Hey everyone!!
thank you all for your awesome emails... i loved them all! i miss you all very much and you are all in my thoughts and prayers constantly. this week, im feeling alot better and i feel like my body is finally getting used to uruguayan life... FINALLY!! its been pretty nice not being sick.
On saturday we had my very first baptism! hno giosa got baptized... it was thee coolest thing! we really wanted to make his day very special and so we made really nice programs and had refreshments and everything. he was so happy and i feel very blessed to be even a small part in helping him become a member of the true church of christ. he`s a great man and is going to make one heck of a leader. it took time for him to be sure of the gospel. he was very unsure at first but every time we visited him he seemed to accept what we had to say more and more :) I LOVE BAPTISMS!!
this week we worked alot with our investigators that we already had. we have alot right now! on tuesday morning we had a cita with maria noel and i dont know if ive told you this but she speaks english, and it is so nice to be able to actually teach her. we have been a little worried that she might not be living the law of chastity because she has a had a boyfriend for i think 3 years and so we taught her pretty strongly the law of chastity lesson. she responded really well and said that she was ready and pretty much already living it. it was a big sigh of relief for us. she is awesome! you really can see the light of the lord coming from her. she is going to make an amazing missionary. on wednsday we got to travel an hour from paysandu with the sosa family to get their wedding date! theyre getting married! and their wedding is this friday! AND they are all 3 getting baptized this saturday! this family is awesome. juan loves to talk and has known about the church for a while but it wasnt until hna ung and hna roach found them right before i got here that he got interested again. well he has come to church 7 times and he wanted to get baptized but he wasnt married. his wife gabriela is one of those people that follow through on their promises. she didnt want anything to do with the church at first but slowly she started listening and then she started coming to church. before she didnt want to get married but then after she started listening more she became more and more interested! yay! and now shes getting married and baptized. shes really cool! they have 3 kids.. rocio is 10 and she is very smart and has decided to be baptized even though most of her friends go to the catholic church and wanted her to come with them still, and then theres valentina who´s a little terror haha but sweet when she wants to be and walter who´s 1 who is a terror as well haha. they are a really good family. so when we went with them to get their date for their wedding they brought friends to be witnesses. there was a young girl whos friends with rocio and she really wanted to learn more about the gospel, so by the end of the day we gave her a book of mormon and set up an appointment to teach her and her mom more :) it was really cool! its so much easier to find people to teach through the people we already know. also, estela the lady that we met on my first day who is just super amazing brought her husband hector to church on sunday. we went to visit her this week and this time she had her grand daughter listen to us. her grand daughter loved the message and now she and hector have baptismal dates. we saw them today to go over the baptismal questions and estela was glowing and hector was really excited too. we havent worked alot with him but he already has a strong testimony of the church. i absolutely love that family.
WE HAVE 6 BAPTISMS ON SATURDAY AND A WEDDING!!! wooohoooooo!!! we didnt think that we would have that many though. because this last saturday we invited everyone to hno. giosas baptism and we were so sure that they were all going to come but none of them showed up! grrr... it was so frustrating. i was pretty let down! so sunday comes around and norma, estela and maria noel all needed 1 more time at church before they could get baptized. so we decided to go make sure that they would be at church. we stopped by estela first to get her, hector, and camila to come but we were told that they were sick or something by one of the many people that live at their house. we got to the chapel and no one showed. we wanted them all to be there also because hno giosa was being confirmed and the stake president was speaking. well, five minutes to nine and still noone had come. and so we went into room and we prayed. it was amazing what happened next, we walked out of the room and instantly we were met by one of our investigators we didnt think was coming and then the sosa´s came and then we went to sit down and estela and hector walked in! and after them, maria noel! and then during the prayer norma!! hahaha it was a miracle! they ALL came! the lord works miracles everyday, especially here in uruguay! but wow, it totally reaffirmed my testimony of prayer. i sincerely believe the lord listens to our prayers and longs to give us our righteous desires :)
this week is going to be really really crazy! we have the big baptism and a wedding to help plan and get ready and now my poor comp has to have dental work done and so we`re heading to montevideo a day early to get that done and wont be back until thursday morning. im getting tired already! haha but its going to be a really good week! i just really hope that we can get hna ung feeling better :) i dont know how to help and i feel so bad.. but shell be alright. please pray for her and for our investigators that this week will go by smoothly. well this email is super long and i dont know if it all makes sense but theres my life right now!
oh by the way we got a new address for the mission home its
agraciada 2893 #401
montevideo, uruguay 11.600
that means you should all write me now hahaha but seriously :)
i love you all and my next email will have details of calling home on mothers day wich im very excited about.
hermana amy crofts
pictures: 1) baptism of alfredo giosa :) by the bishop
2) us with hno bico our mission leader haha he´s hilarious!
3) us with norma.. shes getting baptized this saturday. she`s very sweet and shy but she loves the gospel
4) the salsa!! haha we´ve made a batch every week! thanks mom! its soooo good
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