GANAMOS!!!!!

well i have not told you all about the competition that the mission has been in all transfer cause i did not want to jynx us. but with march madness in NCAA basketball. we in our mission do our own every year called locuro de marzo! and it is a huge competition. winner gets a t shirt and a dinner with president lindahl at his house. and our zone has torn it up all month and all transfer! and this last week was the championship round between us and a zone in mendoza. but we worked our butts off the whole zone and dominated and we found out that this morning we won by two points!!!!!! 357 points to chimbas and the zone villa de uco had 355. it was defintitly a locuro! but we won! and tomorrow we will be traveling down to mendoza to have lunch and to celebrate with president the whole zone together. just goes to show you when you put the alta boys together, we win championships! just like the old days!!! all three alta boys were in the same zone together and we just dominated and motivated the zone ultimatly to the victory of march madness! so byu did not win the BIG DANCE.... but CHIMBAS did win all of cuyo in argentina. it was way legit! i really felt like i was involved in a championship series like football or somethin. it was great.

in other notes. we had four people come to church on sunday it was really cool and a family of three suprised us and came then another girl showed up that we have been working with for a while. miracles trully were happening in albardon this last week! i loved it. not only that but i worked with a kid that just got baptized three weeks ago and i worked with him just him and i and it was great! we had some really great experiences and found a family that in the past four months two kids have passed away. a four year son drowned and then a month later there 18 year old daughter died one night just did not wake up the next day and the family still has not gotten a reason for why or what happened. it was really sad. and we found a man who used to be a profesional soccer player. so that was cool to.

but the high light of the week outside of finding out that we won was for sure going to the hospital on thursday! we went there with young men getting ready to serve a mission and looking for desires to do so. and we went to share a message with the patients and to sing hymns to them. and the spirit was so unbelievably strong! it is amazing how the hymns of the church do that. and the youth yesterday in church bore there testimonies and were in tears from the things and feelings that they experienced. we gave blessings. gave comfort and saw alot of smiles that people have not shown in a long time! i really loved it! one of the most special days i have had in my mission thus far in the time that i have! something i will never forget and always remember and enjoy!

thanks for everything that you do. i love you all and miss you. i got a package from ben and jenny thankyou so much i loved the pictures and things. thanks to everyone. take care and have a good week.

con amor y cariño

elder bigelow