Buenas Dias!

Como estan todos? Les quiero mucho! Everything is well in the Grove. Not much exciting happened this last week. We had interviews with President on Wednesday. It went really well;I always enjoy meeting with President. And the best part was that we FINALLY got to be the first group, which meant that we got to go out and work that day! SAWEET. It was a good day!

We found a family at the beginning of the week and went back to teach the mom and daughter again. It went really well. She read in the Book of Mormon and she read more than what we left. She said she knows the Book of Mormon is true and that the church was restored, and that Joseph Smith was a prophet; BUT she's still Catholic as of right now and she's not ready to change. We invited her to be baptized anyway and she said no, BUT she said she wants to come to the baptism this weekend.

Karoly, Andrea's mom, is getting baptized... Again! She was baptized when she was nine, but now she has to be baptized again because we can't find her records anywhere. Apparently they didn't get taken care of right the first time. Anyway, it's been fun teaching her, and we are getting ready to teach her and her husband the Word of Wisdom this weekend. We are trying really hard to reactivate her husband.

It's so great to see the changes in the lives of the people we teach and get to know. Sometimes its hard and it feels like you aren't making a difference in the lives of the people, but I was reading in the new Ensign about the sister who faithfully did her visiting teaching assignment, even though she never thought she was making a difference. By the end, when the less active sister she was asked to visit was getting ready to move, she thanked her visiting teacher and told her that because of her love and friendship, her and her less active husband were going to go to church in their new ward. Sometimes I've felt the same way, that nothing I do makes a difference but it does. If it does nothing but plant a seed, that's good enough. I may or may not see the fruits of my labors, but I know that they haven't been wasted, and that goes for anyone who serves others.

Some more C.A.M.E. (Common Awkward Missionary Experiences)for today:
1. Talking to people thru ridiculous black or white security screen doors, with hundreds and thousands of little holes about this size -> O (NO JOKE!) You can't see who you are talking to 90% of the time, and sometimes you don't know where to even look; we don't know if we are looking at their face or above their heads or at their chest... it's so awkward, it's funny!

2. Walking around in the wind and your skirt starts to fly up; OR in the middle of a door contact! It's not even awkward anymore for me to do a swift movement to tuck my skirt inbetween my legs.

I love you all very much and I hope you have a great Labor Day and week!

Love always,
Hermana Bradfield