A Special Visitor-Elder Villar and Achieving Goals

¡Hola! Christmas Time baby! Hope you all ate well this last week and got ready for hibernation! This last week was a great week to be a missionary! I was able to meet and shake hands with Elder Villar of The Seventy and his wife Hermana Villar at Zone Conference. 

Zone Conference was great, and we all learned of how we can enrich our mission work this December and just in general. We received many tips in “Preach my Gospel” and our scripture study. As a mission we got our results back of our November goal of 100 Baptisms! We ended up finishing with 107 Baptisms and 3 of those were from Elder Hadley and Elder Cruz! Now our December Goal is to finish up the year with 200 baptisms for B.A.S.! 

We had 2 Baptisms this last week (on Thanksgiving) of Agustina y Bautista Gonzalez and we have two more lined up for this next week so no worries we are staying busy here Jaja! 

Thanksgiving was a normal working day but a member of the Bishopric, not knowing it was Thanksgiving, called and told us to go to this lady that we did not know, and pick up some sack lunches he had paid for.  In this sack lunch was Fried Chicken, Fries and a Coke!!! This was not normally the food we get and Cokes are only for the rich people and we are not rich! I drank my Coke in about 30 seconds! It was a Thanksgiving Miracle!!!

Sunday was a little stressful. We have a lot of responsibility to help our investigators, answer questions from members and non members, do paperwork for baptisms, and prepare all of our reports for the week. I miss the Sundays when I can sit on a comfortable pew/bench with padding at church and just listen and be taught. 😂

We are teaching a lot of Catholics and now it is Christmas time I've made a few connections in my life. We always have the topic, "Do you believe in the Mother Mary?" and we talk about how wonderful of a woman she is and how she is an example to all of us. She was living her life, ready in every way to give birth to Jesus Christ, Our Savior. 

Now I would like to compare this with my life. I like to think that I have had my own "Mary" in my life, my mother. She has taught me by example and has raised me to always be ready to do the Lord’s work whether in callings at church, service to neighbors, or especially always be there for Family. Love you mom and hope you enjoy the music this Christmas 😊!

Mary was a wonderful daughter of our Heavenly Father and lived her life the way so that she could bring Our Redeemer into this world to teach and pay for our sins. This Christmas time try to think about how we could be more like Mary and prepare ourselves for when the Lord needs work to be done in the vineyard. Love you all!

Les amo,
   

Elder Hadley
(Hang Loose!!!) 

  

Zone Conference
Elder Hadley, Hermana Fernandez, President Fernandez, Elder Villar (Of the Seventy), Hermana Villar
(Parker is in the front next to his Mission Mom)

Argentina Buenos Aires Temple with Argentina Flag
This picture was taken from the bus traveling to Zone Conference. The temple is in our mission boundaries and we are able to go our last week in the mission.

Elder Leany, Elder Hurst, Elder Hadley, Elder Folkman, Elder Aston
CCM Brothers at Zone Conference

Elder Bravo, Elder Aldave, Elder Hadley
Peru Bros.

Elder Arvonen, Elder Ceniceros and Elder Hadley
 

It was an exciting day when we came across some Chickens and a Cement Bag!  😂

Sunset and one of the many dirt roads I walk every day!
My area is about the size of Kaysville and Farmington combined, so that is a lot of walking! 

Elder Hadley getting ready to baptize Bautista, then his sister was baptized by a ward member. 

Elder Hadley, Elder Cruz and their family at Agustina y Bautista's Baptism. They are praying that their mother can be baptized in a few weeks. 

Making Arepa (Harina Pan=Flour bread)

Elder Hadley, Elder Cruz and Elder Harper with the Family Reyes (from Venezuela) making Arepa!

Arepa with a great Sauce!