August 29th!
Well I dont know how to spell words in Guarani, only say them. And ha koo y te shura, means it is pretty freakin hot my friends. The weather here is crazy, but it is starting to get pretty hot, and it is still winter here. But that is ok.
So i am just going to do a rundown on my week
Monday (PDAY) we went and played soccer, and I got my but kicked by a bunch of latins, and then we played basketball, and I kicked the trash out of a bunch of latins HAHA
Tuesday-
normal day
Wednesday- we had an awesome zone conference with three different zones and ELDER Arnold from the 70. It was super good. And all the Elders thought he was going to drop the cane, and add a bunch of new rules, but there was none of that at all. He only told us to lock our hearts, and not have any kind of relationships with the girls here, and he also showed us how we are doing compared to the other missions in this area. The other missions in this area have 1 baptism for every 20 investigators, and our mission has 1 baptism for eevry 50 investigators. So we aint doin to well as a mission, but he told us that we have been improving, so that is good. The highlight of the zone conference was when he said " If you want baptisms, you have to do what the other missions are doing". So ya, that was a memorable quote, we need to start being like the other missions, I´ll remember that. Also, it was nice to see all the old elders from this zone, and my old district. I also talked to the elders in tres bocas, and they told me how my converts are doing, so that was good.
Thursday- we spent 2 or 3 hours doing service for a freakin awesome investigator family. We had a weed wacker and macheties ( i dont know how to spell macheties) but anyways, we had to (mow) like one acre of grass as tall as cocoa. We only got like one fourth of the way done, but it was fun still.
Friday- we returned in the morning to continue the service, and this day, we spent like 6 hours cutting grass. Well 6 hours, 3 blisters, and sunburned neck and arms later, we finally fishished!!! Ok I lied, we only finishe like half of it. But it looks alot better. But my neck now looks like neopalitin ice cream, with my back being white like vanilla, a little further up, red ( like strawberry), from wearing a normal shirt to do service, and a little further up brown (/like choclate) from the sweet tan i have from being out in the sun all day with a collared shirt. >My arms have some sweet farmers tans tambien.
Saturday- we went over to an investigator (Patricia, that is going to be baptized the 3rd of september) We watched a movie with her about John Tanner I think. He was a super saint at the beginning of chuch history, but in it, he has an infected leg, and all the doctors say that he needs to amputate it, but he refuses, and then later on he gets healed and so forth and so forth. But Patricia asked us if it was a sin to amputate your leg. Haha, she is so funny with the questions she has (and she has tons).
We then went to this super awesome investigaotr family for the night. The highlights there, was one of the kidsx prayers. Their prayers here are so small, and short, but so powerful. I am going to restate his prayer he gave in English He Said " Father in Heaven we thank thee for this day, I ask thee to bless all of the kids in the streets without parents, thay they can have food, Amen." So short, but sooooo powerful, it really hit me hard. Then we taught a little. We then taught another family that lives with the awesome investigator family. After we taught the first vision and Joseph Smith, we asked if the Mom would pray to know if Joseph Smith was a prphet. She flat out refused. And after further questioning, she said, I am not going to Pray and ask God if Joseph Smith is a prophet, when I already know that he is. WHAT!!!! It was sweet. Haha.
And to end the day off, I had a dance off in front of the 2 families against the drunk uncle. He totally kicked my trash, but it was still fun. We took some sweet videos.
HAHA And i also found out today, that i can no longer hoola hoop
Sunday- Church was good today, we had 40 people in church, including 6 investigators (Patricia, and the awesome investigator family( la familia Ivara)) After church we ate with President Aquino (our branch President). He actually lives in adifferent area but is our branch President (we hardly have any wothy priesthood holders in our branch). But there was alot of different countries represented at this dinner. Paraguay (them), Brazil(an exchange student that was visiting fo dinner no mas), Columbia (my comp), Honduras(one of the sister missionaries) and the United states (me from Idaho, and the other sister Missionary from Georgia). But the food was good, and the rest of the day was good too
So this was my week, and I cant believe changes are in a week already. CRAZY!!!!!!!
Con Amor De Paraguay
Elder Chase Coy Stewart
