second to last email!!

¡Hola Todos!

Well it was the first week we worked with the new division splits of Villa Tesei and it went really well! (Before our area was split in the shape of Chile, but now they gave us a part of the other Elders and us to them to make things more effective) The other Elders didnt pass us over many investigators, from the part of their area they gave us, so we spent the week getting to know the members on the ward list(Active and Inactive), and contacting plenty of course. The new area is amazing! It looks small on a map, but its huge! There´s a lot of hidden places and houses very compacted together, people always moving in and out of the town. So thats good theres a lot of motion, always new people to find. There are neighborhoods, which are called "Villas" here in the area, or "slums" i think youd say it in English. Which are very poor neighborhoods, with all the houses on top of eachother, in the back, on the side, everywhere in all directions. Real promising!

This week we found a few great families we´ve started to work with, one of them is Marcela and her son, Leandro, another is Luis and Viviana. You can tell they are very prepared to accept the restored Gospel. It seems that way for many of the contacts we do, many people are very receptive and Elder Meyers and I feel very blessed. 

One thing Ive learned while being in Villa Tesei for so long is patience. Ive been here for six months and things never really got going, with the ward, with investigators, or the area in general. Its been a process, but really we are starting to see the blessings flow in now. Even though I may not be here to participate in most of them, Im grateful for the opportunities the Lord has given me to a part of His work here. 
A little bit of investigators updats: Veronica dropped us. She was so great! and still is, it was her daughters that wouldnt let her continue talking with us. Even though she has her agency and wants to talk to us, go to church, get baptized, everything, veronica is depent on her kids for paying for her medicine and werent going to do it if she was "became a mormon". So its really sad, but there wasnt much we could do about it.

But on the very bright side, we saw two great miracles here specifically this week. We couldnt get in contact with one of our investigators, Andres, the whole week. But Sunday morning he shows up at 9 ready for church! it gave us a scare for awhile there but in the end it was nothing, and he continues progressing rapidly. He is the one that has his date to get married the 15 of June. Another huge miracle we saw was with Lucas and Rocio that I have been working with on and off my whole time here. We had a lesson with them on Friday and a member friend of theirs came on Sunday to pick them up to take them to church and they were all ready to go! Lucas came in a white shirt and tie, after not sleeping the whole night because he works the night shifts in a bar. He got home at 7 in the morning sunday, got ready, and went to church! Rocio is 8 months pregnant and came as well. it was the second time they both came to church while Ive been here, the last being general conference. It was really incredible to see the sacrifice they made to come. They also will get married this week!

I feel super blessed and happy with the way things are going as I finish out my mission. I look forward to these next two weeks, working with diligence and urgency!

Love you all!

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Elder Trent