December 18, 2023
Hola hola!!
We had transfers this week and...Hermana Thompson came to Sarandi del Yi with me!! She was my companion 2 transfers ago in Florida and now we're here in Durazno together as hermana liders. She's my bestie!!! The people here kinda don't like to understand gringas but vamo arriba, we're totally sufficiently fluent! 
This week we just worked a lot with our friends, had district council, hermana zago said bye to people : (, and we sweated a lot!
It is rainy and stormy right now! Apparently, a huge storm hit Argentina/part of Uruguay. Where I'm at it hasn't been bad but we're praying for all of those affected by the storm! The hard thing here is that most people don't have great roofs so everything just gets all wet when it rains
We have a fun, busy, travel-filled week this week so that'll be fun and tiring!
I loved this quote I read this week from the talk Do You Want to Be Happy by Elder Choi
"...it is never too late to turn our hearts to Heavenly Father for help. Elder Paul V. Johnson taught us: “When we follow Satan, we give him power. When we follow God, He gives us power.”
So so true!! It's never too late! God loves us. He doesn't want us to obey Him to be giving Him power, but so that we have power! I am so grateful for the commandments and for the covenants, we can make with our Heavenly Father!...speaking of covenants.....this guy, Andres, has gone to church like 30 times here but then disappeared off the face of the earth cuz he works out in the country, showed up to church yesterday asking to finally be baptised!! So we'll have his baptism on Christmas eve!! Such a cool miracle to see how God has a plan and this is His work. When we set our goals, we can trust that He will help us accomplish them even in ways we dont expect. We have the goal to have a baptism this month and had a little kid on date for the 30th. Well yesterday we ended up having to move the kids baptism to January but todo bien because God was preparing Andres' heart!!
Our friend Federico also made a lot of progress this week saying that after years of missionaries and his wife telling him to read the book of mormon if he had doubts or questions, he kept finding it around so he finally sat down and started reading. He said he also prayed to have tranquilidad in his job that day and he really felt it!! His testimony is growing and hes been coming to church with his not yet wife and cute toddler! Theyll be an eternal family one day!
I hope you all have a fun and safe week leading up to Christmas!! Light the world with your light, love, and service!!
Remember Cristo siempre.
Love you all muchisimo!
Hermana Bailey
Spider count: we legit have a cockroach problem and they are big
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