Armadillo and Fernando

the baptism of Fernando! 

a view from the balcony of our house. Vamo rriva ´guay.

If you want to know what spend a lot of time doing in the nights. Verifying with all of the district leaders that we have in the zone. Its a good experience to be able to speak with them every night, to be able to hear of all the miracles that are happening in the areas and be able to help them solve the problems that there are. 

Fernando got baptized! It was a great baptismal service.... in the end. We had to fight to get it to happen. What had happened is that we got to our church to fill the font with water (and it was absolutely freezing that day) and it turned out that there was no gas in the chruch to be able to turn on the water heater. So the tough choice we had to make was to baptize him in the cold water in our font (and wrisk him having a heart attack there in the water) or to mtry and move the service to the other church building in Las Piedras (here in Uruguay every church has its own baptismal font). In the end we decided to change the service to the other building where the water would be warm and had to spend the whole day running around the streets of Las Piedras arrainging everything for the baptism, and even even though it was a little complicatedin the end he got baptized in nice warm water. 

Another cool thing that happened this week is that i got to do an exchange with Elder Cannon who was my companion in the MTC. It was really fun to work together again (and also on our 1 year in Urugauy aniversery) and be able to see eachothers progress and remember all of hte good times that we had in the MTC. 

challenge of the week, hearing all about the Olympics and not being able to see any of it, but thats OK. 

Food of the week -  Armadillo. more like chicken than cow. It kind of freaked me out to walk into the house and see a whole armadillo sitting there on the table. Wish I had brought my camera. 

Also, this could possibly be my last week in Las Piedras. The changes come next sunday, so I will have to keep you all updated on what happens. 

I know that the church of Jesus Christ has been restored, and that Tomas Monson is the living prophet of God. I have been loving reading in the General Conference talks and pondering over the words of the apostles. Their lives and testimonies are my example. 

Elder Wilson.