The good news is we’re landing soon.

The bad news is.... we’re crash landing. [from Madagascar 2]

Oh ye of little faith. Could ye not watch with me one hour? Thanks for your prayers, and I’m sure it’s all very inspired, but Hermana Salmerón and I finished our time together. so sad. It was weird to leave Cabrero, and mostly leave my companion there. But it’s okay. the mission is like that. SOME VERY CRAZY STUFF HAPPENED.

It all began when Hermana Salmeron was a little very sick with influenza. Then for some reason she decided to faint in the shower. And great was the fall thereof. She definitely dislocated her right knee. Like, a lot. so we called a member and drove to 3 different hospitals all of which said, "Why on earth would we have service for an emergency??"
But it’s fine. We finally found a consultorio and she got some x-rays and she is now resting in peace.
BUT NOT BEFORE WE TOOK 4 BUSES AND BORROWED A WHEELCHAIR AND ALSO CRUTCHES TO GO TO A CHAPEL OPEN HOUSE 3 HOURS FROM OUR SECTOR. What a treat. lemme tell ya. She will be resting for quite some time.

But now I’m living in Tolhuaca/Victoria, in the South. What the--? it’s cold out here. Suddenly. But no worries I have many coats of one color. And my new companion is Hermana Hansen. My first Gringa companion! She’s pretty cool. I think we’re going to get along just fine. Turns out we’re like the same person. She even lived in the Branbury for a hot second. What a small, crazy little world.

This week I was reading the scriptures. Mostly Isaiah. Which is even more difficult in Spanish, just so you know. But I like it a lot. Our challenge as a mission is to read the scriptures and mark the words of Christ.... Isaiah is a whole new level of challenge. It’s interesting to read and re-read the words of the prophets, and then discover that "whether by mine own voice or by the voice of my servants it is the same. Sooooooo maybe I should just mark all of the Book of Mormon??? I dunno. I just know the Book of Mormon is fabulous.

I’m done. Kay bye.

Photos:
Activity with the Rama.... so gross so fun. Hna Salmeron, Our Rama Mision leader, and an investigator. 

The Hermanas of Los Angeles.

Johann Sebastian Vach. the very much lesser known composer. Chile is so special.

P.S. The 1 of May is a holiday in Chile, so the cibers will be closed, probably. See you all..... Wednesday maybe.

WHAT YEAR IS IT???

This week....

It’s now been 8 months. I’ll see you all in like 10 more months. Pls wait for me if you’re gonna do anything fun cause I have FOMO [fear of missing out].

Our investigator Eugenia had a confrontation in her Libro de Mormon with a spirit? Maybe THE spirit... Because she found 2 Nephi 31: 5,17 marked up rull good but her Book of Mormon is brand spankin’ new (Testificamos of this). Also she had a lot of questions/ doubts about Baptism and when she read this she said, "uh oh. I think I have to pray now."

 Also, we went to Salto de Laja. It’s pretty neature. Lots of water, if ya know what I mean.

We did other stuff.... But darn it I just can’t remember anything... :/
Ines and Humberto are so ready for their wedding, we’re teaching some other people, but we’ll just have to wait and see how it all turns out... or if they turn up...
Feel free to pray for Isidora. (Remember her?)

Oh yeah, we still don’t know Cambios. Use all the energy of heart to fill your prayers with our companionship. I believe in you, people.

We’re reading in the Book of Mormon as a companerismo and mission and I think It’s pretty good. 10/10. Would recommend. God speaks to his people. Sometimes I love Nephi, and sometimes, I just want to beat him with a rod?? but I love that he speaks and teaches with clarity. I dunno why but this time 2 Nephi 5:16 made me laugh. "Our temple was like the temple of Solomon. Well, kind of. Not quite as nice, but, still pretty good. 3/5. C+." Hey, have you read Isaiah? It has exactly the most confusing and deeply meaningful words of Christ. Maybe give it a try?

Heads up our P-days will be changing. As of April 24, we will have P-days Tuesdays. Please adjust your lifestyle accordingly.

I’m Hermana Baer, and this is Insanity. Peace OUT.

Photos: 
Meet my machine! I live in the year 2003. #blastfromthepast #blastedpast #arrepentamiento #you’reahizardwarry

Charqui is like Jerky.... But this was HORSE JERKY?? For your information, it tastes EXACTLY LIKE YOU MIGHT EXPECT. but hairier. Mostly just imagine biting a horse. :P

The rocks are.......weird. But the waterfall was pretty.

