So this week was good, interesting, and stressful! Let's just say I'm still so grateful to be with my new comp! She is amazing (she is threatening to call mom when she gets home!) So we did a lot of walking this past week, and we are still working on finding new investigators that will progress, it would be nice if the members realized how important they are in our work, in fact one of the members told us that they aren't here to help us, we are here to help them (the members) after that it was hard to ask for help, or in other words ask for references! But not all the members are like him, most of them are trying to think of friends, and we are getting references slowly but surely!

Last Friday was zone conference, and during the conference one of the elders in Liniers was giving an example and basically trashed the work I had done in Liniers saying when he got there, there was nothing to work with and then they found an awesome family (which this family was found by our zone leaders, I put the appointment and all this elder do was show up at the appt). Well after he finished his example feeling like president was going to congratulate him, he got the opposite. President Argyle looked at him and said Elder good job, but just so you know you are living in abundance thanks to what this sister here has done for your area now, and went on for a minute about how he is so blessed to be in Liniers in comparison to what I lived through in Liniers! I felt pretty good! Then in my interview later with President he told me he didn't take me out of Liniers because of my work, he just said he had to close an area because he lost 2 hermanas and no new ones came. His exact wording was I closed Liniers because your companion left and her replacement didn't get here in time (making it sound like he is planning on me training soon). He said he wanted to keep me close so that is why I'm in Tonelero, and he just said thank you a lot for everything I did, I felt really good, but it really isn't anything I did, I just did my part and the Lord is the one that did all the work! But I was really grateful for all the things president said, because I did feel a little like maybe he didn't trust me to keep Liniers going, but he told me that wasn't it at all!!

So after zone conference we had weekly planning where we celebrated thanksgiving with corn on the cob, mashed potatoes and grilled ham and cheese sandwiches, and green beans, also we ate derby pie for dessert!!It was a good thanksgiving, this Friday is Halloween and our birthdays! It is going to be fun! Friday was a little sad because all the elders took all the English Ensigns, so I won't get to even read conference in English. I'm kinda bummed! And even though I finally got my b-day package from mom and a few good letters, my comp didn't receive ANYTHING!! Not even one letter or postcard, it is her last transfer, she didn't really say anything but I could tell she was kinda bummed! I was thinking if anyone wanted to write her something you could send it to me and Ill print it out and give it to her like they are letters so she can feel special!

OK so Saturday my companions back started to hurt, but not too bad, and we walked like all day Sat!! Then I finally met the gypsies! They are really funny, very sarcastic! I'm starting to learn there are a lot of rules to the whole Gypsy lifestyle! You can only be born into, or marry into it, but that is harder! Don't worry I'm not thinking about becoming a Gypsy, I'm just giving background info! So sat night we were talking to Ruth and Marcelo (Marcelo is a Gypsy and Ruth just married into it) Marcelo just joined the church about a month ago and Ruth is already a member! Well apparently Marcelo's dad is like top Gypsy, and their house is like headquarters or something, well one of the cousins or something got in a fight with his girlfriend and is staying at the house, well he is weird, and every time we have gone he just sits there staring at us! Well another bit of background the gypsies do arranged marriages, but its more like they buy the wives! SO my comp went to the bathroom and the dad Gypsy started talking to this cousin about me and how I was cute, and then the cousin agreed and the dad started asking me a ton of questions, luckily my comp came back and we left! I think the cousin wants to buy me!! So we went back yesterday and he was asking us all kinds of questions and hermana Ladd didn't let me talk because he was directing them at me, luckily he goes back home (which is far) today! We think it is really funny that a Gypsy wants to buy me!

So Sunday rolls around and my companions back starts hurting even more! and we walked A LOT and we ate lunch with the gypsies, it was good traditional Argentine asado!! Can I just say DELICIOUS!! And we just walked all day after that, well at the end of the day my comp could barely move! Monday I wake up at 6:30 with the alarm and my comp goes hermana is it 6:30 yet, and I was like yeah that is what the alarm means, and she was like ok I need to go to the bathroom, I was like um OK go, and then she said I can't move! I had to help her out of the bed (she was sleeping on the top bunk) so she could go to the bathroom, she had been waiting like 2 hours for it to be 6:30!! I don't know why she just didn't wake me up!! SO then I gave her my bed and took her mattress down, because I won't sleep on the top bunk! But she was in so much pain she was in bed all day long, so we were in all day Monday! I went a little crazy, I had to help her get up every time she needed to!! It was crazy, she got some medicine and it helped a little! so that night she slept in my bed and I slept on a mattress on the floor. Tuesday she woke up a little better so we went out to work, but by the end of the day she was dead, we went to our mission leaders house and he gave her a blessing! She starting crying before the blessing, and she never cries, it was really hard! But then this morning she wakes up and feels great! Her back is still really stiff but she isn't in pain! Keep her in your prayers, but don't worry about her too much, I take really good care of her! I carried her bag around all day, it was so heavy cause it had both our stuff in it!

Well I think that is all the exciting stuff for this week, my comp almost died and a Gypsy wants to buy me! I also had a really spiritual experience this last Sunday, but its one of those things that isn't appropriate for an email, so it will just have to wait until I can tell it after the mission!!

Love you all and keep the letters coming!!

Hermana Gosnell