So, we sat down, and began chatting about how their week was, and they said it was fine except that a friend of theirs is sick and just got out of a coma. As we spoke about that, it was some how brought up that Mario was the doctor of the Perón family. As in the presidential family. Isabel Perón. He was the family doctor. Our mouths megan to hang open when it got to that point. THEN, he decided to go on about all of the crazy corrupt South-American government situations he was dragged in to because of that relationship. He told us all of this very openely, so I'm trusting that by talking about this I won't be assassinated in a few days. Once, he and his wife had gone out quickly to investigate the why of a missing friend. He went to some sort of place to ask around and get information, and ended up wih a gun to his head and he and his wife stuffed in separate vehicles. He told us that they were taken to the same facility, some place called the Poso de Bamfield (that's how we understood it). When he got there, he was taken in and as he arrived he saw some one in there who was a bowling buddy. His bowling buddy took one look at him and flipped, yelling that he was the doctor to the Perón family and why on earth had they brought him here? His wife in the meantime was taken out of the facility and told to find her way back on foot. She wandered around hiding under cars in all of the abandoned car lots that were there for fear of being follwed until she found a highway and waited. A bus finally arrived and she jumped in front of it to stop it (all dirty from hiding and running). She asked the bus driver where she was and he said the highway was called the Camino Negro. Apparently he recognised her as some one who had ascaped from this facility and told her she could get in if she hid at the back of the bus. So she finally arrives back at the Perón household and tells them that her husband is at this place called the Poso de Bamfield. So the chief of police also flips and tells his people if they don't go get him they're dead. So they get him, and he returns, and all is well. Every one asks him if he was treated badly and he just tells them "No, no, they treated me fine." so he didn't have to get more involved. So by that point our mouths were wide open. We may have been drooling. There are more details and every thing but I don't have time! The important part is that this couple is pretty incredible, and afterward we had another very honest coversation about faith and the Plan of Salvation. And we spoke about how with all that they've been through and all of the science that has surrounded their lives, trying to start believing in some thing they can't see is difficult. But they told us that they admire our faith and the happiness we and others have a lot, and that they would pray and try to increase their faith. It was an incredible conversation. And what a testimony it was again that even some one who has millions of dollars and friends in such high places needs more than just that, and feels that there is more than just that, especially after going through governmental kidnapping experiences. I know that God lives and is our Father, and that He wants all of His children to return to Him. All of them. And He has provided the way to do that! It's been given to us, and if we humble our selves before Him with a desire to know if it's right, he'll answer our prayers too.
How I love my life and this opportunity the Lord has given me, and how I love my family here on earth. Until next week!
Elder McDonald
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