Buenos dias!

Today was a wonderful P-day. Every transfer, we have one day where we are allowed to go to Santiago and go shopping or go to the mission office or the mission home, or whatever we need to do in Santiago, and since this is Hermana Clove's last transfer, we met up for ice cream. It was so fun to see her and hard to say goodbye. I told her that she was welcome to extend one more transfer so I wouldn't have to spend my last without her, but she didn't seem to think that was the best idea. haha I'm sure she's excited to be with her family again. Then we went to Hermana Funes' old area and had lunch with a member. It was a good day.

Well, Ramona's baptism has been postponed. The bishop had an interview with her on Sunday, and informed us that currently she is unable to be baptized. She was really sad, but she hasn't given up hope. She understands that there are certain things she is doing that are preventing her, and she said she is going to do everything to fix them. Even though she can't be baptized on Saturday, the bishop told us that we need to keep working with her because she is one special sister. So now we're working hard to get her boyfriend's divorce papers finalized so they can get married and she can get baptized. She is determined to everything she can, because she wants to be baptized so bad. We even got her son to go to church with her on Sunday, and he liked it! We've been working on that for a long time, and it was such a blessing. So we'll keep pressing forward!

We're still working hard with the Aquino family. They didn't go to church on Sunday, but Marino told us he wouldn't be able to because he didn't come back from Dajabon until Sunday afternoon. We brought a couple with us to their house, and they we're so helpful. Hermano Francisco was so direct and just talked about how amazing the gospel has been in his life. We taught about keeping the Sabbath Day holy and Francisco helped him understand the importance of sacrficing for the Lord. When we finished the lesson, Marino said "Hermanas, what chapter do you want to leave us?" He's such a great guy, and wants to accept the gospel, but since we can only visit him on Sundays, he loses his motivation during the week. I just hope they go this week! 

Funny story: A few weeks ago, we woke up and my companion said "The weirdest thing happened last night. I woke up in the middle of the night, and I realized that I had a piece of bread in my mouth and I was chewing it!" Then, Sunday night, she got up at 1:30 to go into the kitcken and get a piece of bread. I figured she was hungry, so I didn't say anything, but Monday morning, she said "I thought that I was going to get up a lot last night to go to the bathroom since I drank so much water, but I didn't even wake up." I asked if she was sure that she hadn't gotten up to do anything, and she said no, so I told her that she had gotten up to eat bread, and she was shocked. She had no idea! So she's been getting up in her sleep to eat bread! We had a good laugh about it.

Love, Hermana Jorden