Oh man I´m so excited about how the Hermanas are going to be living with you all, yay, treat them well!! Being a missionary can be hard, even though they have it pretty dang easy what with an air conditioned car and all that fun stuff!! But I can´t complain, the members here feed us so good everyday! All I have to worry about it breakfast, we don´t eat dinner at all... oh and we finally got a microwave!! That was really exciting!! Let's see what else, oh yeah we had a zone conference yesterday so I got 2 packages from you and a big envelope from the cub scouts, lots of letters, a card from grandma, which I am so surprised it made it to me, the Lord knew I needed to hear from her, because all it had was one us stamp on it and the address was really wrong, she wrote Buenos Aires North America missoin or something like that... but whatever I got it and it made me so happy!!

Oh one of the letters I got was from Adrian, which was so good, he wrote me about how he wants to serve a mission, but just isn´t sure!! So every time you see him encourage him to go on a mission, say hi to him or something, he needs support of the members, its prob really hard for him write now because the hermanas that baptized him have left and I'm not there and there aren´t many people his age, oh does Becky know him? Are they friends? Because if no, tell her to get on that... also what is she up to now that she is home from her mission??

So I sent the package last week, it is huge, and I hope you all enjoy it, but I forgot to put a couple things in it so I will be sending another small one today!! And I'm sending one for Paul and Andrea today, and after Christmas and stuff I will be sending one to Trish... so sorry Trish you will have to be patient!! The zone conference yesterday was so good! I got to meet all the sisters that are here in Buenos Aires, I like them all, I can´t wait to see who my next comp will be... I know who I would like it to be... haha, oh and one of the hermanas is from Virginia, and she told me her fam is moving to Louisville KY!! Her mom has a job in Ft Knox, and they are looking around, I told her the best place is Oldham county but that is really far from Ft Knox, I gave her your number mom to give to her mom, and she told me her mom would def call you, so be expecting a call from some random mom whose daughter is in my mission!! I hope they move into our stake, cause that would be awesome, hermana Winters is really sweet, she just got to the north part of the mission this transfer, she started her mission in the south,
lucky her!!

Well this week has been really good, Antuane passed her baptism interview, her son is being interviewed tomorrow, I hope all goes well, I may have 2 baptisms this week!! We did lose a baptism date though, that was sad, Rosa went to church and saw her friend paying tithing, and she got really upset and said all churches are the same all they do is ask for money, because she went to a church that always asked for money and she was sick of it, we explained that it is a commandment of God and it can be found in the old testament, we shared a few scriptures she calmed down, but still said she doesn´t want a baptism date! So oh well, we hope to see her again sometime to keep teaching her but who knows!

So our members here are amazing, we have this one new convert family, the Rodriguez, and they never cease to amaze me, they fed us lunch on Monday, they are feeding us tonight and I´m excited my comp said what they are making is fantastic Argentine asado... I can´t wait! In fact we just saw their 2 daughters in here, they were doing internet the same time as us! Well Hermana Rodriguez invited our investigator Silvia and her 4 kids to lunch tomorrow for Christmas, which is amazing because Silvia doesn´t have hardly any money to feed her kids, last week she asked us for 25 centavos so she could call the father of one of her babies so she could get money so they could eat that day, it was so sad, we did better than that we found her food so she could def eat that day, and 25 centavos so she could call for more. Also the Relief Society sisters are going to teach her how to clean and stuff like that and then find her a job that she can work at for 2-3 hours 3 times a week, because she can´t do much more than that with 4 little kids! But I just have so much love for hermana Rodriguez, because when you look at Silvia and her four kids your first reaction would prob be to not go and give her hug or anything, because her kids are always so dirty with snot running down their faces and dirt everywhere, but hermana Rodriguez always goes up to Silvia and her kids and hugs and kisses them, and holds the little baby and everything, the people here are truly remarkable, I am so blessed that the Lord would chose me to come here to Argentina and teach these people! I love it here, sometimes I get discouraged because it is so hot, I still can´t speak the language, but little things always happen to remind me how blessed I am! Thank you to all of you who love and support me! Every single one of you has blessed my life more than you know, I pray for you everyday, and I´m so grateful for the prayers you send my way, but even more grateful for the prayers you send my investigators way, Brian told me he prays for my investigators every night, that meant more to me than I can even express!! We can´t help them out in their physical needs, but we can certainly help them out in spiritual needs!!

Welp I know there is more I would like to write, but I guess it will just have to wait, I will be talking to you all tomorrow!! I can´t wait!! Oh and read the first 3 articles in the ensign for December, they are awesome, I especially liked the first one, because I have been a little sad that I will miss 2 Christmases because of my mission, but now I am so grateful for the opportunity to be a missionary for 2 Christmases, what a grand blessing it is!! Welp I love you all and have a great Christmas eve, and I will talk to you all tomorrow!!

Love,

Hermana Gosnell