May 26th

Dear Family,

Happy Birthday Jefferson, Hillary, Anna...and now Duncan. Duncan did a good job at choosing days: he was born on my companion's birthday. I know Anna would have rather had him been born for Megan's B-day, but if he's going to take his time, he might as well choose a significant day to be born. Congratulations Anna, Grant and Jeff! Good Job Anna at bringing another beautiful Nephew into the world.

So this last week went well. We finally found someone who wants to get Baptized, her name is Sulma Gonzalez, she is a single mother who has been divorced, she has had a lot of trials in her life and she really wants to get baptized, she keeps asking: "what else do I have to know to get baptized". Right now she's working on overcoming a smoking addiction, so if you would pray for her that would be great.

It's amazing to see how much the gospel can change a life. Even in just the two weeks that we've been working with her, she has changed a lot; when we first entered into her house, she was very sad and confused. She has a lot of faith in God, but she's had a lot of very bad experiences in other churches, and she became so confused how people calming to represent God could have such bad fruits. This confusion has begun to leave, like a huge Ice cube beginning to melt in the warmth of the Gospel light. She is beginning to smile more, to focus on the good parts of life; the gospel has changed her, every time we leave she asks, "when will you be coming back?" There will still be a couple of hurdles before she gets baptized, but the Lord has been blessing us, and I expect we'll see her baptized on June 6th. Yeah!

Oh yes, Sorry this email is late. Yesterday was a huge holiday here, may 26, basically the Argentine 4th of July, and all of the stores were closed, we couldn't find an Internet cafe open, so we got permission to write home today.

I love you all!

sincerely,

Elder Reynolds