Incredible week!

Hi Momma :)
What a week!! It has been incredible and I´m going to try to get it all down before we have to go... haha we´ll see how it goes.
First, I have to say that Elder Barnum and I have been so blessed here it´s incredible. It seems like a lot of things are just happening exactly how we want them too... which surprisingly doesn´t happen too often in the mission haha... But anyway... Last week, oine of the investigators that we have been working with for quite a while really started to pull things together and came to church with both of her CRAZY little boys... they have the energy of Jed, but far worse behavior... so she really showed some commitment, and we got to set a date for her baptism! Then on top of that, another girl that we have been working with for quite a while told us that she received a real answer to her prayers and wants to get baptized too! woohoo! haha so as of right now we have four people with baptismal dates. I´m so excited for them it´s incredible!
But, ¨There must be opposition in all things...¨ so this week we have also had a family of 4, a newly-married couple and a teenage boy tell us that they´re ¨really busy right now¨ and they ¨won´t really have time to come to church¨ or anything so it would probably be better if ¨we stopped sharing¨ with them for a while... To be perfectly honest, that is one of the worst feelings ever. So at the same time, we´ve had some challenges this week as well...
However, Saturday was absolutely incredible! Elder Bednar came to our chapel here in Villa Olga, along with the other 186 missionaries in the Santiago Mission, and had a special meeting for 3 hours just with us :) hahaha it was so good!! He talked for about 2 minutes and then asked us what we´d learned from the couple of talks that we had received a week earlier to study before he got here, so the questions and comments began. And that is how the meeting stayed for the remaining few hours. I didn´t get the chance to ask a question because, as I´m sure you can imagine, everybody´s hands were in the air and we only had so much time that I was not one of the few who were picked, but I was among the lucky few that got to listen, which was even better. His real point with the whole thing was that the Holy Ghost teaches the gospel, we don´t. But we are the ones that know how to invite the spirit to accompany us, so even though our words mean very little, the feeling that we bring is sumamente importante!
It´s hard to describe all the things that I learned, but it was an incredible experience that I won´t be forgeting in this lifetime.
On top of that, not much is different... We still chugging along to try and find some new investigators, because all the ones we´ve found recently haven´t really been following through, but we keep walking...
Tell Julia that I´m super happy that she had a good birthday and I´ll be there for the one after next haha and tell Livy to not be so excited to turn 16... cause whatever boy it is, I´m probably gonna beat him up when I get home... Tell Sean that I´m going to give his information to a Peruvian girl in my ward here because she´s going to BYU, and yes, he should be excited to meet her haha but maybe wait to tell him because I don´t think she´s going until Spring.
Now for you, Mom... I will have you know that I was on my knees for quite a while last week thanking God for your health, and I continue to do so every day. I love you and can´t explain in words how I felt last week and how I still feel about the whole situation. We didn´t have the chance until Friday, but Elder Barnum and I celebrated over some Ice cream :)
I know that we have been blessed by the Lord and there is nowhere that I want to be besides here, hoping to help another family receive the blessings and feel the love that ours has. I love you Mom.
Elder Cornwell
P.S. I sent home a CD of pictures, and I´d love you to send a couple up to Nikki if you could... Pick out some good ones :)