Just Kidding I still have Hermana Paredes as my companion :) But here is a picture of a cute little girl in our ward.
The primary had a lesson about missionary work at church and so all the little kids had name tags that said "Future Missionary" (in english 
) but they were all so excited to be missionaries and they asked to take pictures with us because they were missionaries too. This is what it must had felt like with the missionary age change in 2012. I still feel like I am this 6 yr old girl trying to figure life out. One of the primary kids told me "when I am 30 years old like you I want to be a missionary!!!!!' I wanted to tell him, "Don't look now but as soon as you are in primary you are on a mission! Life is going by way too fast."
The work in Puerto Rico is going well we are getting rained on a lot and so my hair is always a little frizzy but I love it. It's the island life ;) I have been learning a lot about patience and the agency of others. I think being on a mission really gave me a better eternal perspective. We are out here doing the best that we can and then there is nothing we can do when someone uses their agency in their own way. The members are doing their best to help us out but once again we are all imperfect people. which reminds me of a good talk by President Russel M. Nelson called Perfection Pending ----https://www.
Everyone that we are teaching is doing well. We have a baptism scheduled for this Sunday after church for Rafael :) he is doing so well and it has been a journey to get him to accept a baptismal date and to quite smoking but he is doing well and I am really proud of him :)
We had someone read us Anti-Church literature in one of our lessons and it talked about some really weird things that "we worship 6 main Gods" an that "Mormonism believes Jesus Married 3 women" but the part that they couldn't get over was that it said Joseph Smith was 18 when he saw the vision and not 14. Somehow that was the part that really got them that we "got the age wrong when we explained the first vision" We asked them if they read the Book of Mormon and they said no because it was not inspired by God....... But they really loved this other book and they read it 6 times in the week that we last saw them!!!!!
Anyways, I know the Book of Mormon is inspired by God and is evidence that the Church of Jesus Christ was restored on the earth. I love Jesus Christ with all my heart and I am SO grateful that I have this opportunity to share what I know and to learn more than I ever though possible :) Please take the time to read from the Book of Mormon and ask God if it is true. Please don't be these people who took HOURS to read something that invited hate and conflict.
I LOVE YOU ALL!! PLEASE DO GOOD THINGS :)
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