Change, change, change

11/25/13
Well another week doing with a lot of change but here we go!!!!.....

Lunes: Today we hit up som ehouses.... like all members but it was good, my copm started saing good bye and we also went around with elder billings and elder merro (elder merro went home this week end of mission) it was good. after that at night my comp did some packing and i switched beds and sides of study desks and where my stuff is at.. to organize a little bit and because its a little more convientent. then we hit the hay.

Martes: we played pica volley for exercises its like volleyball but you cant use your hands all the people play it here its awesome!! and hard, then we had our district meeting, in remansito.. the photo is in our chapel where we have sacrament meeting.. little different eh? then we went and had a little bit of cyber time, and after lunch. WE went home and my comp kept packing and i finished changing my stuff overthen we went out and did a visit, and within 10 minutes the rain just strted pouring!!, we semi ran home, i was completetly soaked, a picture of my water filled shoes is included, you can see the puddles that formed after i dumped it out once. It also only took 5 minutes to get home so it took five minutes to be wet head from toe.. crazy!! at the house my comp finished packing and a made a new wallet that is a little more water proof, and is totally missionary approved. then the rain slowed down so we tried to go visit a couple more people so my comp could say good bye, but alot of them were already sleeping or there was a huge river infront of there house and we oculdnt pass, so that had to have been tough that my comp coulnt say bye to every one. Then when we got back to the home i got a call saying that i had to wear my suit tomorrow because i had to go to the meeting about how to learn how to train people.. so life got a little more real just like that haha.

Miércoles: Headed into Asunción at 6 in the morning and then had my training meeting.i learned some good stuff that hopefully i can apply here pretty soon. Then since my comp wasnt brand new they told me i didnt have to be there for lunch and we could go.. but since the other two missionaries that would be in remansito new nothing about remansito, and one of them was brand new, we had to go get lunch in asuncion and wait. it was good. Elder WOrsham is tall, ikupu in guarani. He is from utah and a good guy, he had some rough blows and a companion who is close to going home, and didnt work to hard so he asked for a change of trainers and got me. sO we gonna do some work here in remansito... aslong as the people understand us haha. We got into remansito that night, and after the three new people got settled in i took them to meet the president. It was good and pres is super excited for 4 in remansito, so am i i just nw ill miss some people from the other side too. 

Jueves: We had our branch ward mission leader meeting.. kind of a rariety here but a good start with the 4 missionaiers. That went well after we all went toi the sosa house for lunch. It was a good time, then i took the 2 newelders around there srea, that was a little tiring and long but a good start for them and just give them a little bit of traction before they really get going. AFter i had my first training session from the 12 week program book, it went well, we should be fine... hopefully for the next six weeks, i also found out that in the next two changes we will have more than 60 missionaies coming in so after this change i may ahve to train again.. our mission is incredibily young right now!! hah. toinight we had consejo or ward counsel, which was the best ione we have ever had to and after that we got a little work in, but basically set our selves up to work this weekend. 

Viernes: GOt a good weekly planing session in, it was two hours but my comp said he never had weekly planning before and it wa never that long, it was the shortest one ive had i think haha. after that we had lunch and i got to see how good his spanish his.. its pretty good and i think we will be able to handle ourselves here. I did realize that ive had a little shift of focus, becuase im working a little more with bringing people back to church, then trying to find tons of new investigators, but for me if a member finds there way back to activity im just as happy as if i get a baptism. Our first real lesson today was super awesome!! and the truth i didnt understand evrey word, but we taught a less active lady, and she started crying and saying she needs to change and go back to church and the spirit was super strong, its was a great start to this era of remansito elders.. pretty excited for the next 6 weeks. 

Sabado: Taught the saminiego family, not the one whose dad died but his brothe.. each time ive gone there the dad or brother has never been there but today he was, it was super good! we also met the husband of an investigator with a baptism dates husband.. he was super drunk and told us he wanted to change, but he wanted to keep smoking, it was really really sad, it would be tough to live like that, it was super hot today!!! but we were able to teach 7 lessons. and aught a lot of less active members. Tonight i was exhuasted and went to bed not feelinf the best.. my stomach hurt a little and i had chevivi (diarihai i dont even know how to spell that.. the runs). I went to bed after a while but then woke up at 1:30 to releave the bowels again, i couldnt sleep, until 2 when i through up twice.. after conqouring the double headed dragon within, i finnally got some sleep.

