Hi! Long time no speak! Sorry if its a lame letter this week. Its always a little weird writing the email the day after a phone call, because you feel like you just told everybody everything. But thats all right. I didn´t really talk much about the week or anything like that. To start off though, it was a pleasure talking to you all. Sounds like you´re all doing great. Sorry that I probably sounded like a goof and that I couldn´t really hear everything you said, but oh well. Thats how it goes right? No worries on not calling back. That kinda was my fault after all, blabing about something unimportant instead of saying a proper goodbye like I should have. Oh well. Hope you all got the part where I either did, or meant to say ¨Love ya! Have a good next 8 months! Thanks for callin! Its been great! Be good kids, but not so good that the nanny is getting payed for nothing! And take it easy on my spelling okay? I´m busy writing as fast as I can and sometimes little things slip through! haha. I´ll try and send you all your birthday presents in a week or two, but knowing the mail system it might take a while! Have a happy mothers day evening and don´t eat too much cake - you´ll get fat, just like I am....lol. LOVE YOU!¨ ... or something like that.
But anyways. Just to clarify things up - my current comp (Elder Chatelain) is from the fantastic, Salt Lake City Utah. He´s like the 3rd Salt Lake comp I´ve had already, but oh well. They aren´t as bad as you´d think...lol. Just kidding. He´s really good, and we get along and are working hard.
What else. Monday was crasy. Running around, paying all sorts of bills and paying off debts, and the usual groceries and stuff too. Then we had to get on a bus at 10:30 at night to travel to Asuncion. Double Decker. Pretty legit. The seats are basically like big beds. Showed up in town at 5 in the morning or something like that. Ridiculous. At least I got to sleep a little bit. Then we had interviews with President, and after I got to go to the temple AGAIN. Legit. Got a package while I was in the office, but it basically all got thrown out because it was soaked and just destroyed :( Oh well, its the thought that counts right. Had a super legit zone conference. Learned lots. The coolest part was a talk by Elder Holland that they showed. He gave it at the MTC a couple months ago. It was super good. I don´t know if you can look it up on the internet or what, but I think he gave it in January or February. Not sure. Talked about how this generation of missionaries have to be better than ever before, and how you really have to be converted yourself before you can share the gospel. Not like before when there were set lessons and you could just go in and ramble the whole thing off without feeling anything. Stuff like that. It´d be a good one for those guys that will be heading out in a bit here maybe. I dunno.
Spent a lot of time this week just meeting new people, doing contacts, trying to build up the investigator pool. That was fun.... lol. Contacting is probably the least enjoyed part of working, but I´m actually starting to kind of enjoy it. So thats good. Talking to lots of people, and trying to get to know those people that are ready to recieve the gospel. Had one of our most successful days of this change on Thursday because of it. Its really cool because we´re starting to see the work pick up a lot. After contacting late and in the dark we were able to teach a lesson to one lady who was really down because her husband past away and said that she had really lost faith in God for a while. We were able to share about the plan of Salvation and I shared some personal experience, and I think it went really well. We haven´t been able to talk to her again yet, but I´m hopeing that she´ll be able to progress and start coming to church. Her names Margarita, and she´s already got a friend or two in the ward. I think she´s got a drinking problem though, so we´ll see what happens.
Friday was a mess. The old landlady is crasy and we´ve been having a hard time getting rid of her. We´re trying to be nice and accomodating and make up for where the last set of Elders made a mess, but she´s kinda trying to take advantage of us. Thats no fun. Wasting a lot of time with that. All I can say is that I think I´m going to want to spen the least amount of time possible renting houses when I grow up, and a lot more owning my own.... hopefully I win the lottery or something like that....
Didn´t eat anything too weird this week... had a little frog jump in my oatmeal right after Elder Chatelain warned me not to poke it... I ate it anyways. haha. Today I rolled the dice and ordered something that we didn´t know what it was at the restaurant. It was just a platter of really small chunks of food. So I ate my olives, ham and cheese pieces, fries and little meat things with a toothpick. Fortunately no one was there or I think I would have been kinda embarassed.
Met some people that told us they couldn´t talk to us because the Catholic church was giving their kids food on the condition that they didn´t talk with anyone from any other church. I almost tried to clarify that with her by asking if they were really just getting payed by the church to not talk about the gospel with us, but I decided to let them be, considering that they looked pretty hungry and I didn´t think it´d be very Christlike to sass them like that. lol.
Anyways. Thats all I got time for. It was a blast chattin on the phone. Hope this e-mail had something in it worth reading. I´ll try and think of something deeper to write about next week. Love you lots, and have a great week! Things are going great here and I´m lovin being a missionary!
Chau! Jajotopata! (sp?- Nobody knows how to spell in Guarani... lol)
Elder Humphreys
PS. I´m trying not to think tooooo much about it because it gets me all thinking into the future and not enough in the present and such, but I´m super stoked to be picked up at the end. I just keep thinking of all the fun things we´ll get to do and saying goodbye for reals to all the people I already miss. Stuff like that. We´ll have to plan more in the future. I´ll think about what day would be best to call it quits. Love ya, bye.
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