Funny Experience Clapping Houses - Enjoying The Sacrament - Loved The Marathon/Love The Mission/Endure - Many Friends Join The Lord's Army - Mate Statue - View From Apartment

Well sometimes the funnest things us missionaries get to do is "clap houses."  My companion and I have gone contacting a couple of times recently (when we didn't have appointments) and have had some of the FUNNIEST moments.  For example, we clapped one house and I said (in Spanish), "Hello!  We are representatives of the Lord Jesus Christ and we would like to share a message.  Can we enter?"  The man then said, "No."  My companion humbly asked, "Why?"  The man said, "Well, because I'm the devil!  Go away!"  Haha!  We have also had two people this week tell us that they can't speak with us because they have "unbearable diarrhea."  Yeah, two people said the exact same thing. 

Many times as missionaries we spend the whole Sunday going crazy wondering what we can do to help investigators to come to church, calling, walking to house early in the morning, and often the main focus is lost, that being the sacrament.  Yesterday, I truly just enjoyed sacrament being thankful that I can always be there.  I really felt the Spirit in that meeting yesterday. 

I also gave another talk yesterday and talked about the marathon that I ran before my mission.  I talked about how it taught me so many things, many of which have to do with "enduring to the end."  This has a lot to do with the mission because it is hard here.  But I told them in the talk that I loved the marathon.  I loved every step.  I also love my mission and wouldn't cut it short a day if I could.  As my Nana would say (grandma) I told the congregation in English, and then later in Spanish, that "I can do hard things."  Then I told them that each of them also can "do hard things."  I realize time and time again that I am so blessed.  The trials I have faced in my life have made me what I am today, and plead to our Heavenly Father, that he doesn't stop giving me trials.  They are what help me grow.

One of my best friends, Tanner Vario just received his mission call to Ohio, speaking Spanish.  I can never take credit for the conversion that he went through but I am grateful that in only a few short weeks it will make a whole year since I could baptize him and help, as an instrument of God, put him on a better course.  Yesterday a woman asked me why I didn't just go home and why I was willing to be away from my family for so long.  I told her it was because I saw what the gospel of Jesus Christ did to Tanner and I will do anything to help another child of God go through that same experience. 

I am so grateful that Tanner (and so many other of my high school friends) are joining me in the Lord's army.  I thank you all for your bravery and want you to know that your decision to serve will change the course of your life.

Doy testimonio de que Cristo vive y que el nos ama y que el es mi Hermano, y agradezco diariamente que yo tengo la oportunidad a representar a el.  Les quiero a todos Ustedes. 

This is the traditional "Guy drinking Mate statue" here in Posadas that is very well known and my companion told me that it was necisarry as a missionary here in Posadas to take a picture with it :)

Here is the view we have from our apartment! This picture doesnt really do it justice! It is actually really awesome, and I like taking part of the morning watching the sun rise!


I love you all and I love this gospel.

Elder Graves

Argentina Posadas Mission

LA IGLESIA DE

JESUCRISTO

DE LOS SANTOS

DE LOS ÚLTIMOS DÍAS

 

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Posadas, Misiones 3300
Casilla 12
Argentina

Priesthood Blessings Of Healing - Grasiela Baptized By Dario A New Member Himself - Home Remedies - Elder Thomas & Elder Graves Played Against Each Other Prior To The Mission

Well today I don't have a ton of time, but I do have a few experiences that I would like to share.

As we work in the blistering heat, day in day out, under the sun running from spot of shade to other spot of shade, sometimes our bodies get mad at us... haha. This week I had a pretty high fever and we were pretty worried about what we were going to do, because we had a LOT of appointments to get to in the next couple of days. I drank lots of water, and took some medicine, but i stayed pretty sick for a good 2 days. We left and worked a little bit trying to not fall to far behind in our workload, but I really just couldn't keep going. We finally decided to call the mission office, and they made us stay in the house for the rest of the day. Let me just say that I now have a testimony that WORK IS A LOT MORE FUN, THAN DOING NOTHING. Haha, but finally in the end of the day we decided to ask the bishop from our ward here to come down and give me a blessing with Elder Hawk. The blessing was so powerful. He said, "We command this sickness to leave immediately so that you can continue working in the Lords work and that your recovery will be quick, and excellent".

The next morning and whatever pain I had in my body was relieved. 

