Hello everyone !
Wow December already! Where has the time gone!!. This week was super busy, like all the other weeks on the mission. Nestor y Amelia are getting married and baptized in 2 weeks so we have been working to plan their reception. It is so fun to see Amelia get excited about it. The rest of the week went by in a blur. It has been extremely hot and humid. Paraguay is the land of the wet. You are either wet because it rains and floods or you are wet from sweating so much. You cant escape it. And the time you want to get wet and shower, your water shuts off. On Thursday I don't know what happened but we didn't have any water in our house. So that was an adventure. Luckily things were back to normal the next day.
So I mentioned Nestor y Amelia. They are so awesome so I have to talk about them again. On Friday we signed their ficha, the paper needed to say they were baptized into the church as a member so they can have callings and things like that. They were so excited when they signed it. And now all of Amelia's kids want to get baptized too. So we are preparing the whole family to be baptized together and Alfredo is preparing to do it. Oh so exciting!!
Oh and since it has been freakishly hot Hermana Robinson and I made homemade popsicles.
We blended up some fruit and froze it, but while we were in the super buying fruit a lady right in front of us just passed out. It was crazy and everyone started freaking out and gathering around her. It was insane. I wanted to help but there were already so many people circled around her. I said a prayer in my heart and hopefully she is all better now. They took her to the hospital. I don't know why she passed out but I blame the heat as part of it.
Sunday was the chilliest day I will ever have on my mission. First off Amelia and Nestor brought their kids to church. Poor little Eder, her son who is 9, he is so shy and it was all a little overwhelming for him and he was starting to cry and I thought Amelia was going to leave and take him home but she is so amazing. She was just like nope he needs to learn to be at church it is good for him. Oh man she is so great. After we at a church open house in Kaáguy Rory. It was so great. Sadly only 4 people showed up but one of them is super solid and we got an appointment with him tomorrow. He wants to get baptized. But there was this American couple there and it was so weird. They are living here for the last 6 months for work and they don't speak any Spanish hardly so we were talking to them in English and it was so crazy. It felt good to be able to understand someone like fully understand everything they say. It was so fun and it was great and very relaxing day. It was also awesome because they were both returned missionaries so it was great to hear their stories and it made me so excited about serving my mission. It was so great.
Something rough that happened this week had to do with my Spanish. All my emails always are wow this week was great, this week was so amazing. And don't get me wrong. Every week is better than the last, every week flies by as I feel the Spirit and have the incredible blessing to serve the Lord and preach His gospel. But that doesn't mean it is always easy. Every day we have difficulties we have to over come. But the main thing to remember is that you can over come them. Saturday we were teaching a girl name Jana. She is super great and so sweet and we were teaching her lesson 1. My Spanish has been progressing fairly well and I know I am no where from being fluent. But during that lesson Jana could not understand me hardly at all. Anytime I went to teach she would turn to my companion and ask her to explain it because she didn't understand. It was very frustrating and I wanted to just give up. It was pointless to have me talk when she was just going to turn to my companion and ask her to say it all over again. But for the month of November I studied the Christ like attribute of Diligence. And the most important thing about diligence is that you give Christ your all. Even when you feel like giving up, when you are tired or you don't want to do it anymore, you give Him your all because He gave you His all. So even though it was frustrating to continue to talk and try to focus on not being frustrated, I remembered that if I was diligent and trusted in the Lord he would help me. And that it doesn't matter what language I was speaking, if I was speaking it good or not, the Language of the Spirit is universal and she would find her answer through the spirit not my Spanish. In the end it was a very good lesson. She had good questions and I feel good about her. I feel like she is going to get baptized.
It was another amazing week living the dream here.
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