These past two weeks have been incredible! Last week
my companion and I took the misión car and went on a road trip. We went up
to the department of Colonia to help prepare the Fireside up there. The zone of
Colonia is very different from the other zones because it is so spread up. In
order to get from one área to another you need to take a bus on average for an
hour, so we did a Fireside in the northern half last week and this week we are
doing one in the southern half. So we got permission from president to take the
misión van and headed up there. We helped organize the choir of
missionaries, make sure the projector and sound equipment were working
well, and visited and prepared all of the converts that were going to
speak in the Fireside. As Saturday rolls around we were so stoked for the
Fireside because everything was looking perfect; the projector was looking
good, the sound equipment sounded good, and the converts were all ready to
go. And then God showed us who the Gardner was, we were acting a little
cocky and God taught us who we need to rely on! Twenty minutes before the
activity the adapter for the soundboard fried, we were driving around looking
to buy a new adapter and nothing was opened. We even went with a member and
grabbed his soundboard and it still didn´t work. We were a little bit
frustrated because we had practiced for so long but in the end God blessed us.
Even though we had to make a few adjustments everything turned out amazing! We
even had a funny story about the Fireside, in the middle of the Fireside there
was a man that wasn´t invited to speak that randomly got up and came to
the microphone and began to give his testimony. I think he was a Little drunk.
I wanted to get up and ask him to take his seat but we let him. A thought came
to my mind, Come What May and Love it! It was actually a pretty good testimony,
I was really impressed! It was really funny though! Haha On Sunday we went
with President to help him do a conference in Colonia. We got to watch a conference
by Elder Bednar. It was absolutely incredible! Then the next week started up
and we went back to Colonia on Tuesday in order to visit all of the converts
that were going to share their testimonies in the Fireside today. After that we
traveled back down to Montevideo to leave the van with the Elders that work in
the offices and took a bus to the practice up in Colonia. And the next day
President came to pick us up and take us with him to Paysandú. From Wednesday
until last night we were in Paysandú preparing the Fireside we will be having
tomorrow. This morning we took a bus back down to Colonia to make some last
minute check ups for the Fireside tonight. It was a lot of running around these
last few weeks but was really enjoyable. I want to give you my sincere
testimony that I know Jesús Christ is the only begotten son of our loving
Heavenly Father, our Savior, and Redeemer. That he came to this world to pay
the Price of our rescue. I know that only through His Doctrine we can enter
into the kingdom of God. I know that the Book of Mormon contains the fullness
of his doctrine in every single page. I know this church to be the one and only
church to have a true, living prophet that has been called of God, Thomas S.
Monson, at it’s head. I know that he holds the keys to the Holy Priesthood.
Which is the power and authority God has given to men to allow His children to
once again return to live with him in his presence, and to live like Him. I
love you all so much and I hope you have a wonderful week.
Your Son,
Elder Arbon
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