Week 6

Hola mi familia!¿Como están? Sounds like all is well and normal there at home. Im glad to hear about school going well, and I hope Seth´s game went well. All is well here. Lots of rain and cold this past week except on saturday. Its really really inconsistent. Saturday was so hot!!! Anywho... on with the great stuff...First of all I´d like to tell you all about the power of El Libro de Mormon! It is my most treasured possesion here with me.(well its actually my triple combination) It is completely filled with markings, thoughts and scripture chains from ever since 9th grade, my first year of seminary. I treasure everything inside it and I have used it countless times. We teach that if the Book of Mormon, the keystone of our religion, is true, then José Smith is a profeta of God, and that this Church is true. I have a strong testimony of how it helps me so much in this mission, and has the fulness of the gospel. I challenge all of you to study it along with the other modernly translated and modern revelation ( Pearl of great price and DyC). It is absolutely amazing.Elder Carter and I have focused on getting scriptures ready for a lesson on Saturday that we hope will happen. An older man named Emilio Flores was our last contact of the day. We met him on the way back to the bus, he invited us over and told us quickly that he had something to show us and a question. It was about 15 mins till we had to get back to the bus but we decided we should stay and answer his question. he came back out with a Jesus the Christ by Elder Talmage. He said he had read it and wanted to return it to the missionaries who had given it to him back in March of 1997. We helped him with the address of the mission, and gave him a BOM and invited him to church. We hope we can visit with him again and teach him a little more bc he is one of the Lord´s elect.Also, Dad, it is a very small world! You know Peter Costa? One of your patients, the one that was in the band Scary kids Scaring Kids. Well we contacted him. He was in the area of the ward we were in. He got of of his mission in Resistencia Argentina, was a companion with one of the teachers here in the CCM and he met a down here and they were married 2 months ago in the temple here. Pretty crazy stuff, eh? Lets see that was about all of the excitement we had on saturday, it was a slow rejection filled day. During proselyting we quoted LOTR. 'weve been here before" "we are going in circles" haha funstuff for missionaries who have been out a month and a half.I was thinking about this the other day. Its hard to love the people here bc they all look like Manu Ginoboli from the Spurs. Haha jk, i actually have a very good teacher friend who looks like him and Hna Paradiso wants to marry him... haha2 good stories I have heard from President Wilson. One about the 17 points of the true church by Floyd Weston... it is a super good story, i reccomend it. The second is about God and Albert Einstein. (just type those keywords into google or something and you will find the stories).Seth, if u really want to learn Spanish. Read the BOM in Spanish. It is the best way to learn a language, according to Pres Hinckley.My time is running down, but I wanted to tell you a few things about the Latinos here. We got a new group today, but the last group was so funny! One of them, Elder Zorilla, sounded like George of the Jungle when he tried speakiing Ingles... It was so funny! the elders were teaching him english frases and stuff.Next, Elder Pratt is so awesome. He is a football and Baseball master.. He already has a college degree and he played football and baseball at Dixie State in St. George.Im really excited for Conference!!! its coming up!!! I dont think Ive ever been this excited for Conference!Welll I better get this sent.I miss you all,Love, Elder Stapley¡Use the Book of Mormon!