Week 16

June 21-27th, 2016

Hola Everyone!!!

We had another great week! Monday we had a lesson with Mario y Carina (Mario tiene 25 años y Carina 22 años) They aren’t married but they have two kids Thomas tiene 3 años y Sofia tiene 7 meses. We were asking questions about their life and about their religious background and teaching them about how God is our loving Heavenly Father. Mario asked us an amazing question!! ¨Porque hay muchas iglesias hoy in día?¨ ding ding ding. We began to teach them about how God calls prophets in every dispensation (time were the gospel is on the earth) and how Jesus Christ was also a prophet. He established his church and called 12 apostles to lead and teach the people his teachings. He gave them the authority to teach is his name. But we all know that Jesus Christ was rejected and so were his apostles and eventually the people killed all of them. 

Thus the people entered into a time of apostosia ( o sea a time where the gospel of Jesus Christ and His Authority is not on the earth) There were people who wanted to continue to follow Christ but didn’t know how and they established churches based on the principles of the gospel (o sea some of the teachings of Jesus Christ but not all of them) and we can still see today that there are many churches and many religions even though Jesus Christ taught one specific way to do things, His way. 

 We shared the first lesson with them about the restauration and how the profeta José Smith was an instrument in the Lords hands to bring forth the complete Gospel of Jesus Christ and all of his teachings. It was soo awesome!!! 

They then invited us to eat lunch with them on Saturday and so we said yes and lunch was delicious! It was like twice baked pasta with a nice white queso to poor on top. After lunch we taught about the Book of Mormon and how it’s another testament of Jesus Christ. Mario was really interested and we gave them each a copy (free of course) and we committed them to read and pray to Heavenly Father and ask if it is true. We let them borrow the video of the restoration to watch and were going to visit them again this week and see how everything went.

Now Gisela and her father Miguel!! They are doing great!! Gisela is still clean from all her addicions and she has been praying and reading the Book of Mormon!! Saturday we stopped by their bicicleteria and she told us all about how she had been reading about Nefi and how he killed Laban with the sword of Laban and how the mother of Nefi was worried about her children and complaining to Lehi.... I was thinking to myself wow she understand more than I did my first time reading the Book of Mormon. My heart was filled with joy and I was so thankful that the Holy Ghost is teaching her as she reads. I truly love this Gospel! She had a friend with them and we tried to give him a Book of Mormon but he said no that honestly he would like one but he is studying to be a doctor and has sooo many things to read daily that he doesn’t have time. But later we ended up giving him a Book of Mormon because in the lesson that we shared that night we had read a scripture in Mosiah 2:41 and when we finished he shared his thoughts about it and how he really liked that scripture and we asked him, are you sure you don't want a copy of the Book of Mormon? We have plenty of others and when you want, you have it to read. It was sooo awesome!! 

We also had a Noche Hogar (o sea family home evening) we basically went with her to the familia Inostrozza´s house and they shared a spiritual messaged about the gift of the Holy Ghost and how its blessed their lives and Hermana Inostrozza (the mom) shared her conversion story about how she was taught the gospel at 22 years of age and she had a daughter and was wanting to be a better mother for her child but didn’t know how or what to do and that the gospel changed her life and taught her patience and love and many other fundament things. She now has 3 children and is married to a return missionary Hermano Inostorzza. We all shared our testimonies about the Holy Ghost and how it’s a blessing in our lives. I could feel the Spirit sooo strong and I could just see in Gisela´s face that she could feel it too. 

Last but not least Gisela and her father gave us two little pins to pin to our shirts of Argentina!! So that we can always remember Argentina!! How thoughtful!!! I love them, they really are lovely people!!! 

I’ll keep you all posted!!! Have a great week!! Oh and Gisela will be baptized 9 de Julio (July 9th!!)) WHOOHOOO!!! :)

Lots of love,

Hermana Jarvis

 Gisela and her father gave us two little pins to pin to our shirts of Argentina!! So that we can always remember Argentina!! How thoughtful!!! I love them, they really are lovely people!!!