CHRISTMAS!!!

12/30/13
Well some fun things happened this week so here we go.....

Lunes: After I emailed you guys we went out to catch a colectivo, but because it was the day before south american christmas we couldnt get back home until 8:30 which was tough. So when we got back we went to a couple people to finalize our chirstmas plans and then headed back home.

Martes: today was a great day!!! went to our district meeting where we read about christ and then got my package from you guys i did wait to open it, but after that we went home and had a real good lunch with hermana romana. Then the highlight of the week, i went to the ciber and skyped you guys!!!! that was so awesome the clarity and sound were definate frustrations, but the fact that we have the privalage and ability to do that was good enough for me :) then we went back home and got our daily studys in, and then headed out to enjoy the paragyuan christmas with a couple families, it started with the familia pineda we had some super delicious fruit salad there, then we went to the familia sosa and ate some good foods including pig, which is a speacial occasion kind of thing for them, and then went and ate some sopa de paraguay and more pig with the familia samaniego, we called it a night at 11 because we were so tired and bloated to the max. we went to bed and then at 12 oclock the night blew up with the sounds of thousands of fireworks, it was soooooooooo loud, christmas here is like the 4th  of july just a little bigger bbq and a little less lake time during the day. 

Miercoles: CHRISTMAS american style!! we woke up and headed over to the other elders house in remansito to enjoy a nice christmas breakfasti cooked some super good, kinda thick bacon, and my comp made pancakes we all got matching shirts from elder smith, his mom sent him to us, they were the shirsts they sold to support his brother when he had cancer and are super cool. His brother did pass away, and he is a great elder. there were tons of drunks out in the street today, including in the morning whne we were walking to and from houses. we theen had lunch and ate goat!!! or thats whatshe said untl i said that ive only tried lamb before and then she said it was lamb.. so mystery meat it was, and delcious it tasted!!! We did have to go get the hermana making us lunch some mayonese and while we were buying it this drunk guy bought us a 2 liter pop so that was cool. we got a couple lessons in and then started a division . I stayed in remansito with elder ellefson (he is in his first change) and elder worsham headed intomariano with elder Hulsey the zone leader. Elder Ellefson is awesome he is a convert and has a great story.it was great to get to know him.

Jueves: today was a good one. we started the day with a meeting with the branch mission leader, so that was nice to have since we dont always have those. and then headed to lunch with sosa. That was good. After that we got to work. we planned alot but only one plan worked out, we did get some good work in and did manage to get 7 for 7 which seemed impossible about halfway through the day, Today was SUUUUUUUPER HOT!!!! and it has been tough dealing with the heat and humidity... but we are managing to survive, january is the hottest month and then it should start cooling down from there. After our day we switched back and me and worsham were reunited again. we still dont have water...... its been tough but bucket shoers are become a habbit. 

Viernes: Got some weekly planning in to start the day today so that was good. then we went to the familia delgado were we had one of he best lunches in my mission it was like rice flank steak and then this chicken stuff that was sooooooooo goood we plan on having a FHE with them soon to make this chicken stuff so im excited! then we went and saw Lorena, shes about 35 years old and is our next planned baptism, she is the best investigador that we have had and she is progressing so good, she reads the book of mormon for hours each day and doesnt have any problems with any kind of commandments its truely a blessing. after words we went to my golden couple that has the wedding date for january 21st, and the guy wasnt there, but we talked with the girl and she expressed to us her doubts that she was having. It was tough to hear, but we are going to continue working with them and are still planning on the 21st. After that we went to the end of the year branch dinner. It was one of the worst and unlively parties ive ever been too. We ate food, listened to guarani folk music, and every one sat in a circle boardering the wall of the chapel, and very few people socialized... i now want to help them plan an activity at least for the youth that could be fun and more upbeat... hit me up with any ideas if you have any.... we went back home and got a call saying that we would find out changes tomorrow so that got the blood rushing, and then at 10:30 the power went out.. which was great for bed time at all... but it was sooooooo hot, the sirconditiopn didnt work and no one could sleep, at about 11:30 we got a call from our disrtrict leader (the other remansito elders) who also couldnt sleep and we said a 4 way group prayer.. i ended up saying it. at about 12:30 1 oclack it turned on and we were able to get acouple hours of sleep before 6:30... so yeah this week was a little rough on sleep.

