First off... tere vy aiteke che sy!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMA!!!!!! soo osorry that the weekthe i didnt get to write home happened to be the monday after your birthday... heres how my lifes been since....
Lunes: Well from the last wek we got home a little early and so we had time to take a 20 minute nap... it felt super good then we headed out and had a noche de hogar with the family florintine and lopez, it was really good we played the game with flour that i played abunch in remansito, after that we went over to the arza family, who is getting close to progressing they just havent came to church yet so we are planning on this sunday for sure.
Martes: Today we had a good district meeting and then came back after lunch and visited marta and edgar, who are leaning towards joing the testigos de jehova (jehova witness) we are making sure its very clear that its there descion but are trying to help them understand more the teachings of christ. Thenj we taught serafina and her grand daughter, who went to church this last sunday that went well. Aftrer that we had some time to get some contacting in and then we went and found some new inbestigatores. That was cool, they are a pretty cool group of people but it was hard to tell if they had real desires to follow chirst more in there life. After we had a Noche de Hogar with the fmaily prieto and with there cousins and uncle and aunt that arent memebrs. It went really well we played telephone and then taught the restortation with it. It was real good.
Miercoles: Today we had a division and i went with elder Muñoz from peru to his area, it went pretty well, there wasnt the best plan set up but then we turned it into a pretty good day. WE did a ton of contacting but it was good. We did have a super great lesson with an investigador named hugo who hadnt prayed to ask god if the church was true and so we had him ask right then and there and and then sat in silience on our knees for 5 minutes and at the end he said he felt the spirit, and got his answer so that was super cool!! hopefully he can start going to church. At the end we had to wait for my comp and elder mundo to finsih up, and Elder Muñoz gave me some recuerdos from peru... its a super sweet coin pouch and a couple super awesome keychain thingys!! they are soooo sweet, Then we ended our division and headed home.
Jueves: Had another division today in m y area with elder Rivera, we found a great new investigaotr at the begining of the day, but he will be getting knee surgery really soon so we will see what happens with him. After we enjoyed lunch with the family lopez, and then went out teaching more. We taught josé and belén a less active (29 years old) and his (14 year old) girlfriend... aqpparently they want to get married but we will see what happens.. then we went and taught a less active who should be making her apparence in church for the first time in about 3 years this sunday so thats exciting. WE went and found another less active who said he would come back, but his family has lied to me before so we will see what he is like. and after that we talked to Juan Carlos an investigador who seems really cool and we are hoping to help him and his family out more. AFter that we went and visited Eva, that went well, and i got to see a book that had all the world cup groups in it, hope US can beat Ghana and portugal and tie germany.. that would be ideal.. we will see what happens. To end the night we got news that two people in our ward are trying to get married at the beginign of uly so thats always exciting.After that we ended the night by switching comps back.
Viernes: HHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPYYYYY
Sabado: Today we got things soing by visting romina and then going back home to eat lunch. After that we went to juan carlos house and had a real good lesson, after that we went to serafina, and then the silvero famil, and then we went after that we visited luis who said that he would come to church and then we went saw the martinez family who is doing super great. after that we went and put a baptismal date with the familia arza, which was super good, and then we went and visited oscar who said he would do everything he could to go to church tomorrow.
Domingo: well we went to oscars house to bring him to church and he was sleeping so that was a good start to the day, but church was good, we had 76 people there with 6 less actives and 0 investigators. That was tough. After we got home and studied and ate lunch and then we went and toaught. Sandra sems to be doing better and better each day, and went to church so thats super awesome. We met a new person that sees super awesome. and then we contacted and ended our day. Overall it was prety good.. tomorrow get to wake up at 4:45 for concilio
Lunes: Woke up at 4:45 and got to the office at 7:00 went to the bathroom for 45 minutes (stomach/bowel probs), and then ate a quick breakfast and we had zone concilio. It was good just a big meeting of all the zone leaders trying to figure out what the best thing for the mission is. After that we all played basketball, and then soccer and then we had some real time collectivoi struggles and didnt get home until right at 6.. which i why i wasnt able to write you guys.. sorry about that again.. but we went and visited juan carlos, which went well, and then no one else was home, or awake to let us in so after a couple trys we headed home.
Martes: HAd a good district meeting and then headed on a division with elder ashcrat. He is a real great guy who just had a rough start in his mission with his comps. We had some lunch studied and headed out to work.. we found a super awesome less active family that is gonna try and come back to church and then we went to a family that had a super big snake( not the serpent.. but a 17 year old girl) she said many things including idll go to the end of the world for you.. it was pretty intresting, but the lesson we had with the whole family was super good. The parents are awesome and are old investigators and the snake daughter is a recent convert, but it went really well and hopefully they are able to progress soon.
