Hello Amigos y Familia,

It has been a little hot here. I dont know how we are going to survive it when it gets hotter. I hear that this is ony the beginning. Our electricity is broken in our room so we had to change rooms so we could sleep with the fan on. We are also being eaten by mosquitos :) For some reason our blood is just soo sweet :)

Our Mission President said that we are not going to be in one area for more than two changes now (except for training). Which means that I am most probably moving in 3 weeks. I am excited but I am going to miss a lot of the friends that we have made here.

Our investigators are not really progressing except for Marcelo. He is a 8 or 9 year old boy who comes to church with his cousin who is a member. We visited him twice now. Our lessons have been a little long and they (we have been teaching his brother as well) get a little restless. We need to work on making them fit for children and only the important stuff. His brother Ramiro was at first really interested and he and his brother came to church every sunday without their parents and this was before we met them. We heard from their mother that the kids at school had been mean to him and called him a huevo. I am not sure exactly what that means but he seems to be avoiding us a little bit. We are sad because there is not much we can do to help. Except pray I guess.

Last week we thought we had a new investigator. We were really excited to go teach them but we didnt have a lot of time and they just had so many stories to tell and things to say. Either people dont say much or they just want to talk forever. I know they have faith but it is hard to teach when they dont want to listen. The other day we had divisions and my companion talked with this one man who is menos activo and she told me that he talked the whole time and it was frustrating. We went to go see him and this time we decided we were going to take charge of the visit right away. It kind of worked. We did get to teach about the book of mormon but he did get off topic a bit but we were good about bringing it back after a while. He said that he is going to start reading so that is good right? 

It is so different here, there is no cold weather or festive hot drinks. The other day we were talking to a group of boys and asked them why we celebrate Christmas, they didnt know. It was so sad! They thought it was to spend time with their familiies and have presents and have peace. I was so glad that we got to share that it was a celebration of the birth of our Savior. 

We have a problem with the young women. They are having a hard time feeling comfortable at church because there are some young women that are not very nice and a little judgemental. They dont want to come to church or activities because they think that they have to be like these 2 young women to be a good member of the church. I dont know what to do. If you are reading this letter, please be accepting of everyone that comes to church, it is hard sometimes and it is even harder when the people there are judgemental or unkind. Lets make the church a place of peace and friendship!

For my spanish, I think it has improved but I would really like a spanish only companion next time. Hna Christensen and I speak english most the time and I think that both of our spanish has gotten worse. Oh there was a baptism this weekend at the church for a member's son. It was great, very well done. We gave the L1.1 (the prayer) while they were getting changed after the baptism. There were quite a lot of people and I got a little nervous. I didnt do very well, but we did feel the spirit. It was a great time. 

Love,
Hna Beatie

Pictures are of our Christmas tree :) Credit goes to Hermana Christensen. And our hats!! I wasnt a hat person before but people seem to really like our hats! Score :)

The other one is of me and one of the recent converts in our area. Her name is Yuliana, she is sweet but not very good at getting up in for church haha