Monday, March 10, 2014

so much rain

3/10/14

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! to dad and tanner!!! crazy to think that you guys are getting so old..... well heres what happened last week... bad news... i forgot my little notecard that i normal use to help organize my letters.. so hopefully this one has some good info and i dont forget to much.

Lunes: Well after talking to you guys we got to work. We went and visited a less active family who just doesnt seem to understand the importance of doing things.. they understand the doctrine perfectly... so hopefully they can get back to church soon. After we tried to swing by pablo but he couldnt talk to us... so we went over to the familia lopez home to have a Noche de Hogar.... It was good we played with flour and had a good time. After that we headed home and called it a night.

Martes: Today was also a good one. WE had district meeting where i taught about giving and making commitments and that went well, then we went to lunch and had a super good talk with the home owner (whose not a member) about why little kids dont need to be baptized (moroni 8) it was a super good lesson. then we had to go to the cyber where i had to take care of some district leadeer stuff that took forever!!! it was not fun but afterwords we got some studying in and we cooked a little bit for the FHE we were having.. i made potatoe soup... yeah thats right me.. this guy.. be impressed hahahah. While all that was happening it was pouring rain outside!! so we really did make good use of our time.. after that we went and taught our family that went to church and the dad wasnt there but we were able to introduce the book of mormon to the rest of the family and they seemed to be really intrested they even asked for a baptism date which was awesome. Afterwords we got a phonecall cancelling the FHE so that meant more potatoe soup for us... it really wasnt that good though... they dont have brcili or that many vegitables down here.... so we headed to a couple other families and then called it a night.

Miercoles: Today was a rough one. For about three or 4 hours we were stuck with nothing to do but contact and try and get into houses... and no one let us in.. its tough reopening an area.but we were able to get some good quality lessons in with a less active couple and a couple other people but reallly nothing to exciting that happened today. Though... the birthday festivities did officially start to day because it was mercedes birthday! ( the girl from the couple i helped get married from remansito) so i gave them a call and got to talk to them a little bit and found out why they werent going to church and hopefully helped them remember the importance of going to church... so ill see if they actually go this sunday. but that was nice to be able to talk to them!

Jueves: Today was good we did almost the same as yesterday. we did a lot of contacting and not much getting let in... its tough, but good. The one thing i saw that i never wanted to see was a dude that was just on the side of the road squated over taking a dump.. like in the middle over evrything in front of everyone... it was gross, and weird, and a little awesome that that actually happened. We did have the ndh reschedule for tonight so i made potatowe soup again and made it way better last time.. i finished cooking the potatoes in the broth like mom said she does.. ( atleast i think i heard that from you once...) and it was way better.. i used my montrial steak season stuff as pepper and althouhg we didnt have chesse or anything like that it was super good. We headed down there had a good lesson taught by the family and then enjoyed some potatoe soup and bread.... paraguayans were not ready forit.. they dont eat wet soup ever.. and they have 0 tolerance for spicy things... they said it was super hot and i was like.. thats not even anything hot.. like its just a little pepper.. but they dont have that down here so they thought it was crazy hot.... After we alked about movies we had seen.. i havent seen like anything.. but i want to see disney movies in spanish when i get back so if anyone is down to watch them te invito. 

Viernes: DADS BIRTHDAY!!!!!!! WOOOOOOO i got up and had a good day today.. just cause it was dads birthday haha. but the day was almost the same as the others.. we had some weekly planning, which included plannig for a baptism that we should have this next sunday! and then got to get some teaching in.. it was fun. we got a couple lessons in and then at the end of the night celebrated good! We went to a part memebrs familes house who had an uncle that was celbrating a birhtday and were able to eat some asadao!! it was soooooooooooooo good. Some of the best ive had here. And we got to get to know this husband of a lady who is not very fond of the church.. he was a lotta intoxicated but he said that he would teach us how to cook asado like that some time soon. so that was fun to get a little celebrating in for dad!

Sabado: ELDER TURLEYS BIRTHDAY!!! my comp turned 20 today... crazy. we had lunched cancelled on us so we went and cooked some steaks and made some homade potatoe french fries.. yeah we did a lot of cooking this week.. but it was good i got to put a lot of my recipes ive learned her to the test. Then we had a member take us around and show us some houses which was really good and then we had some good lessons and afterwordswe got a couple lessons in with some people hoping that we would see them in church. To end the night we went to the bishops house (who cancelled lunch) and had some cake to celebrate elder turleys birthday. It was a good one! i hope he enjoyed it but over all it was a good day.

Domingo: Crazy awesome day! we had 61 people at church, and 5 of those were investigators! two that should be baptized after church next sunday and three that are part of the family we found.. we are still missing the dad! But it was super awesome to see those people in the church and to have so many people progressing towards baptism! afterwords we went and ate lunch with a family.. the first time actually making it there house on sunday and then got our studies in and headed out. we taught the mom of the family with a memebr.. who asked us to teach there daughters english so that they dont fail the class there in... we plan on doing it with the book of mormon so that should be awesome. after we went and taught matías and lorena and ilse who are moving houses but should be baptized next sunday. WE should be helping them paint there house here pretty soon as well. and after that we went to the fmail ylopez house so we could celebrate elder turleys birthday again. They made pizza and cake and then at the end of the night they crushed an egg on his head... through flour at him.. and then said we celebrated your birthday like your in india! it was super funny and he was cool about.. plus it was the laundry lady who did it anyway.. so if you guys wanted to its still close enough to dad and tanners birthday to do that to both of them! good luck!!

Lunes: today we hit up luque and got to know all of the souviner places kelby mom and mckenzie let me know what type of jewlrey you like.. ecspeacially if you like solid silver... its cheap here.. and tanner and dad i already have things in mind.. i bought a watch which is pretty cool but hopefully i can get some rolexs pretty soon.. you just be waiting hahah.. well that was the day up til now!

Love you all so much.. hope you all enjoyed the festivities this last week and had a good time!

Stay classy,

Elder Jace Gummersall
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