Dear Family,
Thanks for your emails! I was really excited to hear that Ben arrived in Brazil. It sounds like his mission is going to be fantastic. I pictured him showing pictures from the church pamphlets to that little Brazilian boy and I inwardly made that "awww" sound. My brother is a missionary! I{m excited to keep getting his letters. Ben, I'm going to try sending you the mission hat and some alfajores to Brazil. I hope they don't melt and that I have enough time next p-day or the p-day after that.
Oh, and I'm really excited to have you come pick me up. Maybe on that last Sunday we can go to church in Lujan. Some of my best Sundays were in Lujan. But I'll think more about that in a couple months.
News of the week:
* Cesar got baptized! He didn't smoke and he passed his interview with flying colors. His baptism was nice. Not very many members came besides his family, but an old investigator of other sisters, a homeless man named Carlos, came to the baptism. Maybe we can start teaching him again. On Sunday Cesar was confirmed. He is very happy to be a member. On Sunday night we took him tracting with us and he bore an amazing testimony in an on the street lesson that we taught. He said the gospel had changed his life 100 percent and he invited the girl to learn more and be baptized! His faith and enthusiasm really impress me.
* I'm getting to know the ward here better and I really like it. There are some really great members who are willing to help us. And on Sunday we got a new mission leader (the old one was called into the bishopric), Hno Cordero, who seems excited to work with us. I'm going to work really hard to win the ward's confidence. I feel a little intimidated because I have big shoes to fill-- Hna Azcurra had 8 baptisms two transfers ago, a record here. But I guess I just have to work hard and hope for the best.
* This week we started teaching a new investigator named Ruben, also an old investigator of other sisters, and the younger brother of an investigator who really wasn't progressing. He is 17 and this time around seems ready to accept the gospel. He kept his commitment to pray the first time we invited him to do it and he came to church on Sunday with his adorable little brother Nico (9 years old and reminds me a little bit of Dan). Now he has a baptism goal date for November 5. What a neat kid!
* We had a pretty good Sunday with 6 investigators who showed up. One of them was Carlos, the homeless man who came to Cesar's baptism. After church we set an appointment to teach him in the church. I hope he progresses and that we can help him out. Braian (14) came too. He is the nephew of a family in our ward and also has a baptismal goal date, though he still has some doubts. I think he will get baptized though.I was a little disappointed that David and Maira didn't come (the arguing couple, David is Cesar's younger brother). There is some sort of drama between them and the rest of the Monserrat family and they've stopped visiting the rest of the family, so they probably missed church to avoid seeing them. We are going to have to work with them on that.
Well, I'm out of time, but I hope you have an excellent week. I'm off to keep teaching and preaching, "a full," as we say here, in the monoblock with Hna Azcurra!
Love,
Hermana Clark
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