Tuesday, March 20, 2012

3/12/2012

Wow my Moms got class!!!! Rollin with the Iphone!!!!Geez I can't even
imagine what it will be like having a real phone again because the one
we have is worst than the first phone I ever had. So things are just
bad in our new area. 3 of our investigators moved the other 2 slept
sunday and didn't go to church and one other just dropped us completely
and is never in their house. Man it has been rough because the
missionaries working in our old area are doing horrible as well as my
whole district so it has been a tough week. Our one hope and joy is
that we found 2 new families to teach. One is just awesome and their
goal is to be married this month!!!! The other is a family of 5 the
two boys maxi and martin are just beasts but the Mom just
started listening to us because she was way catholic. They are great and
promised to go to church next sunday. So possibly 6 baptisms this
month!!!! We are working so hard and have gained the trust and love from
the members. They adore us, I just love as they call us and ask how we
are doing every sunday in church. We have officially become known as
the 2 tall white angels. As well as the 2 last hopes!!! Makes more
sense in spanish but everyone knows that we were sent for a reason and
I have to say that I just love the members here. They are really poor
and humble but willing to give whatever we need. I love the work
and I know we are gonna blow this area out of the water, we just need
a little more patience and we will be fine. My testimony grows everyday
and I know this work is true. I just love it so much-always working hard.
Elder Darby

BEST WEEK EVER 3/19/2012


THINGS ARE GREAT AND I HAD THE BEST WEEK AND SUNDAY OF MY ENTIRE MISSION!!!! 
You have no clue how hard it is to teach so many people and
to only see one or 2 in church but this last sunday lets just say 9 out
of 10 went to church and 3 inactive families!!!!! It is a miracle. It
is so true that we never receive a testimony except after the trial of
our faith. 
We have been working hard teaching a lot, dropping a lot 
and finding only a few new investigators. But, monday night we were 
walking and I felt an impression to take a turn at a random street that 
we never took before so we did it and a drunk man came up to me-so the 
first thought I had "oh another drunk here to just waste our time". 
He told me you 2 are angels sent from God right?  So, I said 'sure' and 
he said I need your help please pass by my house.  
So, I got in his face and said with all the power, brother we will pass by 
once to your house wednesday at 9pm and if you aren't there, we can't 
do anything. Guess what, the door was open so we clapped and he came 
running to the door and called us angels. He let us in and was completely 
sober. He told us he has been drunk for 15 days and his family has abandoned him and he has nothing but wine to save him. So we took out the Book of Mormon and we read a couple scriptures and testified that he can change with just the strongest spirit that brought tears to my eyes and my comps. and his. 
So the lesson went well and we went back friday at 9pm once again and he
was waiting at the door for us. He gave us hugs and a typical
argentine kiss with no booze in his breath. We taught him again and he
asked 'when is church, can I go' so we said 9:30 this sunday we will be at
your house at 9am. Sure enough yesterday we pass by and he was there
and ready in a nice shirt and jeans. It was a MIRACLE!! 
Then 2 seconds after another 2 investigators call and tell us to drop by their house so we took 5 with us to church!!! It was just awesome!
We had talks, I taught gospel principles like usual about the atonement and all
were crying and Omar, our drunk friend, asked if he could say something
so he stood up in class told us the story how his wife left him and he
has been waiting for 5 months for someone to save him and told us how
we are now his angels. 
He is amazing and sitting nerxt to him and seeing the hurt in his eyes 
and tears made me realize that it doesn't matter if I baptize 70 because 
one soul is great in the eyes of God.  I could feel the love God has for him 
and he has so much faith and I am so excited to help such an amazing man. 
I have been humbled to the dirt to realize I need to do the Lords will not 
what I want. I need to follow His guidance not what I think. 
This last week has changed my entire life and I know I am here for a 
reason and that I was worthy and trusted by God to come to this area 
and listen to the prompting to turn down that street. The work may be hard 
but never will I feel inadequte or unable to do the what God wants. I know He loves me and wants us to succeed. To see inactives come back and to 
see that many investigators in church, I just know that it is not me and my
skill, it is the Lord.  All I am is an instrument in his hands. I love this work 
and will be working hard forever!!!! 
Every member a missionary was my talk and never have I realized that 
it is the members responsibility to share the gospel with frieinds, work mates 
and everyone. Just do it and I promise it will be the most joyful peace to
the hardest heart!!! I love you all so much and know I am here doing
this work I love and i will see you all soon. love Elder Darby

