Hoooolaa.
Had a good week. Really quick though. Sounds like you all had a great little weekend. Had a blast I´m sure. I´m excited for when we can all have fun going shopping at West Ed again. Okay, really more excited to go to West Ed and eat food and enjoy a fancy new Hardy kitchen, and not to mention sleep on my favorite couch, but you know what I mean. You´re going to have to help me out with my geography though because its been a while. Slave Lake? Northern Alberta or somewhere up in North West Territories? Still pretty crasy sounding. Church buildings never burn down! lol.
Anyways. Like I said, we had a pretty good week. Not sure if you guys were listening to the same crasy news that we were listening to here, but one of the distinguishing parts of the week stemmed from some priest or pastor guy in the United States. Some guy from the Evangelical church or something like that? We didn´t really get the details, but we did get every person we talked to asking us if the world was really going to end on Saturday. We probably said 100 times that ¨yes, it is true. The world is going to end..... but nobody knows when. So I wouldn´t worry about it being this Saturday. But we do know that the 2nd coming is getting near, and that we need to be prepared physically, mentally and spiritually¨. Something like that. Most people seemed to think it was a lie (which was a little surprising because people around here seem to be quite gullible), so our answer didn´t change much for them, but there were a few children that were really worried about it.
Tuesday I got to go on another division. This time I was put with a guy who´s actually from Paraguay. He grew up in my first area, but always went to church in the south mission because the church was closer. But that was kinda cool. He knew a lot about Paraguay and so we talked about that, and then I also got to tell him a lot about Canada. He was only baptized 4 years ago with his brother and they are both here. They´re probably going to both spend all of their missions way out far like we are now. His name is Elder Escriva and hes 24. Old guy. lol. But yeah. It went well. He worked hard and we had a successful day. Its cool to see how much more the people open up to him and how much easier it is for him to be a good teacher just with his Paraguayan background. It´ll be really cool to see in the future when people can serve closer to home. It won´t be as fun for people like me maybe beacuase we wouldn´t get to go on long distance adventures like this, but I think it´ll really help the work grow when they are able to have missions full of latins, and keep all of us North Americans back closer to home. lol.
Found a really cool person this week. She called us over while we were walking down the street. I had read about her in some of the notes some missionaries from before had left us. She was baptized like 10 years ago in another town. They were teaching her husband but right before his baptism they moved about 20 km from town. They are really poor and don´t have a way to get in for church, and so nothing more happened about it. They were waiting on getting some papers so that they could get married and everything. Anyways, we looked for them once to see whats up but we ended up just wandering around for a couple hours and not finding them. Anyways, now we have better directions to there house and now we can visit them. Sounds like their paperwork came through and so they can now get married. Want to move back into town and he really wants to get baptized. Sounds almost too good to be true. So we´ll see what happens with that. We´ll probably get off the bus early one of these days and try to visit them. Hopefully everything goes through.
Another really cool guy we found on monday. Named Jorge. Contacted his house. He looks like he´s got a fair bit of money. Anyways, he seems pretty interested. Already has a friend in the church. Wasn´t able to come to church because he had to go on a business trip, but acutally basically skipped work just to come to our English class. Told his friend that he´s really interested to learn more and looks really sincere. I´m excited to work with him too.
That of course only as long as I don´t get changed. Haven´t found out just yet what the changes are. More realistically though, its more likely that either Elder Chatelain leaves and I get a new comp, or he stays and we´re together for another change and a half before he goes home. We´ll see what happens. They say there are a lot of changes going on and that a lot of people are going to have to go up to senior comp this change. I´m kinda scared about that because I´m starting to get closish to the point where I might be going up. I don´t feel ready for that yet, so wish me luck that my comp next change is somebody with some experience! haha. If not, make sure you pray for me. lol. Scary stuff. Anyways, out of time. Love you lots. Have a great week! Sorry there weren´t too many exciting stories this week (didn´t eat anything wierd...lol).
Love you!
Elder Humphreys
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