Hi everyone!! wow is all that i can really say.. this last week has been one of the best of my life. i hope you all are doing well though and everyone is happy! im very excited to talk to you all this next week. i still havent gotten that package that you sent me yet but i really hope tomorrow itll be waiting for me at district meeting! i look forward to packages so much.. hint hint haha! but anyways, thank you for all that you send me i truly cherish it. i was wondering if you guys could send me a mini childrens primary song book in spanish... i find it is one of the best ways to entertain the kids and i love those songs too :) little valentina knows all the words to soy un hijo de dios and sings with us all the time. haha and sometimes shes been singing count your many blessings too haha its so cute! oh and maybe some more pepper in the grinder thing, peanut butter and little crystal light packets or something to help me drink more water haha. and whatever else you want to send me ill be more than delighted to love and cherish haha :)
anyways, to start out this crazy week we went to montevideo on monday night to go to the dentist for my comp. it was bad news, she has to get a root canal! its so sad, cuz shes in a lot of pain all the time and i just dont know how to help. i HATE those things! it could be even worse news because this means that she has to travel to montevideo 5 more times to get it operated on and everything and we have changes coming up in a week so who knows what will happen. they usually move people closer to `deo when they have medical problems. we both really really want to stay here though! paysandu is amazing! the good thing about going to the dentist though is that we got to go to the temple. i love the temple sooooooo much! i was in need of a recharge of my spiritual battery and that did the trick. we get to go back this week too! :) i did it all in spanish too... haha it was awesome.
we stayed over night in the hostels by the temple because we had hermanas conference the next day. it was a lot of fun! i got to meet all of the hermanas in my mission and they are all really awesome! we woke up and went to the mission home and hermana peterson the presidents wife made us these amazing french toast with bananas and delicious syrup. haha dont worry i had two huge slices and was miserably happy after! and then we went and had pres and the hermana talk to us. they are amazing! and then after that this lady came and told us what colors look best on us... it was pretty boring haha i found out i look best in autumn colors though! they gave us scarfs in our colors. that was pretty cool. after that we had lunch yummy tortilla soup and salsa! haha and then after that we had another meeting and then dinner which was oriental chicken salad! absolutely mmmm! haha i got to see my good friends hermana casebolt and hermana gardner again! i love them! after too much food and too much fun we came back to get ready for the next crazy couple of days.
thursday we spent alot of time working, getting baptism questions done and getting people prepared for their interviews. friday we had the sosa family wedding!! it was soooo much fun! we all made the trip out to algorta which is like 1 hour or so away. we had about 15 people there. well juan and gabriela finally tied the knot signed the papers and got pelted by rice as they were walking out of the courthouse! they were absolutely glowing. you should have seen it. haha during our journey back we had fun singing primary songs with valentina and antonella( the friend of the family that we gave the book of mormon to). we got back and hna ung and i both just felt so loved. that night we had a reception for them at the ward house. IT WAS A BLAST!!! the members from the ward decorated the place and made it look really nice. they have helped us soo much which is awesome because we really wanted to better the relationship between the missionaries and them. but we had a nice dinner and theee best cake ever!!! haha i shamefully tell you that i had two giant pieces.. and brought home two more for later... hahah oops i just couldnt help myself. but dont worry i danced most of the calories off! haha me and hna ung had a great old time dancing with all the kids! i think it was contageous too because most of the ward got up and let loose on the dance floor. it was sooooooo much fun!
saturday! the day we thought would never come came and it was sooo great! we had a really really good turn out for the baptism.and even had 6 investigators there to see it. the meeting was really spiritual and the kids were reverent for the most part. hna ung and i sang soy un hijo de dios in both english and spanish. when we went to have them baptized i think i felt about one ounce of what our heavenly father feels for these people and it consumed my whole self. i felt so much love and happiness for juan, gabriela, rocìo, norma, estela, and marìa noel it was amazing! each one of them has a very special place in my heart and i feel so extremely blessed to have had the opportunity to help them into the truth and the light of the gospel. i stand all amazed! sunday everyone was confirmed except for marìa noel because she got sick but next sunday for sure. we`re hoping to work with her boyfriend and help him follow her example and so they can share that together. by the end of sunday we both were tired beyond belief! its so cool to see the changes that have happened here though. my first sunday in church there was about 20 people maybe and now we have helped the ward grow by 50 percent and everyone is so much happier! the feeling here in paysandu is indescribable. and we have so much more going on. today we taught hector who is the husband of estela and also her grand daughter camilla. it was amazing because while we were teaching one of their family members came over and pretty much asked if she could be baptized too.. its wow! its amazing! so we will be working with camila and angela to be baptized together. hector is an awesome man. he bore his testimony to us today and it is so strong and heart felt. he has a really strong faith and love for our savior. i felt tingles after he had told us all the things he had been feeling and how much the gospel means to him. afterwards hna ung said to me, do you ever think our spirits can get tired from feeling the spirit so much? its totally the question for this week. i dont think so! i feel so edified! my spirit, my testimony and the love i have for this work and this gospel has grown by leaps and bounds this weeks! i love my life, i love paysandu and these people, i love the gospel and i love my savior! im so greatful to have the chance to be a missionary in the service of our lord. the gospel is true, this church is true and i know that we can all live with our heavenly father again in a state of neverending happiness! i love you all so much! more than you know! always remember that and always remember that everything is possible as long as we rely upon the rock which is our redeemer jesus christ!
quickly let me tell you about the pics
1. me and hna ung with our sweet new scarfs that took forever to get haha
2. juan and gabriela signing their marriage license thing
3. everyone who came to the wedding woohoo!
4. sosa fam.. haha this pic says it all!
5. cutting that delicious cake
6. DANCING!
7. more dancing
8. haha we had a lot of fun if you couldnt tell..
9. estela and hector! i love these two. they are who we found my first day here :)
10. marìa noel and her boyfriend
11. EVERYONE :)
12. sosa fam after baptism
well this letter is really long but i still have some important info for you concerning mothers day :) we will be expecting your call from 10 to 12. our number for our house (072)405024 and our cell number if we arent at home is (098)677468. i know the numbers are a little weird but they work. i need you to call me because i dont have a phone card. but yes there they are. im really excited to talk to you! katie and matt can call me too! i really want to talk to everyone if they can get together with john and court thatd be awesome too. i love you all soo much! talk to you soon :)
hermana amy michelle crofts
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