Miercoles: WE switched in the morning and then me and elder phippen found a new investigator before lunch. After lunch we went and visited poala who is not a memebr and is beging to seperate from her less active member husband. They have a great daughter and are really just missing the church from haveing a happy and beautiful family so we are in the process of helping her get to church so we can have a good conversation with both the husband and the wife. After that we had another lesson with a lady who did not pay much attention or understand much, but we are tryin to go back soon when her husband is there, after that we went and visited lucy, who said wshe would definately be at church this weekend. Then we went and visited sandra, who let us now that her repentance process would be a really tough one, but we assurred her that it would be worth it and that we would be there to help every step of the way. then we went and visited our buddies we met from sunday which went really well and we put a baptism date for the 4th of july.. crazy how that works huh! its basically here. then we went and had a good lesson with the fmailia arza, and got some ice cream on our way home.
Jueves: Had a divions with ELder Menchacka in my areait went well we found a new less active we can start visiting, we had a decent lesson with andrea an investigador, and we had a really good lesson with alexandría who went to church but then called everyone theere hypocrites in her head.. we helped her understand that the people arent perfect and she said she did.. so hopefully that doesnt impide her from coming next week. After that we found a super cool new investigator who asked us why all the churchs dont talk about joseph smith since he was a prophet of god it was one of the best questions to hear.. unfortunatley she is rarely at home but we are going ot keep working with her and see what happens. After that we went and visited Eva that went well she lent us her world cup book so elder phippen could look at it a little bit and then we went and visited juan carlos who is the man and looks like he is growing more and mor eeach time we go by there. That was our night.
Viernes: We switched back.. i had my suit dry cleaned and got that back from the guy who did it. WE also got our shower fixed this morning.. about three weeks ago the heater element burnt out in it and we had to take freezing cold showers in the morning. THen we had weekly planning and went ot lunch. WE visited edgar and marta who seem to have choosen to go to the church of the testigos de jehova, and then we went and visited edith which actually went really well, she said she would come to church this week, and then we went and visite karina and hermando.. they are a really cool coupl and family of four that i really like they live in very humble cirrumstances but i just like them both aton.. i really hope that we are able to help them. Then we went and swung by rafeal who wants to fix theings with his wife poala that should be at church this sunday.. hopefully this super long letter is making since.
Sabado: Today started with a quick service project of moving some wood around and that went well, we got a quick scripture study in with them as well. after that we had to make som elunch in the house again. and then we went and visited lucy who said she would be at church on sunday. THen we swung by a old investigators house who said that unless her husband changed that she wouldnt be able to get baptized.. After that we went and visited Sandra and osvaldo, who seem to be doing well and trying to come back to church. After that we went and visited the familia arza who said for sursies that they would go to chuch. Then we visited juan carlos who said depending on what his wife said he would try to go to church. After we went and visited ariel who said he wants to make a comeback to church and get released but that he would really need some hepl so we had a really good lesson with him and are shoootig for this wedesday that he gets relesaed from being a missionary after 4 months. After that the huge catholic church right by our house had a huge party for the santo san juan.. it was cool. we didnt go hahah..
Domingo: Well today in church we had 74 people 3 less actives, and 3 investigators.. but none of them were the ones we were planning on.. shos the great blessings that we can get fro mgod, in ways that we dont plan on seeing them. It was tough not to see the people we were planning on there but col to get three youth there. After that we did some stdying and then ate some lunch that was brought to us. After that we went and visited ariel who didnt go to church because he didnt wake up to his alarm and got up at 1 in the afternoon, alexandría who didnt go to church because she was sick, and soto who dint go to church for health reasons as well. That was tough to hear.. we are trying to help the ward to grow up to 100 people before july 29th. We did go and find 2 new houses to teach at and then headed home cold and tired. yeah it can get a little chillly here in paraguay.
Lunes: TOday has been a good one, we planned on playing basketball at the office, but then i got talking to a guy on a collective and me and my comp both missed the street we were supposed to get off on and so we just went to lunch at TGIFwith a bunch of people to celebrate elder bretons and elder halls birthday. after that we ran to luque did some shopping for the week and then got to the ciber where i could finaly write you guys!
Well thats my busy two last wek hope all is well with everyone!! thanks for all your love support and prayers!!
Love
Elder Jace Gummersall
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