Buenos Dias :)

Hola Hola :D

Well all is well in good ol' Huntsville Alabama. It pretty much rained every day this week. Thank goodness for the blessing of a car and extra miles! And when I say every day... I mean EVERY day. It did make it a little cooler which was nice. 

We had the opportunity to meet our new mission president this week! He is pretty amazing. President Hanks used to be a big guy over the marriot hotel service so his business skills are pretty much one of the best. And he brings in such energy and wisdom into the mission! I am excited to get to work with him. We had a "meet the president" activity on Tuesday where he talked to us, and he's a pretty funny guy. He's definitely not President Holzapfel, but he knows that and it's definitely not a bad thing. We miss President Holzapfel, but we're excited for President Hanks :D Than we had Mission Leadership Council on Friday and got to meet with him and his wife again. His wife is so cute and so worried about doing a great job :) We know they are going to do great things.

Sorry for last weeks letter. I was discouraged last week, but I figured out why I was having such a tough time. My experience with discouragement and having a bad attitude has really helped me to help some of the sisters. I think I went through it just for that. It goes with the whole having empathy more than sympathy thing. A lot of our zone is just really discouraged lately and so we have been working on helping them increase their faith and patience :) The Lord always has a reason for the things that we go through, whether they be difficult or not.

And there are so many reasons to be happy!! Just look around us! There are so many blessings the Lord has given us! I had the opportunity to go to a baptism on Saturday of a 9 year old girl that some of the missionaries found and taught. A NINE year old girl! It is definitely true that the youth will lead them :) And her testimony is so strong! She will now be able to live her life with the gospel and the holy ghost  to lead and guide her in the struggles that she is sure to face. What a blessing! What a miracle :) 

We have one baptismal date for next Saturday of a daughter in the branch! Her name is Juanita. I think I wrote about her last week. Then we were tracting the other day in a trailor park that we just found and we stopped to talk to this cute family that was walking home and we talked a bit about walking and how we do a lot of it and as soon as I get "Somos representantes de Jesucristo..." out of my mouth, the mother says, come on with us to our house :) The whole family of 5 (Jaime, Martina, Cathy 12, Sofia 10, and Christofer 8) came to church on Sunday!!! Needless to say the branch was pretty excited. We have a Noche de Hogar (FHE) tonight at the branch presidents house with them :D We have high hopes for them.

Happy late Independence day P.S. We had fireworks going off left and right here on Thursday night. We went to a members house and had some Argentinan food for dinner. Not exactly Burgers and Hot Dogs, but it was delicious!!! And greatly appreciated.

Tomorrow we have zone training and our beloved zone leader, Elder Munns had to go into surgery on Thursday for cellulitis in his elbow. We have spent a couple of the last few days in the hospital with him and Elder Emmanuel to plan our zone training. Elder Emmanuel, bless his sweet little heart, is from Africa and has difficulty still speaking some English, so that leaves Sister Hazelgren and I to do most of the training since Elder Munns will still be in the hospital.... Just praying to the heavens above that the Lord will give me something to say to this zone that will get them excited for the work. And what is there not to be excited about?! Doctrine and Covenants 88:73 says that "I will hasten my work in its time"... It's time! The work is being hastened and I am so excited and blessed to be a part of it :)

Miss you all! Love you all!!! Tengan una bonita semana con mucho amor y bendiciones!

Love, Hermana Masey Decker