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