There
were 34 missionaries who arrived this week. It really wasn´t like I was
expecting. Basically nothing happened :P We are now in a new Zone Formosa 3
with half our old zone still in Formosa 1. We have one new area that is a
companionship of Hermanas and I am pretty sure that one of them is a Hermana
from my mtc district. I will see tomorrow.
Sometimes
it can be a little cold but the winter is over now. Now it is time for the hottest
hot I have ever seen. I have decided that I hate humidity and am very glad that
Utah is dry because humidity causes molds, colder cold, and hotter hots. I don´t even think there is
any benefit to it...
We
attend a ward here not a branch. I think that all the churches here are wards
unless they don´t
have a meeting house. Because here each ward has its own church to make it
easier for the people to go to church. With more buildings it is less travel
distance.
The
city here is different. The way that houses are build is very different from
the states. There are still lots of empty lots around in the city and one that
is next door to us is being built on.. Here is just a few guys who have come
and laid down a huge cement slab for the floor and then they have these red
bricks (different from the kind in the states) and they take cement and start
building the walls. Almost always the houses are one story and I don´t think any house has
a basement. It is also common for the walls to be built of only wooden slabs
side by side and you can even see through them if you try. Air conditioning and
heaters are the kind that you mount on the wall not ventilated through the
house. Electricity wires are often strung through comers of the house not in
the walls. Sometimes a better floor, roof, or walls will be put in later after
it is done. The floors are always tile; it is very rare to see carpet or anything
else.
Markets
aren´t too different from
home. They work basically the same. They aren´t as nice though. They also don´t have near as many
choices of food. We are very limited in selection. Basically someone here
decided that all food should be the same. Everything is also cooked in oil, if
it isn´t it probably isn´t Argentine, haha Even
a salad is lettuce coated in oil but those aren´t common. Tons of fried meats, potatoes,
eggs, noodles, and rice. The
big difference in stores here and there is that here there are a lot of little
kiosks and hardly any large stores. There is a kiosk house on every street but
hardly any big stores. There is a chango más (Walmart with a different name to
have latinos enter it) but it is out of our area. I have heard that it has lots
more options and food from the states. I had the Hermana that we live with buy
me a jar of peanut butter there.
Mom
I am glad you asked, there are lots of different ways that you can approach
reading the BoM again. For me, I didn´t
connect the entire story in my head before my mission. I knew basically all the
stories but I wasn´t
totally sure how they connected. If you haven´t yet spend some time focusing on the
story behind it all. But you probably already have done that... another thing
you can do is study it by topic. When you do that you will want to keep a study
journal. I find when studying like that the best way to start is pick a topic
and start in PMG or the topical guide. You can read each of the passages and
write the reference and a summary of what each says and then your study journal
will be really useful for things such as talks or if for whatever reason you
need a scripture about something. If you study it by topic or through PMG you
will probably find that there are key chapters and passages that are used a lot
for different topics. Such as 2 Nefi 2, 9,31,32, Alma 17, 26, 31, Ether 12, and
many others.
As
far as Nefi I like him a lot. He is always willing to go and do what the Lord
wants (1 nefi 3:7) He was a great example for all those around him even in
times of hardship (1 nefi 14 more or less, when he breaks his bow), also he is
a good leader and ruled as a righteous king until his death.
My
favorite person in the Book of Mormon is Ammon. He was an amazing missionary.
He was offered to be son of the King but instead chose to be his servant (As
Christ always said him who is greatest among you let him be thy servant). He
saved the servants of the king by cutting off the arms of the enemies. Then
when he had accomplished that he didn´t
go back to the king to brag about it he went to the king´s stables and fed his
horses because the king had also commanded that his servants do that. He then
converted the king to the church. As it says in the scriptures that not a single
one of his converts fell away from the church. Also my favorite chapter in the
Book of Mormon Alma 26 when Aaron was telling Ammon not to boast then Ammon
says ´´yea, I know that I am
nothing, as to my strength I am weak, therefore I will not glory in myself but
I will glory in my God, because with his strength I can do all things, yea
behold many mighty miracles we have brought to pass in this land for which we
will praise his name forever.´´
Then he goes on to talk about how he know that it isn´t his strength that he
praises but the strength of his God and that if that is boasting then yes, he
is guilty of boasting.
Good luck with your studying! Love you all!
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