Hi everyone!!

Well we had another good week... Actually not as good as we have been having, but it's alright... They made a bunch of changes in the mission. My whole mission we have had to do 140 contacts every week. 15 lessons with member 15 other lessons... lessons with less active members and recent converts... Anyway they changed it so that we only have to do 50 contacts now, still 15 lessons with member... but we aren't reporting the numbers for the less actives or recent converts, and there's no ''standard of excellence'' as it's called, or mission-wide goal for other lessons. They want us to pretty much completely work with the members. Getting references from them of their friends and family who would be interested in the Gospel. AND for our zone only, President Martinez told us that this month of November, we aren't allowed to knock a single door!!! Soooo, yeah, it's different! Usually when appointments fall through, and back up plans and everything we knock. To try to find new investigators. But now we can't knock haha so we go to members' houses trying to get more references and working with them. It's been... interesting. But I know the best way to do missionary work is through references. We received more than 50 references from members last week, now we just need to contact them all! It's hard to do though because we want to go with the member to do it, so it's not just random missionaries contacting them but rather their friend with the missionaries. They're more likely to listen to us you know? But the hard part is these members all have lives, like working and studying or whatever, and they don't have all that much time to come with us to meet their friends. So, we will see how that works out, hopefully this week will be better...

Renato told us last week that he told the Catholic church he works at ''Don't count on me next Sunday because I'm going to the Mormon Church.'' Hahaha. We loved it, so funny. BUT, his mother-in-law passed away like on Thursday... So he couldn't come to church. They were doing everything for the funeral and all that. Sad. We haven't seen him since last Monday so hopefully we can see him soon.

Anibal said he was going to come to church yesterday but didn't. Weird, he always does what he says he will. And if he can't he calls us. So, we don't know what happened there.

We found this new great investigator, her name's Patricia. She's about 30 and a single mom of a 5-year old boy, Cristobal. The Elders in the sector next to us contacted her a couple weeks ago, and she said they could stop by. But she lives in our sector so they told her we would come. Well, we went on Tuesday I think? and she was home and she is great!! Her dad is also investigating the church, and he told her about it he said it was really great and he likes it a lot, and she should look into it. So she was really receptive and loved what we shared with her.We went back again Wednesday with her and she said she wanted to come to church too. Her phone was off when we called to remind her about church, and she only partly committed to go. But we are hoping to see her again this week! :)

Great news from Villa Obispo, Maria Jose and Jorge got baptized!!!! The young couple where Jorge's parents and sisters are members... Yayyyyy!! Soo happy. Hermana Shelton called to tell me all about it. :) LOVE IT!! Their family is going to be a forever family once they go to the temple in a year or so. :) That's what the Gospel's about!

Today I finished the Book of Mormon in Spanish!! El Libro de Mormon. Woooo.

Also, oh, I cut my hair like 6 inches last monday!!! Hermana Barbosa convinced me, and I LOVE IT. I don't know why I never tried anything different, cause I've had long hair my whole life. But I really like it and I don't even miss my long hair like I thought I would. :)

We saw President this past week and he told us there are TONS more missionaries, and especially Hermanas, coming to our mission. I. Am. So. HAPPY! I heard a few weeks ago, that the church usually receives 600 missionary applications a week, but that the other week they received 7,000 many of them being sisters. LOVE IT!! Pres. says that by Feb or March we will have about 270 missionaries, right now we have 194. He also said that we will probably have 50 more Hermanas. This is amazing!! He said that probably one Hermana is going to have to train two at a time, because so many are coming! Hahahaha, crazy. I am so excited. This Gospel is going to all the earth, and tons more missionaries are leaving to preach it. :) :)

This week: Repentance.

The second step of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, after having faith in Him...

''God sent His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, into the world so that all of God's children would have the possibility of returning to live in His presence after they die. Only through the Savior's grace and mercy can we become clean from sin so that we can live in our Heavenly Father's presence'' (Preach my Gospel, p. 60).

Repentance is a change of heart. It is recognizing we have sinned or made mistakes, and confessing those sins and asking for forgiveness. It is made possible through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Through repentance, we can feel clean, whole, and happy.

I am out of time!! But I hope you all are well, and have a great week! No time to send a picture of my hair, hopefully you can wait a week to see it. ;)

Love you all,
Hermana Anderton

                                               us on the micro (bus)

                                                    David's baptism :)