Elder Larson ~ Texas to Argentina

Unfortunately, this is where it all ends yall! I am very grateful for all of yall that came on this journey with me! I am especially grateful for being sent forth to preach the gospel here in Salta! It really has been an experience that I will never forget. For those of you curious about the week, we had the baptism of Maximo on Saturday, and I ate probably 10 pounds of asados or steak haha. Put on a decent bit of weight haha. 2 more baptisms to happen before I leave tomorrow, lets go!  It was hard to say goodbye to the ward, my heart will be staying here a while longer tho. I wanted to leave yall with my testimony. I know that God lives, that He loves. He knows what we need. I know that He loves each and every one of His children. I know of that love as I have seen him put me in the lives of so many of His children, to help them participate in the blessings of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I do not have any doubt of that He knows and loves us, very individually. I know tha...

You know I am getting tired of writing up these weeklies haha, but you know i havent missed a weekly in 2 years so imma stick with it haha. Hope yall have been thriving back home and in your missions! Been a good week. The most exciting thing was seeing all of our hard work over the past couple months fall into place, we were able to put 4 baptismal dates for this week, they are pretty solid as well! We need your prayers for Alumine, Jose, Veronica, and Maximo, so that everything goes good for their baps this week!! I am very grateful for all the trials and bumps along the way, it definitely hasnt been easy this week, it wont be easy till I finish the mission, but I have learned to love to work hard. Even when I dont see the results that I want, I love laying down at the end of a long day and saying I did everything that I could have. I love something Pres. Palmieri said yesterday, we dont measure missionary success by the number of baptisms, but by the number of people we invite to co...

Whats up yall? How goes it? Hope everything has been going good! We had a really good week, mostly just been out here grinding haha! Couple highlights: We did some exchanges in Joaquin V Gonzalez again, it went really well! The only downside is that I choked an absolute game of chess, I was mounting the fattest comeback, then I sacrificed my queen for no reason and lost, not my brightest moment. Fun exchanges tho! Taught some really good lessons, my guy San Martin is a little bit new but give him 6 months and he will be a zl for real! One of our friends, Alumine, came to church twice, she told us she didnt wanna join any church until she was 21, shes 15 now, and just yesterday told us she wanted to get baptized haha! Crazy miracle! I always said during the mish, it doesnt matter the circumstances, if somebody reads the BoM and prays about it, and goes to church they will get baptized. It holds true to this day! Our mission president told us he was gonna visit our ward on Sunday, but he...

Sup yall? Hope the empanadas are cookin great wherever yall are at! It has indeed been another week in Democracia haha. I have just been drinkin a ton of mate to get by! Had exchanges with the APs this week, you know you are getting old when the Ap could be your kid haha. It was good tho, we were just in the office all day doin office stuff, kinda boring tbh haha. It was fun tho Elder Italia is a character, we didnt have much success, but our taxi driver almost killed a motorcyclist. Probably the highlight right there. We had exchanges with one of the Dls this week that was fun. We taught like 8 lessons that day, it went crazy!! Elder Arcos es un capo! I am 17 months older than him tho, kinda weird to think about. Met a crazy guy in the straight, smoking and chewing cocaine leaf, he was explaining to us the spirit and was like watch. He turned around, waited like 15 seconds, then jumped, and turned around all excited like did you feel that? And i was like no. So he was like i will do i...