Welp this week was full of ups and downs!! We had a baptism planned for a kid named Emiliano for the 13th of June, but then we found out that we have Stake Conference that Sunday so he would have to wait a week to get the Holy Ghost, so we let him decide, do you want to be baptized this week or wait until the 20th, and he said this week! SO we got really excited and called all the members and started getting things all worked out, well, I know to expect trials from Satan in moments right before baptism, but I never in my wildest dreams thought it would come from our very own bishop! Yes the bishop said no he can't be baptized Saturday because Sundays are better because there are soccer games to be watched on Saturday night and nobody will go! Also our old bishop lied and said he had a dinner sat night and couldn't go (and Emiliano wants him to do the baptism) the dinner wasn't Saturday night, it was Sunday night! So a lot of lying and undermining and the baptism didn't happen this week, I talked with our bishop (who is fairly new) and we both talked a bit sternly we both got our point across fairly well, but well we still didn't have the baptism this week, but this Sunday the bishop pulled us into his office and apologized for treating us the way he did and said we can have baptisms on sat if we want, it helps when the mission president and the stake president are like best friends!

When our bishop was trying to make a point that baptisms in this ward are better on Sundays I said well I was talking to the other hermanas and they said the last baptism in this ward was on Sunday and almost nobody went and he said I don't want to compare other baptisms now but in my experience in this ward baptisms are better on Sunday, even though I had just cited a reference where it wasn't, but whatever, I'm a missionary, I cant fight! It's amazing to me, the ward here really doesn't want baptisms, every time we get close to having one they freak out and do everything they can so it doesn't happen, which can be seen in the numbers, in the past year Liniers has had 1 baptism, that is from jun last year until now, but no I would even say in the past year and 9 months, but whatever, that will change now! Because Emilano will be baptized on the 20th and then we have a 3 more baptisms planned for the 27th, Mayra, her best friend Daiana, and another lady named Delia, they are all very excited, now the hard part is making sure they all make it to church these next few weeks, pray for them and pray for us that the ward won't make it too difficult for us!!

Welp that's about it for my week I think! It was a really good week in spite of the weekend. Please I would like to beg everyone out there to support the missionaries, give them references, say hi to their investigators on Sunday, even if you don't speak their language try to say hi, and go to the baptisms on Saturdays, even if it is inconvenient!!

Welp I gotta run, p-day is almost over!! Love y'all,

Hermana Gosnell

Ok these are mostly from my shopping trip, I bought a ton of clothes, but I am really surprised that I didn't spend that much!! The pic of me in the blue and red shirt is my new Tigre shirt, I'm a supporter of Tigre Soccer!! And the last two are of me sewing and my finished project, with all the walking and not sitting here in Liniers my foot got really swollen and it was very painful even with painkillers and ice, so I decided to make a few rice bags so I could put heat on it, and it worked like a charm, no more pain!