food, conferences, and a hug

a standard Uruguayan food, the Milanesa. Its a massive piece of breaded and deepfried meat that they slap on a tiny bun and put on fried egg, ham, and a bunch of other seasonings and condaments and stuff. I love them, and they are super cheap ha. We baught one for every single missionary for the lunch at the zone conference 

a picture of all the people that showed up at the baptism of Miciela and Nicolas, this is more people than go to the sacrament meeting, so that was really awesome to see all of the support. Where is waldo? hector is also there, and the mom of nicolas and mikiela, who we are teaching and she wasnts to get baptized, but her husband does not want to pay to get married.

  this is my zone with president and hermana Da Silva at Zone conference

Elder vera, Marcos who baptized miciela, Miciela who got baptized (15 years old), Nicolas (12 years old but looks and acts like a 17 year old) who got baptized, Michiel who baptized nico, and me.

This was a really good week. At the beginning of the week we had my first zone conference as a zone leader here in Las Piedras. it was a special zone conference because it was the last one for President and Hermana DaSilva before they end their missions. It was cool because they showed a bunch of graphs and stuff that illistrates the progress that the mission has had in the last 3 years. It was aweosme to hear their testimionies at the end. they are the best mission presidents in the world, and I will miss them when they leave, but also I am excited to see the new presidents come in. Haha it was funny because at the end of the conference when everybody was saying goodbye for the last time to them, the Hermana gave evey missionary an hug!!! it was a conflicted feeling that i felt, but I figgured that since the president was standing right next to me it was OK ha. So thats the first time i have let a woman hug me in a year and a bit...

 

We are really happy because we will have 2 miracle baptisms this weekend! Illtell you all about them next week when they get baptized. We are also seeing a lot of progress in the way that the ward is supporting us in the work. Its hard in this ward to work with the ward leaders, because they are not overly relyable (for example this last sunday none of the 3 members of the bishopric showed up to church), but they are really good people. We keep on doing our best to get them to participate.

 

Well, please pray for Pamele and Coti (the baptisms for this weekend) so that they can stay firm.

 

Elder wilson