2 month anniversary!

**(this email was sent on May 12)

I've been out two months! Only 16 more to go :) Time has flown by! It seems like I just got here but at the same time it seems like I have known the people forever. I have been so blessed this week. Sister Charters is in Tobago now but I have a new companion Sister Cragun who is awesome! I was so worried about getting a new companion and having to lead the area and remember where all our investigators live but I've been good so far! I got a Barbados license last week so I will have to relearn how to drive on the opposite side of the road now.

We only get to talk to our families twice a year(usually on mothers day and at Christmas) so yesterday I got to Skype home! Whoo hoo! It was so fun to see everyone. It doesn't really seem like I haven't talked in a while because I get to email every week but it was still good.

Our most progressing investigator Renaldo asked to move his baptismal date up to this Sunday coming! When we first met Renaldo about a month ago he didn't seem to interested in the gospel. Our first few lesson weren't so good for us or Renaldo. The spirit must of been guiding us though because we kept on making return appointments with him! He has read up to 1 Nephi 17 now and he is just awesome! His family doesn't really want him to join the church but he is so strong and so excited too. We're seeing him again today to see if he will really be prepared by Sunday.

This week one of the sisters in my district was talking to me about a church article that Jeffery R. Holland wrote that was about Africa.

After living in Uganda, West Africa is near and dear to my heart! I looked up the article in LDS.org and it's so awesome! Here is the link to it:  https://www.lds.org/prophets-and-apostles/unto-all-the-world/emerging-with-faith-in-africa?lang=eng

The video made me tear up. The gospel changes lives! When I was in Uganda I was talking to the senior couple in my branch and they said the gospel is the only thing that can fix the problems we were facing in Uganda. It's so true. If everyone were a faithful member of the church this world would be a different place. The gospel changes lives and it's still changing mine. I love this work and I am so excited to see what the next 16 months has in store!

and now some pictures!

me and my companion and the Elders that are in the branch with us from Left to right it's Elder Bechan, Me, Sister Charters and Elder Hale

beautiful barbados