March 10, 2014
¡Hola!
I was thinking of things to write about Paraguay all this
week, and as I´m sitting here typing this a little cockroach crawled onto my
computer... gross right? This is not the most chuchi cyber ever..., but I did
come up with a few fun things to write up. (I´m starting to take a lot of this stuff
for granted).
One thing that is kind of cool here are the parrots.
Actually, they are probably lorikeets, but there are flocks of them here,
like there would be flocks of geese or something in the States. They are really
loud too. Speaking of critters, some places are infested with mice; our church
is invested by bats. Actually, I feel bad for them because I think they
fly in and can´t find their way back out so they have nothing to eat so we usually
find them dead. The other night there was one alive flying around the
roof while we were having our activity. Also, most people have walls and
gates around their property. If they have money there is barbed wire or
an electric fence around the top too, but if they don´t then they use broken
glass bottles and attach them to the top of their walls.
My companion and I had a laugh this week. The other day we
were with one of our investigators and she told use she had something to give
us. We got excited, because who doesn´t love gifts? She brought out this
sliver package and still we were like, Oh boy what could it be? and then she
handed it to us and said, "It´s milk." She gave us a package of powdered
milk. I guess it´s from Argentina, but we thought it was fun. Not
sure what we are going to do with it yet.
On Friday we had divisions, and so I went to the area of Fernando
de Amor with a sister from Bolivia. She is super sweet and
it was good for me not to speak English the entire day. There is still a
lot I can´t say, but there is more that I CAN say and that´s a blessing. They
have a ward there and it´s super established. They have lots of youth and lots
of members, which is something our Branch lacks...well we have members but they
are inactive.
Also, yesterday was my last day of training!! Wooo!! No more
extra hours of studying for me...that is until I end up training someone else,
which could very well happen in two days, because that´s when changes are.
Because my companion and I got here at the same time, it´s really a toss
up as to who will leave first. I´m nervous, but I´m excited too. I´m
nervous because we are starting to see miracles here in Pinoza, so I have to
keep telling myself that this is the Lord´s mission not mine. How you take
things in life is really all about your attitude.
Yesterday we had ward conference, and we sang with the choir. We sang, I Believe in Christ and I Know That My Redeemer
Lives. I think those are the members favorite hymns.
The stake president gave a really spiritual Sunday school
lesson, which I was grateful for because we had TWO investigators at church!
This was Fernando´s third attendance and so he can get baptized really
soon, he just hasn´t received an answer yet. I know he is feeling something though, because
he keeps coming to church and does exactly what we commit him too. We also
have our other investigator I´m really excited about, her name is Alma.
She is the daughter of one of the members. She has three kids, she
recently had her third a month ago! Her daughter Helen goes to church every
week with her Grandma and wants to be baptized when she turns 8, but Alma never
wanted to join the church because she isn´t married to her "spouse"
and she didn´t want to get married. Well my companion had a lesson with
her during divisions and I guess something touched her heart because now she
had a date to get married and be baptized!!
I´m so excited for both of these people, and I realize that
this letter is a little longer then usual, I guess it was a pretty good week
then.
I got about 6 new bug bites, so either the bugs just came
back from vacation or you all stopped praying for me ;) Nah just kidding,
I think I just got a little lazy with the bug spray because I wasn´t having any
bites, but I did visit a new area so that could have been it too... I don´t
know.
But either way I love this work. I´m grateful for
every day because it´s already 4 months! Where did that time go? It feels like
I just left yesterday,
Have a wonderful week!
Hermana Lindsay
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