This week was a fantastic experience. It flew by incredibly quickly! Because I have no time, I must skip to the most relevant.
We got to go to Alejandro´s new house again! The whole elder's quorum was supposed to show up, but only the president came. However, we were able to recruit the 4 other elder missionaries who are serving in the city to come with us. yay! We left at 6:30 on Saturday morning. It was a truly great service project. We worked on building his bathroom! I have never built a bathroom before. I felt official as I laid bricks and mortar. :) Alejandro is amazing. He is growing spiritually in ways I never dreamed of. When I had a private moment to chat with him as we were all working, he asked me if I felt the Spirit of charity. I was stunned! I hadn´t been paying attention enough to feel the Spirit, but he was feeling it. Earlier this week, we had a discussion with him that was the best lesson of my whole mission. I felt like I was able to lovingly teach him using the techniques I have been working on and learning, and he truly understood the gospel of Christ. He accepted a baptismal invitation!!! He is getting married to his wife, Hna. Cabrera, but Uruguay is a pain with marriages and dates -- but I know he will be baptized eventually. It was a powerful spiritual experience to see how this humble man is growing spiritually and being prepared by the Lord in big and small ways. He is reading the Book of Mormon and praying out loud and personally. He is changing. I feel so privileged to see that. I love him so much!
However, no one showed up to church on sunday. Ghastly! It was only 1 hour because of elections. No investigators or recent converts came. Teardrop. But we did pretty much everything we could. We had an awesome family home evening with the YSA and we got to go proseltying with an awesome member, Tomy, for two hours. Fantastic day!
Love you all so much! The photo is my reaction to Alejandro´s car that I described last week.
Much love,
Elder Max Olivier
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