Well another fun week of getting to know how evrything works here!
Lunes:
We had a family night with the lopez family, that was really good, we
played a hand of uno and then shared a scripture, we are hoping to get
the whole family back active and in church again someday soon here,
after that we had them take us to someone who we thought was members but
they ended up not being members and they didnt let us into there house,
so we met this new dude named pablo that makes fruit salad and he
seemed super cool so hopefully we can get back and visit him soon. after
that we swung back by the familia lopez house becasue they asked us to
and they gave us cake, so that was super good!
Martes: Well today i had to teach my first district
meeting. I choose to talk about setting goals and then as a district we
set goals and made plans to achieve them. The big one would be two
baptisms from each companionship this change. So hopefully we will be
able to get that going here soon! afterwards we had lunch with the owner
of the house we are renting and although she lives in the other ward
she is super nice and could hopefully becaome a member soon. Then we
went and met up with some investigators and a little later that night we
had a meeting with the bishpo, he let us now he was there to help us
and that he had some things he wanted us to do different then the last
elders that were here, and we left with a smile happy and ready to help
so that was a super awesome meeting. also fun fact he has been bishop
for 7 years now! crazy!! then we had a super asweome lesson with this
lady who couldnt find out why bad things happen to good people and it is
so awesome the answers to life the book of mormon has.. if you dont
believe me chapter 5 of preach my gospel.. its loaded of good stuff!
then we went to a house close by that has a little bit of everything,
less active member, active members, and non members. We taught a kid and
his less active uncle and he asked for a blessing at the end. it was
super awesome. we called it a night and when we got home a got a call
from remansito telling me mariela my first baptism is getting married
and that she wanted both me and elder rodriguez to be there for it..
itll be march 12th so hopefully ill get permissoin to go! i also hit 7
months today!! crazy how fast that goes by for reals. As we walked home i
got some empanadas and used some of the ranch that mom sent me in the
package.. it was heaven.. it tasted sooooooo good!!! i missed that so
much!
Miercoles: Today we had a good lunch with a
missionary who came home early, and his family, but get this, his sister
left for the mission about 6 months ago and went to the same exact
mission that he was in! crazy!! Today was hot!! super hot! and alot of
walking just to make it a little bit better. and on top of that almost
no one let us in for about 3 hours! so that was great, gotta love the
praguayan heat! we finally found a guy who seems to be golden. He told
us about when he died and came back to life and asked what the
significance of some of the things that happened on the other side
meant. it was super cool we taught the plan of salvation and he seemed
super intrested! afterwords we got two daughters of a member decide they
want to get baptized, we just need to get the clearance from the dad.
and after that it started to poooooooorrrr!!! luckly i had a poncho, but
my comp tried to use my cowboy hat but we both ended up getting preety
soaked! so that was fun haha.
Jueves: started the day by changing comps and going
on a division with elder Yuaney. it was good, it was hot, and nobody
would let us in to teach, but we got a few lessons in and we did find a
active family we didnt know yet. we found out that the missionaries have
FHE there every tuesday night and that each week it rotates who has
lesson and who has to bring food, so when we have to cook it could be a
little interesting. we also had a man explain that he doesnt think that
there is any thing after this life and we just become dust, and we tried
to help him realize the reason we have a natural drive to do things is
becuase there is a purpose buthe didnt want to hear too much of it, it
was pretty interesting. We did get to teach our best two investigators
matías (10 years old) and his grandma (older) which are super awesome!
then we called it a day.. a long one at that haha.
Viernes: we ended the division and then me and elder
turleyt got some good studying in. after that we went and had homeade
pizza for lunch again, and then went back home to do some weekly
planning. After that it was super hot! we walked around abunch, and then
finnally i got in somewhere.. after that we had a memebr show us some
more houses and found a prospective missionary.. he is 18 and plays the
harp and the guitar and plays them super well and hopefully we will be
able to help him prepare for a mission. We talked to the guy who died
and came back to life again and he said he doesnt disagree with anything
weve taught so far and accpeted a baptism date.. now we just have to
get him to church.after that we went back to the house of the people
that have a little bit of each kind of people in there house and the
granddad that is a memebr and wuite old asked for for a blessing of
health and so i gave him one.. it was good and he plans on coming back
soon now as well.. lets just hope it happens.
Sabado: Today we started the morning off by doing a
little bit of service... we helped the first councilor lay down cement
for his walk way.. it was pretty sweet! and then they gave us a little
bit of lunch and after they took us to bishops house for the real time
big super good lunch. that was cool, we got to know bishop a little
better and his family and they are great! he did ask me to give a talk
in church tomorrow on testimonies so that was a fun assignment to get.
then we had a lesson with a guy who is super awesome! but he jsut isnt
going to church, he sadi he could go back at any moment but then wont
go, we told him about how we have to keep the commandments if we want to
live with god again, and he just couldnt understand it, he said he will
hopefully be back in church before the end of march, but we were able
to put the gal of the 23rd.. it always helps to have a specific date, i
really hope he is able to return becauswe he is awesome. after we had a
fake lesson, that the FHE family for tuesdays set up with me when i was
on the division. it was all there idea but they wanted to pretend to be
crazy investigators, and so i sadi i would play along. we got there and
the dad had a machete and looked super angry, but then let us teach him
and his family. They also had gotten beer bottles and filled them with
water and him and his daughter drank three "beers" while we were there
and kept shoving them in our face. at the end they said they might come
to church tomorrow and they left it at that. It was kinda funny.. my
comp had no idea.. until sunday haha. Then we taught matías and his
grandma and they coooked us little steak shikabobs. it was super good
and they said they would show us how to do it some time soon!
Domingo: Well the joke came to an end when the dad
of the family came into preisthood (by the way he is on the high
council) and pulled out his liahona.... it was funny and my comp was
confused and all, but in the end he was pretty cool about it.. ive heard
of way worst things that people have done to there comps.. plus this
one was all on the family. But somethign that theyll alwasy be able to
remmeber him by. We had a good day in church 65 poeple 3 less actives
and 2 investigators.. matías and his grandma! it was super awesome!i
gave my talk on testimonies and invited everyon to bear there testimony
next week for fast sunday and not be afriad to shareit with there
friends. after that we went home.. did some studying and then got lunch
brought to us again.. that was cool. it was super hot and there was a
lot of work today, but overall the week ended up being a pretty decent
one!
Lunes: today i played basketball with people from my
last zone. It was awesome! except for elder worsham ripped one of my
favorite soccer jerseys.. so ill have to buy a new one and gift that one
to a memebr or somehting. other than that nothing to exciting for
today... i have zone meeting again tomorrow so that should be fun.. itll
be the same as the last one i had.
Well hope all is well with all you guys!!!
Love you all so much!
Elder Jace Gummersall
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