Growing Branches

hello queridos!
this has been a fast week. it seems like it was just monday two days ago.
amber, our sixteen year old we found last week is still doing awesome. she prayed and got an answer that she should get baptized. she's been reading the book of mormon and is just so awesome. we love her. we're hoping to start teaching her whole family this week, since spring break will be over and people will have more regular schedules.
we also found a great lady named beatriz this week. i say lady, but in fact she is only 19. she just seems like a lady to me because she already has three children. it's pretty crazy. she made some very big mistakes in her past but she has completely been changing her life around. she wants so badly to repent and has already come a long way. we taught her about repentance and baptism and she said she wanted to get baptized on the 17th of april. when we saw her again last night she said she had already talked to her husband about it and told him that she is planning on getting baptized and coming to church with us and that she knows its right because we've been able to answer the questions that she's always had and nobody has been able to answer. she's great. we are meeting with "husband" tonight to teach both of them. "husband" is really boyfriend.. so they will have to get married before they can get baptized, but i just know that beatriz has the faith to do pretty much anything that the lord asks her to.
this week was the first week our english branch met. they just split it from the ward last week and so yesterday was all the organization and everything. there were probably about 30-35 people tops. the spirit was so strong there. there was a spirit of humility there as young and/or unexperienced people got called to leadership positions, and of unity as everybody was supporting each other and so willing to help out. i kept imagining what it would be like to be in the very first sacrament meeting of church history when joseph smith and a handful of people organized the church for the first time. i could really feel heavenly father's approval and the spirit was so thick you could swim in it. it was a really neat experience and i am excited to be a part of helping this little branch grow.
well.. i am about out of time. choose the right!
love
brittany