Hola todos!

Hey,

So this week has been great :) We´ve had lots of practices for the choir that will perform this Sunday in the afternoon. I am super excited because it will be an experience muy spiritual for the people that come. We´re inviting everyone and their neighbor to come so hopefully we´ll catch a few. I will be singing in a quartet "ding! dong! Merrily on high" but in español. So that should be fun :) AH!

We traveled to Leones last week and I went on exchanges with Hermana Barbosa from Sao Paolo Brazil. She´s pretty new, but she was doing great! She speaks Spanish really well and it turned out to be a rainy, but fun day. Our bus broke down and some other delays happened, so that made life a little fun.

Thursday we had interviews with President, and we got to eat roasted chicken with french fries! That´s probably the closest thing to Thanksgiving you can get these days here in Argentina :) I´m thankful for the gospel of Jesus Christ, my family, the Book of Mormon, and much, much more!

On Saturday we went to a wedding! Really it was just when they sign the papers and make it legal, but it was still fun! Marcos and Noelia Bravo are officially a family! :) We´re still trying to get them to church, but all things with diligence. 

Sunday I had to give a talk and in the class before that we gave a class on how to share a Book of Mormon with all the adult members. There weren´t investigators in church, so we did practices with everyone of how they´d give a Book of Mormon to their friends. It was cool to see the whole class working together like a Zone meeting with everyone doing practices :) Now everyone is excited to give away Book of Mormons, and they all had great ideas of how! 

Yesterday we had Council and it was fantastic. I love hearing from President and seeing so many talented and spiritual young men and women in one room talking about what we can do better as a mission and how are we going to do it. As usual, we finished off a great day with a few fantastic games of Soccer. I made about 8 goals. Needless to say our team was on a winning streak. I felt a little bit like Messi...oh it was fun!

So that was my week in a nutshell. My invitation for the month of December is to write your testimony in a Book of Mormon and give it to someone you care about. Maybe they won´t read all of it, and maybe they won´t understand exactly why we´re such fanatics about this book, but all of that doesn´t matter. What matters is that you loved them enough to share something so special and important with them. I know that the Book of Mormon is true and that it testifies of Christ, our savior and redeemer. I know that it helps us grow closer to the Lord and makes us better people. No matter what, reading it makes us better people, and applying it´s principles makes us happier. I am grateful for all of you and I know that you´ll recieve a stronger testimony as you share yours with others. Do you accept the challenge?

Love you all very much and enjoy the snow over there!

Hermana Swan

PS...sorry that I don´t have pictures this week, I´m having problems with my memory card. There´ll be lots next week!