9-30-09 Double!!!!

So as a mission we reached the double!! It was def a miracle of the Lord! It reminds me of the story in the Bible about Gideons army, he had 10,000 soldiers and the Lord made him go into battle with only 300, so that they couldn't brag about their own strength, and that is def what happened in this mission! We had to get a ridiculously high number of baptisms this weekend, and only with the help of the Lord could we do it! There is no way we can brag on our own strengths, it was a miracle given to us from an all knowing and loving God!!
Well even though the mission saw a ton of baptisms this last week, we didn't see any here in Tonelero! But a little miracle we did see is that Romina and Richard have finally decided to get married!!! We are all very excited about this, the only problem is they want to wait until November 20, but the way they do things here in Argentina, is they have to wait at least 28 working days from the time they go and request the marriage, so they would have to wait a long time anyways! But we were also able to put a baptism goal with Romina, after 2 months of trying!! It was amazing! We also got to have another amazing lesson with Elder Campero, he extended his vacation with his family, and came with us to see Romina and Richard last Friday! It was an amazing lesson, and I must say I very much admire Elder Campero. We had lunch with him and his daughter in law that afternoon, and I had asked his daughter in law what he does, cause I've always wanted to know what people
like them do, I know they have a lot of work, but with what exactly? Well she had
mentioned it to him and he pulled out his scriptures and read to me from Doctrine and Covenants about what the responsibility of a 70 is, it was really cool! Basically they are responsible for missionary work. And well later that day we were able to see how seriously he takes his calling! We had the appointment with Romina and Richard at 5pm and he had a sealing of a dear family friend at 6:30, he got to our appointment a few minutes late, and to show how important it was to him to be on time, he was running... I'm not sure how many blocks he ran, but we saw him turn the corner and he was running to get to the appointment and he apologized a ton for being the few min late that he was... mind you he is like a 60 year old man... or older!! So when he caught his breath we asked him what time he needed to leave to get to the temple for the sealing, and he said no, I can't do 2 things well at once, so lets focus ourselves on this appointment and nothing else! I was so surprised! He def missed the sealing, but the lesson was amazing and Romina really started to understand! Our leaders aren't messing around when they tell us missionary work is important!!
Well this week has been a really good week! And I can't wait for this weekend, I'm so excited for general conf, and I get to watch it in English this time because I'm not with a latin!! YAY!! I hope all is well, and thank you to everyone for your letters... I love hearing from everyone!!

Love yall

Hermana Gosnell