Blessed!

Hello family!!

I love the times where I get to write you and hear about each of you. I hope and pray you are all kicking butt and doing awesome :)

So we've been blessed a lot this week! I feel like a lot of really cool things happened, We're still teaching, Lucia, who we've been teaching with Hermano Jorge from our ward. She's progressing a lot! She just forgets a lot of things that we teach, but she has a lot of questions and reads the Book of Mormon every day with the Jorge family :) I'm so grateful for the scriptures. The study of the scriptures everu day helps me to have God's Spirit to be with me each day. It helps me learn more of His divine nature, and understand His will. I'm so grateful for a loving Heavenly Father, who has placed special people in my life to help me along the difficult paths of life. I have a love for the scriptures, because sometimes those are my only companions, and the Spirit is someone who I know will always be there to help me. Thank you fam, for your examples to me, and I hope you all recognize the great blessings God gives us, each day :)

Ok so on Wednesday I had a pretty rough day. Idk what happened exactly, but I had developed this pain inside, just above my left hip. It had been bothering me for a couple weeks but on Wednesday it got a lot worse. It got so bad I couldn't walk and I was up all night, unable to bear it. So the next day I talked to the area doctor. Which was actually pretty funny haha, I didn't even know we had an area doctor! I answered the phone 'Hola!' and he started talking to me in English, it was a huge shock! He said it's probably some intestinal stuff and said to take Pepto Bismal. Hey thanks for the Pepto Bismal, Mom! I'm so grateful for that little fishing bag with all of my medicinal stuff, haha. I took it for a few days, and it has almost completely gone away! I feel a lot better! It sometimes feels a little uncomfortable but it isn't bad anymore :)

On Thursday, it was getting late and my companion and I were in the pench, when we got a text from one of our investigators (who isn't progressing at all), asking if we could stop by. We went to Paola's house and she was there with her mom and her kids, and we were able to talk to her for a long time. Her youngest son has been having some problems in the brain lately and she's scared for him. She asked us a lot 'why isn't God here for me, why is He ignoring me'. She has been smoking and drinking and doesn't go to church, and tells us she isn't going to change because she is happy, her life is good! So we taught her that God is always here for us. God is a loving Father, who watches over us. That He has provided ways for us to be blessed and receive help and strength in our burdens. But we also need to remember to respect Him and to show our love for Him always, by keeping His commandments. We talked to her about a lot of things like that, and the Spirit was so strong. I hope she grows in her desire to follow God and to love Him. We gave her and her mom priesthood blessings of comfort, and it was clear that the Spirit of God was in her house that day and that they felt His great love for  them.

I heard USA just threw Argentina down in basketball! Twice! Go USA! haha, the people here just couldn't take it. They like to make excuses ;)

We went on divisions with the Zone Leaders, which was pretty neat. I got to work with Elder Welsh this time! He is an awesome elder, and we got a lot done together! There is a less active family I haven't seen in forever, but as we were walking I recognized them outside of their house, and we went in and taught them! The whole family! The oldest daughters husband was there, and he isn't a member. He was really open and we gave him a Book of Mormon. We invited them to come to church and they came yesterday! It is always so great to see someone make the effort to come to church in the morning :) especially someone who has been without the spirit in their lives, and recognizes that in church we can remember covenants we've made, as well as feel God's presence, and feel His mercy. ´That was pretty neat :) seeing a less active come back to church is as rewarding as a baptism!

Nora, who has been an investigator for a long time went to the temple on Saturday! The ward took a trip down to see the Open House thingy, and she absolutely loved it! She just shot up and is progressing a lot more now. She had trouble reading the Book of Mormon and praying, but she's been doing both of those things now and is more determined to receive an answer from God about the church. The temple is blessing the lives of the members, the menos activos as well as the non members in all of Argentina. It has been really neat to see God's hand in every person's life help them to be able to go to the temple :)

This has been a pretty exciting week :) I have a testimony of the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ, that this is His church, and it really contains all of His doctrine and ordinances that we need for salvation. I know there is a life after death, and I know I can be with my family forever :) because it really wouldn't be heaven without you. I know these things with all my heart :)

Los Amo!

Elder Clubb