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It happened! It finally happened! Jean Pool got baptized. It was a crazy week, mildly inefficient, but he got baptized. I´m so excited! This week has been so crazy. So one thing that you have to do is have daily contact with your investigators right? And Jean Pool doesn´t have a cell phone which meant going and visiting him every day. Which was super time consuming because he lives on one polar side of our area. And our area is huge. And of course all of our references were in the opposite side of the area. Love that. But the good news is, he got baptized, and this sunday he got confirmed! I´m so happy for him. His family really is great. And they are slowly but surely progressing too. His dad is reading in the Book of Mormon, and his sister Noelia is reading, and we had a lesson this week and she just blurted out I want to get baptized! Which totally made my night. And overall, this week was exhausting.

Well, that was the highlight. Other fun stories include - we had a training this week. All the Hermanas were invited so I got to see Hermana Whitehead and Hermana Gonzalez! We were mildly distracted during lunch, it´s a good thing we didn´t have spirtual homework to be working on during that time, because we were so not practicing. To be fair we were talking about our areas, but it was more with the spirit of laughter and good cheer than the spirit of reverence and revelation receiving. Maybe there was a bit of both. But the super fun part of this training is that the Buenos Aires North Mission is going to be a draft mission for this new program called Capillas Abiertas. It´s this program that got started in Mexico, where there is a small program in the chapel, followed by a guided tour by the missionaries. And there are posters and explanations, and then at the end there´s a table to write out references. It worked really well in Mexico, they had on average over 400 people show up, most of which were not members. And the sister missionaries are the ones that will head up the touring and the program. Probably because we´re more pretty than the Elders. The Elders are in charge of inviting people in to the capilla. Anyways, so that´s something that´s going to be starting up soon. I´m excited to be a part of it and see how it changes finding people in Buenos Aires.

And! This week we had interviews with the President. Which was super fun in that we received all of our pedidos (finally), we have been out of the Restauracion folleto for nearly all of this transfer. The only close call was that the President nearly skipped me being interviewed. He was super stressed out, so it´s not that big of a deal. Just kind of funny. I never really know what to expect or what I should do in the interviews. They are like Personal Priesthood Interviews, right? Well, regardless, it was short, but spiritually uplifting. I came out of it very edified. So that was good.

Sorry this e-mail is so random. We didn´t find a whole lot of people this week because we did have a lot of trainings, and we focused a lot on Jean Pool: We did find this new family. A mom and her son, they are reading in the Book of Mormon, and praying, and are super humble. They want to learn more and are willing to make changes in their lives. We just have to make sure that they understand what knowing that the Book of Mormon is true means.

One fun story before I jet. So, we´ve been contacting all of those references from the CCM, right? and this one contact was "de oro!" So we go to contact "Juan" and it ends up being a woman named Florence, who´s Buddhist. Super funny, because we´re trying to contact her and share our message with her and she keeps saying "Como? What?" and finally she just started chewing us out. "Look, I´m from Argentina, I speak Castallano, I don´t know where you are from but you need to go back to your country, because I can´t understand a word you are saying." And I know I was speaking spanish, so she really can´t say anything. The good news is I was able to hold in my laughter until after she closed the window on us. She may have told us to go back to the united states like 3 times. I can´t remember. But it was funny.

Anyways, I hope you are all doing well. I pray for you often. The church is true! I know it, con todo de me corazon!

Love you,

Hermana Reed