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Oh my gosh!!! This was the worst best week of my life!!! It was absolutely nuts!!! My companion wrote home what happened every day and I just might have to do that too!

Lets start and the beginning of it all....

Monday....

So monday was a great day! We got to write home and just kinda chill and then we went out to work. We had an appointment with M__________ and C__________ and the lesson was really weird. They always ask questions really deep and hard to answer, let alone in Spanish.  He asked us when we believe an embrio actually receives a soul..... uh ok... haha we explained to him that we believe its at the very start. He then asked a bunch of other questions that really have nothing to do with what we were talking. I was really frustrated. I was so ready to leave the lesson. I asked if there ws anything that we could do for them and they said to please keep coming and then he had a look on his face of deep consern and like he really really ment it. We told him absolutely.  I then asked if we could say a prayer and he said that he would like to..... O_o..... well it was our fault because we didn't teach him how a prayer is so he basically bore his testimony. It was so touching. He said that never in his life as he listened to other religions and other types of churchs, has he felt a peace and a desire to know more. And her we are 19 and 21 year old GIRLS teaching him basic gospel principles! It was cool!

So then after the lesson we went to O__________ and he told us that he got a job and he could not get bapized at the schedual time that we had the baptism. We then called V_________ and she couldn't do it the time he could so we set 2 baptism times on Saturday. No big deal.

Tuesday

Tuesday was really nice.  O_________ had his interview and it was a great day up until the night. We got home after working and found a few cockroaches in our apartment and so we decided to spray them with raid, well we found out that they came from our wall... we began to spray the wall and we went to bed.

Wednesday

We woke up in the morning and found 67 dead huge cockroaches on the floor throughout our apartment! I felt like I was in another world!!  I took a ton of photos but I am not going to send them because you guys acted badly the last pictures of cockroaches I sent because this story just gets worse. Well we called an exterminator and when he got there he said that it even smelt like cockroach... EWWWWW!!!! Well he ended up sprayed our apartment and we had to leave and sleep in La Banda.... I don't think I am not going to have a transfer without going to La Banda! haha Well right after we finshed sparying our apartment we went down with him. We live on the 3rd floor and at the very bottom in the hallway there is a big box in the floor that has all of the plumming underneath it. Well he told us to go outside and he used a CROWBAR to open it .  Me and my companion were so afraid because at that moment we knew what was underneath. As soon as he opened it, it was like New York City for them!!!! DISGUSTING! So he sprayed the crap out of them and a good 300 tried to escape in the hall.... After he was done, he closed the lid and climbed in his car and drove away.... LEFT THE MESS!!!!!! We felt so bad that there were a good 300 dead cockroaches in the hall of our apartment building so we went to sweep them up.... I prayed the whole time that the spirit would just shield my eyes from this battle scene!

So after it was all done we had about an hour before we had to head to La Banda so we went to the familia M____________... it was TERRIBLE! They were not respectful at all. We talked about the atonement and they then asked why can't we have wine instead of water... they know why.... just wanted another excuse to drink more wine than they already are. We are so mad at them! I think they noticed how disgusted we were with them because when we left, we didn't set an appointment to return.  We will pray and see what happens.

ok....

Thursday

was a good day. We taught Valeria. and this is where it is sad... we are no longer allowed to teach V_______ anymore.  Her mom forbids it and we can't do anything about it.  Her mom doesn't allow her to come to church.  She can't be with her boyfriend who is a member.... it is so sad and we are really bummed about it!

Friday

We had a ward activity and it was good.

Saturday

Well this is baptism day... it was a great morning.  We had a ton of banana bread for the baptism and about to start our studies and we got a text from O__________.  He said that he was not going to go to his baptism and that he was really confused.  He said that he couldn't drop his catholic habits. We dropped everything and ran to his house!!! He wasn't home... we called and called and called but he kept cutting off our calls! We talked to his mom and she said that he went to a park to play soccer. We found a taxi and asked him to take us to the nearest park. When we got there, he was not there. e were devastated. We had no idea what to do. We called V___________ and her mom had not signed the baptism form for her to be baptized.... at this point we had no baptism. We were stunned. We sat on a bench and prayed because everything is out of our hands and we needed to give it to the Lord. After the prayer we just sat there... about 5 min later V_____________ called us and said that her mom signed the paper!!! YAY!!! It was 2 hours before the baptsim!  The baptsim was great and her mom cried at parts. After the baptsim her mom said that she wants to talk to us this week!

This work is nuts! It drives me crazy and it makes my hair fall out BUT I have never felt the hand of the Lord in the things in my life! There is no way I could have done to prevent or to prepare me of what happened this week but it was an experience I will never EVER forget!!!!! That is why it is the worst, best week of my life!!!!!

We are not going to give up on O__________! I know that he is my purpose and that  that man will make it to the waters of baptism!

Love you all so very much and pray for you always!!!
Please keep a special prayer that we can find O__________ again and help him!
love
Hermana Creason