Three-legged Dogs?

muchas gracias to ma, renee, rachel, jmag, sam and jamie for the emails and sis. terrill for the dearelder! and to the D2 relief society for the love note--i loved it! it made my day!

trivia answer: the most people i have seen on one moto is FOUR: dad, mom, two kids. and all without helmets.

Lisa didn't send this picture.

I got it off the Internet.

trivia question for this week: when we tract/contact people in their homes, what are the most common "excuses" (lies) that kids give for why their parents can´t come to the door?

i´ve seen two three-legged dogs in two weeks.

I also got this picture off the Internet

hna vega made stir fry today for lunch. it was so amazing.

we taught nicolas and natalia about fasting this week, because nicolas wants to get baptized and natalia still doesn´t want to get married. the four of us fasted together this past sunday that they would be able to work together to reach their goal of baptism on march 31. they are sooooooooo close. the fast was a good experience for them, i think. on sunday, i was thinking that their baptism will be a complete miracle. but then i was thinking about the other baptisms we´ve had, and they have all been miracles. conversion IS a miracle. people have problems in their lives due to their bad choices, or the bad choices of others--or maybe they have good lives, but there is somthing missing--and they listen to a couple of kids (us) teach them about the gospel of jesus christ, and they repent and completely change and then they are happy. and then one day they go to the temple. so great, eh?

we´ve spent the bulk of our time this week trying to contact all the references we got from the MTC activity (when the young men went tracting). the majority of the people aren´t really interested. but one of the references was for a girl my age--Patricia, married, with a little girl and a baby on the way. she´s actually a member--was taught and baptized by the missionaries at age 8, but went innactive shortly thereafter because she´s the only member in her family and circumstances didn´t really allow her to attend church. six years ago, her younger sister committed suicide and ever since then, she´s been anti-religion (though not anti-God) because the catholic church was adament that her sister is in hell. she requested a book of mormon from us, and still has really good memories of when she went to church as a little girl. her mom was also taught by the missionaries, but never was baptized. we´re hoping that we can work with the mom--she came to church with us on sunday. patricia´s husband also is a non-member, though is living in southern argentina for work right now. hopefully we can really help this family.

the church is true!

hermana magnusson