another day in paraguay: Party Week!

7/7/14
This last week was a good and busy one.. and i dont have too much time to tell you about it but here it goes...

Lunes: We went and had a good lesson with an investigador named cristina and then swung by evas house who gifted me a tie for my birthday! they are super awesome then we went to the fam. Lopez house where we celebrated a little bit and then they smashed eggs on my head and threw cocnut at me... HAPP BIRTHDAY!! hahah it was super cold that night and walking home was fun hahah...

Martes: WE went to District meeting which went well and then headed to lunch where i was gifted anotther tie that came with matching cuff ilnks and a pocket square... now i just need to learn how to fold a pocket square hahaha. then we went and had some good lessons and got some zone work in. After that we went and found some cool new investigators eventhough they are pretty catholic, but they are super great people.. like all paraguayans. After that we had a good lesson with an investigator that is progressing super well, karina, we taught the word of wisdom and she understood it really well and agreed to live it just like that. after that we had a NDH and tried to have brownines, but they didnt cook fast enough so we left and then the family must have enjoyed them after words. Good tuesday.

Miercoles: Today we went on a division and i went to Isla Bogado with elder WHitaker, an elder from Las Vegas. He is prett ycoo lkid and we had a really good day, I got a ton of comments on my blue eyes and we did a ton of contacting but we were able to help him tread the water in his area and find some new people to teach. after that when we were on our way to end the division elder whittaker was walking and one of his egs sunk completely in mud, it was crazy and pretty funny, and i had to help pull him out, but it was a good way to end the division.

Jueves: Today i had a division with elder Molina we did some studying taught an intresting lesson, and then went to lunch, that was good, after that we had a second intresting lesson, and then we went and taught alexandria who seems to be less and less on theroad to reactivation. Then we went and met this lady who was super cool , and super smart, she hopefully can be someone who goes to church here pretty soon, and after that we met this dude who also seemed to have a ton of desires to change and to follw jesus christ. we are hoping to help them both out and are really hoping they go to church soon. After that we went and visited Eva, and Karina, and then went to the lpoez house where we helped the family prepare for a wedding that will be happening tomorrow! Mabel and Emanual. They are pretty cool and they said that they would invite me to the temple when they get sealled, so hopefully soon!

Viernes: HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!!!! what a great day to love america right! i celebrated by remembering all the great things abuot the states and having a feast for lunch. We actually did head out and do some work early in the morning and taught a guy named diosnicio, he is super old but pretty cool and we are hoping that he gets an answer from god here pretty soon. after that we got the call that lunch was cancelled so we swung by a dispensa bought some stuff and celebrated paraguaya style!! it was super great and filling, then we got right back to work. We went and visited sandra who promised to come to church this sunday and then we visited this guy named fransico, after that we went to juana and visited the family silvero. Then we made our way to the church to go support the wedding. It was a pretty good party and had some good food, it almost turned into a service project because we helped them alot. Kinda funny to see stressed paraguayans..... they are normally super tranquilo.

Sabado: Today we got a good start to the day by going to the chapel and helping clean up everything from the wedding it went pretty quick and then we got wedding cake after haha. after that we went and studyied a little bit and then got to work. We had pretty good lessons with lucy and karina and found some cool news, but the best new we found was a lady named ortencia. her and her daughter really want to get baptized and change there lives, they actually went to church on there own but to a different chapel becuase they didnt know any of the other ones, it was super cool, so we comitted ourselves to go down to there house and show them our chapel. It was a super great way to end the day.

Domingo: Today was good we woke up early and ran down to ortencias house, and brought her here two daughters, and her returned missionary, inactive boyfriend to church.. it was one of the most beautiful things to see a whole family going to church together! on the other side for some reason lucy and karin both didnt go, so thats a struggle. We ended up dropping in attendence, becasue of a huge rainstorm the night before to 53, with 2 investigators and 1 less active there. then we went to Lucy and soto, and juana, and ortencia, it was a pretty good day and makes our july baptism goal look really really good. Hopefully we are really able to help these people change there lives though.

Lunes: Woke up early and headed into Zone concilio in the mission office for zone leaders. It was good, we are going to start a new program where we turn the chapels into visitor centers for a night everyother month or so. WE also where able to talke more baptism goals and test our scripture knowledge, it was a really good concilio and we played some basketball afterwords. Then we made our way to the ciber andnow im writting you guys!

HOpe all is well and you had a great time celebrating americas bday.. thanks again for all the bday wishes!!! love you all so much!!

Love

Elder Jace Gummersall