Hola Familia!!!!!
 
Thanks for all of the e-mails this week!!! It sounds like everyone is doing great! Say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Madelynn for me!!!! I can´t believe she is 3!!!!!! She will be 4 before I get home!!! Crazy!!!!
I am glad that you have been busy with work Mom, and it sounds like YWs is going great!
So playing Basketball was a blast! It felt so good just to shoot hoops for a couple of hours. We decided that some mornings we are going to run to the church and play basketball for a half hour for our exercise in the morning.
So this week we had an Asado with our investgator Diego. I really wish I had taken pictures because it was just so hilarious! An asado is just a bbq but you only salt the meat. He had never done one before and so let me just say that it consisted of twigs and a satelite dish. Yep our food was cooked on a satelite dish. Direct tv to be exact. He then over cooked it and it was quite hard. He also made us eat cow intestine. Not a big fan. But it was a day I will never forget. Everyone here in Paraná is crazy, but to them it is normal. So I am really sorry if I come back with some interesting habits.:)
When we were walking down to Diego´s a man randomly stopped Hna. Tourtillott and started to tell her that he could sing 16 times better than Micheal Jackson and then preceeded to sing for her. It was the weirdest and most hilarious thing I have every seen. He could sing and for a second there I thought he might actually kiss my comp. After he left us, we continued to walk and I then got pooped on by a bird. So lets just say that Wednesday was a very strange day. There is a point where I have reached where it doesn´t matter what happens, no matter how awkward or messed up it is, I just have to laugh. I will never have these experiences again, I don´t want them again, but they will make fun stories someday.
So my comp got a package from her sister that had a bunch of candy in it and so when we went to go teaching this kid who is a recent convert, we gave him some willy wonka sweet tarts and he got super excited. He showed everyone in his family that he had gotten candy from `Willy Wonka´(spainsh accent). So now his whole family thinks that the willy wonka factory really exists and is in the US. We didn´t have the heart to burst their bubble.
So there is a woman in our ward who is crazier than normal and on sunday she cornered me and my comp and she told us how she was going to die if she didn´t meet this singer that she is mad about. She started bawling and telling us that the church need  to help her find this guy so that she could meet him and tell him that when she hears him sing she feels Jesus inside her. The people her are so interesting.
Alright now for the uplifting stuff, we had a Fantastic Zone Conference and next week we have a conference with just the Hermanas which I am super excited for. So there is a girl in our ward who has introduced her two friends to the church and we met with both of them and her on friday night. This was the second time we had met with them and it was awesome! One girl named Monica is really awesome. She read 3 nef. 11 with the girl in our ward and then on her own time she read it again. Then at the end of our lesson she told us that after she read it the second time she prayed and she said she felt an overwhelming feeling of paz. She then said that she knows that the Book of Mormon is true. All of our mouths just dropped! She is so amazing and we had been talking that night about how you can recieve and answer and she had already recieved one. It was so Cool! I love the Holy Ghost!!!! If people are truly looking he will definitely let them know the truth. So she has accepted a baptisimal date and we are really excited to keep teaching her.
 We have a bunch of mosquito repelent but it doesn´t stop a lot of them.
Thank you so much for the recipes! We will have to make the cookies for the baptism this weekend. Oh so Marcos(the brother of Maria de los Angeles) is getting baptised this saturday! He is excited! I hope we can get everything planned in time. The funny thing is is that he doesn´t want anyone at the baptism except for his family. So we will see what happens since the bishop annouced it yesterday.
Well I hope everyone has a Fanastic week and I love you all soooooo Much! Thank you for your prayers and your e-mails, they mean a ton to me. Give Kenai and Huge hug for me and I will hear from you all next week!!!
Lots of Love,
Alayna