I am so happy! I have to tell you that these last few days have been absolutely wonderful. We had combios and I got sent to an area called Equipetrol that is really close to my last area Belen. It is such a nice area and my companion is the BEST companion I have ever ever had. I am so grateful. She really is wonderful. Her name is Hermana Cruz and she is from Guatemala. She is the sweetest, most patient person I have ever met here in the mission. I 've only been in my new area for a few days but the members have been so warm and friendly to me. My new house is TINY. There is only room for our beds and our wardrobes and a super small pathway to get to my bed. Speaking of my bed, I have a funny story. The other day I was scooting down to the end of my bed to kneel down and pray with my comp and as i was sitting at the foot of the bed it went crashing to the floor haha. Just the bottom half of the bed but I laughed so hard with Hermana Cruz and then we hurried and assembled the new bed that was sitting outside our door. THis all happened before church haha. It was so funny. I had to do a contact in English the other day. It was so hard! The guy I contacted was in his late forties, I'd guess, and he had a perfect spanish accent. But truns out he is from Texas, haha, but here studying anthropology. It was actually fun to talk with him because my comp is learning English here on the mission and she could understand practically everything we said.She's helping me perfect my Spanish and I'm helping her with English. She made me breakfast the first day.We have a calico cat too that lives on our patio that beongs to the member family we live with. Its so cute and makes me feel like I'm at home. ITs really nice. I 'm learning a little Portuguese. I know how to greet people and say everthings fine. My comp is teaching me because there are so many universities in our area so lots of people come here from Brazil to go to school. I'm doing really good, a little sluggish still after being in bed for a week (had dengue again) but really I'm feeling good. I gave one of my sheets to a man that lives on our street. He was sleeping on the sidewalk and it was a little cold so we brought him a couple sheets while he slept. It was so special. I love you all and will write in a week.

My comp and I have been getting sick back and forth. But I heard a testimony on Sunday that made me feel a lot better. The guy was talking about trials and how they are proof that Heavenly Father loves us. He said that they are meant to show to what point we choose to do the will of the Father. That really hit me and made me think if I am always choosing to do what He wants me to or if I'm letting my trial prohibit or discourage me. I have to admit I think that has happened. I thought after having a year in the mission everything would be down hill from here and the trials would seem like nothing because I am going home soon but that is not the case. I feel silly for thinking that. We got to baptize Shirley who had her baby alone in her bathroom and then carried him to the hospital in a backpack so he wouldn't get soaked by the rain, that Shirley. She's so amazing I really admire her faith and how she has gotten through so much. Her baby was born premature and had to have surgery on his eyes but he is coming out of the hospital in only two weeks and Shirley doesn't have anything. So yesterday in our ward counsel meeting we asked the relief society to please put together a little baby shower for her so she can be prepared to bring home her new baby boy. She named him Benji after the guy who baptized her, I think that's really sweet. We went to their house after the baptism and it absolutely poured! We were all walking all the way to the house because they don't have a car. But we were all laughing and having a great time getting soaked. Then, they gave us shirts to change into so we wouldn't get sick. Then after that the grandma gave us towels for our heads. I was so touched by how kind she was being even though they had so little and their roof was leaking everywhere and soaking one of the beds completely. It was so incredible to see a family in such hard circumstances be so happy and so giving. We got a huge grasshopper in our room last night. It flew in our room and we seriously thought it was a weird type of bird because it was that big! It took a lot of work to find it after it hid itself under my comps stuff. This all happen at midnight haha. Crazy huh? Then a littler one flew into our kitchen so we were feeling like we experienced a mini plague haha.