Hola,
Easter week was super quiet. About half a million
people left Asunción to travel to the interior for the Semana Santa.
Basically everything was closed all weekend. The worst day to work was
Viernes Santo. The streets were dead! It was actually a little eery. To
celebrate, our ward had an activity where we learned to make chipa (they eat a
lot of chipa here during this week, it´s a tradition) and it was a huge
success! We had several investigators come and everything.
Last week we had to go to the doctor. Hermana Casey
thought she had Pike, which is like a worm in your foot. Turns out it´s just a
really nasty callus. That´s much better than a worm in your foot!
I got sick with a cold last week, so that wasn´t super fun.
It was terrible and it just made it uncomfortable to work, but I´m much
better now. It rained a lot this week too and we experienced the craziest
storm. It was actually kind of scary. We took refuge for part of it
at an investigators house, but the biggest part was in the night, it thundered
and lightening all night long! Our walls don´t really block out sound
either so it sounded like it was right in our apartment. It made me think
of the second coming and how scary that will be right before Christ comes
again. Hermana Casey said that one place she wanted to be during the
storm was in the temple. The temple really is a place of refuge and it´s
so important to always have an up to date recommend for when the "storms"
do come in our lives.
I´m starting to recognize how I´m becoming an instrument in
the Lord´s hands. We had two investigators come to church yesterday, both
of whom said we showed up at their door at low points in their life and helped
them through that. We had no idea, but the best part is the Lord knows.
He knows his children perfectly and he is going to send help and love to
get you through those hard times. Luz is the name of the lady and she is
so cute. We´ve only ever had one lesson with her, but she cried in that lesson
at the end while she was praying. And the spirit touched her heart again
in Relief Society. The teacher asked her to read a paragraph on Joseph
Smith and she started to tear up again. The Lord really does prepare
people to receive this gospel and through the spirit their hearts will be
touched and they will fill closer to our Father in Heaven than ever! I´m so
blessed to watch that happen.
I bought a new camera, it´s nice and I´m going to be super careful
with it. It´s nicer than my last one so I guess it´s a blessing in
disguise, but I am sad about all of the pictures I lost, but I´ll get them from
other people after my mission so I´m not too worried about it. We had a
really good Noche de Hogar with one of our favorite families in the ward
because we knew one of us was leaving because of transfers. Hermana
Sanchez made us Beju! It´s super good, but I´m not sure exactly what´s in it,
cheese and flour, I think, but it´s super good, or I´m just used to the food
here, I don´t know.
Then there was transfers!!!! I´m still in Pinozá (So I imagine
I will get to Skype again for mother’s day), but my new companion is Hermana
Weeks. Yes, another North American, but I´m glad because we are going to work
super hard together. She’s been out for 11 weeks. She´s from St. George,
Utah. We´ve been together all of like 4 or 5 days and she is already
whipping my Spanish into shape so that´s good, Hermana Casey and I got pretty
lazy with that so it´s good to have someone correct my errors.
So basically this week, I´ve just been introducing Hermana
Weeks to the area and the people. We have some people we are really
excited about and I know they are going to progress! One of our investigators,
Luz, is definitely going to get baptized. She has a lot of questions, but
they are more for understanding and she feels the spirit super strong in
church, so we are excited for that in the next couple of weeks.
Also we get to go to the temple tomorrow! POR FIN!!! I´m
excited. It´s been so long, but I really appreciate having the ability to
go to the temple frequently now. The temple really is where I feel at
home and it´s so important to go regularly.
Other than that I don´t really have much else to say, but I
know that´s through serving others we find true happiness in this life!
President Gordan B. Hinckley said, "Do you want to be happy? Forget
yourself and get lost in this great cause. Lend your efforts to helping
people... stand higher, lift those with feeble knees, hold up the arms of those
that hang down. Live the gospel of Jesus Christ." The gospel of
Jesus Christ is service and I know that service is what brings true joy in this
life. I know that gospel blesses families and it´s through the authority
of Jesus Christ that we can be sealed to our families for all time and all
eternity in His temple. There really is no other way to put it. If
we want to be happy we need to serve others and share our testimonies!
All is well with me!
Rohayhu!
Hermana Lindsay
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