My testimony keeps me warm at night (so flippin warm)!!!

We didn`t have a chance to have the investigators on a tour last week of the church because the bishop wanted to plan it for this week but because we couldn`t have correlation meeting we probably won`t have it this week either! Recently we have been teaching the family Vasquès. We originally met Sabastiàn who was sitting on the curb of the sanja. He was there smoking and we were skeptical of whether or not we should talk to him but we both felt that we needed to. We talked to him and taught about the Restoration and invited him to be baptized. He accepted and we invited him to go to church that week. He didn`t show up in the chapel and so we had basically lost hope in him thinking he wasn`t going to progress. We went back to give him one more chance. When we were there we taught about the Plan of Salvation and during the lesson two of his siblings joined us for the lesson. The next time that we stopped by we taught the restoration again and had Sabastiàn help teach with us to his siblings. We set baptismal dates with them as well. That Sunday we went to bring them to church but only Manuel on of Sebastiàn`s siblings came. The next week we had a lesson with Sebatiàn and president and we taught the Word of Wisdom and now Sebastiàn is living the word of wisdom and this Sunday Manuel and Catorina came to church (Sebastiàn had to vote because it is required of every Argentine about the age of 18). They all have a baptismal date for the 24th and we hope they all can be baptized that date. Manuel and Catorina won`t have a problem but there is only one more Sunday between now and the date and there is a rule of going two times to be baptized unless president says it is ok. So we will have to ask president what he thinks if we have to prolong Sebastiàn`s date or
not.

We travel by Remis (taxi) to the terminal then by colectivo (large two layer bus) to Resistencia. It is a two hour ride there and two hours back. It is nice to have a day with different activities than the rest but it was kind of crap because we lost that Pday because it was on Monday.

I am torn between what I want in transfers but I will be happy whether I get transferred or not. I would like a new area to know with new people to meet that actually want to go to the church, haha but at the same time we have four baptisms lined up for this coming transfer! Also I don`t want to leave my companion, Hna Puladas, or Flia Fleytas! So however it goes is how it goes. With all the newbies coming in there is no way to know how it will end up, haha

The weather is good, at times it has gotten cold because it is winter, but is starting to warm up. For one week it was really cold and I was wearing every warm thing I had to stay warm but that week passed a few weeks ago.

This week on Friday we had a lesson with president! President came for a surprise district training this Tuesday (which has never happened before) and at the end he said he wanted to have lessons with two compañerismos and we volunteered and another.
President has only done that a few times. It was such an awesome experience to get to teach with president. I learned a ton from teaching with him. I thought that my comp and I were getting pretty good at teaching but when we taught with president and saw how he taught I was very humbled and saw that I still have tons to learn! We
taught about the Word of Wisdom with an investigator and I was worried if he was going to accept living the word of wisdom but I learned that we (as missionaries) need to realized they are taking the lessons for a reason and want to be baptized so we need to teach them appropriately. I think at time we get caught up in wanting to have a baptism we teach so that they will comply with the requirements to be baptized but we are helping them to want to keep the commandments and have the desire to be baptized for themselves.

I have seen several parrots, lizards, horses, dogs, not really too much out of the ordinary yet. More of the crazy animals are in the campo. I haven`t seen the rat in our apartment since Santoro left. We have had a little problem with mold but that is just the area because Formosa is very humid and hot. That causes mold to grow in every building. I got a funky mold thing on my foot (drop box) but I got the medicine to make it go away now. I have to start using talk in my shoes to keep that from happening, haha

I love you all so very much and I can`t wait to hear from you next week!