Wow, what a week, very very tiring but still good. It is nice to be able to come home everyday and plan for the next day, and then fall straight to sleep. Literally, i get sooooo tired in the nights it isnt even funny. The sun now sets at around 530 or 6, and being in a little paraguayan town is kind of scary because there are hardly any lights. The town is small so there ar¡ent that many lights and when 6 o clock rolls around EVERYTHING IS DARK, AND THen the people go to sleep around 7 or 8, so if we dont have appointments set in the night, it is kind of hard to find people to teach. When it starts getting dark, it is kind of depressing and I just get tired fast haha. But the work is still going great.
We are starting to go to a little village 5 km away twice every week. There are like 30 or so members out there so we are starting to work with them and references from them. We arent seeing the fruit of labors yet out there, but we are seeing alot of fruit. There are tons of orange and mandarine and lemon and lime and tons of trees. So when we are walking we usually just feel our pockets full of fruit and continue on our way. But ya the fruit of our labors will come here in a few weeks.
This little pueblo is called Paloma. And it is just a bunch of houses out in the jungle. So it takes about an hour to walk there on dirt/rock roads (if we are lucky, and trucks pass us, we can hitch hike there), then once we get to the 4 bocas, we have to walk anotehr kilometro to some members and even more to others. So it is pretty long, but good. We decide that we are going to start working there 2 times a week, for the whole day. But this last friday we were walking back home, and it was SOOOO SCARY. Imagine being in complete jungle with absolutely no light except for a little flashlight. There are drunk people all around and dogs, alot of them wild, and spooky feelings. So i dont think that we will be doing that again in the night atleast. hahaha. Specially because it is 1 hour and a half to walk it all.
So we saw a sweet miracle this week with an investigator named walter. He is around 22 years old and he lives alone and works all day everyday in a bakery. Well sunday he only works halfday. But still, he works a ton. Anyways, when he was littler in his teens, he studied to be a catholic priest, so he is VERY CATHOLIC. But we started visiting him and he like the book of mormon and everything, and thought that our church was just like his church. But he didnt see the neccesity to be baptized again. But then he started visiting with an awesome member, and started going there often at night after work. Then he came to general conference. But he still didnt have interest. But we stopped visiting him because he stopped progressing, but he still continued to go to this members house to talk. Well to make a long story short, we went to this members house the other day to get references, and walter was there. We started talking to walter and out of nowhere he told us that he is ready to be baptized in our church and becoem a member. And this all started because of the influence of a member. Wow, how awesome is that.
The only problem with this story is that Walter works every sunday, so he isnt able to attend church. But we are looking for a new job for him. So if you can keep him in ur prayers it would be awesome. As soon as he finds a new job, he will be baptized. Cool huh??
Well love you guys, stay strong, and never let go of the iron rod
Elder Chase Coy Stewart
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