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So, this will be my last email as a missionary. How crazy to think that it is almost all over.

So this week we had to help Miguel and Julia get some papers from some other cities. Tuesday after the district meeting we did divisions and my companion and the other Elder from Saenz Peña went to du Grati just outside of villa angela. I stayed in Saenz Peña, and the assistants helped us out a ton by going to pampa del indio and bringing us the birth certificate to Saenz Peña. It was a crazy day and luckily everything worked out really well. hopefully they will be getting married and baptized this week.

Elder Skouson and Elder Sanchez

We are still teaching Daniel the pentecostal pastor. We invited him to be baptized in the water by the restored authority. and he said he would be willing to do it. When we told him that we were preparing the baptism for the 9th of July he told us no because it is the anniversary of his church. We are going to keep working with him until he can get enough faith to make the transition. Hopefully sooner than later.

The work is going forward. We keep working all we can and as we do we keep seeing the merciful hand of the Lord every day. I want to invite all men to repent and come unto Christ and be baptized in his name by his authority and in his church.

Love you all.

Elder Dallin Skouson

some pictures of Quitilipi and also of a food place in saenz peña where we eat with a huge dog.

Our pentecostal missionary friend said, "I loved the Book of Mormon."

This week felt very short. we started out with Pday in Saenz peña came back to Quitilipi and worked here until Wednesday night when we went back to saenz peña. I got to go to a lidership counsel and then Friday morning we had a zone meeting and we got back Friday afternoon to do our group night and then work the weekend. it was a lot of time out of the area but it was a good week any way.

I enjoyed leadership counsel meeting. I learned a lot there and a lot of the messages that president transmitted to us were just what we need.

We also had an interesting experience with a pentecostal missionary who we met when our investigators told us that he lived next door. We knocked the door and first met his wife. she brought out some chairs into the front yard and then the man, Daniel got home. we explained we are from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and asked them what church they went to. They told us they go to the Pentecostal church the house of Restoration. Well we told them we also share the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

It was a good lesson and when we presented the book of mormon there was an initial rejection but then the wife was looking in it and reading parts even before we left.

We were walking in the neighborhood a few days latter and he jumped up and said hey hold on hold on. I loved the Book of Mormon. I just had a few questions. He asked us if Mormon was a Prophet and he asked about the nephites and laminites and a few other things. He even said he was preaching about the book of mormon in a meeting they had with the leaders of his church.

He told us that if we had told him at the beginning we were mormons he would have rejected us but he now knows we only talk about Jesus and his gospel. We will see if he will stay so excited as he reads and learns. We for sure hope he will. We gave him a plan of salvation pamphlet and he was already asking us what the some scriptures mean in the bible. like Jeremiah 1:5.

We are really hoping he will be able to gain a testimony of the Book of Mormon and be able to withstand the social opposition I imagine he will find. Or maybe he will bring his entire church with him to ours. haha.

The word of God does have a really powerful effect on the hearts and minds of others or even ourselves. If we have a tradition, habit or addiction that is evil and If we allow the word of the Lord to enter in our hearts, we will come to the truth and will be able to change.

I hope we will all be able to apply the atonement of Christ even more personally in this week. I know he loves us. I have felt his love as I have tried to come closer to him. I know he waits and invites and we can accept. What peace that can bring us.

Love,

Elder Dallin Skouson