Lets title this week.....

Hey everyone!!! This week was a pretty solid week I must say! We are still super busy with our house repairs and should be finishing up this week I hope! Starting tomorrow we are going to paint the entire house which is like 6 pretty big rooms and all the celings. It will probably take until like Saturday or Monday! I hope we can just finish before the next tuesday because we havent had a Pday in the last 3 weeks..... and our of the 5 tuesdays this trasfer, we have only had 1 pday.... hahahaha so thats fun 👍

So the reason I say this week went pretty well is because we had people in the church this sunday! We had the Frontera Family ( except the dad ) and then 2 of their neighbors too! It was super awesome! I love this family so much already! Church went super well! We honestly should have had more people there but every Argentine had to vote for something on Sunday and if they didnt they got finned.... so a few people didnt come :( 

So this week one of the kids we are teaching, Jeremias, asked the funniest question! He asked, "Elder Zaugg, does Satan have sins?" Haha it was honestly such a pure hearted question from a kid thats 9 years old! It was super funny in the moment but afterwards Vaz and I were talking about it and we realized how pure children really are. They see the good in everyone and really do want to learn! I love these kids we are teaching so much and am learning a lot from them as well!

So i was reading this week in Alma 30 and I love verse 8!

 8 For thus saith the scripture: Choose ye this day, whom ye will serve.

Obviously this life is full of challenges. Sometimes we will want to take the easy way out and perhaps break a commandment. The reason I love this scripture is becuase if we choose now whom we will serve, we will always have the Lords blessings to be with us! 

Well i love you all! And i hope everything is going amazing back home! Feel free to write me if you would like! If not, no worries haha I love you anyways! 

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Con Amor,

Elder Zaugg

From Worst to Best

Well lets just say this week was worse than finals week for the amount of things we had to do but wow did it turn out to be an amazing week!!!

Ok so in the office I am the financial Elder. My comp, Elder Vaz, is in charge of paying all the rents and services and everything like that. So from the 1st of the month to the 10th we have to pay all the rents and services or else the misionaries get fined more money. So this week for 4 days straight we left at 9 oclock in the morning and from this time to around 5 or 6 in the afternoon we were out driving from place to place paying this stuff! I think I drove over 20 hours this week hahahaha it was insane! And on top of that, our contract for the house we are in right now is expiring so we have to clean up and repair the house we are in right now! so yup lets just say this week was super insane! we litteraly never stoppped! when we finished the work of the day in the office we rushed to our area for usually only 1-2 hours a day! it is never fun to have such little time in the area but I definitly saw some miracle this week!

So even with only about 5 hours in the field this entire week, we were blessed with 2 baptisms! Lautaro Bustamante and Lautaro Segura! 2 kids that are 9 and 10 years old! They are so awesome! Both baptisms went so well! The first one was on thursday and the other one on sunday! Heavenly Father is always watching us! He saw how hard we were working this week and the stress that we had and he blessed us with success! I know that if we do the things he asks us to do, he will bless us! We are not alone in the life, we just need to follow His plan and not our own!

So one of the coolest things ive ever heard happened after Lautaro Segura's baptism! unfortunatly our missionary leader of the ward filled up the font with water and he filled it up with freezing cold water. Im not sure what he was thinking but the water was super cold! i was a little nervous for Lautaro but we obviously went through with it. After the baptism we get out into the bathroom to change and Lautaro is shivering and can barely talk but he stops and says to me, "Even tho the water was freezing, I loved MY baptism!" Honestly I think the biggest smile ever appered on my face! 

I love the mission so much and especcially helping amazing people like Lautaro find the truth! The mission has not changed who I am but it has changed how I am! I am so much happier now on the mission than before and know that the mission is the best place for anyone old enough to serve! If you are thinking about serving and are 18 do it! If you are thinking about serving and are 24 do it! There really is not anything better than a mission for your life! Love you all so much and hope you have a wonderful week!

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Con Amor,

Elder Zaugg

So for a pday today we got up a little early and painted our house! we painted for about 5 hours and then started cleaning up other stuff and ended up cleaning up our pool we have out back! It was hoenstly the grossest pool i have ever seen! I am sad that we didnt take the picture earlier... this was about half way through cleaning it out when we took the picture. it was so much worse hahaha! We cleaned it for like 2 hours so heres some pics of my fun pday 👍

this is a picture of Lautaro Bustamante! he was baptized on thursday! hes also such an awesome kid!! :)

Ok so you all understand! We had 2 baptisms this week! Their names are both Lautaro! hahaha this is Lautaro Segura! After his baptism on sunday we went to his house and had an asado and I made a Pasta Frola which is kinda like a big pie looking thing with the help of his mom Jimena! It was  super awesome!!! we took a lot of pics hahaha! ill send more

Conference was the BOM!

Well this week I was left on my own..... I am now the not in my training for Financial Secretary of the mission... And i actually like it a ton so far! I am really blessed for the oportunity to learn all the things I am learning right now!! Its going to help me a ton in the future not only if I want to do anything with buisness and money but just keeping my self on task and making sure everything is done the right way! My grandpa always told me, whats the point of doing something if you arent going to do it right! I love that saying and it is super true for me right now!! 

So conference this week was the BOM!!!!! And BOM because the talk on the BOM was my favorite one!!! Elder Callister from the Seventy really made it quite clear how true the Book of Mormon! I love the Book of Mormon so much and love it when it just makes sense that its true! And thats exactly what Elder Callister did, make it logical that the Book of Mormon really is the word of God and will help us come closer to him and his son Jesus Christ!

Another great talk was the final talk by Elder Anderson from the Quorum of the 12! He really summed up conference perfectly and it amazed me how he even did it about talks that were so fresh from that session!! I am amazed how strong the Spirit can be and how they can listen to it so well! I know that every person, if they feel like they didnt as of now, will get a confirmation of this church from this General Conference if you just watch it with an open heart and mind! That really is the key to everything! Heavenly Father does want to confirm everything to us but we need to do our part and have an open heart and mind to what he is saying!

So i love you all so much and would love to hear your favorite talks!!! Also I want to invite you all to take one point from Conference and share it with someone that needs it! I know this church is true and that is why im sharing this message here in Argentina! It doesnt matter if we are missionaries, members are whole lives, or recent converts. When we know it is true we need to share it with the world! I love you all so much and hope you have a wonderful week! 

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Con Amor,

Elder Zaugg

So we totally made office jerseys here! And im pretty happy with how they came out! Love you all! Ill look for more fotos to send!