Elder Daxton Starkey in Salta Argentina: Week 16: Hunting?

Well, I decided that I'm going to start off every weekly email with a funny story, because basically everyday is hilarious here. Ok, heres the funny story of this week:

On Saturday we were helping a member, Miguel, to organize and clean his house, like for service. We came upon nun-chucks and a slingshot. So naturally we started messing around for a second, and Miguel took the slingshot and shot a bird that was sitting on the telephone wire in front of his house. It took the head clean off. He was so proud and excited, haha. He plucked it, gutted it, and gave it to us to cook haha. Guess what we had for lunch today...haha!

This week has been crazy, we've been walking a ton! On Saturday we walked about eight miles! It was a long day, but we're having so much success. Just the other day we had 2 separate people contact us in the street! We're starting to believe that Pichanal is a gold mine of investigators. On Friday we got to baptize Maribel! It feels like we were teaching her for such a long time, so it was awesome to have her be baptized.

Another crazy thing is this lady that we were teaching. We had given her a pamphlet to read and she seemed like a great investigator, good family and all. Then when we went to visit her she started asking us why we put the devils star next to the chapter heading she was suppose to read. Then when we asked her to read a verse of the Book of Mormon she asked if it was going to bring a demon into her...? She was just trying to argue with us and it made me think about "Preach My Gospel". It says, "some people will just try to argue and say your wrong, but you can't argue testimony", or something like that. So thats what we did, we bore our testimonies of Christ, of the Book of Mormon, and the church, and then we left. Whenever I hear more and more from other religions it really just helps me to know that this is the true church, that the Book of Mormon is true, and that we really can find happiness in this life and the next.

Con Amor
-Elder Starkey