So this week was really good, but it's been getting colder and colder.

To start out on Sunday we had a really good day, it was Edwin and
Teresa's conformation, Elder Richards confirmed them, it went well,
right now we are working with them to get them ready to go to the
temple to take some temple names so that they can do some baptisms.

This week we also got a super solid referral from some members more
upstate, well it was actually from Danbury Connecticut. There's a
member up there that has family living down here in white plains and
she referred her sister to us, the sisters name is Victoria, and she
is super legit, we already met with her and her family 2 times and
both of the lessons were really good, we teach the parents in Spanish
but the kids in English so they can understand better, we also teach
Victoria's sister and her sister has kids also, so both of the times
we taught them we had to teach 7 people at one time, at first it was
kinda hard because everybody has all kinds of questions but right now
they are all on the same page and they are all reading and praying,
they also told us that they are planning on coming to church and all
of them accepted to be baptized. The reason Victoria wanted to be
taught by the missionaries is because she saw how good her sister kids
were the ones that are members and so that how she wants her kids to
be also, so be good examples to everybody.

Met with our other Bap date Robert he has also been reading in the
Book of Mormon and is planning on coming to church, next time we are
planning to meet with his parents also.

Today we went to sleepy hollow cemetery and that was pretty cool.

Early baptism👪💦🔥

Hi todos,

Just sending a quick email to you guys because i was not able to email
at all today because we were in the city the entire day.

An update on this week, the wedding for Edwin y Teresa was great, the
branch really stepped up and did a lot to make it a good one, it did
take a lot of planning and calling and other stuff on our part it was
really stressful but it was fun at the same time.

Other thing that happened was that we had an early baptism! That's
right Edwin and Teresa were baptized the next day, this past Sunday
and that was also really good, both of Edwin's parents came to the
baptism (they are not members) hopefully we can teach them.

Yesterday we met with both of them to talk about priesthood so that
both of them can go to do baptism next month with the branch and they
expressed to us how good they feel and that everybody is noticing
something different in them, they are really an amazing family and I
am super happy for them.😊

💍👫

It's been a really exciting but a pretty stressful week. Exciting
because we are having a wedding this Saturday (Edwin and Teresa are
finally getting married) but stressful because we are having a wedding
this Saturday and we only had one week to prepare for it, usually
people plan weddings like months ahead, but I think we got things
under control right now and we have a lot of help from a lot of great
people. Were a super grateful for them!

On Sunday we had the opportunity to give a couple of blessings, so we
got a call from our zone leaders that one of their investigators kids
were in the hospital and they wanted us to go over there, so it turns
out that there was 4 year old girl who had a pretty bad burn on her
leg and she was gonna get surgery so we gave her a blessing and it was
a really cool experience, the parents and her family were really
grateful for that, we haven't heard anything from them since Sunday
but I hope that they are doing good.

The other blessing was right after this other one and it was to a 3
month old baby, and that was an amazing experience also, so the mother
of this baby got ahold of our branch president and so he told us to go
over there, it was really convenient because we were already there and
so after we gave this blessing to this baby the room was just filled
with the spirit.

Some other miracles that we had was that we started to wake up a
little bit early so that we could go workout with one of our less
active members and after we work out with him we read a chapter in the
Book of Mormon and the miracle part of this is that this was actually
his idea and he wanted to do this, so we invite him to the gym in our
apartment complex and then read with him in the lobby, so far it's
been really good.

We also set a baptismal date with one of our investigators his name is
Robert. We set it with him for November 12 so hopefully he will be
ready to get baptized then.

So ya that's pretty much it for this week

Love,
Elder Pugmire

Double Dipping

This week was really good, we had a lot of good stuff happen and we
had some changes in the zone and district because we had transfers but
I'm still staying in the westchester zone tho. Its crazy that I have
been in this area for 3 months already because it still feels like I
just got here.

So elder nutall left, he was really sad about it because he wanted to
be here one more cycle to see Edwin and Teresa get married and
baptized, but the good thing is that President Smith let him come back
to the wedding and to the baptism and the cool thing is that he
actually gets to baptize Teresa because she wanted him to baptize her,
so that will be exciting.

So I got a new companion this cycle and this is crazy because my new
companion is actually one of my old companions, its Elder Richards my
trainer!! When I heard that he was coming down here to serve with me I
got super happy because I loved serving with him down in the Bronx, it
was awesome, he is by far my favorite companion to serve with and I'm
really excited for this cycle!

So this cycle started out on a really good note because we went to the
temple openhouse in Hartford Connecticut this morning with Edwin and
Teresa and it was a blast! The ride was about 1.5 hours and we had
some great conversations, I don't know how many times I will say this
but they are the coolest people EVER! The temple was beautiful and
both of them really enjoyed the tour, the parts that they liked the
most were the celestial room and the baptismal font.

Hope everybody is enjoying their weeks and the good weather.

Love,
Elder Pugmire