HAPPY EASTER! in paraguay its called holy week and technically is the whole week although friday everyone takes work of and no one does anything... but wow easily the fastest week in my mission.. and heres why...
Lunes: We got back and we had a really good lesson with ariel, we taught from the sermon on the mount about how jesus said in mathew 6 that in the old law it said not to kill but in the new law it says not to be mad at people. It was good he committed to come to church this sunday and we are really hoping so because his help would be such a blessing for us. It also was super cold tonight.
Lunes: Well started this morning bright and early by going to the temple it was super awesome and the paraguay temple reminds me aton of the spokane one! its beautiful. it was a super great expierence and awesome that listening in spanish doesnt make a difference for me now :) after that we had a zone testimony meeting that was super good! the spirit was super strong and almost everyone shared there testimony, even one guy preparing to serve a mission the was learnign spanish but spoke nivaclay. it was super cool because president had him share his testimony in that language and it sounded kind of like german but it was great! after we ate pizza with the mariano zone.. my old one and that was cool to be abkle to talk to those people and see them again. After that we made the trip back home. Got two solid lessons in with juana and her son, and with Matías and his grandma.. it was really good.
Miercoles: Today we woke up and went on a division, i went to the area of elder menchaka and it was a good day, it started off by killing two rats.. he said the house was infested and that they hear them all the time so that was fun. he was a semi pro boxer befor ethe mission and wants to go pro when he gets back, and know the gospel really well we visited alot of less active families and he has a bunch getting prepared to enter the temple which is super awesome. There was one contact where this guy tried to bible bash us a little bit and so in order to avoid conflict we testified and left him a pass along card with a picture of jesus on it and he asked if it was joseph smith.. that was funny to hear after he went on about the savior and his teachings but we explained that it was jesus christ. and that was that.
Jueves: Well ended my division with elder ellefson and elder menchaka and then started a second one with the zone leader elder yauney. It started by going to palma loma and doing a baptism interview. I did it for the hermanas and it was really good she was really prepared. after that we had lunch and taught a lesson to the familia galeano, and then we went to the lopez home to go maike chippa. That was an adventure... it reminded me of a grandma making pie project but chippa isnt as good as pie, its like a dryish bread, it took a while but was pretty fun we all got to make our own designs and stuff, so that was cool. afterwordswe went and visited ariel and got to meet with his sister who we havent seen in a while, and then we went and visited another investigator named mariela who could progress here pretty soon. After that when we got home it started to pour so that was fun becaue our roof leaks a little bit.
Viernes: Well we woke up and it was still coming down, also because it was holy friday no collectivos were running and we had to walk to the other peoples area to meet up with them. then we studied and hit up lunch with the family lopez because we couldnt find the other lunch family. afterwords we went and cleaned the baptismal font, it wasnt drained from the last time so we let it do that first. went and taught moroni made sure he was ready for his baptism on sunday and then had the zone leaders come back for the baptismal interview of the familia florintine for saturday. it was super good after words we ran by ariel one more time to make sure that he would be coming this week but he wasnt home so we went and closed the drain and called it a day.
Sabado: started the day by clenaing again and filling the font.. it looked beautiful. after we did our studies, and then we went to bishops for lunch.. it rained all day and scared us for the baptism. afterwirds we tried to get some lessons in but no one was home or would leave there house because it was raining, but we got in and talked to moroni one last time who has taking a liking to the book of moron although he currently doesnt understand much of what he reads. after we ran home prepared a cake and then brought eveything to the chapel and got ready for a baptism. an hermana helped elder turley use the building oven and completely burned the top of the cake, but undneath the cake was cooked at all yet. We had the baptism and it all went super well and then after that they decided that they would try the cake and they all seemed to like it. it was a great baptism afterwords we went and enjoyed some mate dulce with the lopez family and then we called it a day.
Domingo: We went to church and had a good turn out of priesthood. For sacrament meeting we had 67 people, 6 less actives, and 2 investigators. After church we had the baptism of Moroni and it was super awesome! He got really scared when he entered the water but it went really well anyway and he got the holy ghost right after. it was super awesome he is a great little guy. then we went home studied un poco, went to lunch with the family fernandez, and then studied more and headed out to teach. We got stuck in a less actives home and helped the son understand the importance of going on a mission. He is 20 and is super smart a great guy and doesnt have many problems besides 100% consestent church activity, but we had a really good talk with him and his mom and we are hoping that he puts a goal to leave on a mission here soon. We basically had to promise him that if he did that the lords would bless him. Its something i have totally seen here in the mission, as we do what the lord wants, we recieve numourous blessings, its a fail proof promise from the lord. The we went and tried to teach two more people but both couldnt attend us, we did get to contact a huge group of drunk people who loved us because we are white and have blue eyes, it was funny haha.
Lunes: Today we went and played some soccer, it may get cold at nights but it is super hot here still!! after we went to lunch, went watch shopping a little bit and then headed to the cyber to talk to you guys!
Hope all of you had a great week and an amazing easter! love you all thanks for everything you do!!
Love
Elder Jace Gummersall
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