DOmingo: I woke up feeling way better, but super tired, nonethelss i made the decison last change if im ever sick to just work through it, so the dsay went on but i dint feel bad at all by the end. Church was full today and for the second week in a row we had 48 people in the sacrtament meeting. 6 Less actives from our side including all of the samenigeo family weve been teaching, and 2 investigators, one of which we were not expecting to be there!!! i taguht the gospels principles class about the scriptures.. it was super good, and one investigator was participating aton!! super awesome. after church, we went and found the urquart family and gonzalez family that we were hoping would see at church, and i really do think that next week at least one of those familes will be there.. we will see. Then we had lunch and taught victor, the guy i baptized it was real good. after that my comp got a little home sick, we had a good pep talk and talked about why we are in the mission and why we have to do what we are doing. we got out and taught a little more and met the dad of a nine year old investigator that wprks in argentina, he was drunk at the time but i think that he couyld change and come to church too.. that would be super awesome!!! 

Lunes: today we got up and started the day like normal. then we went mariano to play soccer with 8 other elders, that was super fun but it was also really hot!! then we went and ate some lo mito... again because its just so dang good!! and after we came here.. to the place im writing you now..

Thats my week pretty exciting my confidence in spanish has shot through the roof these last couple days as ive been forced to talñk more and really listen so that i can converse with the people. Pretty cool and really pretty awesome blessing from the lord to be able to do so much with the language this fast. 

Hope all is well with you guys and that you all keep choosing the right!! (deportapoña) in guarani!! teheheheh

CIao Ciao love ya tons!!!!

Elder Jace Gummersall

¡¡CHRISTOFFERSON AND CAMBIOS!!

Hola familia muchos cosas que hice esta semana, pero comenzamos...

Lunes: Today was probably the worst day in the mission and one of the worst ever, we came home and went to the familia Duré to meet with their neighbor that never came but they did tell us that the father of a family killed him self. The family is less active members one of there sons thats our age was starting to re activate, the mom was living in a different city 20 minutes from here and it happened in the morning meaning the 4 kids living there ages 20, 15, 12, and 6 woke up to find there dad there. My heart broke honestly and i feel absolutely horrible for them. We talked to the president who had already talked with the family, the funeral is tomorrow and he cant make it so he wants us to help out, but we have elder D Todd Christofferson so we said we would clean the chapel in the morning and see what we could do to help, i went to bed really considering missing elder christofferson to help support the family more.

Martes: Today was extremely busy, we cleaned the chapel and my comp made the descion to go to elder christofferson because really i couldnt decide. I kept thinking what would elder christofferson do.. but to him we went. we also got the contract of the new house signed before we headed out. We got there early and so we went to the distribution center, garments are 3 mil, (75 cents) so i bought two of each, what a steal right!! I also got letters from the neilson and casebolt family from conference weekend!! what a sweet surprise!! then we got to enter the building we had assigned seats, i sat in the middle almost against the wall on the left side behind the curtain but could see just fine. He started by saying he wanted to shake every missionaries hand so thats what we did first. He said nice to meet you elder gummersall, i dont remember what i said back, or if i was just in shock or taken a back a bit i dont know but it was awesome! his talk was so good it was like a question and answer and the general theme was that the spirit teaches of truth and the book of mormon invites the spirit unlike anything else, and a testimony of the book of mormon helps people have stronger testimonies of the gospel.. so read your book of mormon peoplke! haha. He spoke in spanish and i understood it all it was so good!!! after we all got a bag of food and headed home, we found a place close to our house that sells ice cream now and have been many times now haha.

Miércoles: we had lunch with the familia biaz today and finnally found out why they arent all in the chapel every sunday, its becuase if a storm comes in and they arent home the homes will all fall down they said that soon everything will be good, but they need more money before they can fix it all. Then we got some good ol´ language study in and helped a memebr move in all the super nice new stuff into the new house. Everything its super new, super nice and i kinda want to live there for that alone haha. We then went to the hermana istanizlada (hows that for a name?) it was her birthday and her son got her a microwave, i taught them how to use it, its crazy how a microwave can be the nicest and most hightec thing in the house but it is.Humbling for sure but she is so great! we ate some meat that was warmed in the microwave and she gave me a knife that had no blade so i got a work out in trying to saw this gaint pice of meat with a flat piece of metal haha. overall good day!

