Hello everyone!  I love you all!  This week we had someone accept our baptismal invitation - he´s eleven years old and his family is all members, but inactive.  To get baptized, he has to come to church at least three times, so we are working with his family to do this. It´s really exciting! I hope that his family will start attending regularly as a result of this.

We´ve also been teaching an older women who is basically Mama Odie.  She´s the woman whose aunt I sang too.  She´s awesome and lives in a house that kind of looks like Mama Odie´s, minus the snake and the bathtub of gumbo, but she does have about eleven cats.  She´s hilarious and loves when we teach her.  She loves everything we teach and acts like it is the most natural thing in the world and that it is absolutely beautiful and wonderful, but I really don´t know how she really feels about it.  We invited her to baptism and she didn´t respond for forever and then said, chica, I can´t promise much.  She can´t leave her house because she cares for her aunt, so I really don´t know what´s going to happen to her.  She is incredibly confusing but I love her and she acts like I sing like a star on Broadway.  She keeps telling me I have the voice of Julie Andrews in the Sound of Music, which is an enormous exaggeration, but apparently the Sound of Music is bound to follow me, even when I´m not telling people my name is Liesl.  

This week has been exceedingly rainy, and I sleep in an attic room that looks like Sarah Crewe´s attic room in A Little Princess (minus an Indian man with a monkey living across the way), so I fall asleep every night to the rain just pounding the roof.  One morning I woke up around four because the wind was howling furiously and I was positive the roof was going to collapse under the rain and wind.  It´s incredible.  

The rain does mean it´s hard to get people to church though.  Most people walk, and when it´s pouring rain, no one is very motivated to get there.  

The language is still rather confusing.  Yesterday an investigator in Princples of Gospel class asked me something, and I couldnt´understand so I just said Sí.  I thought he might be asking if it was raining cause he was looking at the window.  Turned out he was asking me if I had ever done drugs (because we were talking about the word of wisdom).  Confusion ensued.  So basically I´m a wonderful influence. But it´s getting better! 

I love you all, and I want you all to know that I have an incredible testimony of this gospel and I have already seen it change lives, I´ll write more next time! love you all!