Getting to experience a second Christmas in Argentina was awesome. On Christmas Eve everyone gets with family to celebrate the “Good Night.” Most families have nativity sets. Some are just small figures on a table inside, while other families have huge models of Bethlehem that cover their whole front patio. At midnight on the “Good Night”, the baby Jesus gets put in the manger of the nativity and food is served. We spent the “Good Night” with the Diaz family.
Our friend Josue got baptized on Saturday. There isn’t a baptismal font here in Cafayate, so we do baptisms here in a small irrigation water control pool. While it is cool to have baptized someone in a river, the important thing is that Josue made a covenant with Jesus Christ.
While being back in Argentina is completely worth it, it is hard. Jesus Christ invites us: “take my yoke upon you, and learn of me… ye shall find rest unto your souls”(Matthew 11:29). Through the covenant promises that I have made with Christ, I have yoked myself to Him. He is pulling with me and for me every day. He invites everyone to do that same.
Elder Hansen
