I'm a trainer!!! Say What!!!

OK so I bet everyone is really confused by the subject, because you all are thinking it can´t be... Michelle has only been in the field for 3 months, she can barely speak the language! How can she be a trainer!! Ha ha well OK so this is what happened, transfers were this week, and I was praying and praying i would stay in Tigre, and I would get a new comp, well I got both wishes, only I wasn´t specific enough, because instead of Hna Riquelme leaving, we just get a new comp, so now we are a trio, or at least we will be at 5:30, that's when Hermana Lopez gets here! She is straight from the CCM (MTC) and her real mission is in Colombia, but her visa hasn´t come yet so she will be our comp anywhere from 1-3 weeks and we are in charge of training her in that time, really its Hna Riquelme that is the trainer, but the AP that called to tell us what was going on said that I was to be a part of it too... so I go from being trained, to helping train... crazy huh??? We don´t know anything else about her yet! We are praying that she will be awesome!

SO lets see I have put in a real effort in doing contacts everywhere I go, I finally contacted my first new investigator, but when we went back to teach her, her address didn´t exist... that happens a lot!! Also one day I got really downhearted because I contact like 10 people in a row and everyone rejected me, then my comp contacts only 2 people and both stop and listen... but whatever persistence is the key! The other day a lady stopped and asked us if we were Jehovah Witnesses, and she was really excited we were like no, and told her who we are and she got really disappointed and walked away, everyone thinks we are Jehovah Witnesses!! Because in some parts of Argentina they actually wear name tags too!! Crazy huh??

Oh lets see, José was confirmed this week, so I can breathe again!! We have a few baptism dates set, but only 2 are with firm investigators that actually come to church, the others don´t come, so I don´t know what to do, we are really working hard on finding more investigators!!

I don´t think anything else really happened this week, oh wait yeah I have a funny story, so we went to visit this family, they are members and we are teaching their son-in-law because he isn´t a member, he is one of our firm baptism dates. Well something happened serious and so there we were standing talking to Hno Olmedo by their pool, and his wife came in and needed to walk by us to get in the house, well she needed to walk in between me and my comp but my comp didn´t move back or anything, so I go to step back, and there was a hole in the ground right behind me, and I didn´t know that so I lost my balance and started to fall backward, almost into the pool. Luckily I was able to regain my balance because that would have been horrible if I had fallen into the pool, we all laughed about it. Hno Olmedo was like I know its hot, if you wanted to go swimming all you had to do was ask... haha! Welp so there is my funny story for the week! Sorry this letter is so lame, I´m not really feeling well today, so hopefully next week my letter will be a bit more uplifting and inspiring!!

I love everyone of you, oh and I encourage everyone to read sister Allreds talk in
General Conference about missionary work, at the end she lists ways everyone can get involved in the work . . . I really love one of the last ones that says write a missionary you know on a mission... I think that is a great idea :) Thank you so much for all of your love and prayers and support!!

Love

Hermana Gosnell

SO these three pics are of me making empanadas... they are so delicious, and so simple to make!! Anyways the first is of my actually making one and then the next is me posing for the camera, and the last is me with the best one I've made yet!! I hope you enjoy these pics... I hope they don't make Noelle to terribly jealous!!

Love ya,

Hermana Gosnell