Wherein Sadie Found her Homeless Friend Again!

 March 6, 2023

Hey, ya'll !!! Had a good week here in Uruguay! Hope ya'll had a good week!

Tuesday we had a district council here in Pan de Azucar. Then that night, WE FOUND OUR HOMELESS FRIEND MARIA INEZ again!! 

miracle been hoping and praying for that for weeks. She was with a friend we have that is evangelical and she sat there and testified of how the Book of Mormon is true to this friend.

Wednesday we had zone council in Maldonado. The missionaries in this zone are great and a lot of good work is happening! Then we had some lessons that night and visited the member that got hit by the car. We also saw him the next day dancing in the street. Haha, he's doing great! miracle

We also had really good lessons this week with members and Edinson, our friend in the hospital. He wants to go to church and be baptized and is in the process of changing his life around. miracle Please pray that he can get permission from the doctor to go to church and that he can stop smoking! 

Franco is crazy excited about his baptism!! March 12th! miracle

We are kinda stressing about working to help him be prepared. The struggle is that not many people in the rama care to support this very much and he literally relies on them to get to church. They keep doubting that he is ready but only one of them has been in a lesson with him and that person thinks he is ready. During this lesson, I invited him to pray to know for himself if it is true and he basically was like oh my gosh I've already told you I believe!! Lol. The members just say it's already a sacrifice to get themselves to church because they have to drive and that costs. Trying to be empathetic and understand their situations but also I don't think it should ever be viewed as a sacrifice to go to church. It's an opportunity to bless us more. Worried because this kid is ready to be baptized but this rama has basically a zero percent retention rate and they have no plans or desire to change that. They really do barely get themselves to church. Gonna keep working with them though. There are some great members that do help. Kinda complicated, but when it comes down to it, there's a 12 yr old boy who has a huge desire to be baptized and believes this church is true and we are not going to hold him back from that.

There was a Desfila/ parade for Carnival this weekend. We didn't watch it because it started at 9pm but that's where everybody and their 10 dogs were. Lol. 

We had a facetime call with Luzmila this week (her dad doesn't want us at their house) and she is literally an angel. She is so cute and she says the most profound things about the things she is learning. She was sooo happy to hear that the 8 yr old primary class in Idaho wrote her letters!! Just waiting till we are in person to show her and translate them for her. She was so happy to hear they did that! miracle

Yesterday was a great day at church. The testimonies were great, the Sunday school class was great, and more than 1 person showed up to the missionary correlation meeting lol. And.... ANA PEREZ CAME TO CHURCH!!! MIRACLEshe told us again this week that she didn't want a ride and that she didn't want us to walk with her so as we were approaching the church and didn't see her we were sad again but turns out....she had arrived at 8 and had just been patiently waiting there for an hour! Haha yes, she knew it started at 9...idk what she was doing. I think it's still gonna be a while to get her to baptism but we are so happy she finally came to church after like 6 yrs of talking to the missionaries. Thought we were almost going to have to leave her again.

This week we will have intercambios for a day and we are focusing on getting things ready for Franco's baptism. We also have a Multizone conference on Thursday so that will be awesome!

I have been sick this week so that's dope. Started with like crazy allergies sneezing so much then turned into a bad cough but I think ill get better haha so all is well. 

The weather has been pretty hot here this week but it cools off in the evenings!

Pan de Azucar is kinda the most legit area because it is beautiful!! Really pretty fields and also the mountain. And has the other area to visit which has one side on the beach and one side with a laguna. Very beautiful!MIRACLE

How are you doing? What's new in your lives? 

God is very good. Love you all very very much!

Hermana Bailey

Spider count: I didn't count, oops. Thank goodness no crazy big ones.

Pictures: 

Pretty View!

Sadie and Comp.

Sisters in the Zone!

Anna at Church!

Members at a lesson.