16 Days to go...

¡hola familia! i received my card and my birthday package! thank you for sending them! i had an awesome birthday last week and we took some good pictures. the Gil family is awesome and i am very grateful for all that they did for my birthday. the tacos were delicious too (because we cooked them) but we learned that martín is moving to chile with esteban really soon. i won`t be able to see the baptism... on tuesday we had a zone training. elder syddall and i planned and directed the meeting and it all went very well. we finished with a testimony meeting and it was a very special experience. our ward mission leader, hermano gomez, finally came back this week! i think that his influence is really going to help us to baptize his nephew, matias. we set another baptismal date for the 27th of october and we are praying that everything works out this time. he went to church and he enjoyed it so things are looking great. gabriel is a stud. this sunday he received the aaronic priesthood. he bore his testimony in sacrament meeting and i was impressed by how firm he is in the gospel. i know that he is going to stay solid in the church and i am very grateful to be a part of his conversion process. the ward is supporting him a lot and it is making a huge difference. his family is coming back to church. i really liked this scripture found in d&c 76:69 69 These are they who are ajust men made bperfect through Jesus the mediator of the new ccovenant, who wrought out this perfect datonement through the shedding of his own eblood. i am grateful that gabriel took things seriously and is ready to serve. carla and grober are going to get married in december. they need to take out a turn to be able to do it because getting married is very complicated here... but they are excited. they told us that carla is pregnant again so they are expecting another kid. they weren`t able to go to church this sunday. it might have been the rain but estan cumpliendo con sus compromisos por lo menos. they are praying together every day and they are reading the book of mormon. grober will get baptized shortly after their marriage. we didn`t find a lot of people to teach last week but we did receive some good references that we are excited about. we are looking forward to finding them this week. our ward is starting to go home teaching. it is part of the ward mission plan that we went over with the bishop and the priesthood holders are starting to get more involved. we went to help with some of the visits to help get the ball rolling. on saturday we went to clean a patio of this older woman that isn`t going to church. i cut the grass and my companion removed a ton of weeds. afterwards it started raining a ton and it rained all weekend. it is still raining and the streets were flooded. some streets we can`t cross because it is so deep with water! the mission office here in neuquen was flooded because of a leak in the roof and the sewage system erupted from the floors because it was so full of water! im just glad that nothing passed with our apartament :). i´m not sure what i want to study at byu... do i have to sign up for classes right now or can i wait until i get home? oh! and my driver´s licence is going to expire so i will have to get that renewed too! i love you guys! con mucho amor y ánimo, elder summers