Recently, Josh's mission presidents wife started a facebook page for his mission. I was able to find a few pictures that I thought I would share. Some of these pictures are from when he was in his first area. enjoy...  |
| The missionaries do a lot of service while they are serving their two year missions. |
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| The Rosario Argentina Mission Home: this is where the missionaries first come when they arrive in Rosario. They return at different times for special meetings, etc. |
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| The Mission President and his wife |
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| Elder Hjelmstad is on the far left, in the back (probably on his tippie toes)!!! |
This week was good! We did some
divisions and I really learned a lot and have seen some progress in myself. I
use to get really nervous when inviting somebody to do something but lately we’ve
just been so excited and doing it so much that I’m not scared at all! I’ve
really learned to teach when it’s the time to teach and invite when its the
time to invite!
Yesterday at church Alejandra and
Milagros showed up and they were wayyy excited to be there! They’re officially our favorite. Milagros’ sister
Maitena is 5 and the cutest little girl ever. She drew something... (Still
trying to figure out what it is). haha But they’re pretty excited to be baptized on
the 25th! We’re so stoked for them! Also, a less active guy that wants to
change, came to church! He was way nervous but left smiling from ear to ear. The
whole ward is really great at helping people feel comfortable and loved. We
need more of that in California! I feel like I could’ve done a lot better at
bringing friends to activities and helping those that came to church with the
missionaries. I learned a sweet concept this week... Usually, members think
that the missionaries are the ones who do the missionary work and that they
should help the missionaries with their investigators. It’s not like that at
all. The missionaries should help the ward with their friends! Help the Perry family
with their conversion! It’s so important!
Cool moment this week was when I did
divisions with Elder Hixson, from Springville. He’s a great missionary! We had
a sweet appointment with a 15 year old named Cesar. Elder Hixson told me he
didn’t believe in God and I said that we were going to show him that he
actually did believe in God but didn’t know it. We had the plan to just ask
inspired questions. We started out with questions like what do you like about
the church and how do you feel...etc. He said he felt good and tranquil when he
went and then we read some scriptures about receiving answers from God and how
they come as feelings. He pondered but still didn’t believe that that peace he
felt came from God. He then opened up and asked up if we believed in the devil
and we said yes and explained how that there’s two sides to everything because
if we didn’t, nobody would learn. We said that in every single decision there
are 2 options, God or Satan. He said that he didn’t believe in either and asked
where he was in it then? We explained that if it isn’t God... its the other.
After a moment of silence, we asked, Do you believe in a God and a Devil, then
before really thinking he said Yes. MIRACLE. We then went on the talk about
baptism. He’s getting baptized this Saturday. I love being a missionary!
Funniest thing this week was last
night with Rodrigo. This guy is a 21 year old character. Soooo funny, just
being how he is. He tried to speak some English and said a bad word and we
started busting up laughing and then we played a game to choose who prayed. In
the game you have to say a type of metal and whoever says ORO (gold) has the
say the prayer. Oro also means "I pray" so we played and of course he
lost. haha He was like naahhhh you tricked me! hahah and we started cracking up
and he didn’t want to say the prayer and so Elder Haderlie tried but we just
kept laughing. My cheeks and abs were killing me we were laughing so much.
soooo funny.
I love you guys!!
Elder Hjelmstad
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