Monday, March 5, 2012

5 March 2012 Mariano Moreno


Alek is gonna love serving in Australia, I can't say the MTC is easy but boy does it feel good to be out in the field. I just love the happiness and people we find. It is funny because God so prepares the people we meet it is just awesome to see them change because of the things we teach. WOW Kevin is home? Man you need to let him know I had a companion from Peru so I know how funny their spanish truly is. Wow I can't imagine what it would be like to see you all again after 2 YEARS!!!! But anyway still got 9 months.
So things are GREAT!!! As always, I never do get to the computer tired or not excited because I just love being able to share my happiness and the miracles that are happening. So my new area, Mariano Moreno has had 10 baptisms in 3 years!!!! Do you know how many we now have planned? 5 this month!!!!! And it is only the beginning of March. I am so excited because we have been working hard to reactivate families as well as teach, invite and prepare people to be baptized. I truly love it here and to know how much God truly knows of my mission. I love it because I read a scripture the other day that says that God sent us as we were prepared from the beginning to come to this earth. I read this scripture and another one that talks about our purpose and I realized that no matter how I lived my life before the mission, God prepared me here to be his servant and to forget myself and do his work. I have felt that change of heart I have left behind the things of the world because I know 3 things matter. 
Its funny though because you mentioned all of them in your letter, Mom. Obedience, family, charity.  
Think if we are obedient we have the spirit. If we strengthen our family at all times we won't ever have contention in the house. If we have charity or the pure love of Christ we will always think of others before ourselves and never have enemies or bad feelings towards anyone. I think charity has been my biggest attribute this transfer to be able to just love every member and person we encounter because if not we won't gain their trust or receive their help. I love my area and we are working hard to reactivate families and baptize news to bring that excitement back to the ward. It is tough but it is so possible. Our excitement is beyond the roof because there is no challenge that is impossible when it is the work of the Lord. I know I am in this area because I just love being positive and happy and we get along with everyone I love it here and can't wait to send my report next week. I love you all and promise to always work hard. Love Elder Darby

Thursday, March 1, 2012

8 January 2012

TRANSFERS TODAY!!!!!! Elder Yates unfortunately left but I am staying as district leader and my new companion is a newbie right out of the MTC so yes I am TRAINING!!!! I am so excited. Tomorrow I go to salta to get my new companion and then we come back and get to work. Things are going great president got way mad at me because I forgot to write him last monday and apparently is happy about our numbers but watching them very very closely because he said some strong things to me in an email but hopefully I wont have to have an interview with him this wednesday in salta!!! He called me a missionary of numbers but we all know that isnt true haha i just love how no one can predict my actions here. I am now older am phoneless and district leader and training and instead of a pump up email pres. sends me one that says "I am not on my mission I am on the mission of the Lord!" I dont know how that applys to me but whatever it is the lord that guides me not him right? Well other than that exciting email he sent I am doing great to be recieving to brand new missionaries in my district so now i have an older missionary with only a few weeks left then his comp. is completly opposite and wants to just work and the other companionship is a missionary with 8 months and he is going to salta with me to get his new comp. as well. It was really sad to say goodbye to elder yates because we did so well together I mean talk about unity and a friendship. We were doing so great and he talks so amazingly in spanish it is incredible. He is honestly the best comp. I have had. It was a blessing to have such a great companion to help me and strengthen my testimony about the only true church on the earth today. What a crazy week this week has been I am a little nervous to see who my companion is but if he is a gringo we are gonna have a fun time trying to teach and being able to realize how bad I was at spanish. The members are great here and our investigators are even better i am really excited to train and try to be the best servant the Lord has to complete my mission come home and give the most hugs possible. So everything in our area is going great the Apartment is just beautiful the creamery is next door and i am still loving my empanadas!!! The holidays were great but a tough time to work because the people were drunk tired and so distracted from the path of Christ but now things are better and we are gonna start baptizing like crazy again to not only make the mission president happy but also to bring the salvation to the people who deserve it and are willing to humble themselves and become like a child before their savior Jesus Christ. My testimony is stronger than ever and I know the family is the strong point. We are gonna become better and I am so gonna come home and be the best member I can be not for anyone else but my father in heaven. I love you all and will let you know next monday who is my comp. and all the better details. It is hotter here and still raining every other day so it is nice. Stay strong and know we dont need anything else but the love of our savior Jesus Christ and his mercy!!! Love elder darby