That same morning we recieved a call from a member who said that her sister was in the hospital on her deathbed (we had known about this for a couple of days) and that she wanted us to come give her a blessing. I honestly thought we were going to be giving her "final blessing" as she would pass away, but the words that slipped out of my mouth were not those. The words I remember best were "You will be able to bless thousands of lives here in this life". The spirit in that room was so strong. I know my words were guided by the spirit.

 

 

 

Graciela was baptized! We were so happy to have the chance to help her learn about the gospel and it was incredible to see what the members were willing to do to help her get to this point. I am also so proud of what Dario was able to do, and to see that he already is becoming a missionary. Seeing him, baptize her (with the help of Elder Hawk because Grasiela has a bad back) was probably to this point the proudest point of my mission.

After the baptism! Her smile! People here don't like to smile in pictures! But we GOT IT!

Elder Hawk and Dario practicing how to do the baptism with a backup person!

Here in Argentina there are a lot of "at home remedies".  For a fever they say that if you put a towel on your head and a glass full of water on top of it, the bubbles the  towel makes will take away your fever... haha. So we tried it. Lets just say... I ended up with a wet cabeza.

I love you all! 

 

Elder Graves

Argentina Posadas Mission

LA IGLESIA DE

JESUCRISTO

DE LOS SANTOS

DE LOS ÚLTIMOS DÍAS

 

 

This is Taylor's Dad:

As an added bonus this week, Taylor sent me a brief e-mail indicating that he played High School Basketball against one of the missionaries in his district, Brenan Thomas (#23 from Richfield, UT).  They guarded each other several times throughout the year and were both chosen to play during the Utah State 3A All-Star game (on opposing teams) just before they began their missions.  Here are some pictures of the two of them on the court during the All-Star game (back in March of 2014).  Neither one of them knew that the other had also been called to serve in Posadas, Argentina.  One year after the pictures below were taken, they are playing on the same team - the Lord's team - in the district of Posadas, Argentina.  It is a small world.

 

 

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Posadas, Misiones 3300
Casilla 12
Argentina

Taylor Wins Race And Family Attends Church As A Result - Faith That Delayed Baptism Will Go Forward - Opposition In All Things - Proselyting/Reactivating/Teaching - Countdown To Conference

Okay this week really has been a great one. Although, it started with a bit of set back... The baptism that was supposed to happen, didn't happen. We were talking with Grasiela (the woman who was going to be baptized by Dario) and she had told us that her daughter was not very happy with the decision she is making. She has told her lots of rumors about Mormons that are just silly and outrageous and it scared her. So she told us that she wanted to wait some more time. We decided, us missionaries, Dario and her, that we are going to set a new goal for this Saturday. I hope to be sending pictures of the baptism this Monday that comes!!! Her testimony is very strong, and she has a ton of friends in the church, I think she just wants her family to understand her decision better.

It is interesting how every good thing that ever happens in our lives, the adversary is always there trying to stop it from happening. Just like how Joseph Smith was literally attacked by the adversary, until Joseph finally was able to call out to the Father, and then later saw him with His Son at His side. EVERY time that something good is about to happen, the adversary will try to stop it. A missionary once told me, if your life starts to seem really comfortable, you should probably change something. Or if the adversary isn't there trying to stop your good works, that probably means you could act a little more. 

Random foto:

 

 

sometimes, when we say a zone meeting starts at 9, it really doesn't start until a lot after 9... ;)

Quick funny experience, I bet a 15 year old kid that I could beat him in a race to the End of the road, and if I beat him, he would have to come to church. Lets just say, even with the air drag of my tie flapping in the wind, Ive still got some speed ;) I won! His family came yesterday and it was really great to see them there.

Okay another experience that I want to share. I don't know if I have talked about Anival yet, but he is a man we are helping to quit smoking. He has gotten down to 1 cigarette for every 2 days. He is doing great and we are very happy for the faith he is showing. However, when we arrived at his house this past Friday, he told us that he would not be able to accept us because he was in too much back pain, because of a major problem he has had for a long time. We asked him if he had ever talked to a doctor about the back pain, and he told us "No way! I am terrified of the doctor and have never gone and never will." He legitimately has a major fear of going to the doctor. We told him instead of a lesson that day we could just offer him a blessing (with the member we were with who we recently helped start coming back to church named Osvaldo Cristaldo). I was chosen to talk in the blessing, and the power that we all felt in that room was indescribable. I said, after the general start of the prayer, "Como la voz del Señor te doy una bendicion..." or "As the voice of the Lord, I give you a blessing..." I have never said words and felt such power. During the blessing Anival was counseled to shake away his fears and act in his faith to seek medical help.

