Happy pioneer day and year til I get home day if I leave in time for school!

July 24th (we were driving around Yellowstone National Park and luckily found a spot with cell phone coverage right at the time she writes so we could email back and forth from our phones!)

So this week we baptized JD! It was so great.  He has a messed up past like I've said in other emails but after his baptism he said he felt free and like a new man and started crying and just said thank you. It was such a sweet experience. He´s only 18 but he's great and he wants to go on a mission. It's crazy to think that there was actually a time while we were teaching him that we were going to drop him because he wasn´t progressing and then he all of the sudden changed and now here we are with a happy member of the church who is going to serve a mission someday!   

JD's Baptism

Now for Hna L....she was doing great and everything and then we invited her to the baptism to show her there was nothing to be afraid of...well seeing as René wasn't strong enough to hold up JD really well and he didn´t know the words, he had to be baptized 3 times so as for not scaring her off hopefully the spirit helped with that. Then she didn´t come to church on Sunday. We passed by their house to pick her up but she said she was going to go with her son in a different town, and last night she seemed like she didn´t have the desire to be baptized but she always says that she needs to but God hasn´t put it in her heart to want to be baptized right now.

Our next most positive person lives in Santa Maria de Jesus so it´s kind of hard for us to get up to see her since it´s kind of far and it´s hard for her to come to church because she wouldn´t get home until really late at night. We called her the other day and she said she didn´t have permission to go to church because she was going by herself but we told her that we would go and pick her up and she said she would invite a friend for this week! She is really smart and really receptive and when we committed her to be baptized she said yes right off the bat so that was great. We just need to figure out how we can keep her active if she gets baptized since she lives so far away.
We also found a guy named J. He is older but lives with his mom because he has epilepsy. He seemed really interested the first lesson because we talked about the plan of salvation and then we committed him to be baptized and he said yes and then asked permission from his mom and she just said he´d have to think about it a lot because God isn´t a game. But he seemed really excited but then we went and visited him on Sunday and was kind of more distracted and said he didn´t remember anything we talked about before! But we´re going to keep working with him.
We also went and visited some less active members. One was Hermana S. Her situation is seriously dire. About a month and a half ago she left her home and her and her little family are living illegally on some land that is being occupied by people that don´t have houses. It´s so sad there are tons of people there that are living in little plastic tents and don´t have anything. She said she´s not coming to church because if she leaves her plot of land some other squatter will come in and take it. It´s really sad but we tried to explain to her that it´s not right and that she still needs to put God first and come to church. Then she didn´t come to church.
We met a lady and her mom yesterday contacting because a lesson fell through and they started asking lots of questions about death because one of their neighbors just got killed. It was really good and they seemed really interested so that was great. 

We had zone conference last Friday which was really good. President Brough told us that we have guardian angels in the mission and that they are our ancestors and our kids because no one else in the spirit world cares more about the way we turn out more than our future children. I thought that was pretty cool he also really stressed the importance of obedience and how our obedience and our blessings are directly tied together so I am going to be more obedient so you guys can be more blessed (and me too)! :)

I forgot to say that Ian is in Utah right now for 10 days (well he left today for Utah) so yeah if you want to send my contacts and debit card with him that would be great! Yesterday for Pday I got my hair trimmed and that´s about it.  haha

The picture where we´re frowning is because we´re waiting for JD to finish working so we could take him to his interview to be baptized.  Haha

So how is everyone doing? When are you guys going home..How´s Star Valley and work ?

Waiting for JD 

I only have 3 minutes so I love you and I hope you have a good week and that you are having a good time in Star Valley! I love you so so so much! Also can you update me on your side of the family sometime? Thanks love you momma you´re the best!