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AHHHHHH!!!! This week has been crazy!!! I am staying here, but Hermana Gonzalez is leaving me! I am getting 2 new companions! And I am going to the temple in 2 DAYS!!!!! :D

But it is kind of awkward because I am going to the temple so my new companions will just go back to Charlottesville after transfer meeting on Tuesday (we still haven't found them a ride back from Richmond....) and I will stay down there. Who knows what I will be doing. And I won't come back until Wednesday night. Probably at like 8 or 9 I'll get back. Who knows. And I'll just work with the new Hermanas and show them the area for a couple weeks and then I'll leave on November 10th. It is crazy that I only have 3 weeks left. Crazy. And that Hermana Gonzalez is leaving me! How sad! She has been here for a long time. I am worried that V will not be so open when the new Hermanas come. He was really good friends with Hermana Gonzalez. Especially since he is from Mexico City and so is her dad. And I am leaving pretty soon after that... I just really hope the new Hermanas can connect with him really quickly!

And I am so excited for his baptism! It will be amazing. This week, on Friday, we had a really good lesson with him and his 5-year-old son, D.  D is SO CUTE!!! We used the Book of Mormon stories for children book and taught about when Nephi built the boat, and we brought J.M. with us, who is a super cute member who is 18 and going to college. She is way sweet. D loved the story and I think it really touched V how happy D was and how much he remembered about the story. He kept asking him about it later and he wanted to read it again so they reread it like 3 times. And D said the prayer at the beginning (just repeating what Hermana Gonzalez told him) and V was like about to get emotional. So I think that was really good for him. Everything is just helping him be firmer and firmer in his decision. We keep praying and working to help him follow through, because we know that this is the first step on the best path anyone can take!

...I don't know what else to write! Not a lot of other things happened. We got the car inspected this week, helped M clean out her house (which was like starting to go towards hoarding). She recently lost her father and her best friend who she took care of, so she has been really depressed. And she likes to collect stuff, so her house/yard just fill up fast. And usually she takes care of it or gives it away so it isn't too bad, but it has been getting a bit unfortunate. So we helped her clean some of it out and we found some cool treasures! Some various jewelry, a snowglobe/music box that plays "Feed the Birds" from Mary Poppins (when you shake it birds fly around :)), a box of ink stamps, and an amazing secret that you'll find out about someday. And a lot of other stuff. Those are just the ones she gave to me. She also had a stamp collection from her friend who passed away that would probably be worth like hundreds of dollars. So that's kind of cool. But she kept that, of course. But yeah, it was good. We only had like an hour though, so we only got to go through a little bit. But we should be going back this week. She also has like 3 super fat cats that are really funny. And she is like the coolest lady ever. She speaks perfect English, she also speaks Spanish (she's from Uruguay) and French (she lived in France for a while) and who knows what else. She never went to school, but she LOVES to read. That's what we were starting to clean out, was her bookshelf, so we could move it. I guess she is a nurse or something, because she also has like TONS of medical textbooks that she reads all the time. She is way smart. And she is teaching herself like 5 other languages. But she'd never tell you any of that, we only found out because we either saw her doing it, or saw the books/papers, or whatever. She is crazy cool though. And funny. 

But yeah. Who knows. Anyways, I love you all so much! Have a wonderful week and go to the temple if you can! I'll be there too, finally!! :D

Love,

Hermana Emily Pratt

Ps Thank you everyone for the support you've been giving me! I have been loving all of your letters and I appreciate you all so much and I am praying for you!!