Hey so i don't have a ton of stuff to write about this week but i thought you might like this picture. Enjoying the nice warm glass of freshly milked milk that i had just milked from this happy looking cow. thats about all for this week.

So this week was really normal, but for some reason it was really stressful and difficult. I dunno really how to explain it, but it wasn't my favorite haha. Nothing was wrong really, i think i work myself up a bit to much, this week was the last week of changes here and i really didn't want to leave here. I'm pretty attached to the area, members and have high hopes for some people we're teaching. I've been here for 4 1/2 months and the thought of leaving here was killing me. My time here has changed me, my attitude and basically my mission. So changes came today and i'll be staying here for anther 6 weeks! I was pumped to hear that and mad i was all stressed out over nothing haha. So basically the whole week was stressfull, pretty much a week long farewell for nothing. But something really sweet happened last night that made it an awesome week too.

We're teaching a family, a dad and mom and 3 kids. The two youngest kids Maria (20) and Joel (16) have gone to church last week and went yesterday too. They are way excited about everything, maria takes notes on everything and then comes and shares it with her parents. For example yesterday she pulled out her notes and told her mom the july 28 we have to go clean the church and august 18 we are all going to go to the temple (she has no idea what the temple is haha) So last night we had a family home evening with them. I had the lesson and was teaching but the mom kept on interrupting me and talking for 10-15 minutes before stopping for air. She wasn't trying to be rude but thats just how she is haha . So it was almost 930 so we just didn't finish the lesson because we had to go. I was a little upset cuz i only got half way through the lesson, but yeah whatever. We finished with a prayer and they brought out some food to eat. Just then there oldest son came home from work, the oldest son is a clown and he was still in costume and everything. So he had everyone of us come up and sit in front of everyone and asked us questions and pretty much burned us, it was so funny. Then after that the mom came out of the kitchen crying. She said she heard that we had changes tomorrow and that she said she didn't want us to go, she said thanks for the change she's seen in her kids and that she'd remember us. It super awesome and we all felt the spirit, it was one of those moments when you know what your doing is right and theres nothing like this. Then it turns out we don't have changes, we're still here. We are so going to baptize this family.

We had a great week here in polmalca, we finally got some baptisms and all the work is starting to pay off, it doesn't stop with baptisms. The members are awesome, giving us a ton of support, references and food. We have some great new people to teach this week and hopefully we can get some more people in the water before changes next tuesday. I'm really attached to this area and think i can do a ton of good here, hopefully i won't go but i've been here for 4 1/2 months i'll probably go. This area really helped me out a ton and i learned a ton about everything life, missionary work and myself. This week i had a sweet experience with fasting which i'd love to share but i don't have anymore time in internet. But'll i'll say this its legit and it works. If your working hard and your almost there with your goal but your not quite there yet. Maybe you should fast, its sweet the lord has a ton of blessings for us if you just make the sacrafice. Elder Culp