Gone Fishin'

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The bridge to Chaco

Ridiculous pic of me with my bad tan wearing E. Call{s shoes. lol

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Hola! We had another fabulous week. Not much to say about it though... most of the things me and Elder Call could think to write about were just things that we cooked, or to send the pictures that we took this morning. But igual no más. I{m sure I{ll find something to write about. lol

We got a new rule last monday - no taking your camera with you during the week. The rule was kinda there before, but now its legit. So its harder to get pictures because we can only take them on P-day and our last day in the area, but I{m going to try and get as many as can during legit time.

This monday we made tinfoil dinner in the oven. Me and Elder Call are getting pretty legit. I was thinkin thought that if it was possible, do you think you could send that recipie that Mom would make. Basically tinfoil dinner, but you could just do it in the glass pan in the oven? Tinfoil is expensive. lol The other recipie we were looking for is bread. We have one that E. Call{s mom uses for pizza crust, and we{ve been making all sorts of bread like things from it. Buns, cinnamon buns this morning etc. But if there were other more specific recipies that weren{t too complicated that{d be legit too. We also made Paraguayan Gizo as well this week. Left out the cow stomach though and just did it with chicken.

Had an interesting experience Tuesday. We were contacting houses and got to one house. It was just a 15 year old girl and so we asked if her dad was there. She called him, and he came out, super happy to see us, invited us in and we started talking. And when I say we started talking, I mean HE started talking. The guy seriously talked for an hour straight without stopping to think or barely even breath. We decided afterwards that he had some type of mental ilness or something. SUPER smart and such, but just the way he talked and such was ridiculous. We tried to leave 5 or 6 times and it was almost impossible to get out of there. I almost went crasy afterwards. It was just so hard on the brain. lol

We heard about the whole radiation leak stuff. According to the people here sounds like its going to be quite the problem? People having malformed babies, not being able to eat vegtables for a while, that kinda thing? Any more sound word on that?

We had some crasy weather the last couple of days. The worst lightning I{ve ever seen. Sooooo loud. Woke you up at night and I actually jumped out of my seat in a lesson yesterday. haha. I think it might have something to do with the humidity too? Makes it seem louder.

We had a district conference this week. All the members from around here came in. It was cool to see everyone in the District together at the same time. President Madariaga shared about how the members can open their mouths and share the gospel with others. He mentioned how sometimes it can be really simple. Although its all about following the spirit, there are certain things we can try. The one he suggested was to ask three simple questions. 1)Do you like to read? (Most people should probably say yes because they want to look smart. lol. At least thats what he said) 2) (If they said yes...) If I was to send you a book about Jesus Christ when he came to the Americas, would you read it? (Hopefully the answer is yes...lol) 3)Ask them to write down their name, address and phone number. Then go home, write your testimony in a book of mormon for them, and then give it to the Elders and get them to deliver it to the person. Not sure how that{d work back at home, but its an idea. Sounds terribly simple and could maybe backfire if the people don{t like to read, but you know. At the same time I think he has a point in that we sometimes just over complicate sharing the gospel. The Book of Mormon testifies of the truth and is a witness to all of the truthfullness of our message. If people will just read the book, chances are they are going to understand the gospel better and hopefully even gain a testimony of the gospel.

Anyways, didn{t use my time as good as I should have. Gotta run. We went fishing this morning. The weather wasn{t great, but we had fun, and I think it was really good that we could spend some time with the youth. Hopefully they feel more comfortable with us and want to intruduce us to their friends and such.  Ah! Almost forgot! Happy birthdays to Toby (give him a treat for me! How old is he now?), and to Uncle Ken! Have a good one! Have a great week! Love you lots!

Chau!
Elder Humphreys