2 January 2012


haha you are the best Mom ever and yes my soul burns from the iniquity that dwells in the family but the mercy of the lord lightens my burning and fills me with his love to endure and bind myself more to his work and become a true child of my father in heaven. haha am I reading from the scriptures a lot or what? haha I love scripture talk and it is so much more fun to teach it in spanish. So my Mother yes it burns to hear the disrespect coming from them and I know you say you pray for it to be healed but I think you should not pray for it to change but for the love of Christ to fill your heart to feel passion and love not just for the ones you love and respect but the ones who hate you most. I have to admit I hate a lot of elders but instead of being a jerk to them, I find the good in them and magnify it. So as I am district leader I find alot out about the elders I am constantly watching over and loving, but there are 2 that don't want to work. But it is not my job to ask them why but to find a strong point and one step at a time strengthen the weakness and build a foundation that they can become and not just show the example but create it. It is the hardest task but I am working to get this one elder to work and truly serve the lord. He is practically done because he found a girl on the mission and has 5 months left to work. It is hard but he told me this last week "Darby you are right, I am gonna baptize this week" and guess what he did it!!!!!! The other thing that I love what you wrote is the part where you said"I didn't change that" the church changed them. SO TRUEEEEEE!!!!!! We are nothing here on earth but just instruments. 
Mom I am so pumped to go home and work with the missionaries go to the temple with you and not change the personalities in the family but set the true example and make them realize that by hatred and jealousy comes not the things of the lord but from the most decieving being of all time that is more miserable and filthy than any other thing that has ever existed. Mom you have been the center of our family that taught us faith, charity and pure love of christ. This is what matters. Not the friendships with others and not the number of enemies we have but the friendships we better the enemies that we perfectly love and the witness that we always are not of satan but of the almighty that can smite thine enemies with a speck of dust that can cast out the more horrible filthy sins and forgive them and forget!!!! This word forget means not to dwell on it not to change feelings that we have and not to damage our character but to better our lives and bring us closer to our savior the one that lives, JESUS CHRIST!!!! Only through him can we rest from our pains only through him will we recieve eternal life and enter into our fathers rest. I strive to fulfill the words of Moroni "and when he shows himself unto his children again we will look at him and be the same!!!" Same as Jesus Christ. Forgiving those we hate forgiving the ones who reject us and hate us and judge us. But I say the family is the number one strength of all and if we want to be the same when he comes again we need to fulfill the words of captain moroni "protect thine families even unto bloodshed!!!" I know the earth will pass away and the devil will die but the words of Christ will never. Like Mormon said "the earth will pass and all things but my word of the words of Christ will be fulfilled whether it be through my voice or the words of my servants!!" Never have three sciptures woken me up more than these.  I strongly suggest you purify your heart and humble your selves as a little child and if we humbly our selves we are gathered under his arms not for now but forever!!! Never have I felt so sad or so hurt from what our family has become. The communication is what lacks (not). The one thing that lacks is the most importnat part of the repentance process forget your self and forgive forget and never RETURN!!! I love you all Elder Darby

26 December 2012

I am excited to attend the temple with all of you and not change the personalities in the family but set the true example and make you all realize that by hatred and jealousy comes not the things of the lord but from the most decieving being of all time that is more miserable and filthy than any other thing that has ever existed.  The strength the faith, the charity or pure love of christ. This is what matters. Not the friendships with others and not the number of enemies we have but the friendships we better and the enemies that we perfectly love and the witness that we always are!!! Not of satan but of the almighty Christ that can smite thine enemies with a speck of dust that can cast out the most horrible filthy sins and forgive them and forget!!!! This word forget means not to dwell on it not to change feelings that we have and not to damage our character but to better our lives and bring us closer to our savior the one that lives JESUS CHRIST!!!! Only through him can we rest from our pains, only through him will we receive eternal life and enter into our fathers rest. I strive to fulfill the words of Moroni "and when he shows himself unto his children again we will look at him and be the same!!!" Same as Jesus Christ. Forgiving those we hate forgiving the ones who reject us and hate us and judge us. But I say the family is the number one strength of all and if we want to be the same when he comes again we need to fulfill the words of captain moroni "protect thine families even unto bloodshed!!!" I know the earth will pass away and the devil will die but the words of Christ will live forever. Like Mormon said "the earth will pass and all things but my word or the words of Christ will be fulfilled whether it be through my voice or the words of my servants!!" Never have sciptures woken me up more than these. I strongly commit that just as I did this christmas and monday after calling my family and telling them not of what the natural man has convinced you to feel, not the hatred not the jealousy but what your heart and your spirit of Christ says. If you can't then I strongly suggest that you purify your heart and humble yourselves as a little child and if we humble ourselves we are gathered under his arms not for now but forever!!! Never have I felt so sad or so hurt from what our family has become. The communication is what lacks (not). The one thing that lacks is the most important part of the repentance process, forget your self and forgive, forget and never RETURN!!! I love you all as my family but I am filled with hurt of the seperation we have to have one sit at home during the most special part of the year Christmas. I don't care how much you want to blame the other and say it is them because those are not the weak and meak those are the hardest hearts found in the world and are directly from satan so if you are quick to blame and to hate feel free to follow the one who is miserable-satan and become like him and be miserbale forever at his side!!!! LETS ALL PROCEED AND ENTER TOGETHER INTO THE CELESTIAL KINGDOMLove your family member and your number one fan and lover Elder Darby