This Week

well we had our interviews with president last monday after i got done emailing you. and WOW!!!! it was amazing!!! the spirit was so strong and the things that he said to me were and are so special to me. it was one of the most memorable and nicest things i have had in a long time.

we had a really good week this week. we had a baptism on saturday and it went really well. it was of this 16 year old kid and he is a totall capo!! he also recieved the aaronic priesthood yesterday and will be blessing the sacrament next week and has a strong desire to serve a mission. he is a real stud and am way happy for his desicion. his name is lucas. and we found him last transfer. we were walking in the streets and found his mom and stopped her after crossing back and forth on the street two or three times to stop her and talk to her. so we finally did and we started just teaching her then we got him involved and now he is baptized and we are having a harder time with the mom becasue the goes to church that is right infront of her house. she claims to have prayed and read the book of mormon and not felt anything and it is to far for her to walk to church it is just to easy for her to go infront of the house. it is a little tough. but we are still working with her and the plan is to have lucas baptize his mom here in the next couple of weeks. so we will see what we can do.

we are still working with a couple in active families and the other day we were on divisions and i was working in my own area and i found a inactive family with a ton of kids and stuff that are not baptized. but the dad wont let them get baptized. we had a super spiritual lesson with them and put a fecha to get baptized with one of the daughters that is really smart and has her head on straight. she is very intelligent and understood everything very well. but the dad said no to her coming to church and to be baptized. she is 14 so she has to have his permission. i just wanted to cry when i heard theat the next day when we went by to visit. i was so excited, then so sad. it was hard but we are going to give up. we just need to find the dad and get him to have confidence in us and realize the importance of this and for her and the family. he is not a member, nor has any interest in religion. he thinks it is all politics and we are just out campaigning for the mormon church.... really hard in the head but we will keep up the faith and see what we can do.
so on saturday at the baptism, the girlfriend of lucas came and she cried at the service then came to church and cried during the testimonies that were givin (which were way good) and now wants us to teach her to and help her. so we are really excited for that to see what we can do there and if we can help her to have this same happiness.

this week, tomorrow i go to mendoza again for a meeting with all the leaders in the mision with elder adukitis from the 70. he is one of our area authorities and is here in the mision and wants to have a meeting with all the leaders in the mision. so that will be good. kinda scared though cause i here he drops some serious cane!!! he is from brazil and he gave one of the prayers in conference so that is cool. and elder anderson from the 12 will be here soon to dedicate the ground in cordaba for the temple and might come visit our mission but we dont know for sure. so lots of excitement going around the mission right now. especially cause we are going for record breaking numbers this year. trying to baptize 1000 by the new year. and we are doing pretty well and on track. so we will see.

but all is good i miss you all and am very excited for all that is happening there with you. when do you have to plan the weeks for the house boat cause i want to go sometime when i get home... but we will talk more about that later. miss you love you take care

con amor
elder bigelow