Little Post Because Little Time...

I have very little time today. 

The baptisms were awesome. They are named Jose and Fernanda. I will talk more about them next week. They are the coolest though. It was very special. They both told us that we are now part of their family. It was great!!!

Love,

Elder Himes 

P.S. There was also a wedding

Rainy Days and Baptisms

Her there everyone! How is life going? We are going good over here! 

This week it Rained a little more, but not as bad as last week. It didn't hit as hard as it did in Comodoro, but my comp and I still got pretty darn wet. 

But the greatest was this Saturday! We had three baptisms in the branch. Fernando and Dario were investigators of the other Elders and the Hermanas. And then our baptism was Roxana. My last comp, Elder Clark Found Roxana like 6 months ago. They talked with her son first and then she started listening to us. We have been going by every day for like the past month. She had some very spiritual experiences.

I remember One day my comp and I were thinking about what we could do to help her. We said a prayer to know what she needed. I remembered about something that I did in the MTC in a practice. We invited our practice to do a prayer and ask specific questions. Like if God loved him. If this was the true church. Then after the prayer we just waited in silence for a few minutes to see how we felt. There in then MTC we felt the spirit really strongly after that prayer. So we decided to do the same thing with Roxana. 

We taught her a lesson about the atonement and told her that Christ had suffered for her and loved her so much. She said that is hard to believe. So we challenged her to do the prayer right there, and it was awesome. She talked about how the next day she felt so good, even though it was just a normal day. She said that she felt different. It was so awesome. That is something that I've learned here on the mission. We don't convert anyone; the spirit does all of the work . All we do is invite the spirit. Now Roxana has really good prayers, she is always very sincere. 

Thanks everyone for all of the prayers! You are the best have a great week!

Love,

Elder Himes

Fernando and Dario's baptisms:

 Roxana's baptism:

Post baptism celebration cake...

A video of the rain in Comodoro last week:

The Tempest Was Raging

Hey there everyone! Wow, wasn't General Conference just awesome? I absolutely loved it. The coolest thing was that there was one talk especially for investigators. Sunday afternoon session by Elder Costa. During that talk we had 3 investigators listening! It was so great! 

We had a very interesting week. This week we were going to have a consejo <conference?> with all of the zone leaders this Thursday. Instead we had the biggest rainstorm we've had in 40 years in the city. Here in Comodoro they are not all that used to rain. The city is not prepared for it. This week it rained all that it usually rains in a year here in 2 days.

So we traveled up to Comodoro the night before, not knowing it was going to be so bad. When we got there we had to stay in the pension <apartment> all day. We couldn't even leave to buy food. In some parts of Comodoro it took cars away, flooded streets, and even dropped some buildings. (it took all of the dirt our from underneath of them.) So Thursday we were in the pension all day. Friday also. Except for the end of the day, President let us go play ping pong in the church. Then at last we were able to go home Saturday morning.

We got to conference a little late cause the roads were destroyed but we were able to watch it! It was awesome. It was really cool when the 70 who was the mission president in Washington talked about looking up and opening your mouth. So right after that session we took a picture doing the same. 

Here in the city were I live, Caleta Olivia, the rain came but not as bad. But the missionaries that live in Comodoro I think will probably be doing a lot of service in the next month. Life for us here will go on pretty normal. We are just going to open our mouths and look up!

Love,

Elder Himes

Look to the sky and open your mouth!

On the way to General Conference with the Zampa family:

8 Elders, 1 Apartment, 2 Days:

A Great Week

Hey there everyone! This was a great week! 

There are some Hermanas in our zone that have some great investigators named Luisa and Diego. They really want to get baptized. The only that that was holding them back from getting baptized is they are not married, and they wanted to wait to be able to have a big party. But they just kept putting it off for a really long time. 

So my comp and I went over with the Hermanas, and had an awesome lesson with the 4 of us. We talked about how today is the day of our repentance, and how they don't need to wait any more to repent. It went great! They committed to get married and baptized in this week!!!! Whoa! 

Also we have our ward mission leader is leaving on a mission this week to Chile! It was cool. We went to his farewell. His brother was there. He hadn't been to church in years. He started balling at the end and basically running to the door. Before he could escape, I caught him and told him that I had a brother that served a mission too. I missed him every day for two years, but I knew that he was where he needed to be. He seemed to feel better after that and stayed and ate some cupcakes with us. So that was good. 

But Yeah it was a great week. I love this place so much! I really love the mission. It is so dang cool! Have a great week everyone!

Love,

Elder Himes

Mediterranean Noodles. Mm-mm

Meeting with the ward mission leader

Former Ward Mission Leader. Current missionary in Chile.

Hosting Zone Conference

Hey there everyone! How is it going. My comp and I had a great week! 

We had to host the zone meeting, so all of the missionaries from Las Heras, Pico Truncado (don't laugh Ben) and Puerto Deseado had to come up to Caleta. A member made us what is called a choripan, basically giant hot dogs, they were really good. 

This Saturday I was kind stressed. We were trying to work hard with the investigators but we were just not able to find or teach hardly anyone this week. So Saturday morning I said a prayer and asked God to please remind me why I was on the mission. A few hours later we got a call from a member from Comodoro. He said, "Hey the Elders. I have a reference for you guys. It's my sister in law and she wants to get baptized!" 

WOW! He told us about why she wanted to change her life, and she asked for the missionaries to come by. So we went by to visit her later that night and she really did have desires to change her life, and was very willing to get baptized, That night I felt the spirit so strongly. It was amazing that she was so prepared and wiling to change. Her name is Diana. We are going to be working with her a lot now. 

I love you all, I love this gospel, and I love being a missionary! Have a great week!

Love,

Elder Himes

New Companion and Empanadas

Hey team! How is it going. We had a crazy good week. 

This week we had transfers, so I was in the bus station almost all day. We even had to get there at 3 in the morning one time to receive some missionaries. So that was not all that fun, but now we are all here and we are all working. My comp had to travel to Comodoro, so I was left here. I did divisions with some members and had some really sweet lessons. 

We taught the word of wisdom to some of our best investigators, Vanesa and Dario. It went great. They both said that they would like to be baptized and they both want to live the word of wisdom. So that is awesome!

Have a great week everyone!

Love,

Elder Himes

Goodbye Elder Clark

A giant Argentinian Gyoza?

Making Empanadas

Blessed be the Drunkards

Hey everyone how is it going? I'm doing really good. 

We had a pretty good week. They funniest thing happened. 

We were walking down a hill and this super drunk guy yelled at us and said, "come here!" We didn't really want to come there, and he walked over to us. He came up to us and said, "I'm a dunkard! And I know that you are with Jesus. I want you two to put your hands on my head and to bless me and take the Devil out of me." 

While he was talking to us he was shaking our hands and he put our hands on his head. It was really weird. We told him that we could come by and teach him, and help him get over his addiction. He didn't want that so much, he just wanted us to bless him right there on the street. So maybe we will pass by another day and teach him about the word of wisdom.

But yeah it was a good week. We are working hard and finding lots of people. Im really loving my new area. The members are working really hard with us.

Have a great week!

Love,
Elder Himes

Ancient ruins of Argentina

Canyons of Argentina

Knocking on a door with no handle...