Sabado: my and my comp arent changing at all.so that saved all that stress and struggle. we still havent had a drop of water and are going on 2 weeks, it was extremely hot today and we were both exhuasted from the lack of sleep we got, but the work went on with out a hitch. we walked alot today becuase tons of people werent home,but did commit our golden investigator to come to church again. so that was good, our day was ok, but we just havent had the sucess weve wanted recently, i think it all comes down to our finding skills right now. We need some new investigators and need some fast.

Domingo: We are slowly started to deecrease back down to where we were numbers wise in the chapel which isnt good. We had 44 at church 11 less actives, and 1 investigator. Our two most important where there though, lorena, and ariel and mercedes, we are really pushing for them to succed in the goals they have and so far they are at least showing they want to do it to. after church wewentto lunch and one of the coolest things happened!!! i was talking to the familia pineda, who had there grandpa in town, and he started talking about an american missionary from 20 years ago that bought land down hear and sisnt sell it too him, the missionary he was talking about baptized the first person out of all of there family, and they said that he still visits paraguay every now and then. I asked them if they knew his name and they couldnt remember, but then told them that i knew someone from my stake who did that. They asked who and sure enoguh it was ELDER CHAMBERS!!!, they said he would know Avelina (Lina) and Silvio (Yiya) Espínola and that that was her aunt. from the branch Zeballos Cue (Polte Neri Villalba) how crazy is that!!!!! it just goes to show, how big an effect one baptism can have!!!! after we visited some people and called it a day. Getting close to a new change here so getting excited to get some more good work done. 

Lunes: Today we cleaned the house a little bit, and ten headed out to luque. We did some window shopping but there are some super sweet recuerdos there i want to get some bad, but i have time in the mission. then we made our way to Loma Pyta and now im writting you guys..

well that was my awesome christmas week but the highlight had to be seeing you guys!! only 5 more months until mothers day right hahah

Love you all so much!!!!

Elder Jace Gummersall

VY'APAVÊ TUPÂRA'Y ARAREÑÓIRE (merry christmas)

12/23/13
ITS ALMOST CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!

Lunes: We had a NDH with the Family Samaniegowhich went really well, drew some pictures of eachother ao that was good, after words I had one of the coolest expierences in my mission that i hope to tell you about on skype tomorrow, but for the weekly email and for the people that read it, the less active couple we were working with on getting married ariel and mercedes decided to get married this januaray on the 21st!!! it was the best news i have recieved all of my mission and i was the happiest boy in paraguay like si o si!!! im just praying that ill still be in remansito next change to be here for it because ive been here 4 and a half months already and im worried i might be out, the first of january, pray for me :)

Martes: today we had district meeting which was good, we got complemented for our numbers which were actually very good, and it was nice to get the recognition. after we came back home and had lunch with hermana romona, it was super good and than after she just decided to come out and make us/have us make these napkin thingys so that was super fun and nice of her afterwords we got some good studying in and then we headed out to work. It was a good, super hot day and we worked reall good, at the end of the day we got a call from our district leader saying we are having a division in remansito tomorrow and im headed to the other half of remansito so itll be good to head back to the other side!

Miércoles: Made a little swith-a-row in the morning and got some studying in in the other house. It was good to get to know elder sprenger, he has a year and almost 4 months in the mission, is a convert from vegas, and is district leader, he is a great guy though who loves to have a goosd time and is pretty dang funny hahah. After that we had a really good lunch, it was super delish!! its like this potatoe and flour stuff with meat that is soooooo good, kelby you probably wouldnt like the texture but it tastes super good! atferwords it was super hot, we had a lot of tracting to do because he is looking for new people to teach, we had  aton of less actives we were working with in that area but not a ton of investigators. learned a lot but mainly to make sure the person doesnt feel pressured or obligated to do anyrthing, and that they do it out of there own free will i did also find some super dope cerro socks.... thatwas sick!!!, after that we switched back, it was a real good division...... oh and today was my 5 month mark!!!!!!!! que rapido eh???

