"You are on this council, but we do not grant you the rank of Master"

 How is it hanging my people of the free world? It is currently pday, we still grindin here in Cristiania B, Buenos Aires. It's very interesting, the area here is pretty rich so the people are not interested in hearing anything, we also found out that not only are there basically no active members in our area but there are just basically no members.  All of them have moved or are dead. But we're finding some good success.  We are working hard trying to re-activate some members, and one of them came to church yesterday! VAMOS!! 

It's starting to get really cold here, and one of our electric heaters broke. The ward got robbed they stole the computer and the printer and basically everything in the office over there, so that blows. 

We've got some good friends progressing! The brother of one of our recent converts wants to get baptized too, we're working on trying to re-activate their family. Then we have another one of our friends that we put on date for the 21st, keep her in your prayers. We´ve also been doing a lot of contacting, we´ve found some good people doing that. This Saturday we went to like a famer's market type deal and had a stand.  It was 6 missionaries and we did a ton of contacts and found some really good people. We´ve also been doing lots of service, its been pretty epic. Were painting houses, moving logs, doing some gardening.  A member even gave me a really cool coin. 

Okay, I want to talk really fast about how important it is to go to church. We sometimes think that it is just nice to go to the meeting and listen to the talks, but it's nothing really important like the temple or general conference... But, that's NOT TRUE at all. It's actually very interesting that the covenant of baptism is the only one that we renew, and we have the opportunity to do it every Sunday.  It goes to show that it must be really important!  That God wants us to always be thinking of this first covenant and keep working to follow him. So go read Mosiah 18, its epic. Also read the COME FOLLOW ME Lesson for the week.  I love you guys. Stay frosty, keep your covenants, go to church, go to the temple, stay frosty. 

-Elder Christensen