¿Hola que tal?

I hope everyone had a great Easter and had a chance to watch conference! It was so amazing!! I loved it, and I loved how it focuses on the family! I´m going to download all the talks and listen to them as I get ready each morning. I hope you all can do something similar! Study the talks again and I promise you´ll get much more out of it.

First things first.  Our schedule changed to summer schedule!!! It´s the best thing ever! Lemme just give you a run down of our day.

7:30 wake up, exercise, breakfast, etc (claro got to wake up a half hour early to get that P90X though)

9:00 studies

11:00 leave apartment

2:00 Ciesta time! Lunch, area book, and language study (sadly nap time for some!!) :(

5:00 leave apartment again

10:15-10:45 return to apartment

11:30 acostarse

Pretty good schedule right there! I love being able to stay out later because a lot of people we visit we at the last part of the night.  So it´s great, and obviously going to bed later means getting up later! So yeah it´s pretty nice. 

Second thing. IPADS.  We are going to be getting IPADS! Everything will be electronica, so it´ll be way nice to have them l.  And we´ll also be able to use facebook!  It´ll be alot easier to stay in contact with people we meet here on the mission.  We´ll be getting them in May so I´m super excited!

Also this past week was semana santa! Córdoba is one of the best places to be during this week. Saddest thing though I didn´t get any pictures... We didn´t plan to go see any of the processions we just thought that we´d run in to them during the week.  It only happened once, and as I pulled out my camera it was out of batteries.  It was a way cool to sight to see though! People were wearing basically kkk outfits and they just marched around the streets with floats and playing music! I don´t know how we only ran into it one time but it was really cool!

Also on Friday we had zone meeting.  We got 10 baptisms as a zone in the month of March! First time hitting double digits as a zone for me!  Actually I think the most before that was 6.. Anyway 3 of them were from Córdoba so it was nice to participate in this BAPTISM FEST! *everyone in South America starts laughing their heads off*

This week though was definitely a hard week for missionary work for sure.  Mónica was sick/working all week so we didn´t have a time to see her.  And when we set appointments with people they wouldn´t be home.  Our 14 year old investigator Andres told us he believes the Book of Mormon is true! But sad thing is he isn´t willing to come to church or to be baptized...  It´s hard because there isn´t anyone his age in the branch, so we´re basically his only friends.  I know one day Andres will be baptized though, maybe when he´s older and more mature.   I´ll do what I can to help him realize why he needs to come to church and be baptized though.  We need new investigators so this week is going to be the "week of finding Córdoba".  We have planned to completely blow the weekly standards of new investigators out of the roof!  It´s 5 and we set a goal to get 2 everyday so 14 news!  I think it´s possible and even though we may not reach it we´ll do great things trying!

I am truly greatful to have this knowledge of the restored gospel.  Everyone here is so confused when it comes to religion and we have the answer!  All they need to do is listen and open their hearts!  I´m so greatful for this knowledge and for prophets and apostles that guide us.  Just imagine if the whole world listened to conference this last weekend and how much good would come of it.  I know that Christ suffered for us and he died on the cross and more importantly he resurrected! He is risen.  He loves us all and if we humble ourselves and strive to be like him he will make our "weak things become strong unto [us]". I have so many weaknesses and I´ve also had to do a lot of humbling on the mission and I am just so greatful for the Atonement of Christ and how we can all become better and become clean through him.

Love you all,

Elder Stephens