A baptism!

Yes! The baptism that we have been waiting forever for finally happened! The assistants even called us and congratulated us because that was the first baptism in Alberdi in almost a year. Elder Perez even was a zone leader here in this zone and knows how Alberdi is with its bishop and all its glory. But we are getting things to turn around.
We have been focusing on finding people who really want to listen. We don´t have a lot of new investigators but we have some people who are really cool and want to listen. We could just waste time teaching every person who lets us in but that wouldn´t be very effective. Me and my comp were talking about this just yesterday. How at other times and places we could have something like 30 new investigators in a week (Formosa) but the next week they wouldn´t be progressing. But we have been focusing on finding people who really want to listen and we have about four or five people who are going to really have a chance of progressing. 
A normal day right now would be getting up at 6:30am and doing exercises until 7, then breakfast and getting ready until 8 when we have personal study. Then at 9 we have comp study and at 10 we have language study. At 11 we leave for an hour and maybe get in a visit or something but it isn´t effective time because everyone is making lunch. Then at 12 we have lunch and either go to a member’s house or go to the pensh and make it. Then we leave again for the rest of the day until 9. We usually have at least a few set appointments but often times they don´t end up happening. We spend a lot of time searching for the members on the MLS list (member directory) and try to help the less actives return and find references or new people by visiting those families or their neighbors. We usually have about three lessons in any given day. Then at nine we are back at the pensh and have to plan. Depending on how many set appointments we have the planning can be fast or long. Then we usually make some sort of food for the night and I will usually go and talk to the other elders and my comp likes to write in his journal a lot. and that about sums up and given day, haha
We already had the last interviews with President Heyman. There is a mission activity this coming Monday to see them off. That should be fun; I think it will be kind of like the Christmas party. But I might be able to make them something.... but I would imagine that probably a lot of sisters would have done something like that and they probably have a lot of sweets. Because as missionaries we don´t have a lot of options as gifts and sweets usually end up being the most common. But I will think about it.
Well, I imagine you mean my favorite day besides pday because that is the obvious favorite, haha but probably Saturdays or Sundays. I like Saturdays because there is usually lots to do and you don´t just get stuck knocking doors for a long time because you have to pass by everyone’s house and make sure that they are going to church the next day. Also that is the day that there are baptisms if we have one, haha and Sundays are nice because they are a little different from the rest of the week. We have church in the morning and studies in the afternoon then we leave for a while and it is pday the next day! haha
The cinnamon rolls turned out ok... they didn´t raise very well for some reason. The ham and cheese rolls raised better and were softer but the cinnamon rolls were a little hard. They were still good but just a little hard. 
Recently we made a couple sourdough pizzas and they were good! other than that we made a cake thing for the baptism because we found out last minute that we were going to have to be in charge of dessert and we didn´t want to have to ask a member the day of to bring a dessert so I made this cake/brownie thing. It was just a bunch of stuff like flour, eggs, sugar, butter, milk, etc. and I based it off of a cake thing that Hna Lugo had made the night before and it turned out good. We also had a sugary substance to but on top that was left over from when we had made pancakes.
Everything here has been kind of crazy with the mundial going on. Everyone is really excited that Argentina won their first game. We have to be in the pension when the games are going. The first one was yesterday night and it was also father’s day here so all of our neighbors were gone. I think the next game they will be here and maybe we will watch it with them, we will see. 
Today we are trying to make cookies for Marlen, one of Hermana Lugo´s daughters, because it is her birthday. The biggest problem is we can´t find any brown sugar. The only place that Hna Heyman told me to look is kind of far.... haha

I love you guys very much and can´t wait to hear from you next week!