Wherein Sadie Speaks on Mother's Day

 May 15, 2023

Hola! Just out here living a happy happy life as a missionary in Uruguay! I'm still here in 33 with la hermana heyborne and we are happy to have another transfer to work here in barrio Plaza together! So exciting!!

This week we said bye to some of our district that were leaving the area which was sad and then we had a lil fomo not going to cambios but then we got new missionaries in our zone and it's been fun to get to know them! My líder de distrito is from manti, ut so that's cool! And my hermana leader from my training in pan de azucar is now one of my hermana leaders here and I love her! they opened an area of hermanas too so now theres 6 hermanas in 33!

We invited our friend Ana to be baptized and tried to be pretty direct about how she's not on the path until she's baptized but she's still holding back. She's so close and has the strongest testimony but just wants to be so sure of it. And its been this way for a long time. Please pray for Ana to take this step of faith! we want her to be baptized so badly, we don't want to stop teaching her, but she needs to be growing her faith!! and this is that next step!

Most of our friends aren't really progressing much and we may need to turn our efforts and time to finding new friends but just yesterday and today we've had 2 member referencias and I have a good feeling about them!! And all 5 of our recent converts in this area were at church yesterday so that's great! We also found a girl named Camila, turns out she has been going to another ward here in 33 because her boyfriend is in that ward and the elders have been teaching her there lol! those thieves haha! not sure we'll really fight to have her though even though she's in our area, because we are just happy for her!

we had another stake choir practice and i'm happy to report my companion and i have still not been kicked out! The poor new missionaries in the zone however did get a little hit to their self esteem from our querido director, josue! its just like a solid hour of second hand embarrassment and just trying to laugh everything off and fly low. its awesome.

I spoke in church yesterday! and tomorrow I'm giving a capacitación in district council!! Then we have a multizona in Maldonado on Thursday so it should be a great week!! 

Feliz día de la madre to all of the great examples in my life! Love you all! 

you should read the talk by elder Uchtdorf called Our Heartfelt all!! 

Hope you are all doing well!! Let me know if there's anything I can do for you!! Keep me updated on your lives!

con todo mi amor,

Hermana Bailey 

Spider count: bout fell out of my chair and said a not awesome word in the middle of a zoom call with the zone because a big and fast spider crawled into my scriptures

Pictures: disfruten!

Last district council, mi querida hermana Escobar finished her mission, sad because our zone leader left and our zone was changing, I'm a uruguayo gaucho , morning workout turned Burrito, service cleaning a ladies house, massive dessert at lunch, waiting for our taxi about to throw up in the streets-we have stomach problems from eating carbs y nada más, toilet paper lol, feliz día de la madre!!, a member that knows family friends from utah, cooking, hermanas de 33 mi primer cambio!!