I cant believe the weather there!! It is so crazy, although the weather here is pretty crazy too, last Friday and sat the weather was PERFECT!! Then Sunday and Monday it was so hot I couldn't breathe! Well then yesterday it started to rain as we were walking home from our lunch appointment so we walked fast, about a half a block away it started to rain really hard so we started to run for the apartment, about 50 ft away from the apt it started to rain harder than I've ever seen it rain before so we started sprinting for the door, everyone in the garage was laughing at us, we were laughing too, so we got inside and ran around closing all the doors and bringing our clothes inside, and when we looked out side we couldn't see more than 1 foot!! the rain was coming in so hard it was horizontal!! I took a picture, but of course you can't see anything! We waited for that to slow down and once it did we headed back out again!! We didn't have much success yesterday though, because of the rain but oh well at least we were diligent!!

So this week was even better in finding investigators, we found SIXTEEN new people to teach, its hard to keep up with everyone, but already 2 of those people their addresses don't exist, but whatever! We have a lot of baptisms planned, we have 5 planned for sat the 21st, I'm certain about 4 of them, the other one I'm not so sure about, keep praying for Gaby!!

Oh the other day I woke up in the middle of the night praying out loud in Spanish, it was really funny, my comp didn't hear anything though! Oh and speaking of my comp, well she has been setting baptism dates for the Saturday after transfers even though they could be the week before and when I try to ask her why she says it doesn't matter just have faith you wont be transferred, but then the other night she told me that she thinks I'm going to be transferred, not her, so when she said that I realized she is setting those dates on purpose, when I asked again why we were setting the dates for then she was like who cares, so I guess I don't care about the people Ive been teaching for the past 4 months!! At this point I don't care I get transferred, just as long as one of us gets transferred!! But I really don't want to leave Tigre... 2 more weeks is all I have to wait though!!

On a lighter note, I got a lot of my skirts fixed last week and today we are going to buy material for the lady to make me a khaki colored skirt, I'm pretty excited about that! Oh and Antuan and her friend Sandy were looking at pics of our family from North Carolina and they were like wow you have lost a ton of weight your family won't recognize you at all when you get off the plane!! Oh and Sandy says I look like a model in pictures, and I said no I'm not the model she is and pointed to Trish and they were like yeah her too, but they kept telling me I looked like a movie star and stuff!! I like them :) Oh yesterday we were in the bank trying to get monedas and I saw an American couple, trying to exchange dollars into pesos, so I went up and talked to them for a little bit, they are from San Fransisco, but she went to UofL, how crazy!! But what I noticed talking to them, it was harder to speak in English, I had to concentrate to make sure I didn't say anything in Spanish, which I thought was weird because I speak in English a lot to my comp, but I guess to random people its harder!

And now for the craziest story of the week: Our new member Maxi, well we told him that he would go through trials before or after his baptism, boy were we right, just 2 weeks after his baptism he started to have an argument with his sister, they all share the same land, but have different houses they live in, well his sister decided to go over and start fighting with him but before she went over there she called the police, well when they got there they started beating the living day lights out of Maxi, my comp tells me that here you are guilty until proven otherwise, so they took him to jail, for nothing but his ear was all cut open so he had to go to the hospital to get it stitched up, and the police told him he had to lie about how it happened, so anyways when we saw him he was at his wife's parents building a little bitty house in their backyard for he and his family to live there until they can find another place to live! When we saw him he seemed to be OK, in good spirits joking that it was all our fault so we gave him some words of encouragement and went on our way, that was Friday, so then Sunday we went out to an area we hardly work in because everyone accepts appointments but is never home, so we had an appointment, she was supposed to meet us at the bus stop, we waited almost an hour, then decided to go catch the bus to the other area we wanted to work in, so we went to the bus stop we needed to be at and there was this really really drunk guy sitting there, I was a little nervous and more so when he started talking to my comp saying he is losing everything to drinking and he asked what he should do, and she said well, stop drinking!! It was actually really funny, and he was like how, so he kept talking to her and I kept praying the bus would come soon! Well right then I looked over at the cars stopped at the stop light and I saw Maxi's car and his wife Silvina looked over and waved at me and said hey where are you headed want a ride, so we ran over and got in the car and thanked them for saving us, but apparently our need wasn't the most important, Silvina told us that Maxi was having a hard time with everything now because he has had time to think about things, so then he said, I just don't understand why do all the bad people have all the fun, I would rather just live my life and be happy, I feel like I'm being punished! So we asked him if he had been reading the Book of Mormon and he said no so we told him he needed to start reading it again, and he said yeah I know, so he is having a hard time, but we really feel like he is someone really special that Satan doesn't want to progress and is working really hard on him, so pray for him that he can make it through this hard time!!

That is how my week has been, It has been pretty good, oh and don't worry about me being safe, the Lord truly does protect his servants!! I love it here, and I love getting news from everyone!!

Love ya,

Hermana Gosnell