Last weeks letter got cut off at the end. Michelle resent the letter and the the end of her letter from Nov. 26th has been attached to the bottom of the last post.
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So after p-day was over we went and visited Rosa as usual, and she was crazy funny as usual. And at the end of the lesson she said, "I want to be baptized, I need to be baptized where can I do that at??" Haha, I was like, "Um, what?" We didn't set a date, because we were going to wait to see her at church, which she didn't come, so maybe tomorrow!
Then Thursday it was a freaking HOT 40 degrees centagrade... I'm not sure what that is in Fahrenheit, all I know is it's hot!!
Also we saw Jose and hoped to get him baptized last weekend. Well no such luck, he had smoked the day before. He said he felt so bad. When he realized he was smoking he threw it on the ground and just felt bad. But we set his date for the 20th to give him some more time to give up smoking!
Friday it rained in the morning, I got so soaked... but at least it was cold, I loved it!! Then Saturday it was hot in the morning, but rained at night... and I mean rained... and it floods really quickly here, so we were practically swimming in the streets. I didn't mind, I prefer wind and rain, to extreme heat!! Then Sunday we didn't have very many people at church because of the rain. We only had about 20 people, which I guess was normal before I came, but now it is normal to have like 50-60 people!!
So the mission has this farewell thing at the end of every transfer for missionaries going home, and we are allowed to go to it as long as we bring investigators. It's really nice because the missionaries going home bare their testimonies. So we took Antuane and she really enjoyed it. Afterwards, we introduced her to President Argyle, and he talked to her for a long time about why she wasn't baptized. I didn't hear the whole thing because another hermana came up to me and started talking to me and Hermana Riquelme was talking to someone else. Afterwards, Antuane came up to Hna. Riquelme and gave her a hug. But she had to go, so we said we would stop by later that night.
I got to meet a lot of other hermanas in the mission on Sunday, it was awesome. I met an Hermana Ladd she is from Vermont and she went to BYUI before her mission and went on a Europe tour. Afterwards she wants to go to BYU and work at the MTC... haha sound familiar?? I really liked her, she really helped me feel good about my language ability and really helped me feel like I will learn how to speak it one day!
So after that we went to visit Antuane, she said on her way home she felt so good about being baptized, she wanted it so bad. She talked to her mom when she got home and her mom got really upset and was like that's all they want from you. Antuane got upset and just changed the subject. She said she doesn't know what to do. She loves the church and wants to join, but she is the only family her mom has in Argentina and doesn't want to make her upset. She said she would pray and fast about it. Also she said this last week was really hard for her and she didn't think we would come to our appointment Sat. night because of the rain. And she decided that if we didn't show up she would just stop going to church and stop seeing us and everything. And then we showed up... half an hour late, but we made it... She said when we showed up at her house that night she felt so good, and she knew she didn't want to stop everything! It made me feel glad we didn't cancel our appointment that night because of the rain!!
So then Monday nothing too big happened, it was transfer day, but neither of us got transferred, so we worked as usual!! There are a ton of mosquitoes here, and I think I'm the only one they like to eat... I have a ton of bug bites! But good news is, I'm not sure what happened, but I think my comp. is finally starting to like me... it feels good to not feel disliked everyday!!
Oh could you please send me the address for Ashley Day. I wrote her a letter and I thought I had her address, but I can't find it anywhere! And if you can find the address for Texas Houston South Mission, I would love that too!! Tell me what the plans are for Christmas... because I get to call home, but I only get 40 min to talk... so I'm kinda stressed as to how that will work!!
Welp I gotta run, I'm gonna try to send pics though! If I do there will be one in the mtc, with me and Hermana Harper, then one with Hermana Riquelme, and then one with Hermana Riquelme, and me and her other hija, and then one with me here and her hija, and her other old comp. Then one with me and Antuane and her two kids Christopher and Nicole. Enjoy!!
Love ya,
Hermana Gosnell
Editor Jeff's note: The family picture of Antuane and Michelle was really dark. Here's a new and improved (using the GIMP picture. Also, clicking on the pictures will give you a bigger (but not huge like the originals) picture.
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