This week has been so so good!!! I swear it was just pday but i dont really swear okay anywho.. So this week my companion has been so hard to handle haha she has just been so dang grumpy. but i just try and serve her and talk with her and it always gets better when i do haha she tests my patience! its so good for me. I love her so much! My teacher printed off the song As sisters in zion and armies of helaman and so during time that i have i get to go play it! one night some boys in our district came and sang it and it was amazing. dont worry i was sweating so bad cause i was so nervous the seat was sweaty.... hahahha o my gosh i was so embarrassed!! and then i took my boots off cause my feet were so hot. worst idea it stunk up the whole room!!! hahahha okay you dont need to share that with anyone but i hate playing the piano in front of people....it scares me so bad. but it was really cool to play it and hear then sing it. We had to teach the first lesson in english yesterday to practice and it was so so hard!! our teacher came over and was like how are you guys doing and we told him we were struggling haha and then he said we could finish where we were in spanish and then it was so much easier. youd think it would be the other way around! Spanish is awesome and once again the gift of tongues is so real. My companion has no desire to teach or do anything anymore cause she wants to just teach real investigators so i have to do mostly the whole lesson. Its so good more me tho cause i HAVE to rely on the spirit to help me. Thursday we had this thing called TRC where we teach volunteer investigators and this time we taught two real investigators. We taught this guy(miguel) who we could barely understand what he was saying but got his point. He was catholic and he bore this testimony for like 20 min literally. He started crying. After we talked to him about the book of mormon for like 2 min and just bore our testimonies to him. He sat there and we were like entiende? His next words were "how do i get baptized?" Oh my heck the spirit was so strong and we were just practicing on him but he really felt the spirit and knew it was true after we bore our simple testimonies after he bore his for like 20 min. A testimony is everything and thats one thing i have learned here. If you dont know how to say anything else just bear your testimony. Next we taught one of our teachers friends who isnt a member and her name is Natalie. We talked to her about the book of mormon and just simply that god loves her. We bore our testimonies to her and were like okay im not sure how that went but she seemed to like what we had to say. The next day our teacher told us that she wanted to be baptized. Holy moly it was the most amazing thing!!!! first of all we arent even on our missions yet and people have already committed to baptism. That was the best thing that has ever happened to me. This church is so true and the spirit truly testifies of the truth. We went to the temple today and it was beautiful of course! After we had like 10 min to go to the zarahemla store and get a couple things and they said to be back at the bus at 12:50. We were a little late and the bus was leaving!!!! They told us we had to get a taxi if we didnt catch a bus haha so they totally just drive right past us and keep going and were like are you serious?? i was laughing so hard and then they finally stopped. The leader that was with us told us he was glad we went to the store and wanted to play a trick on us. One of the elders took a picture of us its pretty funny. and YES!! I actually had carne asada yesterday too!!! yes oh my it was so good i just miss american food and steak and popcorn. So we held a testimony meeting saturday night with our branch cause one of the districts was leaving us and we totally go in trouble cause we werent studying haha They told us we had to stop our testimony meeting in the middle of it but our zone leaders stood up to them and said that this was more important. It was an amazing testimony meeting and im glad i take every opportunity i can to share my testimony because its so important to me. Its hard and its scary and its such a simple testimony but i dont want anyone to forget that i KNOW without a doubt that this church is true. In the temple today they have spanish scriptures that we can read and i was able to read a whole chapter in spanish and understand the whole thing. I felt so blessed because last week i couldnt even read on verse. The lord is watching out for us. I have one week left here!!! I absolutely cannot wait to get out in the field. My plane leaves at like 6:00 in the morning so i have to be at the airport at 2:30. I will call in Texas!! Oh i leave tuesday morning haha all the boys in our district are leaving on monday so its just gonna be me and Hermana Homer! I love the boys in our district so much they are like by best friends and even tho i think we are the most crazy district, we have some of the most amazing priesthood holders with amazing testimonies. Im definitely gonna miss them but im excited to be out there serving!!! I love and miss you all so dang much!! And i hope you have a great week:) Your in all my prayers! and i will send pictures!!
Love Hermana Gates:)
The temple today!!
Our district!
This cat stays at the CCM haha we see it everywhere!
Elder Bowen and Elder Loosle we call them our best friends for eternity haha they are so funny and nice and we met them in one of the devotionals and became good friends with them!
The Hermanas in our branch:) 
Our whole branch!!!
Me Elder Albin(blond) and Hermana Homer and Elder Fearnley(red).
Elder springer!! He's been a member for a year and a couple months he is amazing!
My watch broke so I sewed it back up haha but then it broke again today.
Our roomates and our sweet soccer jerseys haha we love them!!
Our roommate brought one of her moms pregnant skirts so of course we had to try it out!
A bunch of our favorite elders after Tuesdays devotional!
Last p-day we laid in the rain for 20 min haha best thing ever!!
The soccer crew!
A picture from last p-day!