 In the end of the prayer, I sat down, and literally felt the difference, from when I was speaking during the blessing, and the nothingness that really I am. It was perhaps one of the most humbling experiences I could have imagined, and honestly is almost impossible to describe to you all.

We talked to him at Church this Sunday.  He told us that he followed the council and went to the Doctor. I am so proud of him. Sometimes the Lord wants us to act in our faith before we are healed. It is interesting, acting as the voice of the Lord, and seeing the different ways that he wants his children to act in their faith.

I love this gospel and love all of you!

 

 

"​Sleeping" while it is my companion's turn to make calls to the zone late at night.

 

 

Companionship moto: ¡Vinimos Para Predicar!

 

 

 ​We made a "Countdown to Conference" on our wall! Elder Hawk was pretty tired after a long hard day :)

Love you all thanks for your support!

 

Elder Graves

Argentina Posadas Mission

LA IGLESIA DE

JESUCRISTO

DE LOS SANTOS

DE LOS ÚLTIMOS DÍAS

 

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Córdoba 1243
Posadas, Misiones 3300
Casilla 12
Argentina

 

Lost Camera :-( - Debit Card Problems - Message Is A Happy One/Cheered By Companion's Testimony - Dario Ordained & Wants To Serve Full-Time Mission, But Disappointed That He Must Wait 1 Year - Dario To Baptize Grasiela This Friday! - Answered Prayers Through Taylor's Companion's Father, Brother Hawk

Well, I had a tough week this week I have to admit. While I was in a bus on the way to a lesson, I noticed my camera was no longer there. I had likely been pick-pocketed, or it could have easily fallen out while walking. I immediately told myself not to panic and just get through the day. I got through the first part of the day and lunch just fine, but then I started thinking about the situation that I was in. I am here, without a camera, during perhaps one of the most incredible adventures of my life, with no way to get money to buy a new one, because my credit card was deactivated recently. My companion has also said that Argentina will not allow credit cards to be mailed here either, so I did feel like I was in quite the rut. Well, to be honest, I'm still kinda there. But, I am feeling a lot better than I did yesterday.

I kinda told myself that I would just let myself be sad during the day and during the lessons (something that I had never even thought of trying before...). Ánd so I did... for like half a lesson. Then i learned an important lesson. While on this mission, it is actually extremely difficult to be sad! The message we are carrying with us is such a happy one. I started getting cheered up, because of the testimonies my companion was sharing and realized, that I didn't need to be sad, that it would all be okay.

I thought of a quote that I had recently heard by President James E. Faust once said, "In the Gethsemanes of life that we all have, and often in my present calling (as apostle of the Lord) I have gone to my knees with a humble spirit to the only place I could for help. I often went in agonized spirit earnestly pleading with God to sustain me in the work I have come to appreciate more than life itself."

This is my hope that one day I will get to this point. I have to be honest, I am not yet there,but I'm trying every day,and I realized that the camera, is something so small and so unimportant, compared to the privilege I have to be a part of this work.

Well you all should know about the recent baptism that we had, of Dario Do Santos. He is an incredible member already. He recently received the priesthood and is very excited about the whole idea of this gospel. He reads the Book of Mormon like crazy and loves all of it! I was talking to him the other day and asked him what his thoughts were on the subject of a mission. (He is already 21) He said that he was planning on leaving in 3 months. Unfortunately, I had to brake him the news that he could not receive his call until after a year of waiting because he was so recently baptized. 

However, something that we have been doing is doing some visits with him so he can see how the mission is. One is his neighbor Grasiela (I don't know if I have already told you about her yet...) She is really excited about the gospel, and has told us that she has had a spiritual confirmation that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that this is the true church. She has asked Dario to baptize her.

She will be baptized this Friday, along with another child of a part member family. This is the most happy I think I have been as a missionary. Seeing the complete change in Dario, and his complete willingness to serve, and to be someone worthy to hold the Lord's priesthood and do something so sacred as to baptize, only 2 weeks after his own baptism, makes me so happy.