We went to lunch one time. They´re pretty cool, this family.

Out of the frying pan and into the Baptism by Fire!

(I made that last part up myself.)

one......milion things happened this week.

Tuesday, we went back to the registro civil to finish the job and help our best investigators and now members (spoiler alert) Jose and Catalina get hitched. Turns out, the grumpy man lied to us and I totally can be a witness at weddings. So I witnessed rull good at their ceremony this time.
They’re the greatest.

As we were traveling back to our sector on the bus, they turned to us and said, "Uh, Hermanas? Can we get baptized this Saturday?" and we said, "Hmmmmm.... I dunno, let’s see.... well.... Yeah okay. if you insist." And so it was that the insanity began.

Also the rama wanted us to organize a celebration for them. So we did.

Also the assistants called us the same day as the baptism and said, "Hermanas, you have to have everything in your apartment packed and ready and also find a place to live so that you can move out of your apartment today. :) "
Don’t worry, because later the elders called us again and said, "ha ha false alarm. you’ll just need to be ready to move in May."

Also I died of stress, but I lived and everyone got baptized and also confirmed. Good things do happen.

Their party was beautiful, thank you very much, and they were just so happy and content and filled with the spirit. My favorite part was their daughter, 12 years old, who was baptized about 6 months ago, who began to weep just after Jose was baptized, "¡Que emocion!"

So.... now that it’s all over we’re working like normal missionaries again. Eugenia is gonna pray for her baptismal date. feel free to pray for her as well.

We’re reading the Book of Mormon in 2 months as a mission, and marking all the times that we read the words of the Lord (p.e. asi dice el Señor:...) we love the Book of Mormon. It’s probably the word of God for his children in the world today and stuff.

Hermana Salmeron and I are besties. She’s crazy and amazing and we’re working our foreign buns off. Will we have 1 more cambio together? Tune in next week to find out....
(pls pray that sí pls thx bae :]]] )

Photos: They’re the best, and tiniest people I know. Also they have twins. :)

It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times*.

(*References this Simpson's episode)
Wasn’t it just too cool for school to listen to a prophet? How many times did you say, "what now??" It’s like the church is true or something. I dunno. weird.

Today was crazy times. We went to the secret wedding of our best friends and investigators José and Catalina to be testigos (of the wedding, and not to be confused with Testigos de Jehova). But turns out, for what had better be a divinely inspired reason, I couldn’t "legally" sign as a witness...sooooo while everyone else went into the ceremony I had to wait outside, even in outer darkness where there is weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth. Suddenly all the parables in the scriptures about weddings make a lot more sense...
But it was supes crazy because I had to wait alone. like, really REALLY alone because my companion was a witness and was inside while I was outside. and I had a tiny panic moment. But it’s fine. I’m fine. I called the Mission President’s wife, and she said I wasn’t sinning in that moment.

But it’s okay because now that they are hitched they’re going to be baptized. pronto people. muy pronto. I can feel it in my nuggets. Y’alls prayers are so great. I dunno how you do it. Keep up the gr8 work, Hamstray.

And if you want you can pray for these people also:
-Eugenia
-Jose y Catalina (hee hee pls)
-Ines y Humberto
-Francisca (and maybe Ariela)
-Victoria
-Chile, maybe?
The train of the work of the lord never stops. Even in India, Russia, Chile, and Layton. (Respectively).

Bendiciones y saludos a todos.
Nos vemos.
-Hermana Baer

"Whooo is that gourd I see??"
It’s me. So that you can all participate in the shame, I now weigh 10 pounds more than when I left sweet sweet free country USA. It’s like I’m pregnant with twins and a bunkbed.

Sorry I puked on your sweater*

[*References Strange Brew]

Or something like that. Because we had an amazing first lesson with the cutest young family and their little baby, and then right as we left my best companion said, "HERMANA!!??" And I said, "Oh boy," and then some stuff happened and there was a small accident and we spent like 10 minutes cleaning their sofa. Don’t worry too much. I’m pretty sure we’re gonna baptize them, so it’s basically as if the whole incident was in the house of a member.
It’s fine. I’m sure everything’s fine.

Good news:

-There’s gonna be a secret wedding. I’d tell you all about it but it’s a secret. but not in the bad way. Just pray for these substituted names which God will recognize because he is our Loving Heavenly Father and knows exactly what the heck I’m talking about: Juan and Katrina.
They’re totally gonna get hitched and then they’re gonna be baptized. I can feel it.

