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Hello all, 

Well this week has been really good!!! So tuesday was pday and we went to place a little american football with the Zoneleaders which was way fun!!! And then tuesday evening we went around to a few families for Elder Blackman to say goodbye and then I made some fried hamburgurs for Elder Blackman´s last night and then on Wednesday we went in taxi to the offices and there I met Elder Pereira!!! And he´s brand new, he was in his house in Brasil for general conference, and then two weeks in mtc buenos aires and here to mendoza!!! He´s speaks fairly good spanish and he´s a great missionary!!! Really obedient, hard working, talks with everybody and teaches well too!!! Our studies have been really good in the 12 weeks. We´ve been doing lots of practices and great discussions. So yeah, and there in the offices we had a little training with the assistents, he met with Hna Avila, Elder Gibbons was there as well because he´s travel training with Godoy cruz and they had interviews! So I also saw Elder Lafleur, Elder Valencia, Elder Figueroa and Elder Torres from my last pench and ward. It was good to see them all and hear how things are going. Elder Lafleur let me know the Maria Tapia got baptized!!! Woooooooo! And that her daughter in law is listening attently in the discussions! Then we went out to lunch with the Assistents at Mcdonalds, yum.

The rest of wednesday we didn´t really have plans until 8, so we passed by a few houses and then did some contacting in the plaza of Las Heras, Elder Pereira was really nervous at first but after i showed him how a couple of times he was ready to do it and did great! Pretty much everybody he tells he´s from Brazil to mentions the World Cup haha. He´s actually a really good soccer player, he went to Holland and Italia to play in high school. He´s also just 18.

On Thursday night we had a lesson with the familia Palma. They both served missions, he in chile and she in Ft. Lauderdale(!) and he was AP and chofer for Elder Holland when he came to the mission, he was bishop for a few years and then they moved here, were coming a few sundays and then of just their own will started slacking off and not coming to church. Elder Blackman had told me most of this and then we set up the family night with him and then he left and so Elder Pereira and I went to the lesson. We talked about prophets and gratitud and wanted to make it a fairly fun, gain confidence and feel the spirit, which we did and then towards the end we started talking about how they don´t come to church. He said he didn´t ever think it would be this hard to get back to church, and that he often doesn´t even want to. They went to a stake conference a year ago and felt so uncomfortable that they didn´t really want to come back again. But they thanked us for the message and were eager to have us back again. We asked them how their Book of Mormon reading is and they said it does exist right now. And so we set the goal with them of reading every night as a family. We are going to follow up with them on that on wednesday. 

Saturday was also a realllly good day! We found a few miracles! First of all, that morning I woke up and was way down, partly with the familia Gutierrez cause we haven´t seen much progress in them lately and then I was praying a lot for guidance and help and then i had the impression to do a random act of service for another elder we live with. I felt a lot better afterwards. Then in twelve weeks the training progam, Elder Pereira was supposed to invite someone to be baptized before monday and sunday was going to be ful so we put the goal of inviting someone to be baptized. We practiced it a few times evaluated and left. Like nobody was in the street. We knocked the door of an investigator and his mom said we woke her up and that her son wasn´t there. We were walking around without much to do and then saw a guy sitting down not really doing anything, so we went to talk to him. He had read the bible and had a few questions, and he told us he was really interested in obtaining spiritual gifts, we told him that by following Christ´s example and getting baptized we obtain the gift of the holy ghost. We shared some more about baptism and then i lightly bumped Elder Pereira´s foot and he invited juan to be baptized and he said he would, and so we will be passing by this week!!!!!! Meeting Juan was an answer to the prayers we had in our hearts while there was like nobody in the street. Then we went to offer help to an elderly lady who was sweeping. She ended up being a member and invited us in. Her two grandkids Gonzalo 18 and Sherly 20 were there two, they are both baptized but their parents aren´t and they have been wanting to come back and sherly told us she has been wanting their little brother who´s 8 Mateo to get involved in the church because she had such a great experience but she didn´t know how that would work, or like how to come talk to us or what but yeah, the family Ochoa! They are wayyyy cool!!! We will be working a lot with them. And then later that day we met a family and the mom´s sister is a member in chile and she´s always really admired the unity we have in our church and we tried to set up a lesson but they´re really busy so we´ll just be passing by later this week to see if they´re there. 

So yeah it has been an awesome week!!!!! And also for lunch one day a sister made us empanadas and lemon merengue pie. WOW. it was deliscious!!!!!!!

I love it here on the mission! Elder Pereira is a great missionary! The Lord is good. 

Elder Fullmer