Hola!!!

Hey everyone!

    This week was really awesome! Valentin and Junior passed their baptismal interviews yesterday!! We are so excited for them to get baptized this Saturday!! They've been waiting for this day for a long time! I feel so blessed that they picked us to teach them. They are so awesome. 

    In other news, we were walking down the street the other day and this lady right in front of us started yelling. This guy was attacking her and we thought it was a boyfriend and girlfriend having problems. Then he started hitting her and he grabbed her phone and ran. She was screaming way loud and ran after him and they both ran right in front of us. But he got caught by a cop and like 10 other people running after him. It was also the middle of a day on a busy street. Not very smart of him if you ask me. 

    We also had a spider named Franco that appeared this week. He was as big as my hand!!!! The biggest spider I've ever seen. Sadly we killed him. Poor guy. But he was scary.

    Anyways, I hope you guys are doing well! I love getting your emails! I´m sorry I don´t always respond. I have like a super limited amount of time here. 

Love you all!!

-Hermana Stewart

Franco!

Our first Kinder Eggs because they are illegal in the U.S.

Valentin, Hermana Degolyer and I

The Costanera

P-day at the River

Rio Uruguay

**This is Maren's mom** 

I asked Maren a few questions:

Her favorite food so far is helado. (Which is ice cream). 

She eats a lot of bread and meat. 

There is a sister that cooks for them occasionally and she makes awesome food. Her name is Hermana Walingre. She makes awesome fruit salad and she made them amazing gnocchi last week.

They mostly walk or take the Collectivo (bus).

It takes 20 minutes to get to church walking.

She washes all of her clothes by hand.

She says there are stray dogs and cats everywhere! 

Their branch has on average around 30 people but last week it rained so only 15 people were there. 

She is loving it! She said the river was beautiful but she got a little too much sun. 

Her apartment just got an AC unit installed right before she got there. (This is very lucky seeing that the temperatures have been in the 80's & 90's with 80-100% humidity)! 

She emails us from a Cyber cafe. She said "it's like a dirty Chuck E. Cheese, you can feel yourself breathing in the spores." Haha!