Jueves: We went back to the new house to organize all the stuff and unpack the new fridge and stove. we also had to wait for a lock smith to come so that the rooms could have locks. Then we went ot our house we have right now and talked to the owner about putting in a reserve water tank for the house! he is down so soon we should have a new one of those!! that means i should always have a shower hah! then we went and taught a lesson to glayds and rosanna, after we were walking and after a week and a half we finnaly ran into celia in the street!! she told us that she will be in the church thius sunday and we can talk more then! this week or numbers are not that good up to this point, but we have been having the highest quality of lessons so thats the most important part. 

Viernes: Last weekly planning with elder rodriguez... i think, becuase changes this pday and we are pretty sure we will be seperating, we will see. after we had lunch and then headed to mariano because my comp had to interview an investigator of the hermanas to be baptized, it was an eventful trip, my comp spilled juice all over his crotch and pants before the interview, then after we had to go to the elders house and got lost, we walked for an hour until we got there, and it was soooooooo hot. I bought a 2.25 liter jug of water and drank it all within 10 minutes!! after we made our way back to remansito, we swung by the house of an investigator and then went to go find celia, we were 8 minutes from her house when it strted to pour and was super windy! with in 3 minutes we were completely soaked, and yes we had umbrellas, my shoes were full of water and every part of my was soaked, we got to celias house and here recent convert bvorhter david was there so we taught him. I poured the water out of my shoes, it was probably about half a cup between the two shoes.. a ton!! after the rain stopped but not the wind, so that made us really cold becuase it was wet and windy.. the best mix!! haha. After we visited pedro we headed home to call it a night and i got to change and get dry and warm.. good feeling after the storm haha. 

Sabado: today was absolutely gorgeuos, not hot, a slight breeze and sunnny, we got some good work into today and had a ton of contacts!! nothing crazy or exciting happened today, the anticipation of changes is in the air and we can totally feel like som ecraxy things are gonna happen. but we havent the slightest idea. yup yup yup.

Domingo: Really good day today! We didnt have the piano because my comp wanted to play but didnt feel ready this morning so we didnt bring it, but we had 48 in the chapel!! almost 50!! it was sooooo good, 15 less actives that made a return! partly because of the horrible event that happened monday, there was alot of family effected by that, and partly because of our teachings, but the meeting was super good and we are hoping to only have more from here on out! we taught 10 lessons today!! a ton for a sunday, but the two most imiportant had to have been with the the sister in law of family sameniego, and then the family sameniego themselves, they need some help and are definately different, we taught about how good loves everyone, we are hoping that we can help them but really i have no idea how, we are gonna keep visiting them and supporting them through this tough time. Today i coimpleted my 3 change meaning only 14 left, not counting at all, i also left the airport 4 months ago menaning i have less than 20 months left.. crazy fast the time goes!! 

Lunes: today has been super full!! we didnt have water this mornign so we went to the other house to shower, how cool is that we have two houses right now hahah, but that house didnt have water either so i did a classic bucket shower in that house. we got called about changes this morning too!! my comp is headed to the office to in charge of all the money! he told me i will be having a comp that was in the mtc withhim and that he is really good. So im excited, i had a good personal study really good, we went to lunch and ate lo mito.. so goood. but at lunch i found out my comp heard wrong and i have a different companion, that came to the mission a change ago, and i have to finsih training him. So im like his step dad in the missionary language, and im still so young to be a trainer.. crazy.. my spanish will really be put to the test the next couple of days. After that we visited abunch of houses in remansito with elder billings and elder merro becuase its elder merros last pday in the mission, we only have an hour and a half to write but maybe ill get to write alittle bit tomorrow in the morning early. hot hot hot today!!

excited for the change of pace and hope all goes well and mainly that the people can understand me, and i can finish this new elders training good, and use the phone without problems.... its the hardest part.

Hey i started using the ipod this week, and i think you guys could email good songs that bring the spirit that i could have.. also if you wanted to put in a cord for the ipod so i can connect it to the computer that would be super awesome!! 

alright well love you guys aton got emails form tons of people today and plann on writing them all the next itme because i dont have a ton of time today.. love you all!!!!

Love ya!!!!!!

Elder Jace Gummersall

Trying to dry some soggy shoes

hot hot hot

This week got hot, sweaty, and a little stinky... enjoy haha..

Lunes: After the letters last week we went to super seis the best grocery store here, i got 2 very large boxes of Azucaritas, or frosted flakes, i dont know if they are better down here, or i just havent had them in forever, but i absolutely love them right now. Then i printed the photos of victors baptism to give them to him, But that night we couldnt find him, nor could we find celia (our next prospective baptism) so we had a Noche de Hogar with the sosa family and Froilan, it was super bueno! after that we made our way home. 

