Elder Nixon in Rosario, Argentina: August 26, 2017

Loving, Cringing, and Eclipse(ing)

I swear starting these emails is always the hardest thing I do on P-days. I struggle so hard to remember what all I've done throughout the week but for some reason I just can't seem to come up with anything! This was definitely one of my favorite weeks here though. The language is starting to really pick up for me and I'm getting unbelievably excited to head out for Argentina on the 4th. I got my flight plans yesterday and it's starting to get so real to me that I'm about to start really serving my mission. Also, I've officially been in here for one month so that is a pretty impressive statistic in it's own right I think!

Probably the highlight of my week was teaching Rosa again. If you remember when I asked you all to pray for my 45 minute Spanish lesson a couple weeks back, I've been doing those with Elder Fugal three times a week, every week since then and we can fill the time without breaking a sweat now. It's awesome. Anyways our investigator's name is Rosa, and how the program is set up is there's about 50% real investigators and 50% members just acting as investigators, but either way we teach like they're real and it feels like it too. This week while teaching, we focused a ton on baptism and in our second to last lesson, we got her to commit finally! So now we hand her off to the real missionaries in Provo to actually finish the job but it's been awesome getting to teach her and help her come unto Christ. In our final lesson, Elder Fugal and I didn't want to leave because we were so sad we wouldn't get to teach her anymore! I can't wait to go to Argentina and just love the people there as much as I have loved Rosa! I know that this gospel is centered on Love and I have nothing but Love for this gospel so I guess it all works out great!!

The solar eclipse this week was pretty neat I guess. We all ran out and shared some glasses around which was fun. It was pretty eerie to see the world get so dark and cool during the day but it was really fun and we definitely had fun taking pictures with our fashionable glasses.

Our devotionals this week were interesting. After 3 apostles in a row, we had Christian singer Kenneth Cope come on Sunday and it was....well flat out weird. He went off for like 5 minutes about how much he likes to kiss and I don't think he portrayed what he wanted to very well cuz the entire MTC just had their heads down and were cringing. That's just one of the weird things he said but pretty much the whole hour I was just sitting there and wondering why the heck the MTC presidency thought we needed to be punished like this. Thankfully on Tuesday we had Weatherford T Clayton and he made up for Sunday and then some. Listening to the word of God day after day has been an amazing experience. I love the MTC, I love this gospel and I love being a missionary!

Well, there'll be one more email from the MTC then I'll be off to Argentina!! I love all of you so much and can't wait to tell you all about my adventures down in Argentina!!!

Con Amor

Elder Nixon