I'm glad to hear that the sealing went well, I can't wait to get pics... but please don´t send them on a CD, I won´t ever get to see them, just print some out!! That's funny that everyone loves my letters... I don´t feel like I give anything justice... but maybe its the spirit helping me get my message across... or maybe its because its my one time during the week to actually be able to express myself in my language, that it just all comes out... haha who knows?

As far as Christmas goes, I just got more stressed, because apparently we choose a family to go to and use their phone, and so it doesn't cost them any money, you all call me... so we shall see how this will work, we haven't chosen a family yet, so I have no idea how that will work, or what time... it's stressing me out... but hopefully everything will work out!! It will help if you have in mind what you want to talk to me about before we talk, since I have very limited time!!
So I'm very surprised to see that no one wrote me about Elder Wirthlin, I heard last week at district meeting that he had passed away, how sad... but no one has said anything, so I have no idea if that's true!!

OK I have a lot to write about this week... I think this letter will be very entertaining!! So my top three things to talk about this week are first, as always Antuane... She really wants to be baptized but is just worried about her mom, because she is all her mom has here in Argentina, but I think she is basically decided to be baptized anyways... also she told us she has started paying off her debts because she heard that in a talk a few weeks ago at church, also she has started being more frugal in what she buys, she says she is trying to do everything she hears in church... I was so excited about that... she is truly like a preach my gospel story!! Her son is preparing for his first communion, and she wants to take him out, but she wants to give him the choice, so she asked him which church he would choose, and he said both because I like the catholic church because I get to play the whole time, and I like the other one too... so she is trying to figure what to do with him, because she said she went to mass, and she just doesn't like it because it is the exact same every week, she doesn't learn anything new!!

OK the second thing, I have learned a lot about being in the right place at the right time this week... there are so many times, when I think we are so late, why are we out here, no one is out here, and other bad thoughts, then someone who really needs us walks by and we are there to help them... it has really humbled me... here are a few situations: We went out to visit a new investigator, and she wasn't there, so we went to our backup, a new member who is a 14 year old boy, he has pneumonia, well he wasn't home, he was at school because if he misses any more days he has to repeat that year, but his grandma was there, and she really needed us, her husband of who knows how many years left her earlier that week, and she told us all about it and just cried, we were able to share a message of peace and comfort, and lift her up in her time of need, also Christian, her grandson had run out of medicine and they didn't have money to buy more, so we were able to get the prescription and call the branch president to ask his help about that! Then we were at the train station waiting for someone, when we saw one of our investigators we had been trying to visit that week... we ran over to say hi and see how she was doing and she said she had left town for the week because she was having problems with her husband he apparently drinks a lot, but it was good to see her, because we were able to make an appt and hopefully we´ll get to see her soon! Then another one was we went to our appt with Silvia, and she had just been in a big fight with her mom, her mom is always yelling at her and trying to make her look bad in front of us, which only makes her look bad... anytime Silvia asks us a question her mom mocks her... its so sad, Silvia wants to move, but she has no where to go, and no money! But we were able to help her feel better in her time of need! And my last example, is one night we were walking home after buying groceries, and we were stopped by a guy, which of course made us a little nervous, but he is a less active member, and wants to come back to church, and stopped to talk to us... so all I have to remember is the Lord knows all, even if I don't know whats going on!!

OK and my last major thing to share, and this will prob take the rest of the time, is, there is a huge war breaking out in our branch between two families, and we are about to be involved... so we have the family Pechor, they are less active, and get offended really easily, but I love them, we visit them every Sat and they are really good people, then we have Marcela, who is our branch missionary, she is from Peru, she has been a member for like 13 years, but she has been inactive for 13 years as well, she is now active, but she gets offended super easy, and is always acting better than everyone else... well she needed a place to live. The Pechors let her live in a part of their house, well she only lived there for 5 days, apparently there was a problem everyday, so hermano Pechor just said I think it would be best if you leave, well she left and found another place to live, and started telling everyone that hermana Pechor stole all her stuff, well last week she went to the police and led them to believe there were drugs at the house of the Pechors, so the police sent a whole swat team, broke down the door of the Pechors and all this stuff, made all them stand outside and held them at gun point, even the kids who are 18, 15, 11, 9, and 1 yes even the baby, and hermana Pechor couldn't hold her baby... and Marcela was there went in their house and pointed to a bunch of stuff that wasn't hers and said that's mine, and so the police bagged it all up and once they found out there were no drugs they calmed down... but in the process of looking for drugs they had thrown hermana Pechors garments and temple clothes all over the floor, and Marcela, knowing what they were walked all over them in front of hermana Pechor, when she told us this she started crying, which is understandable!! So after hearing all this we decided not to call Marcela to come out with us, well we went to eat at Gina Luz house yesterday as always, and Marcela was there waiting for us... asking why we hadn't invited her out yet... we were like well we haven't got set appointments, which is true... she is really upset with us, well while we were there she told us all about how one of the Pechor kids put a pic of her on the internet with her phone number saying free sex, which is really bad, and now she is looking for a lawyer and is going to send police over there again, if the kid hadn't done that then they would have been innocent, because the Pechors didnt steal anything... but now it is really bad, and they have both sworn to be at church on Sunday, and its testimony meeting... my comp and I are really worried about what's going to happen!! And about our investigators!! it should be really interesting!!

OK so I was right that story took most of my time, I don't really have much else to write, Rosa accepted her baptism date, she said I am decided I want to be baptized, now all we have to do is just get her to church on Sundays!! Oh my comps sister is pregnant, and when she told our investigator Silvia, her reaction was oh no how sad... hermana Riquleme was like no she wants to have a baby... yeah where I'm at the people I teach, pregnant is a bad thing... how sad huh? Oh we have been having fun, there was a concert and model show in the plaza right outside our balcony on Friday night, and another concert Monday night... haha yeah party!! I tried to sleep, but the concert was of someone my comp really likes so she stayed up to listen...

Welp, I gotta run, I hope you enjoyed my letter this week... I tell you all how Sunday is next week... hopefully our investigators wont be scared off!!

Love ya,

Hermana Gosnell