pretty dank.

Love you guys all the support in the world to you guys from argentina have a great week.

Transfers and 11 Months 9/9/2019

so we just finished my first transfer here in capilla and it was lovely as ever haha here they use the word lovely to discribe anything good. i also hit eleven months today but i will have a year left in like ten days cause my realease date is sep 22.

so super wack im almost half way.

as far as transfers go me and leon are staying the same here so it will be good and we will keep grinding a ful and do the best we can for capilla.

ok so we have a lot of youth in this area but none of the leaders organize activities so me and leon took it upon our selves to plan one every week. we wanted to play volleyball because both sexes can play and have fun. but there are no places to play sooo... we got crafty we went to an argentine version of home depot and looked for materials to make a net. we found some mesh type stuff that people here use for concrete houses, and then some chord used to make soccer goals and we made a net. turned out to be 400 pesos or like a couple dollars haha. and the activity was so dank we had about 40 youth there and it was so sick, and i love playing volleyball and im generally taller than the average argentine so i was spiking a ful haha. but it was super good for the branch and we look forward to do something everyweek coming up is capture the flag with colors university of utah vs byu hahaha and the flags are an american flag and an argentine flag its gonna be lit.

so the missionaries in the next area are teaching a major league basketball team and they ended up getting drafted and signed for the team to play p days hahah so they hooked me up with a jersey and their colors are the same as the u.s.a. so its pretty dank.

i had to give a talk this past sunday on how we can find our lives in this life and i studied a lot and found that we have to loose our life if we want to be happy. we like our brother jesus have to take our cross day by day we cant drop the cross or we will be even more unhappy taking our cross means humbiling our selves to the will of christ. the heavens are higher than the earth which means gods plan for our life is more important than our desires or fears. day by day we need to take our cross and give our life back to christ because he gave us his life. LOOSE YOURSELF IN THE GOSPEL.

alright haha sorry im losing my english a little haha lose yourself in the gospel and stay tight not loose

alright thats all for this week love you guys.

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