Tess is going to be a MOM?!!

Hola familia. 

Thanks for all the pics! The girls already look so much older to me and I can't believe Stretch had babies! What the?? Haha and I approve of the choice to repaint the bathroom, it looks great. I'm glad you liked the pictures too. The mountains are so amazing, I wish you guys could see them in person. 

It's been kind of a crazy week because transfers are coming, Hermana Gimenez is leaving, and my comp got really sick a couple days ago so we had to stay the house for 2 days straight. The weather has been pretty much perfect though, and yes, we have warm water! Mauricio and Dylan are doing pretty well too. We gave Dylan a recorrido (I don't really know the direct translation of the word but it basically means tour) of the church. He's so adorable. Mauricio accepted a baptism date so hopefully he continues to progress more and more! We still have a lot of work to do with both of them though. And we haven't been able to have another lesson with the store couple, but hopefully we'll have one soon :/ 

So I have a bit of news that's kind of freaking me out that I want to share with you guys...... I'm "PREGNANT" figuratively, of course. And by that I mean that I'm going to be training next transfer.... ahhhh!! We just found out yesterday, but we pretty much all knew that we'd be training because TEN new sisters are coming, there are only 13 sisters in the mission, 2 are leaving today, and 2 are already training so they can't train next transfer. Also, 8 of the new sisters are North Americans who don't speak Castellano, so I'm pretty sure I'll be training one of them... I'm not ready for this!! My comp is going to leave to some place in the mountains to train and pink wash an area. I'm going to miss her so much, but at least Hermana Ruiz (mí vecina) is staying so I'll still have her. I'm super nervous though, as you can tell, but for whatever reason the Lord thinks that I can do this so I'm just going to have to trust Him on this one. It's definitely gonna be quite the adventure though, there will be plenty of interesting stories to come in the following 6 weeks so get ready haha! The good thing is that I've been here in Maipú for a while now so hopefully I don't get us lost too many times, and I know the ward pretty well too. Ahhhhh.. I'm still freaking out though and I can't concentrate or think of anything else interesting to write so I'll just leave it at that! 

Hopefully you have a more relaxing week than the one I'm about to have (I'll receive my hija on Wednesday) and you enjoy the last little bit of summer. Pray for me that my new comp and I won't die out here and that we'll be able to find more people to teach as well as help the investigators we already have to progress and get baptized. It's gonna be awesome! I hope..

Les quiero mucho. Hasta luego!

<3,

the mamá-to-be, Hermana Crawford

my crazy compi

here's the second attempt at banana bread making, and it actually turned out perfect- we ate it at the despedida of hermana Gimenez and the ward loved it

here's an example of one of the "salads" that my companion makes. This one included rice, tomatoes, mayo, corn, palmitos?, vinegar, and boiled eggs.. (also, milanesa de pollo con espinaca is what's on the plates)