Dear family and friends,

HAPPY 9TH OF JULY....haha it is the Argentine Independance Day.  I celebrated the 4th of july by eating ice cream. haha.  We called our district leader Elder George (because he is a Marine and USA crazy) at 6:40am and sang the national anthem. haha it was awesome.

The mission is winding down and we are seeing HUGE miracles and changes here in the Junin Branch.  Actually the whole mission is changing a lot, but they are all really, really good changes.  I´ve learned a lot about how the mission is helping people change their bad habits.  Not just those who don´t live the gospel, but those who are trying to live the gospel but have learned how to do some things incorrectly.  I really have a testimony about diligence and enduring to the end. I´ve realized that it is hard work enduring to the end, but it always pays off.  The lessons I have learned on the mission i hope to carry over into the rest of my life.  I have one week left and i am super, super excited to work super hard.  I´m hoping and praying that i see my goals achieved.  Today we were talking to a sister and she said that we need to be grateful for the opportunity that we have been given to be able to work full-time in the Lord´s work.  And it is so true.  It is such a blessing.  

Last week we struggled finding new people and families to teach and we finished the week sad because we had 4 frusting days in a row.  But this past week, we saw that our dilligence did pay off.  It was easy.  We found tons and tons of really awesome families to teach!!! :) I got to speak in sacrament meeting about personal revelation and it was cool.  I love that topic.  I learned lots about revelation and how i can better apply the principles of preparing to receive revelation so i can receive more personal revelation and how i can better intune myself to the voice of the spirit.  that is key in our lives.

oh yeah, and my companion fell on her bike like 3 times this week.  the third time she landed pretty badly on her wrist and i thought she might have broken it.  but i worked the magic that i learned in school....(sunday school....aka prayer) and it got better pretty quickly.  haha.  but i realized that i´m super rusty on my first-aid/ injury management skills. haha.  i´ve got lots to study up. 

welp, that´s all.

love you all!

hermana yingling