What a week!!

I had a Great week!! 

Stories! 

We were walking down the street and two poliece stopped us and we knew one of them from before so we started to chat and it came up that i have a girl friend and so they started asking questions about that. we were able to talk a little about our beliefs about not having sexual realtions before marriage. they started say that was so bad. they said we could get hit by a car and die that day and not have lived anything. but we were able to testify about the after life and how if we dont obey here we will suffer there! it was very spirtual and turned out to be great!! they then recieved a call about a calling and had to go!

We were teaching our recent convert matias about temples and my comp with his limited spanish tryed to explain that we get baptised in behalf of the dead and matias said ok but i dont want to die yet. haha very funny! a little bit of a misunderstanding!! after the lesson he expressed his feelings toward us of gratitude. he is so so so so so so shy... but the gosple is changing him!! he said that he is so much happier now!! 

Last night we had dinner i the house of a very humble family. They made burgers for us!! they are so awesome!! people like them have changed me!! The walls in their house are ply wood nailed together in a random pattern to make it fit. the floor is dirt. they have one hall way and one room. and an out house. in the hall way is the kitchen. the four of them 2 daughter sleep on two beds!! and yet they give to us all that they can!! with a good attitude!! How christ like! what an example!!

Love Elder Groen

Sick day!

Ive had a pretty hard core cold this week. my comp had to go to capital to do his document stuff and i went to the offices of the mission and got to sleep on the couch of president robertsen the whole time!! pictures included!! last monday the two elders in the picture showed up in our area so incredibly lost!! the are in the mission my grandson and great grand son. or in other words the blond one is training the other and the blond one was trained by the elder that i trained!! haha 

this week i played nearer my god to thee, in sacrament meeting on the piano!! i was so nervous bucause i never have before but it turned out great!! 

Our main investigator is named alejandro he is 20 years old and has quite a story! his sister was shot a little while ago and lived! he freacked out quite a bit and went to get revenge. he found the guy and shot out both of his knees leaving him unable to walk. he has made quite a few changes in his life! he is living with members and going to church every week! 

my comp was sick yesterday and while he was resting i read 30 pages of the book of mormon! so good!! 

Elder Groen 

Misc.

*Note from Mom:

Dalton did some email chatting this week and didn't have time for a family email.   So I'l posting a few tidbits from him:

- He hasn't heard from Mario - that's all in the past.

- President Hymas served in Dalton's area twice and gave Dalton a long list of people he'd like contacted.   Dalton LOVES these warm referrals.

- They have some investigators but "nothing serious enough to write about".  (He still doesn't understand how we love to hear anything!

Parque San Martin

Matias

So i like it here!! its a good place!! we had a baptisim yesterday!! his name is matias and he is i think a little autistic. but a great guy!! 

my comp is from ogden and brand new in the mission! he played lacross at bonaville high! 

Left to Right:  Elder Wiggins, Elder Lindquist, Elder Vicente (formerly Elder Silva - his mother's last name)

this week is transfers and we are getting a new elder in the appartment in the other companionship and i lived with him at the start of my mish!! so cool!! the elder on the right of the picture! (the pic is from 2014)

Elder D Groen 

"Flashed" missionary style

Well this week was good but finished crazy!! so after church this sunday mario followed the sister missionarys home and he told one of the sisters in my district the story of judas and how they ended up hanging him and he said that i better be careful because something really bad is going to happen to me. so i got flashed... (Emergency Change) im now in an area  called parque san martin!! today we had lunch with a member that used to live in my second area!! so that was cool!!

love elder groen

*Parque San Martin

Week! Road Rash

So this week was good! but also sad! 

On saturday we were looking for a reference and we asked and asked and asked and couldnt find it... but we felt to keep asking. so we did and finally someone knew the guy and pointed his house out to us!! so we went up and knocked and who comes out? our convert diego and he was so drunk... we were so sad! he told us that he needed to repent. we offered to walk with him to his house right then but he wouldnt leave... he didnt come to church either.

Yesterday sister mickelsen from my mtc district was visiting argentina and she came to our branch for church! that was great to see her and get to know her parrents!! her dad shared his testimony and it was super cool! 

so this week we were riding really fast and we were on gravle and i turned but the bike decieded that it didnt want to... so... i fell... but no worries im ok!!

Love Elder Groen

*Note from Mom.   I asked about Mario.   Dalton said he's still mad at Dalton but still attending church.  He won't look at Dalton or shake his hand but Dalton will gladly take that if Mario will still come to church and has joined for the right reasons. 

Argentine sunset from the top of the pench roof

So to start off this email i would like to tell about the amazing experience that we were able to have as elder bednar came to buenos aires to speak with all of the missionaries all over the south america south area!! we were spiritually edified as he talked alot about the spirit! i liked one thing that he said at the very start and that was that in meetings we need not to take notes of what the people say becuase then we loose them and dont look back at them. he related it to writing on the large plates. but if we take notes of what the spirit says then we will tresure what it says to us!! thats like writing on small plates!!

On saturday Diego was baptised a member of la iglesia de Jesucristo de los santos de los últimos días!!  (Dont worry, This is our church just written in spanish!) it was a great day and he loved it!! his Conversion Story: The sisters were passing by his house one day and they say the sign on the gate that says family rojas. so the stoped and started teaching the family diego showed the most intrest as he started reading the book of mormon alot! well after some inconvinences the sisters had to pass him to us and so we started teaching him!! he had a long road ahead of him seeing that he need to drop a major drinking problem. but he did!! he also finished the book of mormon 1 week before his baptisim!! 

Now the sad part. my convert from december who is so awesome. last week in church he asked the hermana gull to marry him. so the president asked us to talk to him and teach him that that wasnt ok. so we did and now he hates me. yesterday he asked to talk to me and the branch president so we did and we got in the presidents office and he just started yelling at me... saying that im pridefull and arogant and a dishonor to my family and ansestors. i learned that in times like these we just need to humble our selfs and listen. so i did. thanking him for the advice. sad but good that he's only mad at me and not the church.

Love Elder Groen

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