Well i made it too my new area after a long search.. but the week didnt start there so here it goes....
Lunes:
Well we got pack home after writting you guys a little early and so i
started packing until 6, then we headed out to teach. We taught Maraia
Belen from the familia villalba and i said my goodbyes to them, and then
we went to see arial and mercedes, but they werent there and we ended
up meeting a really cool less active family.. which is awesome since im
headewd out of here.. hahah but it was really good and hopefully elder
worsham and elder luke (an elder that came with me that knows sister
lake!! hes super cool) are able to reactivate them!
Martes: We had a district meeting in Mariano and
said goodbyes to those leaving the zone, it was a good little meeting.
Afterwrods we went and had lunch with hermana roman and i was able to
say good bye to there family as well and then elder worsham felt realy
sick, which was kind of frustrating because it looked like i wasnt going
to be able to say bye to anyone else, we went home and i started
packing while he slept. i finsihed packing and then he slept an extra
hour, and then he was able to feel good enough to go out. We went fast a
i snapped a lot of photos, hopefully ill be able to get them all to you
guys today but if not ill keep them coming in next week. we visited
about 17 people or families and i caught almost everyone i had planned
to see, all exceot for 3 so hopefully ill be ableto swing back by while
im in luarelty and catch them some day! tough to say goodbye, but i know
ill swing mçbye before i end the mission. It was a weird feeling my
last ight in remansit, but like always i just went to bed.. because i
had an early morning and a long day ahead of me the next day.
Miécoles: Well got up at 5 and left in the taxi at 6
and we made our way to the office. I was able to catch up with alotof
other elders there, and then made my way into the trainers meeting with
elder bristol.. an elder who came with me who was doing the same thing
except staying in his area. it was a good meeting and then after that
the new missionaries came in. We had a little more of meeting and then
got to meet our new comps. My new Comp is ELDER TURLEY, from newport
beach california! He is awesome, we ate lunch got to know eachother, and
then took the longest time leaving the office because there were so
manythings that i had to make sure were in line before i headed out..
including finding my package that you guys had sent me!! wooooo! then we
finaly got out of there and after a long, difficult, and confusing taxi
ride, we were able to finally find our house! we got in unpacked and
then headed out and founf a grocery store to get some food, came back
and then spent some time going through the area book, only to realize
that it hadnt been updated in over a year or two.. so that was super
fun. Looks like some hard work and good fun ahead.
Jueves: We got up got our studies in, and then some
other elders nearby that knew our area a littl ebit took us to the
family who would be feeding us lunch. It was great the lady claims to be
the mom of all missionaires that come through there but it was good to
get to know them, the dad went inactive about two years ago becaue of
work, but still has a strong testimony of teh church, and they overall
seem like a really solid family. The also told us that they let
missionaries kill there goats when they have birthdays to celebrate.. so
that could get real intresting real fast.. i watched a video on there
camera of an elder doing it and me and my comp both dont know if we can
do it.. so we will see what happens.. my comps birthday is the 8th of
march... after lunch we got a little tour of the town by there 14 year
old son gaspar, that was good and helped me get the mental map down a
little bit. then we parted ways and go to know the area our selves a
little bit. It hasnt been hot here since i got here so that could be a
nice change of pace... there are way more trees and a lopt more shade,
and the roads and houses are all way nicer than remansito.. not to
mention the house has bountiful amounts of water!!! por fin!!! hahah. We
ended up getting to met some members and that was good and we were able
to get some good work into, but lots of walking.. thats for sure.
Viernes: We got homemade pizza for lunch today! it
wasnt that good, but it was a nice reminder of the goodstuff. after that
we got to work big time walking down what felt like almost every single
street!! but it wasnt bad becasuse it still hasnt been hot yet..
actually really pleasent and super beautiful. we had a nice lesson with a
16 year old atheist that actually went really well, and the church has
activity nighs!!! it was awesome we got to meet some youth and watch
them play soccer.. there werent that many people because there was a
stake activity that night, but it was good to see a ward function like
it should be.. something i had kind of forgoten about hahah. after me
and my comp celebrated valentines day by buying a nice hamburger and
soda and eating it at home.. about as romantic as it gets haha. but that
was our friday getting to know everything!
Sabado: Last night i woke up to someone reightnext
store just blaring music.. which from what the members told me is
something the last elders used to complain about. so that might be a
struggle to deal with here.. but im just greatful i have water! I also
got a call this morning that the baptism that was supposed to happen in
remansito this last saturday got shut down by the kids mom.. who is
already a member, and said he could get baptized, and was supporting it
at one point.. i dont know all the details but its really sad that that
one wasnt able to happen... we also didnt get lunch today, we normally
eat it with the bishop and he called and cancelled, so i cooked us some
pasta and that tasted alright.. after we awalked again almost
everystreet talking to tons of people and getting rejected by more but
it was alright becuase thats why were here. we did find one refrence the
last missionaries left us. They left us a piece of papaer that had the
lunch schedule and about three names and the phone numbers of people
they were working with. we found this 10 year old kid named matías and
also founf out his grandma isnt a member, but his mom is. So that was
cool and we got a little lesson in there and invited them to church so
that was super coolwe have been lucky enough to get 7 for 7 each day so
far so we may be able to pull off a change of 7 for 7 the whole time
which would be super cool!!
Domingo: Today we had church which went well. We
started with preisthood, which we dont have that many of, and then had
sunday school, which was good, and then sacrament meeting with 63 people
there and our boy matías!! so that was super awesome! me and my comp
both shared our testimonies and than we had a youth speaker give a talk,
and we had a high councilmen speak... i forgot that they existed...
crazy!! after we got lunch brought to us by members and that was good
did some studying and headed out again. we went and vistied Matías and
his grndma and the grandma said that the last time we were there when we
shared with her she felt the spirit super strong, like god was right
beside her, and she said she will be at church next week for sure and
that she quite the part of her sunday job.. so that was super cool! we
put the goal with them to be baptized the 15th of march! so hopefully we
are able to get that in there! we went and taught the atheiest kid
again who was able to ask some really good quwstions and hopefully he
will make some progress soon. and just like that we ended our first week
here in laurelty and it ended up being a pretty good one! looking
forward to the future here!
Lunes: Today has been a good pday, we started by
going to the office to get some stuff that the house was missing and we
got about half of it.. then we went to the chinesebuffet place with the
assistants and what ended up being a bunch of other missionaires.. so
that was fun! then we madeour way back to good old laurelty.. its been a
basic pday... but a good one
Well that was my fun week and change.. cool thing is
that my comp is a celebrity he was a basketball playerin highschool
musical three and apparently you can see him on the bench for a scene or
two so thats pretty cool. Excitied for the things we are going to see
here in laruelty!!
Love you all so much hope all is well with everyone!
Love
Elder Jace Gummersall
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