Jueves: Today we had ourseleves a little zone christmas party!!! we went to villa hayas in the morning and headed to the chapel there to have a little spiritual thought, after that we went to the hospital there and sung chrisdtmas hymns to the people there which was really good, the people loved it, there we got some good group photos in from us four from remansito and other people got full photos of the zone that ill hopefully have soon. i also got a nice picture of a cat that looked dead on a bench, and one with elder sprenger in it... but dont worry it wasnt dead hahah but for reals that hospital is dirty and animals walk in and out.. be glad you dont work there mckenzie..... After that we went back to the chapel and had a gift exchange i had elder sanchez as my person to give a cheap gift to.. i got him a box of his favorite candys and also my sunglasses i brought because he loved them when he first saw them... it was god, he also had me and gave me a candy bar and a glass picture frame with a photo of christ and a photo of him behind it with a note... it was awesome! we ate a little lunch while it poured rain and then right as we finished up the rain stopped we headeed back home and got some work in. We did have ward consel tonight and that was lack luster.... something we are trying to improve, but met with arieak and lorena are two progressing people, lorena being someone that could be baptized here in january.. the 11 is the goal!! long but good day!

Viernes: Got some good weekly planning in there, and some planing in for the navidad, and then had a tough hard day.,..... aton of our plans and back up plans fell through and we werent able to visit all those we wanted, the work definately gets harder near chritmas time.... but we did visist lorena again and ariel and merceds and it was real good, i hope we can get arieal through the temple here soon!! there really wasnt two many things exciting that happened today, its super hot, and doesnt look like it will be stopping anytime soon so thats fun, but yup thats it hahah...

Sabado: I thought friday was hard but then we had saturady and even less people were home and it was even hotter, it was a super tough day, the good news though is that the quality of our lessons were super good and we were able to get in some real time good lessons and contacting in, but as for our goals this week has been very sub par... we do have high hopes for church and continue working with lots of menos activos cause this time of year they are the only ones letting us in.. tough life down here...

Domingo: This week was a tough week with the water, we had 1 day with it, and six days without it... the day with it was wednesday night, so yup always tough when ya cant start with a shower... but we got out the door, and got to church to find our numbers dropped a little for chirstmas as well, with 50 in the chapel 8 less actives and 1 investigator... but it was so awesome to have an incestigator in the chapel after soooooo long!! super awesome the meeting was really sub par but we are hoping that our investigator wont realize that. After we got some studying in and then headed out to teach, we taught manuel someone i havent visited since my first couple weeks here and he really wants to make a return... super awesome!! we also got to visit an other investigator we couldnt find all week and that also was super good! our weekly numbers ended up being really not that good, but i was proud of the quality of lessons and hopefull can improve the both in the next coming weeks, christmas is so close and it dont feel like it at all!!

Lunes: today has been crazy mainly becuase of how full the busses are... its nuts in the city, we went to pizza hut, and to the import stire.. basically the one store in paraguay that sells US stuff, i bought peanut butter and mountain dew to celebrate the christmas seasons, my comp boguht rootbeer so its gonna be a good chirstmas!!after that we struggled to get back home and in reality are stuck in loma pyta right now and thats why we are righting.. really rustrating but i just have to remember that there is nothing i can control....

Cant wait to skype you guys and see all your faces!!!!!! dont be late and please be on there!! you guys are the best!!! hope you all have a feliz navidad and lots of snow!!

Love ya tons!!

Elder Jace Gummersall

Bhuddist Temple

12/16/13
miEste semana fue superbien. y lo sigiuente es que pasó.....

Lunes: after I wrote you guys last week we went and a had a noche de hogar with the familia sosa which was good, and got a super delicious hamburger with egg afterwords for the "dessert" or dinner becuase here in paraguay they eat really late dinners.. but it was a super good one. 

