How did September get here?

9/1/14

wow time flies by sooooooooooooooooooo fast.....

Well heres how the week went...

Lunes: Well we got speacial changes today, so it looksl like ill be in a trio in my area until the end of changes... elder riveras companion went home, and so we will all be together, so i met up with him and then we headed into remansito, visited some people helped an old active lady that went inactive decide to go back to church, and said hi to a few more people, it was really good, and then we went home. Miss that place sometimes....

Martes: Today we woke up and moved a suitcase of elder Rivera into our house for the next two weeks. Then we did our studies and went to district meeting. That went well, after that we went to lunch and had a super good lesson with the owner of our house it was pretty cool. After that we went and got to work. We went and visited Lucy who said she would be going to church this sunday and then we went and found 2 cool news named wilfrido and cristina, after that we went cristaldo who is a super sick family taht we are helping reactivate and trying to helpthose who werent baptized get baptized... after that we got a call saying that elder rivera would be getting a new comp tomorrow so thats cool, then we went joel and alba and after that we called it a day. It was a fun trio while it lasted.

Miercoles: today we got up early and headed to zone capacitation. The zone was broken into two different groups and we had to be there for both of them as we did staitons with the missionaries, and had interviews with the president. It went really well except that it lasted 11 1/2 hours long... but it was good. After we got on a colectivo, i jumped on and almost fell off and died.. that wouldve been cool... and then we went and taught Eva, a Less Active Lady, and then we went and had a good lesson with Carolina and her kids, we are hoping to reactive and baptism the whole family, it would be super cool. but that was out whole day.

Jueves: Today i wole up with a sore throat.. tht wasfun to deal with all day. We did some weekly planning and then went to lunch with the familia lopez, it was a good one, oh btw elderGoss had a super running nose all day so as you can imagine we were the team of mr. sniffles, and boy going through puberty at age 20 today... but we did have agood day. We got to share with Alba, also wegot to share with a less active daughter who was pretty cool. Then we went Horetensia and that was a real good lesson with Mariana and richard, they want the daughter to get baptized while they wait to get married but we are helping them realize the importance of donig things as a family. After that we found a very interesting new named liliana, who let us in the house with the family without question or even asking if we could step inside. Then after that we had a super cool lesson with the familia cristaldo and a ton of there friends, it was super cool and we are hoping to see some reults out of it. After that we called it a night and went to bed...

Viernes: Went on a division today with elder gallegos from peru. it was really good we went to Alexandra, and then we went to lunch, after that we attacked the siesta we found this cool dude named lino, had a good visit with him and then we went and talked to jesus and his family... its kind of weird that thats such a common name down here. After that we went and had a good lesson with the familia borja and then we went and taught eva and her family followed by going to karina who is having probelms with her house and it going up for sale or not. After that we had some cool contacts of some kids that were hanging out outside there house, they asked abounch of questions and then said that they would be going to church on sunday so we wil see about that. after that we called it a day.

Sabado: Finshed the division today, did some studying, made some lunch then we went out and got some work done, we went and visited carolina who promised us that she would be at church this sunday with her kids. then we went and taught wiliam and his two brothers they were two really cool homies.. and then after that we went to cristaldo who told us that they all would be there tomorrow, and then after that we went to alba, ofllowed by the amiliy silvero and ened the night by teaching richard and hortensia and setting a baptism goal for them in january so they can do it all as a family.. it was really cool. we called it a night feeling really good about who we were going to see in church tomorrow.

Domingo: went to church only to be disappionted and to only have 52 people there with 3 less actives and 0 investigators was a tough one, but sometimes god teaches us patience right? after that we spent time talking to ech compaionship in the zone to help fix zone struggles as well. Agust just didnt seem to set up a super bountiful september. but that doesnt give anyone çany reason to stop trying or stop working. So we went and had some good lessons, we went and taught Osvaldo and had a good lesson with him, after which we went and talked to alba, and then we shared with Zoris family and also got to know juan carlos a ess active alot better, then we ended the day by haveing a sper good NDH with the familia lopez (or atleast the less active dad and some of his active kids and wife) and the stake youngs women president and her husband qho really came to help the less active daughter... it ended up being one of the best lessons that i have ever been a part of and we all felt really good walking out of there. Really hoping the teachings were undertood and that that family can lift itself up again completely real soon. after that we called it a night.

Lunes: Got up and went straight to the mision dentist, that was fun elder goss had to get his tooth partly fixed, then after that we went to the office and played some basketball with elder day elder caldaron, elder sprenger eldr wolfgram elder sanchez and some other latins.. it was good.. just super hot! after that we went to the bazillian bbq with elder fauset elder ellefeson the assistents and elder silva and it was super deliciuos.. only it was sad to find out that elder ellefson was on his way home sometime this week as well. But he is a good guy and i know that he will do good things. After that we made our way back to the ciber and now im wiritng you guys.. pretty fun day haha..

Looks like things are about to get real hot in paraguay again.. weird to think that its the last time that itll happen like this.. bring it on.. i hope i dont regret typing that... love you all hope all is well!!

Love

Elder Jace Gummersall