August 7th, 2017
Bonjour à tous,
Well, times just gets shorter and shorter and
you come to realize that you don't have much time left. I feel like it's just
starting to soak in that my mission is ending in less than two months. I don't
know what to think. I don't know how to because I've never completed a mission
before, but I understand that there is a time for everything and one needs to
appreciate life as it happens. Soon enough, I won't be a missionary anymore,
and I miss serving in this capacity. So I need to take advantage of the opportunity
at hand.
This week was good. Our boy, Thierry is
progressing well. We had a family home evening at a member’s home and he came
and had a great time. The fellowshipping of the members is making an impact on
him, and I'm so grateful for them and their support.
As you may know, the branch here is pretty
small, and this last Sunday we had a family move out. So the branch is looking
even smaller for now. Our branch president is really pushing to have the
members find the less-actives and help them. Yesterday we had two less-active
families come to church for the first time in a long time. So there is hope out
there.
We found this guy about a week ago who left us
his address. He said he lived in a hotel and gave us the room number. We
weren't sure if it was just a straight up lie or not, so we went to go check it
out. It turns out there's this placed named Hotel de la Rade which is actually
a refugee shelter. It looks like a hotel from the outside but everyone there is
taken care of by the government. Nice, huh? We haven't found the guy yet
though.
Keep having fun.
Love,
Elder Aburto
