August 28th, 2017
Bonjour à tous,
T-minus thirty-one days left as I'm writing
this email. Time is really short now. It's crazy how once apon a time I had two
years left on my mission, and now I'm only down to a month. How crazy time
is...
It was a nice week of missionary work. It was a
little up and down and all over the place with some rendezvous falling through
and the wrap-up of the summer vacation season. But we had some nice things
happen as well.
We had a nice Ecuadorian mangezvous with the
Castañeda family. Man, they cook so much food and it's so delicious. I missed
eating South American food.
We found a cool family from Colombia. They're actually
from the same town where Elder Dorado was born. It was a young woman with her
mother and like most Latinos are practicing Christians who love Jesus. They're
very nice and accepted a rendezvous for this upcoming week. Dorado was thrilled
to see that.
Also, we found another lady, Vilma, who's from
Ecuador. She's an older woman and she's a practicing Catholic. She kind of
knows who we are but doesn't really know our beliefs. She says she'll never
change religions but accepted one rendez-vous, hopefully we'll make it
two.
And also this last weekend, there was a Fiesta
Latina in a huge park here in Brussels and our Ward Mission Leader told us to
go check it out, so we went and it turns out it was all gated and you had to
buy tickets to get in. Funny enough, right outside the entrance were two
Mexican Jehovah Witness would had the same idea as us. It was apparent that
they weren't seeing much success as they looked rather bored.
Mais bon, it was a nice week as I said. And
remember if life gets rough or you're feeling down, just remember that the Church is true.
Que Dieu vous bénisse.
Love,
Elder Aburto