-We found Elga! She was in her house, right where everyone said she would be. Also, we’re going to teach her the Restored Gospel and she’s gonna love it. Just as soon as she lets us in or comes to a FHE with our recent converts. Either one.

-Oh yeah. I’m studying the Bible/New Testament. Fo reals. Turns out the church is still true if you read the Bible. #straight-out-of-Jerusalem

-uuuummmmmm...... nuffing. We’re missionaries, so nothing else happened. But you can make stuff happen by praying for these people with your magic prayers:
----Isidora
----Familia Constanzo
----Ines y Humberto
----Hermana Baer and Hermana Salmerón that they can have just ONE more Cambio because it’s the next cambio when it’s all gonna come together.

"We walk even more than the Mormons." - Hermana Salmerón

Toodles, foodles. See ya in like, 11 months.
-Hermana Baer

Photo: There we were, studying the holy scriptures when Hermana Salmeron was like, "Is there something on my neck?" and I was like, "no, it’s your necklace." Because it’s always her necklace.
Hermana Salmerón: "are you sure??"
Hna Baer."Yes I’m su----- don’t move!!!"
Turns out it was just this lil guy.
Don’t worry, we asked if he wanted to be baptized and he left real quick. 😛

You are one silly goose*

[*references this Supernatural gag reel.]

Mostly because we live like crazy people, Hermana Salmeron and I. probably because.... we are crazy people.

Today we uncovered a great Chilean secret recipe: HUMITAS. they’re basically tomales, but turns out they take like 7 hours to make, or in other words, one whole p-day. And for this delicious blessing you will now be referred to a short and sweet summary of what we did this week.

-We had a mulitzone [conference] with Presidente Teixeira, our area president. It was great and we were spiritually destroyed, during and afterwards. The thing he said that most impressed me was this: If you have to choose between being trusted or loved, choose first to be trusted. Love will follow. It may be because he said it in English. But it’s true. And I like it.

-One time we were contacting for 5 hours when a little girl popped up from behind a fence and said, "Hey, are you the Mormon missionaries?" and we said ".......yes." and she screamed, "GREAT BECAUSE I’M NINE YEARS OLD AND I WANT TO BE MORMON!!!!" and we said, "wat in de fweet is going on here??" And that’s how we met Victoria.

-We spent another day contacting and looking for a reference and we found her. It doesn’t sound very exciting but we were thrilled, people. Thrilled I tell you. Miracles are real.

- In my study I learned a lot of things mostly I just felt good reading the scriptures. Hermana Teixeira reminded us of the importance of the Book of Mormon, so I’m gonna pass her message along. Use the Book of Mormon Everyday. Pls. It’s so good.

-Deep doctrine. Hermana Salmeron and I are crazy and we sometimes get carried away. Whadya think, could the Liahona be an Urim and Thumim? What even happened to the Sword of Laban? Are the stories of a young Abraham destroying the wooden idols of his father true?

And lastly a challenge: Where are the missionaries in your ward (Family, did you know there are 4 Elders in our ward? I wonder what they are doing right......now...)

We’re praying for all of you, and love to hear what you’re doing.
Cuídense! Nos vemos!
 -Hermana Baer

#Foodie_Fotos

Santa Maria, Santa Barbara SANTA CLAUS*

(*references Che Hora Es?)

This week:

-YOUR PRAYERS WERE ANSWERED Hermana Salmeron and I are gonna be together another transfer. #blessings

-We helped the Bomberos (Firemen) in a service project with a lot of heavy lifting and when we finished all the work in like 20 minutes they were like, "Uh...... gr8 job. I dunno why we didn’t do that earlier...." And we said, "Probably because we’re missionaries. Wanna be baptized?" and they said, "Oh my, do you hear that? I think there’s a fire or something. We gotta go. You too."
So we went to do another service project in a garden. It was great also. Then we had completos and soda.

-Just today for P-day we went to YUMBEL to "meet" San Sebastian. I was like, "I had no idea the body of San Sebastian was here???" Turns out I was confused for a reason because there’s really nothing but a chubby little statue and a wall of miracles. So many miracles. Turns out this saint just keeps giving. Fear not. We definitely asked for Baptisms. ;])) It was fun and I may or may not have purchased various keepsakes which may or may not include un rosario. #no-one-can-know-for-sure #oops #thank-goodness-for-repentance

It’s good to know that we can pray directly to our Loving Heavenly Father, and we don’t need to wait for some (naked) dead guy to do it for us. That’s why we have Agency and also prayer and also a body. So that with God, we can do all things.

