Week 4

Hola Familia,it sounds like everything is well back home. I received all of your dearelders this morning from savannah, seth, and sarah, and then some from sis larsen and chelsie... I have had a very quick fun week! On saturday, we went proselyting for siete horas! It was crazy! We went to an area called Banfield, Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is a suburb, and we were in the area of the Banfield 2nd ward if anyone wants to look it up. On the busride there we went through the slums. Its quite a site to see, miles and miles of shacks built around soccer fields. The city is in the background. Its quite a contrast. Anyways my area was about 1 mile square, we arrived at 10 and got right to work. We started talking to everybody! Nonstop for about 2 hours then we stopped for lunch which wasnt a good idea because we should have waited to stop during their siesta time(we found that out later) we started out again and tried knocking doors cuz no one was out and about. rejection after rejection after rejection... it was horrible... then we decided to just keep talking to people no matter if they wanted to hear us or not. On the corners of every intersection they have security guard stations. We would talk to the security guards whenever there was no one else around. we heard about so many different backgrounds, it was really crazy. One of the people we talked to earlier in the day was named Daniel. He was Catolico, and we talked to him for about 30 mins. He kept saying that he didnt think there was a need for another book. So I have found that in this situation we just have to testify rather than quickly turn to a scripture in the Bible that testifies of this truth. Its what I learned in my philosophy class this past spring. I didnt feel comfortable battling for my beliefs bc it just wasnt the right spirit that way. Anywho so thats what we did, and hopefully we started a seed in this guy. We placed a few Books of Mormon and lotsa follettos. It was an overall pretty good day! Makes me want to get out there again which we will be able to do on saturday for another 7 hrs!We just got back from a wonderful temple session with all 35 of the North American missionaries and sisters and Presidente y hermana wilson. It was a very full room. Ask Gpa and Gma Stapley if they know a Gerald Crismon. He said that he thinks he knows them. Umm lets see... what else... sunday was a fantastic day! we had a great sacrament mtg, and zone conferences. We got to watch the movie the 15 witnesses of christ. the one with Neal A Maxwell and Gordon B. Hinkley in it. So So good. Ive been reading my patriarchal blessing alot lately... Ive also been reading None of them were there from elder holland in last conference. It is an amazing talk. Makes me think about whether I would abandon the savior or stay with him.Ive also been studyinhg in 3 Ne. 27:27 about What manner of Men ought ye to be? Even as I am. I listed a bunch of characteristics of Christ and just checked up on the ones I need to work on. I also enjoyed looking at Ether 12:27.Anyways I have no time left so I better send this off. Everything is fine Here, I will prolly send you all a letter today. Love you all and thank you for your thoughts and prayers.Elder Scott Stapley