Woman´s conference looked awesome
and the girls look great! Just seeing Salt Lake is amazing. It really is the
place everyone in the church love. We have members that have pictures of that
temple in their house just because of how much it means. But hey, Cerro is
amazing!! It is soo different but I love it so much! We are in a WARD with six
missionaries! It is the sketchiest part of the mission and we are the
sketchiest area. Remember how I said how beat up it looked from the freeway?
That's my area. Missionaries have been robbed and we just get harrassed all the
time by the gang here. Somedays they are our friends, some days not. Ha my
first day walking around they threw a softball sized rock at me and missed by a
foot. That's just the daily norm though. Luckily I am with Elder Davis too who
is huge! I really just feel super safe just walking around with him too. He is
twenty and has been out for a year and a half and is from Livermore California
I think. He is such a stud and I have really learned a ton from him so far.
Maybe one day I will get a picture for you guys but we literally cannot take
anything valuable with us. We can only walk around with a clear ziplock bag
with our books in it so you can see what we have. But it definitely makes it
fun. Our house is huge though!! We live with all the missionaries of our ward
for now, but the other two are moving to their own house in a week. But it is
basically like a bomb shelter. We have to go through two blast doors just
to get to the house that is surrounded by a huge concrete wall with barbed wire
on top. And the counselor to the bishop guards our house every night just to be
sure. CRAZY!!!!
But the best part is how strong the
ward is! Yesterday I went to church with over one hundred people!! I didnt know
what to do! There are just tons of people I dont know but that are just super
nice. I have also eaten at a members house every day since I got here and it is
AMAZING! I love it so much. It is crazy to see how strong some of these members
are and for how long they have been members of the church.
Also my second day here we went to
our investigator Jesus and committed him to be baptized in two weeks! It was
soo awesome! We asked him if he would, and he was like, ´yeah, I want to, I
need to be baptized.´ It was so crazy, and we are going to work a lot with him
this week. We are also really working with the convert that got baptized a
month ago and she is super capo. She was super sad when the other missionary
left but he gave her hymns on CD so she listens to them to really make her feel
better and it was wierd to just be walking through this area and just hear
hymns blasting on here speakers. She is doing really good though and is awesome
to talk to.
Lets just say I still feel like a
little country boy that has been getting slapped around by the city these days.
Haha I wont even start on the buses here, always an adventure. Just picture
some crazy Uruguayan driving the trax train after the Bingham games at the U.
Something like that.
Well, just know that the Lord is
with us, I have seen it already, I know He protects us and gives us the
strength we need. I love you all so much! Thank you for everything you do for
me!
Todo mi amor,
Elder Degn
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