-Turns out sometimes we work rull hard and then suddenly all our work pays off. Then other times it doesn’t and we just keep working. What I learned from this transfer is a lot of stuff. Mostly that it’s way better to be yourself as a missionary because we teach better when we love. I was reviewing a note from my teacher in the MTC which said, God needs your love more than he needs your language. I think it’s probably true.

How can YOU love someone today in the way that God would love them?
D&C 121
Alma 26:5
D&C 27:15

There are a lot of photos this week. I dunno, I guess you could use your little eyeballs and look at them and wonder about what they are... I know somewhere in there is a wall of all the miracles, my companion as a Bombero, San Sebastian, and one miracle in specific which included a bag of hair...???? Who know what happened there....

HAGS
-Hermana Baer

 

I would but I JUST CAN´T REACH

[Title references this Gravity Falls episode.]
 
Also because Everyone and their cousin sent me a sweet sweet letter, I have exactly 25 seconds to write to you.

- INES AND HUMBERTO ARE GONNA GET HITCHED. 12 of May. everyone is invited

-We met a little old man who we will call Juan. He wants to be baptized and so we set a date. Then he told us a story with a lot of words which i didn't understand (which clued me in to the fact that something was strange) then I realized that he was telling us about that one time when he was younger and a gangster and may have killed two or three people. :D don´t worry. Repentance is real. He's totally gonna be baptized. In just one minute or a little longer.

-We had one million people in the chapel and it was a miracle in the old fashioned sense. super great. Even Juan was there. Seriously. We're gonna baptize him.

This week we'll know our transfers. Pray that Hermana Salmeron and I are together one more time. She's amazing. And Crazy. She's the coolest person I know. And we're working our buns off.

Super quick question. This week we studied some stuff and I was wondering what is the difference between doctrine and principle?
Doctine = why
Principle = how???
maybe??

Okay..... gotta run!!!


Mi compañera She's the best.

Our district. Hermana Salmeron is my companion.

God is in the details, and also in the bushes

We worked a lot with plants and fruit this week.

Miracles exist people. In case you were wondering.

We saw all sorts of miracles this week. Like the fact that we are working to complete the new mission goals and we had 7 new investigators this week. How we did that we may never know. But it’s a true story.

-We had a gr8 zone service project (AT LAST) in Cabrero. We thought we were going to help the firemen build their station, but they didn’t show up, so we went to a Garden where many of the local people with disabilities sell plants. It was a disaster so we cleaned it right up and made the Director cry because he was so happy to have help. Missionary work is cool like that. Sometimes the most help we can give isn’t in sharing a scripture, but serving and working with people who really need someone else to pay a little attention to their needs.

And now a things that happened that you’ll just have to wonder about:

-A drunk spilled his wine into my missionary bag. #sharing-is-caring

-We had a mateado with the Rama where we had Tortillas Al rescoldo and Mate #Mate-is-just-hot-soggy-grass

-We went to the mountains to collect Mora (Blackberries) with Inez (the future wife of Humberto) and it was great. We got to commune with nature and lots of thorns. Inez the best investigator we have is going to make us Mermelade. #hotjam

-Humberto has three asistencias [church attendance] and is now qualified for baptism......sort of #put-a-ring-on-it-pls

-I almost had to eat fish for lunch, but my companion is the best and was like, "Hermana? What is that distraction??" and ate it for me. #blessed
It’s not that I don’t like fish, I just never want to eat it. Ever.

Have you ever noticed how great the scriptures are?
I like all of them, but especially right now I like Moses, right after God appears to Moses in (as) the Burning Bush. Because we’re reading it as companions and it’s blowing our tiny minds. #it-might-be-deep-doctrine
God is in every particle of the earth; it’s like Science and Religion were created by the same person or something.....

And one last thing: Our best recent converts have amazing questions. About the Holy Ghost and we’re doing our best to answer them, but we want to know what you think. Did we know the Holy Ghost before this life? Will the Holy Ghost receive a body? if so... when? Won’t we always need the help of the Holy Ghost?
We went right to the scriptures; 1 Nephi 13:22 But what do you know?

could it be Love?
 -Hermana Baer

An artist at work

Inez and her niece, Natalia

Meet the Mormons of our Mateada

There’s Just....No TIME!!

Subject line because I live in the no time zone

This week I developed a Testimony of Prayer with my best Companion Hermana Salmeron.

