Wow, we have had a couple good 100+ degree days here lately, including today. I aint the biggest fan of the heat at all. But what can you do, I am getting used to it. And it is especially nice coming home to air condition and fans. Hahaha.
Man, everything is coming great as far as the missionary work. Me and my comp are working harder and longer than I ever have, and yet have a blast at the same time. It feels great to come home, and plan, and then just fall right asleep. It just feels right. But right now, we just arent seeing the fruits of our labors. Alot of work, alot of news, alot of investigators, but the baptisms just arent coming.....YET. We are working pretty darn hard towards them, so lets see if they come soon, I know they will
We had stake conference yesterday. It was pretty good. Presidente Callan and his wife spoke, and also the new temple president herem and his wife. We had one of our investigators there. Half way through he said he had to go to the bathroom, but he just left. He just had a bad accident at work, and destroyed his hand pretty bad. So i think he went home because his hand was hurting pretty bad. I just felt bad, because it is like an hour or more walk from the chapel where we were at to his house. But hopefully we will be baptizing him in the next 2 weeks. He might be going to argentina to his moms house so he can heal a little better, but if not, he is prepared for his baptism..... :)
December is a busy month here. Specially because it is the start of summer. They have christmas, new year, and every catholic country has a virgin. The virgin here is called virgin of Caaucupe. So here on the 8th of December, tons and tons of catholics go to some place, and then they start walking a ton of distance to Caaucupe, to go worship this Idol, and ask her for blessings. It is wonderful to see how mych they do for their beliefs, and they have so much faith, but it is sad to see that their faith and beliefs are in the wrong thing. It is so hard to teach a hard core catholic here, because their parents were catholics, and their parents....etc. etc... So whenever we talk to them they always say, ya we are the pretty much the same as you guys, expect you guys dont believe in the virgen, and we say, well we believe in her, and we know she was a wonderful person(mother of Jesus) but, we just believe in the bible, and the bible tells us not to worship her. And then they just say, well .............. Ya it never goes well. But my least favorite thing is when they say, ya we believe in the virgen, but atleast we believe in the correct God. You guys worship another God, and you guys also worship Jose Smith.
It is pretty sad to see all of the false rumors here in Paraguay, but there is a part in the introduction oif the book of mormon, or maybe in D and c. I dont remember. But it says that Joseph smith (and the church) will be heard for good and bad throughout the whole world. And we see both here. But everytime i hear somebody rag on our church, it just builds my testimony more and more. It gives me more and more motivation to work harder than ever, and help alot of these lost sheeps.
But just like I say, I love this work. Its hard at times, but if it wasnt hard, it wouldnt be worth it. There has to be an opposition in all things. I know this work is true, I know thatthis chuch is true. And i know that I will be with all of you guys forever, especially with grandpa durfee :)
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