Hola Everyone!!

Well lets start out with this. I have the crappest keyboard I have ever touch in my life right now and it is horrible to try to type on so I don´t know that this is going to be to long of a letter.

So this week we worked hard. We tried really hard to meet all of our goals and to find new investigators and to help people on their path to Christ. On the other hand it was difficult because I think almost everyone of our investigators didn´t keep any of their commitments which is hard and we are going to try to figure something else out to do different this week so that we can better help our investigators meet their commitments. So I´ll start out with the not so happy and then move into the miracles of the week.

The Family Paniagua I think I talked a little bit about them last week and how they have so much potentiontal and we are really working hard to help them on their journey. Well this week has been really really rough with them. We love them to death and because of that we haven´t dropped them yet even though we probably should have by now. The ones that aren´t baptized just won´t keep any of their commitments and the 18 year old boy, Pablo who we thought had the most potential told us this week that he has no interest in finding out about our religion which was quite hard to hear. We are going to teach him one last lesson and see what he has to say afterward and if he still has no want then we will just have to let him go. The mother, Ramona, has just been rude like yesterday she was not saying very nice things about me because she really liked the hermana that was here before me and she was upset they transfered her. Well I could understanda nd her daughters were like ¨mom you need to stop that isn´t very nice¨ and she was like ¨she can´t understand anything that is going on anyways¨. But we are really frustrated with her and have just basically given up on her. Celso, the dad, is still showing a little bit of promise. He sat us down this week and said he is sick of doing bad things and wants to change so we are going to try to help him do that.

The next not so happy thing was yesterday. Sunday was a really rough day for us. We had 9 investigators commited to coming to church and 3 less active families and so we were really excited about church and about all the experiences these people were going to have. So we made a plan for each person individually and let the person know what was going to happen Sunday morning. Then we were originally going to get 4 cars to drive around town and pick people up but then we didn´t have time so we just got two cars. Well I went in one car after 5 of our most promising investigaotors and Hermana Knapp went in the other car to get two families of less active and the other 4 investigators. Well all of mine I stood and clapped and claped and clapped outside their doors and called them and called them and called them and none of them would answer and so we just headed back to the chapel. When we got their hermana Knapp was there with just one investigator and everyone else just hadn´t come and it was really really sad. The investigator is one of our miracles and I¨ll talk about her in a minute. But she ended up leaving half way through sacrament meetingbecause she just couldn´t stay awake any more because she had owrked all night long at a hotel the night before. So we were really grateful she at least came for a little bit.

now for the miracles.

#1: Maria Gloria: This lady is amazing. Hermana Knapp and Hermana Little had contacted her like two weeks before I got here and because she is super educated and works hard iwht her girls and everything they really wantead to teach her. Well since I¨ve been here we have stopped by her house almost everyday and she is never there or she is helping her little girls practice the violin or do homework and never had time to talk to us. Well FINALLY this week she was there and we could talk with her. She is an absolute miracle in our lives!!! She was for sure prepared by the lord. Before she wouldn´t let us in becuase she wasn´t intersted but lately her daughter has been asking a lot about the chapel they pass everyday as their are pulling out of their neighborhood and why there are so many churchs and why people believe different things and such. Maria Gloria said that because of these questions she has been trying hard to figure things out. So she let us in. We explained everything that we usually explain which is the bare minimum because most of the people down here don´t understand much past that. Well she then asked how we know that we have the true church. What makes our church different, what makes us think that our church is lead by God and such things. Well that was perfect we showed Amos 3:7 and then talked about prophets and Joseph Smith. We then shared the first vision and afterwards we asked her how she was feeling and she said that she felt wonderful and a sense of peace that she had never felt before. She said that was happened to Joseph Smith was marvelous and amazing!! Then we talked to her a little about the Book of Mormon. And once again, how did he have the power to translate this, who is Mormon, How does it work with the bible, What does it teach. All the perfect questions and we explained the restoration of the priesthood and the authority of God and then talked about the Book of Mormon and all the prophets there. She then left to get us some water and we decided to give her a chapter to read. We aksed if we could see her book of Mormon to mark some chapters and she said, why are you going to mark some chapters? I just want to read the whole thing. How about you guys give me two weeks to read it and then come back and we can talk about it, I want to learn all the prinicples and all the things it teachings before we talk about it just so I can better understand. We were like yeah you can read the whole thing!! Then we sent up an appointment for this Tuesday just to see how everything is going and answer any questions she may have and such. She was an absolute miracle in ourl ivesa nd we are quite excited to have her has an investigator!!!

Next we have Mary. We were teaching one of our investigaotrs Laura and Mary just came over because she saw a goup of people gathered, this was actually a cool lesson because people just kep coming and joining in. But then we set up an appointment with her Saturday and we had a really good lesson with her. She lives in Yukyty which it a little super super super poor village we have in our area. After the first lesson on Joseph Smith she shared with us that her husband left a month and a half ago to work somewhere else in the country and she hasn´t heard from him and she is sick and she doesn´t have any money and she has her two kids that she is really worried about and how she needs something like this church in her life to help her and to make her happy because she really does feel that what we taught her really did happen. She is so humble and her kids are the cutest things in the world!!! She alreadfy has a strong testimony and tries really hard. Sunday Morning she came home slept for 45 minutes and got up and bathed her kids and got them ready for church and she came for as long as she could stay awake. We have a lesson with her later this week so hopefully things go well!!

Next we have our less active families they are amazing. We have the Familia Gauna and teh Familia Petruchelli who are just amazing. They have both commited to coming back to church and to owrk toward being sealed as a family in the temple. WE had a lesson with both of them yesterday and they were amazing strong lessons!! I really think they are going to change. And Hermana Gauna made us lunch and we had raost beef, mashed potatoes and salad and I felt like I was at home it was just great!!

Well the language is ok. I´m understanding more andm ore every day and my verb conjugations are getting bette. I¨m acutally understanding when to use them and such., I can definitly feel the Lord´s help in this. Everyone always asks us how we learned SPanish so fast and we just tell them it´s a gift from the Lord, because it truly is!!

Love
Hermana Hubbard