Hey I hit six months this week!! how crazy is that!!! it says 6 in guarani and months in spanish classic..
Lunes:
Well we thought we were going to have two FHEs tonight but we didnt,
becuase none of the kids were home for the first one, so we just shared a
scripture and postponed the noche de hogar, so that was cool, then we
did go have a super good noche day hogar where we learned how to cook
this super good chicken sauce and its super simple! sooo awesome, i cant
wait to make it for you guys. it was with the delgado family.
Martes: Hey I forgot to tell you guys but i got one
letter that had moms awesome talk in it! and two christmas cards from
mom dad and tanner, they were so awesome!!! my comp also recived a late
christmas packge that had a stocking in it for me so that was super
cool!! it was a second christmas!! after we celbretaded second christmas
we got some studying in and then went and visited our investigator
Lorena. It was awesome!! we went to lunch, and then headed into mariano
for Zone conference with president. It was super good but went an hour
and a half longer than normal, they focused on the obedience and the
quality of contacts that we have. because it was so long though we lost
some visits, so that was tough, but we got home and still got some good
work in. we visited Victor, and then headed out to Santa Cruz, our
wedding that is supposed to be happing this month, but she got cold
feet, and doesnt want to anymore so we taught about chastity, and she
said she would have a definite answer for us on saturday, we commited
her to pray about it. that was our day.
Miercoles: we headed out in the morning a little bit
so we could do a little studying during the ciesta when its hard to
find people. Today the focus was to hand out the little invites we had
to as manypeople as possible so we could get some to come to lorenas
baptism. In the morning we did get some painting in, we went and visited
a less active who was painting there windows and we got to help so that
was cool, then we went and visited the hermana glayds which was super
awesome she is someone that we are reactivating and she is giving the
talkon the holy ghost at the baptism. After that we went and got lorena
interviewed and shepassed with flying colors!! she is such a blessing!!
after that we struggled a little bit because nobody was home but we got
some good teaching in, at the end of the day we got invtied to the
others elders house, who hada division with a zone leader to go eat some
dinner so that was super awesome!! we had pasta and white sauce and it
was real good!!
Jueves: LOONNGG DAYY but a great one at that! we got
up and first thing we did was run to the church and clean out the font,
after that we left the house in it to fill it up the whole day so that
it would be ready. then we went home studied, and went to the sosa home
for lunch. Diego got his misison call!! he is headed to Porto Alegro
Brasil south!! he wanted to go to brazil so bad and is very content with
his calling, Is there anyone form spokane there.. i cant remeber? i
feel like there is.. let me know! after words we swung by the church to
see how the font was doing and some gardiners were there and they had
taking the house out and it was just running on the ground!! so that was
really frustrating so we put it back in and told themthat they cant
touch it and that it hasto be full by 7 so we left and but our faith in
the lacking water pressure and gardiners that the font would be full.
After we went to a couple people but the majority we planned for like
normal werent home. we did get a good lesson in with the familia vera.
After that we headed back to the church to have our baptism!! it was so
awesome all of her family came and overall there were 8 investigators
there!! it was so cool!! it ent aseome she had to be dunked twice but
iqual no mas as they say here in paraguay. we taught gabrial after and
heis our next baptism, and he felt way etter about a baptism after
seeing that one. today was a good day always good when there is a
baptism!!
Viernes: We got some good weekly plannign in today
and then we headed out to lunch where we had milonesa de kure (chancho)
like a pig thing that was fried it was super good!! after we taught
gabrial and lorena. Lorena absolutely loved her baptism and gabriel
seems to be getting excited for his!! we also put a baptism date with a
girl that needs to be rebaptized becuase her record was lost and her 8
year old brother which doesnt count as a baptism for the mission but for
me it would.. its great to see baptisms after the long drought ive been
through hahah. we did have a leson with victor the kid i last baptized
and he is thinking about playing soccer on sundays in a couple months,
which we told him isnt what god wants him to do but that its his descion
and that he has to make it with lots of prayer... i really am hopiong
he makes the right decison.
Sabado: today was a rough one.. and for basically
one thing.. we had our lesson with our less actives pursuing marragie
and she has decided not to get married, it killed me almost, i just kept
waiting for her to say she was joking or something but we got nothing,
so it looks like we wont be having a wedding on the 21st but you best
believe that we are going to work with them still, the worst part is
that she didnt pray about her answer, she just thought about it... so
thats really tough for me to be happy with it and we told her she has to
pray to know.. so there is a small window of hope but if she doesnt
know tomorrow (tuesday) then it wont happen and that really did just
hurt. We also found out that a daughter from the sosa house moved out
because there was an arguementand that the mom doesnt know where she is
living yet,which would be the second daughter that would be come
inactive in the church and that would be really tough on her. for the
highlight of the day we had a really good lesson with almost a whole
family and they had some pet badger or something and i went to pet it
and it bit my finger.. no cut or blood but that was cool hahah.
Domingo: today was a decent day in the church we
only had 44 people there 10 less actives from ourside,and 1
investigator.. me and my comp had to teach the class and we talked about
faith in christ and how we can find it through the book of mormon, it
went really well. then we had sacrament meeting and i confirmed lorena
which was really cool and a good expierence, it went really well! we
went to lunch and got these homeade HLJ (CTR) rings made out of real
silver and gold, it was pretty sweet, im pretty sure im going to take it
to a jewlrey store and get something engraved on the inside like
paraguay or the mission or somehting, it was about 18 bucks so good deal
for that haha. afterwerods we taught a super good lesson just by
reading two chapters of the boook of mormon, and then we taught another
one where the lady told us about her whole life story. It hurt to hear
how much she has been through, from abusive parents, to getting kicked
out of the house at age 15, to finding the church, falling away, and now
coming back, really made me count my blessings. She is such a great
lady though. that was our good ol sunday.
Lunes: today has been solid my comp got a football
for christmas so we rounded up some americans and played ourseleves a
god game of football.. the only problem was how hot it was, it was
sooooooo hot.. way harder to catch the hard nerf ball he had.. but i
still got it hahaha, it was super fun, then we went to burger king and i
got the whopper extreme, so that was good, after that we came to the
ciber and i started writing you guys.. so yup that was the day!!!
and the week!! a good one with some serious struggles and rewards, hope you guys keep doing well and killing it!!!
Love you all so much, i hope i get those other two letters soon!!! stay classy
Love
Elder Jace Gummersall
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