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Wow.  This week was awesome!  I'll just jump right in to the spiritual stuff, sound good? 

   This Saturday, we have our first baptism for a wonderful lady named Nestoria Parada.  Whose only worry about being baptized is if the water will be cold.  So we'll do our best to make sure the water is nice and warm for her big day.  

   We have another investigator, Gregorio Christiano (21) who's baptismal date was the 24th of September.   He told us yesterday that he wants it to be sooner.  We told him that we could do it on the 17th because it's always on a Saturday so that they can receive the Holy Ghost on the Sunday.  All he has to do is attend one more week of church.  He's awesome and as we teach you can feel that he truly believes in what we are teaching him.  

   We currently have two families that have children that they want to get baptized.  We have one other man, Jose Raoul (23) who has all of his attendances at our church, he just is lacking a testimony of it all, just to know that it is all true.  And Ilian (17) seems to have his testimony increasing, but needs to attend church a couple more times.  All of these people are wonderful people.  

   The thing that's great about Bolivia, is how much they appreciate their families.  They have so little.  Lack of money, lack of serious electricity and lack of a clean home.  But they have one thing that they recognize as the most important.  Family.  It makes it sooo much easier to teach about how the Gospel blesses families when they appreciate their families as much as they do.  I love the people here, at least from what i can understand from them, from my lack of language skills in Español.  

   Short story: Sweet Nestoria Parada made a gelatin dessert for us missionaries and unfortunately insisted that we ate it in front of her, right then.  This gelatin was made from the leg of a vaca (cow) and basically tasted about how you would image it, yet maybe a little bit worse.  It just had a lack of fruit flavoring, rather than just plain cow flavored jello.  Hahaha.  But other than that, most of what I've had has been bearable.  I've found a lot of different things that I like.  And yes, they get offended here if you don't eat everything.  But it's all good.  I'm very appreciative of their love.  I love my mission and this Gospel is changing my life everyday.  There was one quote I read this week from President Holland that i loved.  It talks about as missionaries, if we want our investigators to read and pray more, we must do the same, if we want our investigators to search for answers, we must do the same.  It's much better how he worded it, but I have been trying to live by that quote this week.  I love you all, don't ever worry about me.  I'm doing awesome here.  Stay safe, stay strong, love ya.

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