I guess I´ll start off with transfers. I will be staying here and getting a new comp, Elder Pariera, who´s from Brasil. And I´ll remain líder de distrito.
Well, Lautaro ended up getting baptized this week! Which I wasn´t really sure was gonna happen. But it definitely wasn´t easy. On wednesday we taught him all of the commandments, which wasn´t easy because we have to have our friend Marcos translate for us. (Did I mention that Lautaro is deaf?) So we had to teach everything very simply. He was so excited to get baptized, I don´t know if I´ve ever seen anyone get so excited for baptism. He wants to bless and pass the sacrament really bad too, and serve a mission. But we told him that there is an order to things. We used our fingers to count out 5 steps, and then acted out each one: 1. Bautismo 2. Don del Espíritu Santo 3. Sacerdocio 4. Partir la Santa Cena 5. Elder/Misión. He´s really excited to do each one haha. But after we taught him everything he got really sad and told us that him mom wasn´t going to let him get baptized. That really surprised us because we´ve talked to the mom several times and she never had any problems with us. So thursday we went to see what was up. She told us that she wasn´t going to allow him to get baptized right now because he wasn´t ready. He had only been to church 2 times, and she thought it would be better if he just kept going to church, and maybe in a couple of years, when he was really sure, then he could get baptized. I´ve had this problem a lot in my mission so I already had some stuff ready. I shared the story in Acts 8, about the man that asks ¨what doth hinder me to be baptized?¨ And in Acts 22 ¨And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and washaway thy sins¨. And also a little bit about how faith is not a perfect knowledge, and that if we don´t get baptized, we are only stopping ourselves from progressing onto greater things. Well, pretty suprisingly and miraculously, we somehow convinced her, and she signed the ficha and we had the baptism the next day. We confirmed him in our capilla in between sessions on sunday, with our bishop and a few other members. (Which we had recieved permission from our President and bishop to do).
As you know, Conference was very good. I watched all the sessions in english in la capilla in Ramos Mejía with several other missionaries, except for the sunday morning session, which I watched in spanish in the house of obispo, because we had to confirm Lautaro right after. Watching it in spanish made me realize how much I´ve really learned in the past year, because I didn´t have any problems at all understand it. Which is definitely a lot of progress from a year ago haha. Elder Holland´s talk was very good, even in spanish.
Well I´ve already run out of time so I guess that will be all. Have a great week! And enjoy the 3 hours of church while you still can! ;)
-Elder Shelton
Maybe these are obvious, but just in case, here are the translations for Nate's 5-step program 
1 = Baptism
2 = Gift of the Holy Ghost
3 = Priesthood
4 = Administer the Sacrament
5 = Elder/Mission
"ficha" = baptismal slip
"capilla" = chapel
"obisbo" = bishop
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