August 29

Hello...!! Cambios happened.... Hna. Portillo went to La Cañada, my 1st area, with the sister that she trained. that was pretty funny but she was really sad to leave paraiso and the TRIO PERFECTO. So Hna. Hernandez and I are still here in paraiso, and we are doing super great, we have a bajillion investigators i can hardly keep track, we had 7 investigators in church yesterday so we were happy.

There are sisters in Charcas, so instead of elders at lunch we ahve hermanas, Hermana Huaynate (my 1st companion in the mission) is here with Hna Pareja who is a greenie and is actually assigned to serve in Venezuela but is waiting for her visa, she is from La Paz and is suffering a lot with the heat.

Well we have a bunch of new investigators, one of the is Hugo, he is 23 and has 2 kids, is separated, and a year ago he crashed his car and had surgery on his head, he has a bunch of scars, also one of his eyes he can't see out of now, so he always wears sunglasses now and a baseball cap, but he is a good guy and wants to learn more, he has a baptism date for 17 september.

Also we have a couple Viviana and Gary they are in their 30's and engaged, they don't live together but Gary is almost always at Vivíana´s house, they went to church yesterday and liked it a lot, Viviana is going to to go to the distribution center with Zelfi the crazy hermana that always accompanies us, Viviana wants to buy a hymnbook, bible, book of mormon, etc. they are both really interested and are keeping their commitments and viviana has a baptism date for 17 september as well, we are going to work with the elders for gary because he lives in the zone to see if we can have his baptism too.

also this week we were able to visit a sweet old man named Braulio, he is probably 65 years old, lives alone, i dont know if he works but he studies theology and so he knows a lot about the Bible, we are planning to teach him with the mission president. He came to church yesterday dressed in all white, ready to be baptized haha but we are going to invite him to baptism today.

I love you all!! Have a wonderful week. Know that i am happy that i am on the mission, i love what i am doing and am seeing miracles every day, and iknow that partly it is because therea re so many people praying for me and for these people, so thank you and keep praying!! Love Hermana Tibbitts