October 20, 2014
¡¡¡Hola!!!
This week
we´ve been trying to get to know the members better. It was funny
actually, we asked one family to go with us to a lesson and there were some
dogs following us and I was looking at them nervously. Hermana Cabrera
asked me if I liked dogs, and I said, "It´s not that I don´t like them, they
just seem to not like me,” but the dogs ran away and all was fine. But,
as we were walking back a big Rottweiler came bolting out of it´s house right
at us. I didn´t notice at first, but Hermana Weeks acted surprised and so
with that combined with this huge dog running right at us, I thought, this dog
is going to eat us! We were in a group of four, and of course the dog
passed all of them and came right at me, but it turned out it didn´t want to eat me,
it just wanted to play. Hermana Cabrera just about died, she was so scared
for me, so now every time she sees me she asks about the dogs. I think
I´ll forever be that one missionary that dogs just don´t like.
Friday we planned this huge talent show and all the members
came and did something. All of the organizations were in charge of a
talent and anyone else could do one as well. It was a lot of fun. There
was lots of traditional dancing. Paraguayan dancing is very simple, but
it was very pretty. The elder’s quorum put together a pretty funny skit
of the ugliest man in the world. The MC was a recent convert and he is a
radio man so he just hammed it all up and made it fun. Hermana Weeks and
I thought it was all pretty funny and we cheered loud for everyone, but every time
we cheered all of the heads up front would turn around to look us. Ha,
ha, I guess maybe that´s not normal audience attitude here, but we had a lot of
fun.
We found this one family a week ago and we are excited to
start working with them. We clapped at their door and the wife came out
and we started talking about the baptism of Jesus Christ and how we need to
follow his example and she stops us and says, "My husband wants to
be baptized like Jesus Christ, one moment" and she called her husband out
and we shared with them both. The husband, Jose is really
interested. She is a little more reluctant, but we are excited to work
with them both. Jose came to church even this week. They have a son Julio
and he is really smart. He´s only 11, but he was quick to have an answer to all
of our questions.
And then we had a fun surprise visitor at church
yesterday. I think I talked about Jaime before. He was the baptism that
we had because he records somehow got lost. Anways, he showed up to our
meetings here in San Lorenzo. Apparently he was visiting someone close
and didn´t want to miss church. Hermana Weeks and I were both thrilled to
see someone from Pinozá. Anyways, he and Hermana Weeks started talking about a lady name
Teresa and Jaime informed her that she had been baptized and Hermana Weeks was
very excited. Then she turned to me and said, "Ah Hermana, I´ve been
meaning to tell you. She lives close to the church and you contacted her
one time, and she remembered you and even your name specifically. Her mom
was yelling at her to do something so she lied and said she couldn´t
share. She told me to tell you and Hermana Casey that she was going to
get baptized." And she did!! That meant so much to me. I
loved Pinozá, but my time there was really hard. I always knew that it
wasn´t in vain and just maybe I had planted some seeds and to hear that story I
was so happy, because I know now that I did plant a lot of seeds while I
was there. Maybe I won´t know all of the outcomes of those seeds, but I
know the Lord does and that´s all that matters.
Anyways, that´s basically my week. Love the
work. Love the Lord. Love His gospel!
Rohayhu!
Hermana Lindsay
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