Martes: Today we had a district meeting which went really well.and we found out that we were going to have a division with the Zone leader, or i was going to and my comp was going to mariano to have a division with his comp. after that me and my comp had a really good day and were just short of our goals becuase we lost an hour from the switch in the division. but it was all good. I got Elder Sanchez as my comp he is the man who wants to learn english so bad but hasnt had an english comp yet so has had to learn straight from the books, he know a lot though, he wants to go to spokane after his mission. hahah

Miércoles: today me and elder sanchez had a really good day, we got a lot of lessons in and i learned a ton from him. It definately is a little easier when a latino is with you to help explain everything better, and push through the lessons a little faster. We even went and taught the ice cream lady. Me and elder worsham get ice cream for about 20 cents alot here, and we have talked about the church with her but never had a sit down lesson for two reasons. First we normally get ice cream on our way back to the house and so we dont normally have time, and we never wanted to ruin our ice cream relationship, but elder sanchez was determined to teach a sit down lesson with her so we did and it went well, she is just really bus alot of the time so itll be tough to get back in haha. After he left i went and taught a lesson with elder sprenger while we waited for our comps to come back. so i basicallyhad a double division today... but it was good hahah. but it was a super good day, and really hot haha.

Jueves: Bueno, today was good put it did start a little rough, we had a super good lesson, put a baptism date with a lady and she said she wanted to but the date we put was too late becauase she was going to the chaco for 3 weeks in january and we cant do it earlier becuase she hasnt been to church yet so that was a little frustrating. after that we went and taught a kid named gabrial and his sister and they both look very promising so maybe we can get a baptism or something out of that!! we are hoping so they live right in front of the church so getting them to church shouldnt be the biggest trail like some of the others. then we went and had a power packed lesson with Ariel Santa Cruz, he is having some troubles between him and his señora,. they are both less active, arent married, and have a duaghter, she recently moved to her moms house and he didnt know what to do, we had a very good lesson about chastity and repentance and that he needs to talk to her and pray aot so that he can find the best route for his family, we have been working with them for 2 weeks now dont think thats the first lesson we dropped on him hahah. after we hadlesson with brian the 9 year old we are teaching who is having struggles picking church or soccer, we may have to drop hijm but his brother is a recent convert and so we plan on working with him still. then we had a super good meeting with our ward mission leader and for the first time have goals and a vision for the future things are looking good here in remansito!.

Viernes: had our weekly planning today and then lunch and then got to work. Today alot of strange and fun things happend. It started with this man we contated that had to have been drunk beyond belief, he shook and kissed our hands, told us to drink beer, said that wecan use his house or car at anytime, also he told us we should start building a house on his property so we can be neighbors, then his friend stood up stuck his hand to heaven and shouted out a pray i have never heard and all i remember from it was that he said so that we can drink the sweetest waters, then the kissed the pass along cards we left them and we left that house. Super awesome contact right! after we were contacting a house with a calf in front of the house and nobody left so my comp tried mooing to it and it responded, then i tried and it walked to us. So we had a conversation with a cow pretty awesome!! we got in 7 lessons today as well which was awesome. and found out that brians brother alexis wants to go on a mission when he is older which is awesome for us! we plan on helping him get ready for it and prepare even though he is only 13 haha. 

Sabado: Today haku!!! hot hot hotwe got 11 lessons in today!!! a super full day but it was super good! a couple highlights would be that we visited Ariel Santa cruz and his señora mercedes and they said they made the desicion to get married!! which was so awesome to hear, but then they said not until june. So we pulled out the Family prclamtion to the world and read it and talked about how they should pick an exact date, and that june leaves alot of time for temptaions, and that they need to pray about each date. It was a super good lesson and moment and im really excited about them!! we then went and taught gabriel, he said he had to work sunday and couldnt go to church, but his sister wanted to go but had to go to the hospitalbecause she was sick so that was tough to hear. he did ask about the word of wisdom an so we were able to get a good lesson in there. after that we set plans to pass by andgo pic up bryan and alexis in the morning! it was a really good day today!!

Domingo: We left the house at 7:20, visited 6 houses an nobody was up or ready to come to church with us!! it was tough... we got to church and presidant McMullin came to our ward today!! so that was awesome we also had our primary program which was super small but really good. it was a good way to get the branch ready for christmas. we had a good turn out with 64 people 12 less actives, and one investigator, so that was good, and we are definately starting to see more and more growth here in remansito! the sosa family wasnt there, which really was horrible becuase there son just sent his mission pappers in and the mission presidant came but it just goes to show you cant take your hands off the iron rod even for a second. We went and talked to them after church and they were so upset with themselves they made the desicion to repent and never miss again so we will see how that goes. we got 6 solid lessons in which is super good for a sunday!

