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(some snippets of her notes to us. No time for a letter today, but I love all the work she is doing and how she is super focused and caught up in helping other people.)

Well life is good over here! This week we tried SO hard to lograr pautas (the goals of excellence) which is 3 people on fecha, 4 people in church, 8 news, and 4 second visits (the first time you meet with someone after the initial contact). We got 3 fechas, 9 news, and 6 second visits and then tried SO hard this weekend to get people to conference but al final, we only had 2. So we just BARELY didn't hit pautas. It's super hard. Normally only 1 or 2 companionships in all the mission hit pautas. It's still one of our goals though so we'll get it! 

But yeah as you can see we had an amazing week. Everyone's so amazed at us. But yeah we've found a lot of really great people. One lady from Brazil mom! Her name's Denisse and she had actually taken lessons from the missionaries before, and knows the church is true! Her problem is just that she isn't married and is living with her boyfriend and he didn't want to get married. So the missionaries that were teaching her dropped her. But we picked her back up and now he actually wants to get married! So miracles!!!! And she watch general conference at home!!! So great.

Also we re-fecha-ed Hassan! He's gonna get baptized It's his plan. But he's completely quit smoking (yesterday actually was his first day of not smoking anything!) and we've asked him very specifically if he sees a difference in his life or not, (he said yes) and we asked him why and he had all the right answers (like he's happier, he feels the spirit, people are asking him why he's changed, he doesn't have bad thoughts anymore). So it's back and forth with him. But for now he's got his fecha for October 19! We'll see!

And then miracle of Jalindy and Consuelo! They're actually references from members! And we met with them (Consuelo is the mom and Jalindy is the 12 yr old daughter) and taught an AMAZING lesson 1. The spirit was sooo strong. And then we invited them to be baptized and they both said yes! Which was fun because then we talked to the members who gave us the referral and they were shocked. It was funny. But yep October 21! Ben's birthday! :))) The dad loves us as well, but he has no interest in listening. We're trying though! 

Also I have a new love for empanadas. LOVE. THEM. We ate a lot this week haha it seems like the whole world wanted to make us empanadas. All good with me they're delicious. So good times.

Also remember Angela? Who had a baptismal date in my first couple weeks in Catarroja? We found her again and are going to meet with her on Tuesday. She's read the entire Book of Mormon from the last time that we met with her to now. So. There's that she's great.