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
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