Forgive This Title

[This email was sent July 27] 

Dear Family: 

Wow! This week felt like a month! So much happened! Where to even begin? 

First of all, thanks for the prayers and faith! I feel good as new! I can talk and sing, and the only remains of my cold is a little bit of a sore throat in the mornings. Wahoo! The bad news is that my companion came down with a cold. :( It´s not too bad, and we´re just hoping it doesn´t get worse. Some prayers for her would be great as well. :) 

So, it seems like forever since I´ve told you all about the investigators here, huh? Okay, here we go. 

Remember I told you about Janet and Diego? Well the sad thing is that one day we went to their house, and Janet´s mom answered the door, Gladys. she told us they weren´t home and we´d have to come back another day. Being the good missionaries we are, we took the opportunity to talk to Gladys instead. She didn´t want us to go in, so we showed her the video of "gracias a que el vive" that I had recorded on my camera, and talked with her about it. She was really touched, and asked that we come to her house a few streets down and teach her more. The sad thing is that while we were sharing the video, Hna Matamoros saw Diego and Janet inside, hiding from us. :( So, for now, they´re not ready. The good news is that we´ve continued teaching Gladys, and she´s progressing! We left a pamphlet for her to read, and she read it. Also, the first time we invited her to pray, she recited the catholic prayer, "Padre Nuestro". And yesterday when we visited, she offered to say the opening prayer, and she did it perfectly! Pretty exciting. 

We also are teaching a new investigator named Daniel. His girlfriend Cyntia is a less active, and Cyntia´s brother is the branch mission leader here in Tupungato. We met Daniel first because he came to church with his girlfriend and their three kids. (we´ll be talking later about Law of Chastity. a popular lesson plan here in...the world). In gospel principles class the topic was baptism, and Cynthia was able to bear a powerful testimony to him of baptism. That week we went to visit them in their house, and he told us that he really enjoyed the meeting, and had the desire to be baptised! WAHOO! We invited him to be baptised in August, and that´s when he shared about his cigarrette addiction. He´s been smoking for fifteen years, and has tried to stop many times. He shared his love for his family and kids and his desire to be a better example for them. So basically he doesn´t want to commit to baptism because he knows he needs to quit smoking first, and he knows it will take some time. So we´re going to be helping him with that, and more than anything help him know how Christ can help him, so he can quit smoking and be baptized. Exciting changes coming up! 

Well, those are a few people we´re working with. Oh, this week we had an activity in the church, a Locro. Locro is a soup they make here in Argentina, and it was my first time trying it. Therés a foto, you can kind of see it there. From what they explained and what I tasted it has corn, beans, pork, and pig skin. It was actually super good! Just that the pig skin basically tasted like eating straight fat, so that´s exciting. 

Also a few pictures of me and hermana dutra, me and some members in the ward with their crochet and mate, and the snow in the mountains. I´m still hoping and praying for snow down here, but I think it´s just gonna stay up there in the cordillera. :( Oh well. 

Have a great week! Love you all! 

Hermana Cannon