I love this work, and love you all!

Elder Graves

Argentina Posadas Mission

LA IGLESIA DE

JESUCRISTO

DE LOS SANTOS

DE LOS ÚLTIMOS DÍAS

This is Taylor's Dad: 

Kirsten and I were somewhat distraught over Taylor's lost camera.  This is such an important time in his life - worthy of many photographs to help him remember these sacred experiences and friends.  It would seem that a camera is easily replaceable so...not a big deal, but in this case unfortunately the bank canceled Taylor's debit card (for security reasons) and sent him a replacement card to our home.  The problem is that we have no way to send him the new card - though we have tried unsuccessfully for a few weeks now - meaning that we have no way to send him money.  This is a problem when there are additional unexpected costs (like the need to replace his lost camera).  

Kirsten got creative today and was able to get in touch with Elder Hawk's (Taylor's companion) Father.  She explained our inability to get money to Taylor for a replacement camera and (never having met him) asked him if he would be willing to deposit some money into his son's bank account and then ask him to give the money to Taylor.  Brother Hawk didn't even hesitate and so graciously helped us get the money for a camera to Taylor.  We feel a sincere gratitude for Brother Hawk and his willingness to help us help our son. 

Taylor has a great Mom.  Though separated by more than 6,000 miles, she found a way to take care of Taylor's unique needs on the same day that she found out about the problem.  Taylor is blessed to have such a loving mother.  Nothing will get between this mother and the love she has for her son - not even 6,000 miles.  She is the best.  I am so grateful that she was able to take care of this while I was unavailable at work.

Since Taylor was unable to send pictures due to his missing camera, we had to get creative again for pictures to include in the blog and we "borrowed" some pictures from Elder Hawk's blog from their recent zone activity to the ruins.  Thanks again Elder Hawk!  You have come through for us and for Taylor (Elder Graves :-) once again!  

Here are the pictures borrowed from Elder Hawk's blog:

 

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Córdoba 1243
Posadas, Misiones 3300
Casilla 12
Argentina

Dario's Baptism Pictures! - Bro Casarez Listens To Gospel Message While Missing Missionary Son - Helping A Man Quit Smoking/Going To Church/Just Listen (To The Whisperings Of The Spirit) - Cooking With Chef Duarte - Hair Cut - Argentine Statue Of Liberty - Going To Miss Trio - Protected

This is Taylor's Dad writing:
As I was  unable to include pictures last week of Dario's baptism, Taylor did send some for me to use this week.  Here are a couple pictures of Dario's special day.  We are so happy for him!

Much of Taylor's "letter" home this week comes from a couple of his journal entries from last week.  He took pictures of his journal and sent them to us.  In an effort to make the blog a little easier to read, Kirsten and I have typed his journal entries below.

Taylor's letter home:

And here is a Thursday in the life of Elder Graves...
Love you guys!

27 de Febrero

Well we had a very important experience today. We were talking with the Hermano Casarez during a lesson with his family. He is the only one in his WHOLE FAMILY who has not been baptized and has always refused to talk to missionaries. Even when we got here, at first, he would not talk to us. But recently he started opening up and let us talk to him. His son is also serving a mission. He is in Brazil and he was telling us how he has started to miss him.

In the last lesson we had with him (I wasn’t there. We were on divisions and my companion taught his family that night), he had asked my companion a really interesting and important question. He asked him, “What are you searching for out of these lessons?” My companion sat there for a while and told him he wanted to think about that question and that he would come back and contest later. We came back today and we told him what we hoped for him. We told him that our hope is that his family could be eternal.

My companion, Elder Hawk, began to tell a story that I had heard a few times because he had told it in a few other lessons. It was about how his little baby brother had passed away with only a few short months of life on this earth. For some reason, this time that he told it, the Spirit was so much stronger. Even though I had heard the story before, tears started coming from my eyes. I told them that I knew that he would see his baby brother again one day. I also told them about how I knew I would be with my family eternally also.

