¡¡¡Hola!!!
Oh goodness, time seems to be
flying by! I can´t even handle it, it´s already two weeks into August. Our zone is working really hard to find
families this month. We are all really excited and we are setting goals
to get our numbers up. I have so much faith that this month is just going
to be filled with miracles.
I just got back from cleaning
the temple! I love the temple! As missionaries we don´t get to go very
often, but I enjoy the rare occasions when we get to go clean the temple.
This was my second time. The opportunity is all random, so I guess you
could say I´m pretty lucky.
I celebrated my hump day (half-way) the right way with
lomitos arabes. They are meat, and vegetables with a garlic sauce and then they
put it in like a tortilla/pita bread type thing and grill it. They are
basically the most delicious things ever. They are only a night time food
here though, there are little places basically on every corner to buy a
hamburger or a lomita after 7 o´clock.
We had two investigators come
to church yesterday. The first was one we´ve been working with for quite
awhile. She´s been to church one time before this, but every time we
passed by after that she never answered the door. Well yesterday we
passed by and she didn´t answer, so we decided to go look for someone else, they
didn´t answer either so we went to look for Idalicy again. When we got to
her gate, she was outside with her little boy and we were like, ok let´s go,
but apparently her sister had just left and had taken the keys with her (they
lock their gates so you have to have keys to get in or out). My companion was determined and so she just
walked over to the gate and lifted it off
its hinges to let her out. Needless to say she came to church and
she enjoyed it.
Our other investigator is so
cute. Her name is Gabriela and she is 13. She has lots of family
that are members so she´s got a good support group. She wants to get baptized
right away but her mom wants her to wait a bit until she knows more. So
we gave her a list of everything she needs to learn beforehand. She is awesome;
she is already doing her Personal Progress. Her parents are pretty well off and
basically their house is like a little zoo. They have turtle, a dog named
Espike, a hamster named ComoVos (Like you), a lorikeet named Tweetie, AND a
deer!! named Bambi. I´ve never seen a deer here, but they have one so
that´s kind of cool.
We went to do some service this
week. We went and painted the bars of a window for a woman. I had
about half of it painted and my companion looked over at me with her section
less than half finished and told me I was painting really fast.... I guess all
those years out at MTI painting sets were good for something, but it was fun to
do some service for her. She is one of my favorite ladies here, she
hasn´t been to church in a long time, but she will get there!
This last Saturday was Kid Day
here in Paraguay! It´s a big deal here. There are bouncy houses
everywhere. People give their kids presents and they eat cake. Um,
why don´t we have that in the States?!?! But it was fun wishing all the
kids Feliz día. They also celebrated the anniversary of their flag so there
was lots of partying going on during the weekend.
I did get my package mom, by
the way. Thank you!! The first thing I did was make myself a peanut
butter and jelly sandwich. It was sooo good! The Paraguans don´t
understand that joy.
Anyways I love you all so much and hope everything is going
well at home! You are always in my prayers!
Rohayhu!
Hermana Amy Lindsay
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