Remember that one time when Hermana Salmeron prayed to receive revelation about how to make Empenadas de Queso....... and then she made the most delicious empenadas I’ve ever had? and I said.... Is this real life?? #Godisinthedetails #alsointhekitchen

Next we prayed for our investigator Eugenia to assist [attend] Church Sunday. And when we arrived at her house before church and she came to the door in her pearly white pijamas we were like.....oh no. And she said, "I dunno, Hermanas, maybe it’s better that I just don’t go........." and after a brief pause she said, "okay actually let’s go!! help me make breakfast!" and thus we hastily departed to eat and also walk to church. And I think she liked it a lot! Now she’s going to pray to see if she should be baptized march 10th.

All sorts of little prayers have been answered.

One more!
Today we were walking like five miles to our Zone activity, and Hermana Salmeron Prayed that someone (good) would pass by and give us a ride. AND THIS REALLY HAPPENED: A cute little lady passed and said, "Hermanas! I know exactly where you are going, it’s right next to my house, I saw the other missionaries there this morning! Let’s go!!" I almost died right there because she’s not even a member.......YET.
#shegonnabebaptized

OKAY I GOTTA GO!! I promise photos next time. HA HA. time. lol.

I’m also going to send the coolest baby names you’ve ever not heard. #MAPUCHE

See you all in one year.
-Hermanerm Baer



A huge thanks to everyone else who believes in Prayer and is praying for the missionaries and for our investigators. Pls to pray for these people:
Fredy
Eugenia
Catalina y Jose
Marian
Ines y Humberto

:))


Oh hey, here are photos of our zone activity today! Can you see me now?

A dog peed on Hermana Salmerón

It’s true. That really happened. She was thrilled.

And now for the week in bulletin:

-We’re having a party with the Rama. Everyone is invited this Friday. Literally all of Cabrero. Karaoke and pool party. NO alcoholic beverages, please.

-Isidora decided to go to church in Yumbel.... but not the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints aka the Only True Church Where We Can Find Lasting Happiness, but the OTHER church, if you know what I mean. So feel free to pray for her.

-We contacted the entire police department in Monte Aguila. They’re really friendly. Also, Fun Fact: the police live with their families at the police station. Who knew?

-We sang at the super Catholic funeral of a little boy. It was...........weird. Also turns out we don’t sing very good.

-Following an unusual but powerful spiritual prompting, we promised our unmarried investigator couple of ages 60 and 42 that if they got married and were working to be sealed in the temple, they could finally have kids. The Hermano nearly died right there in our lesson.

-We’re teaching English. Or at least attempting to do so.

-In our Zone Conference Presidente May revealed the new weekly mission goals. Each week we will now work to have 1 baptism, 15 new investigators, 15 investigators with a baptismal date, and 12 investigators attending church. #vamos_que_se_puede
Ya know, I once read in 1 Nephi 3:7 that "the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them." We will now be excersicing 297% more faith because I dunno how we’re gonna do that, but if Presidente May said we can, we’re gonna do it.

- I know that this is God’s work. The Book of Mormon is True.

I don’t know why we don’t have more photos:
One and only: The president of the Rama didn’t understand the names of Hermana Salmerón or Hermana Gourley and wrote this to introduce them to the Ward.
#meetmynewcompanions #MasDespacioPorFavor #NoEntenderNada #HermanaSanMenor

AM I TALKING LOUDER THAN NORMAL?*

*[references this Spiderman clip]

If so, it’s because we’re excited, because at last Isidora took the dip at 7:00, February 3, 2018 . She’s now a member of the True Church. It was all very precious and spiritual. And crazy pants. Like the kind of crazy where we saw opposition in ALL THINGS and also miracles in all things.

Here’s what happened:
The whole week: we were in search of a tunic for Isidora because.... turns out Cabrero doesn’t have one.

Friday Night: So there we were. Contacting. Knockin' doors. Like always. When suddenly we see one of our investigators frantically throwing all of their possessions out of their house into a truck. Hna Salmeron and I are like, "What in the fweet is going on??" Turns out, she’s moving. RIGHT NOW. to Monte Aguila! So we call some members to help her move the last few things Saturday morning. And we receive a call that we don’t actually have lunch for Saturday anymore. :) yay. No problem. It’s at this moment that the Assistants call us and say, we’re going to be in your house tomorrow to see if it’s clean. Not a problem; our house is just a slight disaster because of cambios and also 10,000 things to do for a baptism.

