I am so in love with this place, and these people. We have seen miracle after miracle and my companion is awesome guys:) She has been through A LOT in her life and it makes me so sad to hear about it but she says she loves me so thats a good sign i think!! We have so much fun and we teach so well together. The spirit is SO powerful. So we basically have the best gators in the world. We have a part member family, the Pereidas, and there are 3 potential baptisms, this is an awesome family. The first night we went there we had FHE so we watched the Restoration video with them and they really understood it. Then we kinda divided an conquered so Hermana Juarez was with us that night so me and Juarez talked to one of the sisters that just moved in while baumgart talked to the other people. We were just having a normal conversation and of course you easily glide into the gospel. We started talking about the gospel and i surprisingly had an english BOM in my bag and so she willingly accepted it and loves to read it. This family is amazing. They have some things to change but they WILL be baptized:) We have a girl named Jocelyn and she is the only nonmember in her family and she is on date for the 24th but she has to stop smoking. She loves the gospel, its just those little temptations she gives into to smoke. But we are working hard with her:) We have a cute little kid named Ceasar, he is 9 years old and part of a part member family, and he is so shy so we are coming up with different ways for him to talk with us. We are excited for him to be baptized:) Then we have this girl named Mercedes. SHE IS AMAZING. She loves reading the BOM, and the other night we were talking about prophets and we told her that we have one on earth today. She freaked out and was like that is the coolest thing in the world. So we brought over mormon messages and showed her a little clip of Thomas S. Monson speaking and she was amazed. We got her little brother involved and little sister. And they came to church and LOVED IT. Her little sister Natalia said after taking the sacrament that she wants to be baptized. She turned 8 on the 6th of December so its not too far away and hopefully Mercedes is getting baptized this sunday or next:) I love these people with all my heart.
So this week..... I BOUGHT A DUCK!!!! She is the cutest little thang i ever did see:):) I named her Camila:) She is so shy and so cute! Baumgarts great aunt and uncle live close to where we do and have a little farm so she sleeps there:) We get to go visit them sometimes during lunch.
So yesterday we go to dinner right... and they start talking to us about breeding their dogs... and give us all the details. Were just like oh wow thanks for letting us know! THEN their daughters told us their whole life story and one told us she was lez....she is 15... and she is sitting there painting my nails. I have never felt more uncomfortable in my whole life. And then they were like twerking and putting on this crazy music.... WOWWW man the spirit was GONE. I really hope we don't have to go back over there again. Anywho...
This week i was thinking about prayer. I have no doubts that God answers our prayers. But i was thinking that all the time we say that we just want answers, and God isn't answering us. But one thing came to my mind: Are we listening to the answers he gives us? Are we living worthy to hear the spirit speak to us? I challenge all of you to act on the answers that he gives you. I know he loves every single one of us. I love you all ok!!! Que tengan buena semana:)
Hermanita Gates:)
P.S. Also we did crossfit witht he mission this morning. I was able to finish the workout but holy moly i am so out of shape and then we got to play soccer for 2 hours. That was the best:) Just letting you know how content i am:)
We fit me and Bowen's stuff in the car haha we rock.
We decorated the elders door cause they now have a new greenie haha
I took popcorn to DDM and this is my compie:)
This is my new baby :)
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