September 11th, 2017
Bonjour, tout le monde,
Yet another week has gone by on my mission experience. It's
great to be able to be in the service of others soon before I go back to
focusing on my life and my future. It's been a nice week. It was a lot like any
other in a lot of ways. But at the same time it was unique.
Something we've noticed is that there are a lot of Portuguese
speakers in this ville and some of them don't understand Spanish super well, so
my companion and I have taken on the task of learning some Portuguese. We
aren't close to fluent but we can manage to communicate with people. We found
this Brazilian lady who seemed pretty interested through that. We have lots of
Portuguese members as well, so no problem.
We found a cool Peruvian lady, named Rosa. She's pretty catholic
as usual, but she very kindly accepted to hear our message. We're going to try
to see her sometime this upcoming week.
Boy, it sure has downpoured here the last few days. It's almost
like Hurricane Harvey made its way up to Europe because we've had our fair
share of precipitation as well.
We also had a rendezvous scheduled with Molly. She wasn't there,
but her sister was there, so we ended up teaching her a little. We introduced
her to the Book of Mormon and she seemed pretty touched by it. She already has
a strong conviction of Christ and she openly accepted a copy. Looks like good
things could happen there.
And there you have it. Another week down the drain. Only a
couple more left. May you all have a great week.
With love,
Elder Aburto