Saturday: THE INSANITY BEGINS! (also literally because I have an Insanity workout disc which we use every single day. #I<3pain. I know, right? Who even am I?? ) We got up bright and extra early to clean our house and still be normal missionaries.
We still don’t have clothes for Isidora or food for us. But now we’re helping the investigator move and clean. Suddenly another lady/investigator across the street sees us in pants and says something I didn’t understand and probably shouldn’t repeat but also says, "HERMANAS! Mi papa va a tener un asado hoy!! VENGAN!!" Or translation, the angels sent us lunch. And it was delicious. A little weird. But good.
THEN we’re working, but also we have to be in the church to clean and fill the font for 5 hours. yay. Good news is our district leader came in in the clutch and brought a tunic for Isi. More good news the font is full by 6:00. The bad news is the filter is broken so we got all kinds of floaty/swimmy/questionable friends in the water. WHICH IS ALSO FOR SOME REASON GREEN????  Ya, no worries. I’m sure it’s fine. Good news: our mission leader called everyone and so we have a program. Bad news: it’s only a piece of wrinkly paper with names, and so we don’t have anything to pass to those in attendance. Good news: The elders got us covered, and I’ve attached the amazing program. (side note this was created in POWERPOINT in like 5 minutes. Go Elders.) Now it’s 6:30, and Isidora shows up with all of the other people, and we’re running around making sure all of the food we bought is ready and everything is perfect. At 6:55 someone’s like, “HERMANAS, Isidora doesn’t have a towel!!” NOT A PROBLEM. We just run to our house and then also run back to the church just as everything begins. And as soon as we started, everything went great. Except for the part where we forgot that it was fast Sunday, so all the members were just eating cake and cookies. But not us. :)))))

So good. So many words. So many things happened this week. I think it’s because I have a new companion. I dunno, I think both of us have that 'weird stuff happens' curse. So now it’s like 2x the weirdness. But we’re good. Hna Salmeron is fabulous. Also everything about her is huge and crazy. But in the best way possible.

There’s just no time to say more but feel free to put this in your prayers, because we have a testimony of prayers.
-Jose and Catalina Constanzo Silva - that they can resolve a small civil matter and get married so as to be baptized ASAP
-Inez and Humberto - also to get hitched
-Us - that we can find the people

I’m at my word limit for this letter. I dunwan tak mor.

PHOTOS
BAUTISMO, Poh!

That one time when the bus broke down in the middle of a field somewhere in Chile. #kodakmoment

My companion is the best Mexican I know. Also here is her family’s secret traditional HORCHATA recipe. The best.#thisiswhywestudyspanish

Isidora's baptism program

Shhsshh ...do you hear that?...

It’s the winds of change....

Well. Kind of. I’m not going anywhere. Except out of my mind. Because our little trio is now a cuatro! Hna Lopez (Honduras) is headed south to Victoria. Hermana França and I will stay here in Cabrero, but with different companions. She and Hermana Goeling (?from AMERICA!!!!!?) will be working in Monte Aguila. Which is actually just the Malad of Chile. It’s going to be great. Hermana SALMERON (Mexico) will be my new companion! woot. We’ll be working mostly here in Cabrero Central. yay.

Thank you for your prayers for Marian. I’m afraid she is dead. In an investigator sense. We went to visit her and found her - answer to your prayers thx - and she said she could no longer accept our visits because she is going to get back with her abusive and homicidal Ex and he doesn’t like it when she has visitors or leaves the house. :)   And we said "cry, cry" but also we’re not giving up on her. You can still pray that she will be safe. And maybe in the future accept the gospel. We planted the seeds as best we could.

In other news Isidora WILL be baptized. What a twist. Her father, after a little bit of yelling and telling us how he was way too busy for the missionaries, for the gospel, or for religion, finally let us come into his house and talk to Isidora. And then he was like, "I don’t want any of that stuff, but I want Isidora to have it. Can she be baptized on the 3rd of February?" and we said...... "yeah, I guess." 
So pray that when Saturday comes no one will be fatally injured or something normal and crazy that happens before a baptism.

Spiritual Thought: If doubt and fear are in opposition to faith, does Satan doubt he’s going to lose? Or does he know and he’s just gonna take as many with him as he can? How can we avoid doubt and fear? Have the faith we’re gonna win so, we can act without fear.
#winningteam

Okay. That’s all the time we’ve got for today.

PHOTOS:
Look! It’s us! I hart this foto from the Adapting to Missionary Life Manual. #themissionisactuallyjustlikethisincaseyouwerewondering #nobags #nodirt #calledtoserveasamodel

I met this dog. I named it Uno. He has crazy eye.

Meet Isi! She’s the little one in the middle.