Day 202

¡Hola Familia!
pablo was finally baptized yesterday. we didn´t go because we didn't hear about it until after the baptism when our zonies called us. pablo was baptized in a different ward. it has been a very busy week and i´m getting tired... we had lots of lessons this week and we found 16 new people. i really want to baptize this transfer so i can send e´suarez to his house happy :). i´m doing my best to help him finish strong this transfer and i think that we are going to meet our goals.
thank you for sending the cookie recipe! i am going to use it soon because i really enjoy cooking. the other day we learned how to make facturas. it takes a long time to cook them because we need to let the dough rest a lot (and we didn't allow it much time) and our facturas didn´t turn out too well but they were still pretty good. we made an apple cream to put on the facturas and sprinkled some coconut arriba. buenísimo. things are going well here in zapala and the district is going to primeros pinos today. i bought lots of chorizos and we are going to eat sandwiches there. im not sure where it is but i heard it is very beautiful and we are going to have a great time. its about a half hour drive and a member is going to bring all 6 of us in his van. it's going to be pretty fun and im excited to go. the district is working very hard and i think we all need this today. i don´t have any pictures today but last week we went to cerro michacheo again. apparently, if i climb the hill 3 times and tap the cross at the top, i am ´´condemned´´ to stay here in zapala and marry an argentine woman. me falta una vez, no mas :) ¡jajaja!
on saturday, our dog followed us all day. she actually came into a house with us but the family didn´t say anything. i´m pretty sure our dog is mormon but it didn´t say anything during the lesson. it never testified! fa! she just stood there next to me and then for other houses she just waited outside. we had to defend the dog from all of the others that tried to attack it and it was a pretty interesting day. yesterday the dog followed us to church and waited outside for 3 hours. i´ll have a picture with the dog next week but i think we will be better about leaving the dog behind during the day. it was pretty funny.
mollie- congratulations! i can´t believe you are graduating this week! i will be thinking of you on wednesday hoping everything goes well. are you guys going to go out to eat? you should eat a nice big doughnut, or a chipotle burrito for me. you don´t have to do that on wednesday but sometime this week. and send pictures!
this week, i enjoyed reading alma 44:4. for me, that chapter is one of the coolest in the BoM when Moroni´s armies are surrounding the lamanitas and moroni declares that God helped them to defend themselves.
4 Now ye see that this is the true faith of God; yea, ye see that God will support, and keep, and preserve us, so long as we are afaithful unto him, and unto our faith, and our religion; and never will the Lord suffer that we shall be destroyed except we should fall into transgression and deny our faith.
I really love this scripture because it reassures me that He will always help us with our challenges if we stay faithful. this week, we were invited to la iglesia evangelica and it was just us and the pastor. we talked about our religions and our similarities and then things got a little tense because he said that there are no prophets and there is no need for a book of mormon because we have everything that we need in the bible. it was awesome how i always knew exactly what to say and i really feel like I did have that support from God. the way that scriptures popped into my mind or my wording was perfect for the moment is another testimony to me that we have that authority from God and i am grateful for this opportunity to defend it. when i read alma 44:4, i thought of that time we spent with ´´pastor daniel´´ and i know that i can never deny our faith.
now i have to go, but i want to tell you all that i love you and that i know this is the true church of jesus christ. ¡disfruten la proxima semana y cuidense!
con mucho amor y ánimo,
elder summers