Martes: We had district meeting this morning where my comp had me teach about how to teach the apostasy. Ill send you a picture of the circle next week if i can remember to take one. But i taught that for 10 min to everyone, also an heramana taught for 10 minutes, and the other elders taught as a companionship for 10 minutes, it was a real good meeting. Afterwords we went to the internet cafe (cyber) and sent some stuff and then hit the streets house hunting, at the end we found a house that may be perfect but we cant talk to the owner until thursday so we just have to wait and see. We taught a couple people but plans didnt go as planned so thats never fun. We also couldnt find Celia again, so the little red flag is starting to go up. 

Miércoles: Today wasnt the best day either. We went and taught william, he thinks the book of mormon is true but doesnt understand the concept of priesthood, and thinks his baptism before is enough. so thats frustrating. Then we went to lunch with the Biaz family who is crazy!! and all over the place. We used two hours there because they wanted us to teach them something, but she wanted to wait until all her kids were there and ready so that was frustrating as well. We then used the next hour and a half teaching a less active family. Its tough for me to sit there for that long because the maximum should be about 45 minutes. But i stay quite because it is my comps job to start and stop each lesson. It wasnt until that night when my comp finally agreed and said we were spending too much time during the lessons and that i could help him manage the time better. It literally was an answer to my prayers. So that was cool. We also have over planned and area having to decide what is the more important thing... always tough.

Jueves: Started the day like normal, and then went to the house after studying a bit. The man is very nice and we are about 98% sure this house will be the new one so that's super exciting!! its pretty big and looks like it wont have any problems. i want to live there for the house, but want to stay in the other house for the area.. tough life i have here hahah. After we went to lunch at the sosa home. Only Belén (bethlhem in spanish) and diego were there and diego wants to add me and people from my family on facebook, so we will see what happens there. Then we went home to do weekly planning.. i dont like doing it thursdays but my comp wants to have divisions tonight so that is that. After that we went to the familia Duré where we waited 30 minutes for a neighbor who said they would be there, she went to her house and she said just a minute, and then still didnt show. That's the Paraguayan life for ya haha, then we had ward counsel with just president olviedo.. that is another area we are trying to fix, the ward counsel is super important but no one understand that here. after that we had divisions and i went to mariano like usual.

Viernes: HAKU!! or hot in guarani. I had a real good personal study, and then we planned for the day. We didnt know anyone that we were visiting, so lesson planning was all the same.. follow the spirit, and hope we can find their houses. that went well for some people and not so well for others. We didnt have the most numbers in the world, but it wasnt a horrible day. At the end we found out the date and time of D Todd Christofferson changed to Tuesday in the afternoon, we dont know why but how awesome is that!!! Ended our divisions and made our way back home, where i found out we had no water all day, and into the night. fun fun.

Sábado: We visited an investigator who we think really has the chance to progress and she recently claimed herself a pet anteater!! we didnt get a good look at it because it didnt want to come out of the house but how cool is that!! She lives really close to the river, and we found where the people that want to be are baptized in the river so that cool. Then we had lunch with president which was good, he help us focus our efforts in helping the less active. after we started a fast, so we could be better basically, and so we could find celia and that she will still want to be baptized, but we only abstained from food because it is super hot here. At the end of the night we went to visit a lady that elder rodriguez contacted yesterday and she might have a capabara but i cant be sure... can you guys look up how to say capabara in guarani, and tell me if they have a long tail and face that is elongated a little.. i cant remember exactly. We also were walking in the street and ran into 2 missionaries that are jehovah witnesses. We chatted it up a little an then went our separate ways.. it was cool. We came home hot and sweaty and like last night, this morning, and all day still had no water!! this is not the most ideal situation for summer time. especially because all the people are saying that its only gonna get hotter!!

Domingo: Let it be said day number three without water.. count your blessings. Today i took a bucket shower. Went down to the side of the house filled a bucket with water and then used a bowl to scoop out the water and pour it on me so i could be somewhat cleaner.. although i didnt feel that clean after. we went to church where i played three hymns.. its getting a little better each time so thats good. I also gave a talk today! i used about 13 minutes and spoke about prayer. I used the scriptures in 1 nephi 7 when nephi breaks the bands. In D&C when hyrum learns how to receive an answer, and it went pretty well from what i could tell. We didnt have any investigators in the church today which was tough and only had 30 people there. Victor got the priesthood today so that was awesome!! we then went around a taught a little during the day and then headed home. We couldn't find Celia again so make that 8 days without contact. Her member friend talked with her once and said that she wants to talk with us but is having struggles. Hope we dont lose this one, she is so ready for baptism. oh we also have to get up for the dentist at 5 tomorrow... wooooooooooo.

