5/24/2010

Greetings from Uruguay!!! how is everyone? i hope all is well and you all are getting used to the nice warm weather! haha its starting to get really cold down here.. and i hate it! haha but its all good, im learning to really like my wool tights(whoever invented those was a genius!) so this last week was a really good one, because we are finally recovered completely and back to work! before now we were just taking it easy because my comp has been in pain from her tooth but its all good now and our shoulders are back to the wheel. we tried a lot this week to find some new people to work with and we found some really awesome new investigators that im pretty excited about. 2 of them are 2 ladies that we knocked their house and they were sooooo cool! im really excited for maria and luisa! haha i just wanted to give them a big giant hug when we were leaving! i think they really understand what we were teaching. they had both just gone through divorces so hopefully they can find some comfort in the gospel. that same day it was really cool because my comp got the feeling that we should knock a specific street and so we did.. we talked to a lady and came back the next day to teach her and then we came to know that she had talked to the missionaries before and that she and her boyfriend wanted to get married and baptized and asked if we could help!!! haha of course we can! so we are excited for them as well.. we just need to get them to church.
we also got to see a lot of our recent converts this week which is always my favorite thing to do. we went to the sosas one night to have family home evening with them haha and it was the cutest thing because when we were leaving to walk home, little valentina got so worried because she was afraid that we were going to be eaten by lions and tigers and bears! haha so as we were walking home we had to pretend to fight off the lions and tigers and bears that were trying to eat us! haha it was awesome! they are such a fun family and they have really grown in the gospel :) on saturday we tried to teach valentina how to be reverent in church because we have been having a problem with that. and she actually was a good girl this sunday! it was a miracle! on saturday also we had the baptism of edelbis giosa! she is the wife of the man that we first baptized here. she is amazing! i love her! for her baptism we sang a special number like we always do for baptisms but this time it was not so good! haha we had no time to practice before the baptism and so we just went there and sang and of course what happens? i started laughing halfway through the song! haha it was all i could do to get a hold of myself and finish the song! hahaha oh it was horrible! i felt so bad... i dont think im very cut out for singing in front of people. on sunday we got to eat lunch with the giosas and it was sooooo much fun! i LOVE them! haha it was just like being at home. she is an amazing cook and he is hilarious.. we have a lot of fun with them. my spanish is coming along too! im feeling more and more comfortable speaking.. its a miracle! oh and my comp got her dear jane letter this week! haha she took it like a champ.. im very proud of her. good thing i dont have one of those coming my way :) we`re not going to montevideo this week and so we were able to have a real p day! it was so fun! we played sock dodgeball and made apple pie... it was a blast! i love being a missionary! being able to teach the restoration so much this week has been a very big blessing for me and i feel like my testimony of joseph smith and the book of mormon has grown a lot! i love this work so much and im so glad that i can be an instrument in the lords hands!

sorry this email is kinda short but i just dont feel too much like writing today. just know that i love you all and i pray for you every night!

also friends!.. you can write me gmails to this address and they will print them off and give them to me. its super sweet and i love to get them! the address is...

urugoest@gmail.com and then just put my name in the subject line and they will give it to me.

id love to hear from you!!!!!

love you all!,

hermana amy crofts