I told them about how on the last night of being in my own home, my whole family knelt down together, one last time like we had been doing for years, to say our nightly prayer. I remember my Mom said the prayer and the warm the that came from her words were indescribable. It comforted me to the point that I knew that I would be with my family again, not having to worry about what would happen during these two years, even if something as terrible as death, I would be able to know that I would be able to live with them again some day. At this point, After sharing all of this with the Hermano, everyone was crying, me, my companion, his daughter and his wife, but he just sat there thinking... He then spoke up and said to us that he misses his son and that he never knew it would be so hard to be away from him and that he felt the need to be closer to his family. In that moment, he finally started to tear up too.

He finally told us, “Elders...I don’t know when yet...but I know my time in this church will come.” This lesson I felt more strongly than in what other lesson I have had in months.

I know that my family is eternal and that without them this mission would be near impossible. They are my motivation. I do all of this, daily, because I love my family.

Amo este evangelio.

Amo a mi familia.

 Here is a Sunday in the life of Elder Graves...
 
Taylor’s letter from March 1, 2015. Typed by Mom

Well...I always come home SO TIRED and I always think, I’m just going to lay down and sleep. But then I think about the miracles that I had experienced during the day and then I realize that I have to write about them.

3 days ago, we met a man that a member was friends with. The member said that he was very anxious to meet us and to start going to church with us and to learn how he could break some bad habits.

We arrived in his house and talked to him about the concept of repentance. He loved it. He told us he would make a goal to only smoke one cigarette each day this week (this was really good because he usually smokes 20-30). Through out the whole lesson I felt that this man had SO MUCH POTENTIAL and that we had to keep helping him. When we left the lesson my companion told me that he didn’t think we should keep teaching him. I was pretty confused obviously. I asked him why? He told me that he felt that the Spirit was telling him that we couldn’t and he didn’t feel right about being in his house.

Well today I convinced my companion that it might have just been a long day and that maybe he just wasn’t feeling good during the lesson. So we went searching for him early in the morning to walk with him to church.

When we got there, no one answered the door. I was so sad and then realized that maybe my companion was right. Maybe we weren’t supposed to teach him for some reason. So, we took a bus to the church and as we arrived to the church we saw something that blew our minds. HE WAS ALREADY THERE! He was just sitting outside of the church looking confused, not knowing what to do. We were SO HAPPY. :-) We talked to him, showed him around (obviously taking a very nice long look at the baptismal font :-) ) and went to the classes and finally the sacrament meeting. At the end of the sacrament meeting he told us...”I will never miss a meeting of this church.” We were shocked.

As we were super happy that he loved the church, we also stayed kind of confused. Whey did my companion feel so bad about teaching him?

We decided to go visit him today and pay attention to how we would feel.

We talked to him for a while, taught a nice good lesson, then left. As we left, I felt super strongly that what we had to do was get him to move from where he is currently living. It might sound weird, but the neighborhood is a place of pure iniquity and the spirit really can not be there. In the moment I had that impression, my companion asked me, “Hey Elder, I know why I had that impression about him. It’s not that we can’t teach him, but that we can’t teach him HERE. We have to get him to move.”

I was so shocked. We both had the same thought in the same moment and when he said that, the Spirit confirmed to me that what he had thought and what I had thought were impressions from the Spirit.

We are going to do all that we can to find him a safe, new home. Somewhere he can raise a family and grow spiritually.

I know this gospel is true and the Holy Ghost is REAL. Just listen. Just listen.

Amo Este Evangelo.

Cooking with Chef Duarte! Haha he is always going on divisions with us and is a good example of a member missionary!

Interesting story... I got a haircut... from a haircut place, but it turned out soooo bad. I was trying to fix it, but i just made it a whole lot worse. Luckily, my companion actually knows how to cut hair (kinda) and fixed it for me. What a nice guy :)

 

The Argentine statue of liberty! haha.  We run by this every once and a while and thought you guys might want to see.

Neither one is me, but we went on a run in our last day as a trio and I took a picture while running. (I'm going to miss being in a trio it's fun).

Love you guys all so much and thank you for the prayers, support, and even fasts that people have done in my benefit. We have had a number of experiences in this past week, that were potentially extremely dangerous, but we were clearly protected by protecting angels.

 

I love this gospel.

Elder Graves

Argentina Posadas Mission

LA IGLESIA DE

JESUCRISTO

DE LOS SANTOS

DE LOS ÚLTIMOS DÍAS

 

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Córdoba 1243
Posadas, Misiones 3300
Casilla 12
Argentina