Lunes: got up early took or clothes to the laundry lady, and headed down to the south mission so my comp could go to the dentist, after a two hour collectivo ride we got there, and she helped him out. Then we took an hour collectivo ride, which was empty for a little bit, (amazing), to the office. There i got my name tag in guarani which was awesome, talked to elder Bayless who roomed with taylor demars and kaden wolf at BYU before the mission, and whose name is jace too!!, and we met up with some other elders to go to Don Vitos that was good, reminded me of chick filet just not quite as good. after that we made our way to the cyber where i am writing you guys!!

WEll this week has been another one in the books. Ive realized that a week feels like a day, a change feels like a week, and that the mission is flying by! cant wait to see elder Christofferson tomorrow!!! crazy, changes next wednesday but ill know about it next monday, almost certain ill have a new comp but not sure in what part of remansito.. time will tell.. 

Love you guys soooooo much!!! hope all is well!!!

Love

Elder Jace Gummersall

I know it sounds like a food but la garto grande is this animal that looks like a snake but is more like a lizard

mouse in the house

Yup this week we had interviews with the president.. and a bunch of other things happened too... but we´ll start with...

Lunes: After i wrote you guys we made our way home and to the hose of Celia. She is going to be baptized for sure either the next sunday or the last one before next cambios (changes) it was really fun. we played the game with flour.. a fan favorite i would say and everyone ended up fishing for the candy in flour.. it was a good time and a great FHE to have because she should have friends in the church for a while now. after that we headed home. My comp isnt the most cleanly person on the block with his food, not horrible, and really not that bad but he does leave food out at times and doesnt do his dishes that often. Normally not a problem for me, ive adjusted. But when we got home tonight I saw a mouse crawl behind the stove. We then spent the next 20 minutes standing on chairs trying to kill it with a broom. My comp had a good shot at it and hit it once, but after that its squoze its way under the bathroom door and vanished... so now we are living with a rat... and all the food is put away.. that was our eventful lunes.

Martes: Today we had district meeting in Villa hayas, because two weeks ago it was in remansito. It was good. I learned some good stuff but mainly came away with the fact that me and elder bonzo are going on a division in my area this week. We came to the mission the same time and he took three years of german before his mission so that means the spanish should be intresting. It should be fun though. Elder Bonzo is the man im excited to judge where my spanish is at. When we got back nobody was home. Its a pretty common case here during the ciesta, they are either working, or sleeping. You can find people sleeping at all hours of the day here in remansito. It was supppppppppper hot today and i got myself a haircut. The guy did not mes around he buzzed everything except the bangs. Cut them a little bit and then called it good. In reality my hair was cut really bad and doesnt look that good. But in this missionary world im living in its perfect because its just hair haha. We then went and visited monica who thought that the missionaries were prophets. That was interesting. I constructed a mouse trap today to. Peanut butter, dulce, and this toxic liquid stuff. Hopefully we will come home to a mouse already dead because i dont think i have the heart to kill it. After a long hot day of working, we came home to find nothing in the mouse trap, (you´ll get pictures) but we did get a phone call from the zone leader, saying that this week we will be having zone conference and that we will also be having interviews with president. So this thursday should be quite exciting!

Miércoles: today started with rain rain rain.. it started at about 8 in the morining and just kept dropping. we went to hermana istanizlada ( ithink thats how you it) she had these shish ka bob things that were just meat, but were super good, and she had a ton, i ate 7 and my comp 5 there was still like 15 left over haha. at the end of lunch the rain came to a stop and out into the streets we headed. We taught a couple people and were actually able to find needs of these people, that way we could teach them how the gospel can help that need in their life. Truly a huge help for us when someone tells us that kind of stuff. today was a good day we taught a total of 10 lessons. busy busy busy, as always. We got home to find out my comp left the water running so the house floor was all wet again.. he is extremely lucky that carpet doesnt exist down here our else we would have rotted floors. After that i shinned my shoes to prep for the interviews tomorrow. They looked soooooo good :) haha

