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Hey Y'all,

This week has been a doozy! Roger, our fine friend from Camilo, finally stepped down into the waters of baptism on Tuesday and received the Holy Ghost on Sunday. We and his family are all very excited to finally have him as a member and he's going to progress very well. We're going to give him a tie when we go to his house on Thursday! :)

This week we've also had little miracles! We met a guy named Patricio a couple of weeks ago, who we're not quite sure whether his mind is all there or not. We had been inviting him to come to church and yesterday he not only came, but brought a friend with him! We're going to visit the both of them this week to talk about the Plan of Salvation because Patricio recently lost his mom. His friend's name is Armando. They're pretty cool guys.

We also found 2 or 3 other people that are awesome as well. On Sunday we went to the birthday party for Nancy, a lady we recently met while knocking doors. Her family was all there and we had a great time talking about the life as a missionary and teaching a little bit about what life is all about.

The other elders had a baptism on Saturday as well, of Little Daniel. He's 12 years old and lives with his mom who has a little bit of a hearing problem. They're a great family and we're very happy that Daniel took the step to get baptized. :)

We were running all over the place on Sunday. Apart from the birthday party, we also had a goal to talk with 80 people in the street before heading back to the house for the night. It was in attempt to talk with 300 new people every week about the gospel. We did with with time to spare. :) Unfortunately nobody was all that interested in talking to us...

That's about the gist of this week. I finally got the wedding pictures and I love the food I got from the family! Keep reading the Book of Mormon every day!

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