sHey Mom and Familia!
I love you all! Thank you all so much for your love and support!
To answer your questions: We do sleep in dorm-style rooms. There are 6-8 elders in each room and we have bathrooms and showers we share similarly to the Helaman Halls style at BYU. There are two floors of rooms and each floor has their own set of showers, etc. We have an hour of exercise time each day, but I haven´t been able to use it really. I have been letting my knee heal because it keeps tightening up on different sides of the knee whenever I go out and work out hard. Breakfast is basically standard every day: cereal and pastries. It´s a little bit gross how much sweet food they serve sometimes haha. I see many elderes y hermanas eating just sugar cereal, a cup of hot chocolate, and a pastry filled with dulce de leche for breakfast. I typically eat a bowl of raisin bran type cereal, a bowl of sugar cereal, maybe a pastry, and then I always grab a fruit as well.
As for the past week- crazy! Proselyting was quite an adventure! The highlight was definitely having the chance to visit with a woman named Ramona Blanco. She was probably about 60 years old, and said that she was basically deaf in one ear. She was catholic, but very kind and receptive. I shared that we believed in Jesus Christ and wanted to share a message about him. I asked her if she would like to hear more and was amazed when she said yes! We took down her address and name (she said she doesn´t have a telephone because she can´t pay for it). I really hope the missionaries in the area are able to visit with her! I gave her a libro de Mormón that I had wrote my testimony in to read. She was very kind to us.
My comp and I also had the chance to sing on one particular door! We practiced singing I know that my redeemer lives in spanish, and were able to do it pretty well a capella! I was very happy with how it went. Unfortunately, we didn´t follow up as well as I would have liked after the song- but you live and learn!
In other news, I just changed companions! Our teachers felt that it could help our district if we had a small change and switched my companion with someone else, so they had me take the idea to Presidente Benton. He prayed and thought about it; telling us yesterday to go forward and complete the switch! My new companion is named Elder Ludlow. He is a very smart kid from Queen Creek, Arizona! I was grateful for the time I had to serve with Elder Kindt. We had some very cool experiences, and our last day as a companionship was awesome! We had a sweet lesson with our substitute teacher, and I felt the Spirit very powerfully.
Also, today we got to teach a real investigator!!! Very cool! The teachers felt that the Spanish of myself, Elder Kindt, Elder Taylor, and Elder Ludlow was good enough to teach a lady named Olga who was visiting the temple grounds today! I felt like the lesson went very well! Olga is scheduled to be baptized this Saturday, and we had an awesome opportunity to teach her about the gift of the Holy Ghost! I barely know Olga, but I´m very excited for her. Her parents are from the Ukraine but she has been in Argentina since she was 12. I wanted to tell her how Dad has visited the Ukraine, but I couldn´t think of how to share about that in Spanish quickly enough! haha.
Thanks again for all of your help and support. Let me know if there´s any way I can help someone back home! Whether with a kind email or some other way! I hope that I can help all people come closer to my Savior Jesus Christ!
I love you all! Ciao!
-Elder Lambert
p.s. Dad- thank you for the advice. I really appreciate the words of help you have given me. I hope all is well with the office, your movie project, etc. All the best!
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