Jueves: Zone conference this morning. We left early to make sure we were there with early with out any problems. we got there with plenty of time to spare and then got some studying in too. after that we had the first half of zone conference with just the AP´s and zone leaders while president kept interviewing. It was super good, we learned the importance of teaching the apostasy clearly and for understanding, because when someone understands that, they understand the need for a prophet and a restoration. super good! then president came in and basically gave us an overview of the things he taught the past which was awesome for me to hear all the topics he has already covered. Then we ended ( i said the closing pray) and then i waited for my interview with president. We went to a little dispensa right next store to the church and bought meat and bread and ate sandwiches as we waited. My interview was super awesome! he has so many awesome ideas. For every question or concern about our area that i had he had a brilliant response. It was incredible. After that we headed home. We did our weekly planning today because tonight we are starting divisions and and wont be able to do it tomorrow. That went well. After that we only had about 2 hours to work. We went and visited froilan and took pictures of his house that we might uses for the other missionaries. Then we taught him, after that we had about 20 minutes until the switch so we contiued the house hunt with very little success. Then we made the switch, me and elder bonzo headed home and it was there that i learned today was halloween!! all day me and my comp were saying that it was tomorrow but no it was today, we celebrated with the fake teeth and called it a night. (shows how much this country appreciates noche de brujas (night of witches)). 

Viernes: well today i was the senor comp, and had to take care of all the things im not yet that good at. namely Using the phone, and casual conversation for before and after each lesson and for lunch. But to my surprise i didnt really have any problems with understanding anything or conversing with the people. It was super cool. Today was super hot.and literally nobody was in there home, even the people that we confirmed with werent home it was super frustrating. We were able to have three lessons with less active members which was good, but werent able to have any lessons with members. The most disappointing was that celia wasnt there and our plan was to solidify a date for her baptism. After, we headed to Villa Hayas, ate some lo mito arabe (look up the recipe and make it, its so good (lunch  two pdays ago)) and then headed home. Today i was super tired but endeed the day with alot more confidence in spanish so that was good

Sábado: Today me and my comp got into a little arguement, but were able to solve that without wasting much time, nothing bad just a little disagreeing in views that we were able to clear up. Today wasnt hot at all, it was overcast, windy, and had the lightest little sprinkles of rain every now and then. We went to lunch at president oveidos house and he wasnt there to eat it with us so we ate it with his wife. She told us about how all the people in remansito are saying her husband uses the tithing money to support his family. The gossip down here can get pretty tough sometimes, and we have definitely heard that from members too. We tried our best to offer comfort and scriptures to help her and i think it ended good. After lunch we started our fast. Then went to San Antonio but the people who are usually in sanantonio werent there so we taught a lesson and headed back. After that we went on a house hunt again, finding alot of options, but nothing perfect, we did get some good contacting in. At the end of the night there was alot of people that told us they would be at church tomorrow so we were pretty excited. 

Domingo: We started the morning by going to the house of a less active, and investigator that said they would be coming to church. One was sleeping still and the other vowed next week he would be there with all of his family. We are really hoping that these guys will be there. Church was super good today. Victor was confirmed, and then we had testimony meeting. We didnt use the piano today because i wasnt 100% ready to play at least 2 hymns so im hoping i can have 4 ready next week. Since today was fast sunday we had testimony meeting, and you guessed it i went up and bore my testimony today. Just felt like i should, so i did. cool that i can do that with out problems now haha. After church we did something different. We went out to all of the people who told us they would be there to say we missed them and that we hope to see them next week. Hopefully this will help the people start coming to church. we then closed our fast went to lunch and came home to do our studies. After our studies we headed out to teach a little. We got 5 potential people who really look like they could be baptized in the coming weeks, and my companion (district leader) wants me to teach people how i teach the apostasy for the next district meeting (tomorrow) i guess you could say i learned somethings from the zone conference. We werent able to teach celia today because she wasnt home, but here recent convert brother who has slipped into inactivity was. We talked to him and i taught him the importance of the book of mormon, and we we need to read it everyday. After my comp told me that he got the impression that i will be in the office at some point in my mission. I said i hope not cause i would rather work 24/7 but only time will tell. He did want me to ask dad if he was ever in the office.. so dad were you ever in the office on your mission? haha. 

Lunes: todays been good we played some soccer with other missionaries.. i was picked first i think out of pitty but also was the only american there so i dont know why that happened. then we went to lunch at the same lo mito place as last time (not villa hayas) sooooooo goood. and then we came to the cyber to write you guys! good week for me!

Sounds like you all are doing great, my life is going well here in paraguay, doesnt even feel like were close to christmas but its only like 6-7 weeks away, and then i get to skype you!! crazy eh!! 

Hope all continues to go well for you guys love you tons!!!

Love 

Elder Jace Gummersall