Lunes: after writing last week we went and
taught pedro, im thinking that his family my be my first in the temple
in a year, so im really hoping we can convert him, not just baptize him,
but actually convert him. We had fish at his house, he lves fish, and
when i say house i mean its like a log cabin, but sticks vertical
instead of logs, and garbage bags lining the inside to keep the wind and
rain out, they also have two matresses, i cant believe the lack of
culture shock i have here at times. I thinks its normal and the
happiness that all people have its just so great as well. After Pedro we
had a FHE with the family sosa and an inestigator, it went super well,
oh and also i opened my package!!! i absolutely loved it!! all of it..
the candy is close to being gone but the other things should last me my
whole mission. Also my comp loved his gifts he said thank you and wore
his tie the very next day.
Martes: Today we started the day at 6
which is the plan from now on because we are practice piano in the
morning... it never sounds as good though because its a keyboard and
there is gaps between notes, since there are no pedals... but it´ll be
better than nothing. After that we had our district meeting, but since
our old zone leader went home last change, and we dont have a zone
leader in the district, we had people from villa hayas, and our district
come to our chapel so that was cool, it will be like that every other
week so next week is in mariano. We went to the beis family for lunch
and there kids were super crazy, they hae a similar house to pedros,
just alittle bigger, it was also super hot today! got myself a second
spanish study book that i think is better than the one the church gives
out, apperantley it was given to the missionaries that went to the provo
MTC 2 years ago becasue it was from elder eliason, but i love it and am
learning lots from it. Tomorrow we are having divsions, or so i
thought, until we came home and my comp thew up, he called it off and we
called it a night, pretty great way to end the day ehh.
Miércoles: My comp slept in until 10 becuase he was sick, i decided if im sick im gonna get up at 6:30,
i think its easier to get health faster when you obey the rules, just
personal opinion. He also canceled lunch because he wasnt sure if he
would be able to do much today, but by 10:30
he felt great, so thank goodness for your package i cooked potatoes and
the gravy you sent me, and put some montreal seasoning on to, it was
super delish!we went out to teach and nobody was home so that was
frustrating and after that, we had a FHE with Froilan, and the familia
beis. That went super good froilan was baptized in june and is on the
verge on inactivity, but after he asked when and where the next FHE is,
super awesome!, pictures from the game we played included. also we had
the tortilla paraguay with potatoes inside, that was super delish for
reals. we headed to mariano where i would be for divisions the next day
with elder veizaga again. When i got there we went and taught a lesson
to an inactive girl, and then headed home. He turned on his music or his
comps music and ill follow you into the dark by death cab fir cutie
came on! i loved it so god to hear music from home that i know, made me
miss music alittle more than normal, so those keeping track of music
that come out while im gone... dont slack off on your job.
Jueves: Today woke up in mariano, but our lunch
appointment cancled, so my comp invited us to the familia sosa in
remansito for lunch, so their we went. I learned that if your latino,its
totally fine to be like oh this is kinda hard, or just not eat aton of
the food cause you dont like it. Im actually very glad my mother taught
me to eat everything when im on a mission, i can tell that the people
like you more when you do. Plus they are all so concerned about how
skinny i am sometimes its not an option for me haha. I then had a
meeting with elder veizaga and his ward mission leader, there mission
program is functionaing better than ours, but we are teaching with
memebrs more, im not sure which is better, im just hoping that the both
can always be improving. It was super hot today and me and elder veizaga
were not as "untied" as last time. i think it is because i could
understand way more this time and was ableto have omre of an opinion
because of it. At the end of the day we were lacking a lesson with a
member. I told him about atime in remansito wen we had the same problem
but we went up to contact this group of people and one happened to be a
member. We went over to this area of house where he thought maybe their
would be a member, and sure enough the same thing that happened in
remansito happened here it was awesome! then we ended divisions and
headed back home.
