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
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