time flies

3-24-14

wow time flies by so fast im only two and a half changes until the year mark.... but any who here is how the week went!

Lunes: We started by teaching at the soto household, which is a mixture of less active members, and non members and talked to a girl that is 15 dating a 20 year old less active member and they have been dating for 5 years... crazy ehhh.. it actually went really well, i just dont know if the 15 yearold could get marrried or would want too.. but we will hope for the best, after we went down and helped matías and lorena and ilsa move houses two streets aways andwhile we were bringing the last things over it started to pour.. that was fun.. after that we taught a little bit and the rain passed over and we made it home.

Martes: Rained a ton this morning and couldnt even make it to district meeting dry. But we got there and had a good meeting where i taught about diligence.. something we all need always in every part of life. it went well. Afterwords we started a division and i headed out with elder singer. He is just about to finish up his training and is awesome. we went to lunch... still pouring a ton of rain, left lunch still pouring rain.. but by the time we left to teach after studying it was  a little clearer. So that was awesome. Then we went to Lorenas house again and they are doing really good except there house kinda flooded today.. by the time we got there it was all dries out but that would definately be a tough life. After words we contacted a family in front that could be someone we start teaching more, and then we went and the same family wee have ndh with and they pretended to be investigators like we did with elder turley at the beginging of the change.. it was good and it really is a great way to get new elders practice. It was good and afterwords we had some bread and meat cream cheese like spread it was good.

Meircoles: We switched back and then did some studying and headed out. We went and met with this less active guy from a family and he has been opening up more and more to us which is awesome and then he told us the house next door that they are watching has a demon in it.. and he kind of challenged us to try and cast it out.. so we will see what happens with that we told him we would think about it.. i just dont know if thats the smartest thing to do.... or if there really is one there but we will see what happens. after we were walking over to our progressing family and got caught in the rain.. a family let us in and we were able to get a good teaching opportunity out of it. There was a grandpa there who was turning 92 so that was cool. After we met with our family who is trying more and more to learn english but they say each time that it is really hard for them. We are really hoping things start getting a little easier soon but its not ever that easy to learn a language haha. after we tried to meet with one more family but they didnt end up being home so we headed back to the house.

Jueves: Well we went on a division with the elders right by us from Y´Bera. I went to the other area with elder Mundo. It was really good he is about to finish his mission he heads home in june but is a great guy. We visited all there less active people and had some really good lessons but the overall topic of the day was talking about marriage.. he said that thats one of the only things on his mind and he isnt sure what he is going to do about it when he gets back.. so that was a fun day haha. we ended that division the same night and then elder turley ordered pizza... hes awesome :) haha. Its sio nice to be in the city now haha.

Viernes: started the day off with weekly planning which went good. and after that we went contact exploring for all the referencias we have recived in an area.. and almost came up with nobody but found one of the families and they said they would come back to church this sunday. afterwords we went and i had to interview some baptism canidates for the hermans which went well they want me and elder turely to baptize them so that should be fun. (no one else in the ward could attend, and there was a long story behind it.) afterwords we went back, taught a couple more lessosn the highlight being ariels family. a return missionary after 4 months who came home becuase he didnt like his comp, but wants to baptize his whole family. I gave his mom a blessing of health which was good and then we shared a little bit with her. At the end we taught her how to pray and she cried during her pray. It was so awesome the spirit was super strong. Amazing how much your life can change and how much love you can feel from our heavenly father if you just talk to him.

Sabado: Crazy day!! we studied and then left to go help an hermana make empanadas for a reilf society activity, that was cool. then we made ourselves lunch which was good, finished our studying, and headed out to teach three or four people but no one was home.. we got one lesson in with a less active family and then another one where we found an active girl home with non member family. We got to try mate dulce which is sooooooooo good... ill be drinking it in rexburg all the time, and then we headed out to the baptism of the hermanas. WE got there and the one i was supposed to baptize.. (her second try being baptized in two weeks) was super nervous she is afraid of water and men so as you can imagine a baptism is the perfect combination of scary for her. Elder Turley went first and nailed it.. but while he was baptizing the sister that i was supposed to baptize started crying, ran into the bathroom, and changed her clothes into street clothes, and ran out of the chapel... it was because of one of the guy memebrs there that freaked her out right before the baptism which was tough... but after the hermansas talked to her she said she would get baptized next week.... hopefully. I felt sooooo bad for her. Then we made it back home and taught ariels sister... she is super cool to and he really wants his whole family to be members. It got pretty cold tonight and we made our way home after.

Domingo: Today was a great day! we had 75 people at church 9 less actives, and 3 investigators so things are growing out here in laurelty! during sacrament meeting i had to confirm both matías and ilsa, which was good but hard to do back to back like that. after we had a good lunch with hte family fernandez, and then got some studying in. Then we went and taught a kid who is about to turn 8 that is from the soto family. he and his grandma are active and he want to get baptized really bad so we are gonna help him prepare himself really good. after we vistied lorena and the famliy and watched the joseph smith video with them.. it was super awesome! we also saw a little kid pull down his pants and poop in his front yard. we got home and cleaned the house and then called ita night.

Lunes: today i went and boutgh some sick leather shoes that ill send a picture of next week, they are supposed to last a life time.. i also got an official paraguay jersey. THen i met up with elder bristol and we ate lunch and headed to the cyber.. later we are headed to the soccer museum after so that should be cool... othe rthan that that was the week.

Lots of blessings coming our way out here in laruelty. things are looking really good....

Love you guys a ton!

Elder Jace Gummersall