Rhett - Argentinaaaaaaaaaaaa

Hola Familia!

Happy Birthday SID!!!!!!! i HOPE YOU HAD A GREAT BIRTHDAY, LOVE YOU! (to his mom)

First week in Argentina! Pretty crazy, I'm close to a city called El Dourado, about 2 hours from the Iguazu Falls. I'm here with Elder Peters! He's from Las Vegas and has about 3 months on the mission. We already get along great and he likes to work, so it's gonna be a good transfer! It feels like I'm starting the mission again haha. The money is different, the food, and the way people do things is all different so it's been a little weird getting used to it. But it was a great first week! There are actually a lot of Paraguayans here or people that speak some Guarani so thats been cool keeping up with the Guarani. They are all super shocked when they see a white guy saying something in Guarani in Argentina. Jaja they all just start cracking up laughing and then we can share what we do and why we are here, so that makes it fun.

The Rama here has about 25-35 people that come to church every week. This week we focused on trying to visit lots of the members and get them pumped up to share the gospel with their friends and help us find people to teach and it worked really well. We had a little meeting with the branch president and leaders and basically gave the idea of how every member can think of one person to share the gospel and pray for opportunities to share with them. They all really liked it and now we are going to be setting up family home evenings every week to have them invite their friends so that we can help them know about the gospel. They were all pretty pumped and tomorrow and Thursday we have planned to have family home evenings with 2 of the families. I'm really excited for that! 

This week we had some lessons with some investigators of the elders before who are really prepared! They love the gospel just the elders before never really invited them to do anything, so we invited them to pray and ask God if these things are true and then invited them to follow Jesus Christ and be baptized and they accepted! So awesome! Yesterday we taught Gabriela and her boyfriend Ganzalo about the restoration. We explained to them about how today there is a modern day prophet and 12 apostles who recieve revelation and help guide the church on the Earth. They were shocked and looked so happy! We then invited them to be baptized and they said they would like too. I'm so excited for them! I honestly feel like Heavenly Father has been preparing me and the people here for this time. I have learned so much in these past 1 and a half years and now I feel like I am able to use it and that Heavenly Father is using me as an instrument to bring souls unto Him here in Ruta. Ahh, the gospel is trueeee!!! I know it blesses lives and changes them for the better! How great is that! Love you all, have a good week!

Elder Reilly