Hola mi gran familia!!! how are you all? how has the week gone for you? i hope youre all doing your best everyday and remembering how lucky we are to live where we are and have what we have. as for me, im here in montevideo for the day getting some medical stuff done for my visa or something. we left our cozy haha and disfunctional apartment in paysandu at 2 this morning.. sheesh am i ever tired! plus im a bit sickish with sinus stuff haha and my throat, i sound quite like a man. haha but its all good and im still alive :) well lets see, let me first tell you more about my dear trainer hna ung since mom asked about her. she`s absolutely amazing! we get along so very well! i am continually amazed at how much i learn from her everyday. she takes care of me haha and cooks for me too! she made me chinese food the other day and i kind of learned how to eat with chopsticks(its a work in progress). i wanted those recipes so that we could hopefully make some yummy home food and so that i can somehow return the favor to her. she has a really cool conversion story. she was baptized when she was 8 with her brothers but they werent really active in the church. so she was living life not really interested in the church but then she went and studied in spain and she got into the church. one year before she decided to serve a mission she got active and she has so many cool and amazing experiences that i wish i could share with you all but i dont have much time. just know that i absolutely love and respect her and the great decision that she made to bless the people of uruguay with her spirit. her family is seeing the blessings as most of them are coming back to the church and getting active again. its pretty awesome! we have a really fun time as companions. well lets see what else happened this week? we worked really really hard! haha by yesterday we were both so warn out that we crashed.. haha i love knowing that i tried my hardest, it provides really GOOD SLEEP! during p day yesterday, actually right after i emailed you all we went and got our guilty pleasure of ice cream and on our way back to the bus bumped into an investigator that had dropped the missionaries before i got here. she is awesome! her name is maria noel and shes about 24 and she speaks english and just radiates the love of god. so we talked with her and she seemed really excited to see us and asked if we could meet with her and talk about the gospel. we were both ecstatic at the prospect that she might be interested in the gospel again. so we called her later on in the week and found out that her doubt was about tithing. we met with her on saturday and gave her a good lesson on why tithing is important, she totally understood it but she still had one more question... how could she afford to pay to GO ON A MISSION!!! hahaha imagine our great surprise! oh my heck.. it was so awesome! she has now committed to be baptized and to work on preparing to go on a mission. i honestly feel so lucky to be in these great peoples lives and experience these things with them. man, it`s overwhelming! we have continued working with our other investigators and theyre doing well except norma and estela did not come to church yesterday. we were so bummed because that means they cant be baptized on the 24th grr... oh well though we will give them a guilt trip and hopefully theyll come around. the work is going strong here! the lord loves these people and so do i.. haha and i have to admit slowly and slowly im getting to like spanish! haha its so hard though.. i still blush hard core every time i speak. BLAH! haha im working on it though. i love this place, i even love having a toilet that doesnt work and getting bit on the bridge of my nose and getting runs in my nylons. what makes this all possible is our dear savior jesus christ and his amazing sacrifice for us! our heavenly father has provided a way for everyone to be truly happy! how can we not glory in our lord? when all that surrounds us reminds us and speaks of his goodness. wow what a great life it is to be in the service! i miss you all very much! i hope you`re all doing well. i think about you everyday with so much love and fondness. im so thankful to have the amazing examples and support that i have! you will never know how much it means to me :) i love you! ps here are a few pics for you of the first couple weeks. please enjoy! keep sending me your awesome letters and if you see my friends tell them that they HAVE to write me! or else! that goes for sam too... cousin! haha well i again i love you all!
lesquiero muchisimo!
hermana amy crofts
lesquiero muchisimo!
hermana amy crofts
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