Lunes: today has been a great one! we went to that buddhist temple and got to take a tour it is gorgoues inside! after that we went and got some ice cream from a place called todo lo que te gusta or everything you like, it was good and we went and got some lunch which was super good! and then we went to the office where my comp and elder smith (the new elder in remansito) got packages and i said good bye to elder shumway my grandpa and then we went and did some grocery shopping, then we came to the cyber to write you guys!!

Over all a super great week and numbers wise our best!!! i cant believe christmas is so close and cant wait to skype you guys!! im not 100 percent sure of the day because im not sure if anywhere will be open on the 25th but we will find out and do our best, when i know you guys will know... it maybe earlyin the morning for you guys so prepare yourselves.... ill let you know..

I love you guys so much hope all is well and everyone gets home safely this week!! stay classy and cool... its sooo hot here!!!

Love Elder Jace Gummersall

The heat is on!

Wow it got super hot this week!!! well here we go!

Lunes: I realized after that i totally forgot to write about my last pday so here i go. We went to pizza hut with almost all of our zone that was cool. after words elder sprenger one of the other elders in remansito had to go to this place to get some speacial shampoo stuff, so we went there with him and after asked what colectivo to take to get back to home. the lady told us and we hop aboard. After a little bit me and elder springer could feel we were going the wrong way, and we found out we were headed for pala loma not loma pyta so we got off and strated walking to a different road, and then found that super cool stuate i sent you guys a picture of last week. after we went shopping and to the cyber in remansito. then we had a NDH with the familia sosa it went well, it wasnt a lively opne, and the investigator we thought would be there couldnt make it, but we were able to get a good lesson in about family untiy and the importance of NDH and Family prayer and family scripture study and all that. It was a good pday.

Martes: Today was a little frustrating, literally every single plan we had didnt work out! so with that happinging we contacted alot and and found some good potential new people. we will see paraguay is full of people that ja poo (lie in guarani) in paraguay its the bigbest struggle. After along a little stressful day we enjoyed a half kilo thing of ice cream.. super good its super cheap and we eat it about 4 or 5 times each week i feel like tanner when i eat it that much hahah. oh also got a hair cut today that was good it looks like i get about one hairvut every change so i only have so many left know haha.

Miércoles: Today was Hakuetere´e (tooo hot in guarani dont know if the spelling is right haha) we had a super good lesson with Viriglio one of our most promesing investigators, and diego sosa, it was super good, about the plan of salvation, and we were so lucky to have diego there because he was able to help clarify some of his really difficult questions. afterwords we went and had dinner with the familia duré which was super good it was potatoes and flour with like a red sauce i loved it! after we went to bryan, a nine year old investigators house, and his mom a member for 17 years thats inactive told us she wants to comeback to church, which could be the perfect push for brian! super awesome for us. Then we went and had a really good lesson with the family saminiego, we talked about the attonement and what it is, they told us that recently they put the goal as a family to be at church every sunday which was probably the best news i have ever heard on my mission!! mainly because they made the descion themselves we didnt have to put that goal with them. 

Jueves: We had to get up at 4:30 am this morning because we had a 70 come! Elder Zeballos. It was super early but we went there and it was so good. We listened to president and his wife and elder zeballos and his wife, a total of 3 hours! it was sooooooo good i learned so much, but as a mission over the past 5 months the attendance of people in church has gone up over 600 people!! that is one of the goals of the seventy to increase the attendance. i also got two letters today!! a postcard form lithuania and a letter from utah!! it was so awesome i learned that letters take about a week to get down here, and then who knows how long they are in the office until they can get passed to me or i can go get them myself! super awesome though thanks guys i loved it! After words we went and taught a less active member Airel Santa Cruz and his señora mercedes, they are both members but are super awesome and we think we can help them get married and go to the temple to be sealled with their daughter! then we had the best branch consel i had since ive been in remansito because all the people that were supposed to be there were for the first time ever, and after we taught a little bit and then headed home. I did have the opportunity to give my comp a blessing today that was good, he is a really good guy!