Viernes: 3 MONTHS!!!!wooo time definately seems to
be flying, each week is always a little faster and it feels like i am
writting you guys more and more frequently. Today we had weekly plannign
which went well, during it we got a phone call saying that we are going
to be getting two new missionaries in remansito and that we need to
divide the area, find a house for them, and yeah. But how awesome and
exciting is that!! maybe ill get to go there after this change and stay
in remansito!!! it will be so good for this area too as there is so much
work to do and with two more missionaries people can progress way
faster! Also at the end of plannign i found out Elder rodriguez only had
30 mil left for the month, basically nothing.... but that he has 100
mil in reimbursments in medicine, so he has 130 left for the month. Hard
for me to understand because i have 330 left... he just spends his
money way faster than me. We had a super good day today!!! taught 5
lessons with members!! im pretty sure thats our record, also we played
phone tag with the AP all day, because he wanted to talk to me... i know
him, because he went to lunch with us in limpio once and is my
companions old trainer.. so in missionary terms he is my grandpa, and my
grandpa is the AP. Nonetheless he called me but we werent able to
talk... i have no idea what it could be about.... that was my day.
Sabado: Today we got up at 6 again to practice
piano.. perfect because my comp decided he wasnt ready and that i will
play all the hymns tomorrow, and this was only our second time this
week. So practice we did. Today we taught a total of 11 lessons, also i
think a record, really good day. We did find out this week that we had
been counting wrong our last change. And that when we have a lesosn with
a less active and investigator we have to choose between the two. So
our numbers in some for less active went down, but thats not the
importnat part since we are still teaching less active. That is all im
concerned about. I also almost steped on a little snake today. It was
the first one i had seen, and i realized that i actually saw one a while
ago that a chicken was trying to eat. Crazy craze... i hate snakes. the
misquitos are out and hungry for gringos!, thats me, i get about two or
three new bites each day i think the majority of them come when im
sleeping. We had a lesson with Juan Carlos and Lourdes (the young women
secretary 16 years old) and her dad wont sign the marriage papers so she
told us she is thinking about moving out! it was awesome to hear, i
taught them about how martin harris lost the 116pages and how we need o
always follow the spirit. After we decided that we are going to have an
FHE where we have pizza, also the red hot chilli peppers are coming to
paraguay early november. I WANT TO GO SOOOO BAD. hopefully ill be in
asuncion that night some how, but something is telling me that that is
impossible. Oh also i talked to the AP today. We chatted last pday when i
was signing papers and he told me that he wanted me to keep my red tie
in good condition because he wanted to trade. I told im love my red tie,
but if there is something better on the table then ill consider. haha
good day.
Domingo: ¡i played the piano! and i did horrible. I
messed up a bunch and there were times when i wasnt playing but my comp
said he thinks it was better then when its just the people. Also when
its just the people it sounds super gross so i was glad i could only
hear the key board. We had 48 people at church today!! it was awesome we
also had the district president there, 2 investigators, and reorginized
the callings. The 1st conselor to the president of the branch is elder
quorom president and the secretary to the branch ( and branchmission
leader) is also young mens president. Also the Relief society president
is now primary president and the old 1st conselor to the relief society
presidency is the president. Talkabout aton of reponsibility for these
poor people! its becauswe we lack preistoohd, and but hopefully we can
change that soon. WE had an investigator hit his third attendance today
which means we just need to finsih teaching him to baptize him. We
taught him after lunch and his member friend wants me to baptize him...
we will see but i might baptize someone next saturday or sunday... Came
home super tired to a super hot humid house.. that was the day.
Lunes: Today has been a great one!! we started by
going to villa hayas to play soccer on this tiny little turf feild with
the other district in our zone. It was awesome we played two games the
first they barely one,m but the last one when it mattered, i scored
three goals! it was awesome they kept saying how is the american
scoring, im pretty sure it was just luck haha. After that it was
extremely humid, i was sweating and anytime id wipe it off my arms legs,
or face more would just pool up.. it would be so easy to cut weight
down here haha. then we came back and went to lunch with the mariano
elders, right next to this addidas store, lunch was so good it was like
this burrito thing kinda like a carne asada burrito from avelardos..
amazing. I also bought shoes for soccer at the addidas store. The ones i
really wanted were 80 US dollars, but then i found some better quality
ones on the clearance rack for 30 that i like alot too. Andafter that i
came to write you guys but i recieved an amazing email picture to
come..... ELDER D. TODD CHRISTOFFERSON is coming to our mission!!!!! im
am so excited i get to hear from an apoatle of the lord!!! i cant
wait!!!!!
Well thats all from me... thanks for the package and hope all is going well in your lifes!! stay classy spokane!!
Love
Elder Jace Gummersall
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