UN LATINO RECIBÍ

BUENAS. What's happening up north? Any thing exciting? Nice. Well, yesterday we got the calls about where every one would be going, and I'm staying in Ferrari! That's great news. This area is really great. I've enjoyed my time here a lot and there is still a lot of good work to be done here. Other news! My new companion's name is Elder Santillan! Elder Aparicio, the Colombian who lives with us knows him and told me he's from Salta, which is a northern province of Argentina. All I know about Salta is that they say words with two "r"s differently and they make really good empanadas. So I'm pretty excited from a culinary point of view. I am incredibly excited to be able to work with a native Spanish speaker again. It's been ages! To be honest, from a preaching the Gospel standpoint, it helps a lot, and makes teaching and understanding much more exciting.Plus I get to learn more about Argentine culture! Especially the differences between the North and the big city! Man, I'm just excited. Life is real good, right? This is a grand opportunity, eh?

This week was good. We ate a surprising amount of milanesa, which makes a week good pretty automatically. Mom, I hope you've found a good recipe and are practicing for a year from now. ;)

This morning I read a scripture in Moroni 6:9 that I really liked. And now, my beloved son, notwithstanding their hardness, let us labor diligently; for if we should cease to labor, we should be brought under condemnation; for we have a labor to perform whilst in this tabernacle of clay, that we may conquer the enemy of all righteousness, and rest our souls in the kingdom of God.

The applications to missionary work are obvious, but it also made me think about our daily lives here on earth. Hard days always will come, but it's important always to remember that these hard days are meant to come, and that we're here on this earth to perform a labour. And we have to perform that labour with diligence. I thought we could apply it to any sort of responsibilty we are given, spiritual or temporal. Even though things are hard, people are imperfect and situations are imperfect, we have to work hard and diligently to do what we've been called to do, or complete with the responsibilty we have. It's exciting to know that if we do what we're doing well, there will always be a reward! Especailly when the reward is one promised by he Lord. Working hard is hard, and I'm always working on bieng better at it. But it pays off! 

I love you alllllllll and fell your prayers daily. I have to go but I'm grateful for every day and I'm grateful for my family! BE HAPPY.

AMOR DE ELDER MCDONALD.

Morning Futbol!