Viernes: Last night in the middle of the night my fan broke, and since our AC has been broken for about 3 weeks now and the guy wont come to fix the last four hours of sleep were miserable. thankfully when we woke up estaba lloviznando ( it was drizzling how awesome of a word is that) when it rains or there is water it cools down a little, the proble is that after it gets way humid but it was nice that it was colder for sure. we had 6 lessons today a solid friday, but came home to a stiken hot house!! it was miserable we need to get our air conditioning fixed or something, we used the one fan rotating to sleep tonight, it was a little better than the night before.

Sabado: WE had a full and busy day all planned out and of course after we were killing it teaching wise, the AC guy called and said he could come out to fix it, so we had no choice but to get it fixed it took him 2 and a half hours and he had to change out some major pieces, but alass we have cold air now and it is magical (count your belssings people) then we taught brians dad (who was drunk in the moment) and it was quite funny, he kept saying es cierto no es cierto and entender good times with the drunks of paraguay. that was today.

Domingo: Today we left the house earlier than normal to drop the piano off at church ( i dont have time to practice now that im señor comp, because i have a million other things on my mind) and then we went to go pick up bryan for church, we were dissapionted that he left early with his grandma, but were glad to bring his recent convert brither alexis to the church. It was good. At church we had bracnh conference, the members got really excited for it and it was good. We had 63 people in sacrament meeting and 7 were less actives, and 1 investigator that we had really met yet so that was a great blessing. after church we went and taught the kid the came and even got to teach his parents, that might be the first family i get to help right there but if not the kid is  agreat guy and i think we can help him to! we then when and visited david gonzales and learned that he knows what tacos are and how to make them so that is a future activty that we will be doing. afterwords we went and taught santa cruz who didnt go to church because she works from 9 at night to 6 in the morning and she got home late, so she couldnt make it.. thats going to be a tough one to help them get there, but we are going to do our best. Also i thought i would let you know about my journal struggles, last monday i filled pu my first journal and didnt miss a day, but since then it has been harder to write in it because things just keep getting busier and busier.. hopefulloy ill be able to refocus and catch up on the days i missed but we will see.

Lunes: Today was great, went to asuncion becase my comp had to sign some papers, while he was gone i went out and exploeçred asuncion with some other missoinaries and found this awesome buddhist temple, we just missed the visiting hours, then went and got some lunch and after that went back to the office, i reunited with my comp and then we made our way to the cyber to write you guys, but the power was down so we went and shopped and then went to remansito where power was out in the whole city until 5, then at 5 it came back, i called our district leader and he said we could write until 7 hince the later letter, but yeah we have a NDH planned with the familia sosa again hopefully that one happens with the investigator this time.

Love you guys so much! got an email syaing we have the choice of skyping the 23, 24, or 25, for 40 minutes before 6 oclock, so let me know what time works best for you guys, and when you want to do it i think the 25 might be the best for here because lots of çfamilies want us to swing by the 24 but let me know what you think also if you could find my skype info, im not 100% sure what my username and password is that would be nice, let me know! cant wait to see you guys and have you tell me if i look fat or not hahha

Con cariño,

Elder Jace Gummersall

Thanksgiving

12/2/13
This week has been a full and fast one but not a ton of exciting things.. so yup

Lunes: After i wrote you guys last week we had two noche de
hogares...the first with the familia gonzales... which didnt go bad
but it wasnt the best, becasue the game we played kept getting messed
up by one of there kids.. a little frustrating but it still worked and
we will able to get the lesson across. After that we went and had a
NDH with the Saminiego Family, the fmaily of the brother of the member
who passed a way the week of D Todd Christofferson. that one was
sooooooooo good, every one had a good time, hopefully i can get some
pictures to you guys i don tknow this comp is really struggling. that
was basically the night.. the saminiego family is one of my favorites
now though, they are just so great and are strated to re activate and
everything!

Martes: Today we had district meeting,  it was really good the
district is a little bigger than before but it was a real good
meeting. different that it wasnt my comp who was teaching but it was
really good we talked abuot comp unity and all of that, and then about
the numbers we should be getting, but really how the love is the most
important part and what this work is all about. After we got some
studying in and then we headed out and taught  lessons, so that was
good. We wroked a litttle bit more than normal with the familia sosa,
had one lesson with diego, and then a different one that night with
belen, good day overall but nthing t exciting that happened.

