We'll get em next week

Whats up yall? How have you been doing? Hope that all is well. It feels like its been 2 seconds since I wrote my last weekly haha, time flies too fast for sure! Honestly we have had better weeks out here haha.


This was a rough week missionary work wise. We had everything set for the baptism of Monica, she had an awesome testimony, we had a couple of the best lessons that I have had on the mission, but it came down to the interview, and question 4 got her. Even though she knew what she had to do, she decided it was too uncomfortable, requires too much sacrifice to be a member of the church. That was hard. To go from one day having this great testimony to the next "sorry for wasting your time missionaries, I dont wanna hear anything else" kinda hurt. It hurt a lot actually.

Because we were working in the facebook pages and also we had exchanges, we lost two days of work in our area, and so it has been suffering a lil. We are still finding well, we still put a fair amount on date, but when Sunday rolled around nobody came to church. That was pretty tough as well. Just the cherry on top haha.

Even though stuff has been tough, we are still seeing miracles like crazy! While we worked on the facebook pages, we got 9 "miracles" which was like a lot haha. Basically you have to get their number, call them, teach them a short lesson, and refer them off to the local missionaries. That was crazy, everybody was passing us numbers left and right, Ive never seen anything like it. Kinda stressful tbh.

We also saw some real miracles this week. While on exchanges in Simoca, I made a point to call all of the people that I taught when I first got here (I covered the entire district back in the day) and we saw a bunch of miracles from that! Way cool to reconnect with them after five months! Probably one of the craziest miracles of my whole mission happened this week, with a dude named Miguel. I wont explain it in this letter, tis kinda long. Write me if ya wanna hear tho!

Even though we weren't very successful this week, I am unbelievably grateful for the calling I have. Even though I am far from the best missionary, God still has blessed me to get to work amongst these people in Argentina. Despite all of my imperfections, He has chosen me to work in this area, with these people. And I will forever be grateful for every single one of the hardships that come along with it! I am so grateful that I have another week to do better, to be better.  Glad to be here:)

Sorry for the long email haha! Hope all of yall are doing well! Please write me haha! Take it easy!

Love yourz
Elder Larson

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                                                                                     My posture: 🔥🔥🔥

                                                                                Elder Gooch w the sunset

                                                                    Some of the fakest clouds ive ever seen. 

Sfijas/empanadas = the love of my life

My eyes are always so bloodshot out here idk why

Car smoking + sunrise

Anybody know Matias Rodrigyez, hes from Layton?

Ran into the other set of elders on exchanges haha. Not planned

I tried to put my hand next to this mosquito, it was actually bigger than a dime. Land of the lost type stuff tbh

Santiago zone is literally a frat, you wont change my mind

Me and gooch on da bus



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