Welp this week I have had a lot of funny and spiritual experiences here in liniers, but unfortunately I don't have much time to write about them all and I have prob forgotten a lot! Welp as far as funny, 2 things... Yesterday we were talking to our investigator Mayra, and she was telling us about how she always seems to run into missionaries of other religions now, and she was like why would that be, and kind of joking kind of serious she said its probably because Im doing something bad! And my comp, well she has a little problem, sometimes she tries so hard to look and act like she is listening she doesn even hear what they say, and she says yeah probably!! I was like um... and quickly said no no it isnt that and tried to explain and then my comp realized what she had said!! It was so funny to me, because she tries so hard to listen that she doesn't hear!! Sometimes I wonder how Spanish is her first language!!
Then the other really funny thing is while we were waiting for district meeting to start the other hermanas in our district were telling us that one of their investigators who is a taxi driver gave them a ride to the meeting, as we said that we saw him walk by the church looking at it, we started laughing that he was going to stay and wait, well the elders who live in that area saw him and thought hey someone is interested in the church, and went outside to do a contact, not realizing that this guy is already and investigator who has gone to church 3 times and we be getting baptized in the next few weeks! They went out there are talked to him for a little bit and we were dying of laughter, well they came in and introduced us to him and the hermanas tried to make it obvious that they already knew him, but the elders didn't even realize! They went to show him more of the church and we all went to start the meeting, we were laughing so hard, about 5 min later the elders came in and were like thanks hermana ladd... and she died laughing, she almost fell on the floor laughing so hard, and we were like when did you realize he was already an investigator? Haha Jorge, didn't say anything until the end of the tour so the elders did a really good long contact with a guy that already knows... we laughed about it the whole meeting!!
I'm sure this is probably one of the things that was only funny if you were there, but trust me I haven't laughed so hard in a LONG time!!!

Well as far as spiritual, we were able to have 3 investigators in the church this week even though it was stake conference and it was far away, the sad thing is Mayra didn't go, we talked to her sat night and she was all excited and said she would go, Sunday morning when we went by to pick her up her mom told us she went out dancing and hadn't gotten home yet!! We were really disappointed but there was nothing we could do then! This means she cant be baptized on the 27th like planned, but her best friend came with us and another lady, so they will still be able to be baptized on the 27th! So yesterday we went by mayras house to see what happened, she told us her cousin is in the hospital because she is pregnant and cant feel the baby move, and they are trying to figure out what is going on, and then she started crying and told us she felt really really bad for not going to the church, and how sunday morning is when all these things happened with her cousin, and she felt bad that she cant be baptized on teh 27th, and she cried a lot! We told her that it was ok, that she could still be baptized but just has to wait a week, and we explained that it was good for her to feel a little bad but now its all over and everything is ok but she said she still feels really bad! i hope this feeling will help give her a bit more motivation for going to church on Sundays!! She is amazing, she has read almost all of the Book of Mormon, and she gave a Book of Mormon to her cousin who is in the hospital and told her to read it because it will give her peace, and her cousin is reading it and telling her she likes it a lot! Too bad her cousin doesn't live in our area!! Pray for Mayra and her cousin that everything will work out!
Also lets see, oh yeah we went by to see an investigator named hans, and he told us he went with his whole family to the house of a member to watch the movie the testaments and how he really liked it and his family seemed interested, how many people are in his family.. 2, 3 NO TEN PERSONS!!! So yeah we are pretty excited about teaching them!!
Another investigator, well his name is javier, I have only met him twice but when I got here hna perez and I tried finding him like everyday because he had a baptism date, but we didn't know where he lived, one day we did a contact with a woman in the street and it just so happens that she lives in the same place as Javier, so we went by to see him, but he works in a place where he cant leave without permission (its like slavery but not) and so we always tried to see him but it was hard, the other day we went by to see him again and the people told us he had moved, but didnt know where, we were really sad because he is a great person! the next day we were walking down the street and saw him with a friend we stopped and talked and his friend seemed really excited about the church, they say they will go to the church this Sunday, once again they dont know the number of where they live but gave us a description of the house and mas o menos how to get there, lets hope we can find them again!!
And one last thing, wow this letter is REALLY long, but well Im leaving out a lot of stuff too!! We are having a baptism this weekend, Emiliano is a kid 11 years old, he turns 12 in November, and he is absolutely amazing! I want to bring him home with me! I don't know if I've talked much about him before but he lives with his grandma, and his 2 sisters and his aunt, both his parents died when he was little and that is why he lives with his grandma, we were teaching the whole family but he is the only one that has any interest, the others only want instant fixes, his older and younger sister say the worst things ever, and don't like us too much, his older sister is 15, and his aunt is 13, it is a really sad life that he lives because his grandma even though she is a good person, doesn't treat them very well, one time she hit emiliano in front of us and then tried to laugh it off, it was really hard for me to control my temper, she asked if i was mad and I just sad I was really sad about what happened and she started to cry and say she was sad about everything too... she prays for patience and is mad at God for not giving it to her! Lets just say I have a lot of appreciation for mom and what she did when she worked for 7 counties, I could never do that!! Emiliano is such a great kid and is so excited for his baptism, pray for him that he can endure to the end!

Welp that is all I have for now, it is almost the end of the transfer, crazy to think about that! welp I gotta run, hope everyone is well!!

Love ya

Hermana Gosnell