Miércoles: A really good day here but really nthing intresting again,
it was super hot today and our air condition is broken, so that was
tough, we had  lessons and got some good work in, at night we had
dinner with a member, then we went and had a lesson at the familia
Pinedas house, we got there and one of the girls who lives there
wanted a blessing, the parents were gone because there baby had to get
surgrey so me and my comp had to give here a blessing without anyone
who really new exactly how to do it in spanish. My comp annointed the
oil, and then i gave the blessing, it went well, we used the mission
manual to help us but the goal is to learn it so we dont have to use
that again. After that we went and taught the familia saminiego again,
and they gave us dinner too so that was super dope double dinner haha.

Jueves: today we got in some exciting stuff, we hjad a lesson
scheduled for  in the morning but last night the sosa family didnt
answer there phone to confirm with us, nor in the morning so we went
out to go find them in there house and we couldnt. We went back home
and then got a call from then saying they changed the time to 11 sp we
got some studying in and then headed out to go teach there friend
Virgilio, he wantedto be taught in his farm away from distractions, so
he came and picked us and the sosa family up to take uis to his farm
minutes away, but in the ruta, there was this manifestaion or rally.
Every so often a group of peopl come down and block of the ruta to
protest the government, they block it off right in front of the bridge
so the traffic backs up pretty far. There is a law that says you can
only block the ruta for so long, so they stand on it, get off, wait a
little bit and then get back on again.. its like an organized rally
its different, but we got stuck in the traffic for an hour. So we
werent able to teach him after that we had lunch wtih the sosa fmaily
and then it strated to pour! we got in acoupl lessons, had another
dinner with a member, and then got in a few more, but when it comes to
numbers we had a bad day, alot of it because iof the rain, the people
dont come out or do anyhting when it rains here.. makes it a little
tough.

Viernes: Today it rained all morning!! we couldnt make it to lunch, so
we made pancakes and celebrated thanksgiving a day late. But it was
good, after that we finnally got all ready and entered the river
filled streets, it was crazy nobody was home, nobody was out, heta la
tuju, there was a tn of mud, and we walked through these huge puddles
of watermid calf high.. it was super awesome, and i actully enjoyed
it, minus that fact that we werent able to teach as many people as we
were hoping for. the rain and pancakes were the exciting things from
today..

Sabado: Today was a tough day as well we got in  lessons, with
gonzlas, urquart, virgilio, margarita, and saminego, the standouts
have to have been virgilio and saminiego. With virgilio i put a
baptism date and we really think that he will be able to be baptzed,
he is super intrested and asks tons of questions, he also saw D. Todd
Christofferson when he talked to the members of paraguay so we are
feeling really good about him. we are hoping for the 21st right before
the navidad. With saminiego we taught just the dad, who was the branch
presidant two years ago but is inactive now, we talked about nephi 3:7
and how really if he wants to be in church god will help prepare him a
way. it was s super good lesson to be able to talk to just the dad.
and get him straightened up a little. but that was our saturday.

Sunday: SOOOOOOO Blessed today first off it wqas super hot! but we got
to church and felt good, for it being a fast sunday and all. In
sacrament meeting we had 69 people!!! the mst ive ever had here and
16 of them were less actives from ourside and one investigator. it was
amazing and because there was more people the meeting was more
spiritual. So awesome and really such a great blessing, made me feel
way more acomplished for the week! After we had lunch taught a lesson
adn tehn went a taught another lesson, it was still super hot but
after the second lesson we went home t finsih our studying. within
minutes some of the strongest winds ive seen blew through remansito
and after that  more minutes and it was pouring super strong! it was
crazy it poured for like  minutes, filled the streets with water and
then passed on, we went out taught somne more lessons and the coolest
thing was happening a ways away. There was a group ofclouds and
lighting bouncing back and forth from the clouds, but not hitting the
ground it was one of the coolest things ive ever seen! well that was
my week felt like it was decent but always room for improvemtent.

Training is going well, im learning aton, but i fell like my spanish
is sufficent for now, i still study aton, but i understand almost
verything and feel really confident with it. Elder Wrsham is awesome
and we got some big plans for remansito here!

Love you all so much and hope all is going well

Always in my prayers and love you tons!!!

Love

Elder Jace Gummersall