January 20,
2014
¡Hola!
Primer,
¡Feliz cumpleaños a mi sobrina favorita! Can´t believe she is already
three! She is so funny and she sounds so grow up from all the stories you
tell.
I can´t believe another week as come and gone. I´ve already
been in Paraguay for a month! ¡Loco es! But I love it here, even though
it´s really, really hot and the mosquitoes think I´m dessert, and even when it
seems like we aren´t having much success.
This week was kind of hard on Hermana Casey and I. We
wanted to have a baptism by the 25th, but our investigator didn´t
come to church so her date fell. We were really bummed, and it didn´t
help that all the other elders in our district each had like 6 investigators at
church, but we learned something. One is patience, and you all know I´m
not a patient person. Well the Lord is still testing it. The other
thing we learned is about comparing ourselves to others, because a mission
isn´t about the numbers. You are a successful missionary if you are working your
hardest and doing all that the Lord wants you to, and we actually did have some
success this week. This week the Gomez family came to church for the
second time! They are a menos activos family we´ve been visiting. And
they are awesome!
There are actually a lot of less actives here.
Retention is really hard, but the miembros here are great and always so
willing to help. And feed us too! Yesterday we were at a members´ and
they fed us and it was good. I was full, but not uncomfortable, but then
they pulled out half of a huge watermelon and were like, "Ok eat it
all." And my companion and I just looked at each other like
"What?" So, needless to say, I´m not a huge fan of watermelon at the
moment ;) I also never thought Lindsay was a hard name to pronounce until a got
to Paraguay. Lind sigh is how they want to pronounce it and they are afraid of
pronouncing it wrong so they are always asking me how to say it. It´s
fun.
Most of the people who we wanted to visit are super busy.
Rosana is the one married to the José who lived with a Mormon family and
she is in the middle of writing a thesis for school. Karen is really busy
too, but she told us this last time she canceled that she was really bummed
because she´s been wanting to talk with us, and then Cecily, who is our English
speaker. She got back from traveling and we taught her again, but then
her husband was coming home and he hates religion so she said we couldn´t meet
with her for another 2 weeks! So you can see why we might get discouraged,
but I know the Lord has plans for each one of them and for us too and I know
it´s all going to work out for the better.
I love this work so much and I know that Jesus Christ is my
Savior and Redeemer. I know that this is his restored church and that through
Christ´s authority we can be baptized and sealed to our families for eternity!
I love this gospel and I love all of you! Have a wonderful week.
Hermana Lindsay
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