Hola Familia!
This week has been super great and I hope you all had a really
good one too! My comp and me are pretty much fimiliar with our new area now and
were just doing work! My days are getting really busy, which is great!
My last p-day was so great! Me my comp and the zone leaders took
that 4-hour trip to the city to go get Quiznos this time -haha. If your kind of
noticing a pattern every p-day is just our chance to get real American food
even though it takes a huge trip to get there it is totally worth it! It’s
awesome that I’m super tight with our zone leaders too because they totally
hook us up with everything! Then my other favorite part of p-day is getting to
email everyone and see how life is back in the states because down here I feel
like I’m in a bubble where I have no clue what’s going on outside of my little
tiny town Itaguá! -haha Also the break we get on p-days are sooooo needed –ha.
My whole body by the end of the week is just so sore just to get to lay down
for 30 minutes and not have to worry about anything at all is so great! Yeah p-days
here are the best!
So in this neighborhood that is an hour away by foot we found
this guy named Juan and he is way into the bible and overall just trying to
find the true church! He is a pretty sweet dude and he told us that he has been
meeting a lot with the Jehovah’s Witness missionaries; on this day he showed us
some of the pamphlets and papers that they have given him. Just a little
back story with the JW missionaries, we always see them out front of the big
supermarket here with a little stand all set up and every time they see us or
we pass by they get all super awkward and look at the ground or something -haha
it’s kinda funny. Especially when I say hi and just smile they always give me a
weird look back. But anyway they have given Juan a ton of papers about the Book
of Mormon and all about Joseph Smith. Juan gave us a couple cuz he had a ton of
them. So my comp and I read through it later and almost all of it was straight
up lies... It really makes me sad that for them to try and preach their
doctrine they have to try and attack ours. He said they spent more time talking
about Joseph Smith and trying to tear down our church then even talking about
anything from their religion -haha. Not only do we have to try and teach really
closed off Catholics but now were getting legit questions like "who gave
Joseph Smith the magic silver sunglasses to write the Book of Mormon? “- These
JW's are really not making this easy but it’s all good cuz we are surprisingly
having a ton more success in our area! I am noticing so many more little
miracles that are helping us out. It’s so cool. Score: God:1 Satan:0 hahaha #winning.
So there’s this kid named Antonio that’s Elder Smith and Elder
Mcclellands investigator that got baptized this week, which was super cool.
Even though he is the other Elder’s investigator somehow we have become really
tight. He always calls me "teacher" because I always tell him funny
new words in English. But he really wanted me to speak at his baptism so I said
that I would even though I knew it was going to be really hard because of my
Spanish. -Ha if it were anyone else I probably would have tried to get out of
it –haha. Antionio is such a rad
kid. Straight up, he is such an example to us and everyone around him, I
love it. But I used like an hour and a half of study time just to prepare a
10-minute talk –haha. It was hard enough just preparing the talk really good
but then I had to figure out how to translate it all... I gave the talk and I did
so much better than I thought I would do –haha. The people actually understood
me so that’s a plus. But yeah, it ended up being a really cool night!
I just wanna say that I seriously love the members down here in
Paraguay. For real they are the nicest people you could ever meet. I had an
experience this week when we were just walking back from English class (which
is always so much fun) to our house to get ready to go to bed and stuff when
this little car with a whole family packed in there pulls over and yells,
"Elders Elders!" They were a member family in a town close to ours
but they went out of their way, no matter how much we insisted it was okay,
pulled over and bought us both some dang good super panchos (kinda like giant
hotdogs). Just to give you a feel for these people, their car was soo
junky even though I’m sure they could barley afford to pay for it along with
providing for their whole family. Just seeing them with their clothes
that don’t ever fit right, obviously they don’t have a lot. But they
stopped and paid for some food just to help us out. This right here means the
world to me. I have no doubt that these people would have given the
clothes off their backs to someone if they needed it. Just to think they have
barley anything at all but yet they give so much! It’s always easy to give
stuff away when you have a lot but when these people have almost nothing and
still give it all away, it truly shows how Christ-like they are becoming.
I love my miembros so much, I’m so grateful for the opportunity that I have
just to get to know them and how much they are examples to me. I am surrounded
my members who I am convinced are some of the nicest people in the whole
world. Straight up. I love these people. I love this country. I love this
gospel. I love being a missionary. I’m lovin life.
I love and miss you all
I hope you all have an awesome week!
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