Hi. hows it going. we had another good week here in Saltos. not tooooo much to report this week. especially because i wrote a little bit later last week. which is probably also good, because for one reason or another we keep setting our selves up for failure here. i don´t know why, but we always walk half way across town to print of letters, and then rush back with about exactly an hour left to write before pday ends - and there are never enough computers for everyone. so that means somebody is going to be missing out on time today. lame. not sure why we keep making the same mistake.
Anyways, i´ll try and give a quick run down so that my comp can get on. glad to hear that your week went well. Oh. just kidding. my comp just got a computer. this keyboard is still the worst one yet though, and so I´m typing about half speed. ugh. Anyways, super cool sounding trip. i can never remember when you´ll be getting back either, but I´m assuming it´ll be soon. so make the best of it! remember that you´ll probably never be there again. lol
So yeah. as for me. you already know up until Wednesday morning i guess, so tht maks things easier. feels weird having written not so long ago. anyways. this week, things started shaping up. we´ve been talking to lots of people, and we´re starting to build up our investigator pool. starting to find people that we can actually teach. that makes things a lot nicer, easier and effective. rather than running around in circles, we can actually sit down and share with someone. awesome. wednesdy we got to go over the baptismal questions with cleverson. he knew all the answers and really has a solid testimony of all of the points, so thats great. shouldn´t be too many problems there. so that means that this week should be his baptism. he´s been great to work with. really accepting, and willing to do his part. everything you could ever really want from an investigator. and he has great member support, and so that is great too. that afternoon we also got to get 2 member families togther at one of their houses. on one hand, not the most effective missionary thing, but I think it´ll do wonders for ward unity. 2 great young families that are now better aquainted and ready to make form eternal friendships. reminded me of a lot of good family friendships back at home, formed because of the unifying power of the gospel. Awesome.
Okay. now i just lost 5 minutes because the zone leaders had a silly question about a baptismal goal. Oh well. more hurring i guess. anyways, we worked hard throughout the week. thursday was nice. the only sad part was when this one lady never showed up for her visit. we had to plan it in another place because her family doesn´t like us, but she knows that the book of mormon is true. sadly she never came. but we wont lose hope. got to help out a future missionary though. thats one of the great things about this ward - there are a lot of kids getting ready to go on missions. they are always fun to help out.
friday was like a little christmas at the house. they send out stuff to our house evey 2 weeks from the office by courier. this week i hit the jackpot. not only did i get some great letters, but I also got tons of reimbursment money, 5 new pairs of garments (that were desperately needed), AND a bunch of the stuff I had been missing. i had talked to the Hermana about the stuff I had missed the other week and she gave me some bad news. she had found the bag, asumed that it had been left over by some retired elders and asumed it was good for regifting. so.... a lot of my stuff got lost in that way. realistically though, I think a lot of it went to people that need it a lot more than me, and so realistically i´m not all that sad. thankfully i don´t have toooo much time left on my mission, and so i was planning on giving a lot of it away anyways. but, I got a lot of it back, adn a lot of it that she gave away she replaced with other stuff for the time being. i´m mostly just glad that i have my pillow and towel back. your neck starts to hurt if you sleep without a pillow, and its not really that much fun toweling off with a tshirt. haha. anyways, hopefully your not mad about me losing my stuff. i was actually glad to hear that my jeans are being warn by a cold indian, and that my nice big jacket will keep a cold freezing paraguayan missionary warm throughout the coming winter. hope thats not bad. as for me, i´ll survive. :) As for the rest of friday, it went swell. i think we´ve been doing better relying on the Lord for help and putting our hearts into the work. we basically spent the whole day in lessons, with an especially nice one at the end with a member family and their neighbor.
Saturday we got ready as usual and made the half our treck to La Paloma to watch general conference. it started at one here and the bus left town at 12. worked out nicely. not many members, but that was alright because the power was out and we missed all of the morning session. :( Oh well. It came back on for the rest of them. I really enjoyed the church news and the bible history documentary before it started. the church is awesome. spent the next day and a half basically living off of cheap cookies, plasticy candy and a 3.3 litre bottle of soda. Yum... lol. Conference was great and I loved every minute of it. my favorite talks being by elder scott, pres uchtdorf (priesthood) and M. Russell Ballard. any new temples on the way by the way? learned tons. no time to elaborate though. sorry. just watch it!
this week is going to be a little crasy. its holy week leading up to easter so most people wont be working and we´ll probably get offered lots of traditional paraguayan food. this week we also followed presidents council and made lists of habits to break that disinvite the spirit. that was great. now we have a 40 day challenge to leave all of those things behind. should be trick but worth it. some things are hard to quit, so a lot of them will be purged off during the weeks i think, as i have so far failed in many of them. lol. we´re tryin though and thats what counts.
bY the way.... HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERICA! HAVE A GOOD ONE. TO UNCLE KEN ALSO. STAY YOUNG AND CLASSY.
thats about all i got time for. this week we tried to do service, and instead wasted most of the day sitting, and about 15 minutes working. oh well. its the thought that counts.
thanks for eveything. hope the week continues great. the only bad thing about conference was that rather than talking much about missionary work, they seemed to talk more about families and spending time together. not what i needed to hear... lol. oh well. just let you know that i miss you all tons and am super excited to be together again. however, im also going to stay focused as i get this awesome opportunity to take part in the best work in the world. love you tons! have a good one!
Elder Humphreys
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