Hello. Hows everybody.
We had a really good week. Hopefully this week the keyboard can keep up with everythng that I want to say....
Glad that your trip is going great. Don´t ¨die¨ early! thats what they always have to remind Elders once they start getting old like I am...lol. No worries here, because I just have more desires to work knowing that I have little time left. Too bad its not the same for everyone. But I´m glad your all safe and having fun wracking up the memories.
Anyways, as I said, the week went great. Monday was pretty normal. Had that service activity that took up most of the day. Good, but normal. Tuesday... also normalish. I taught district meeting again and talked about working with the members and helping them to realize the improtance that they have in the work and how we can help them know what we need and expect from them so that we can better work in unity. Something good to remember for after the mission. As for the day of work... not the easiest. We walked a lot and didn´t really see much success. Oh well. Thats how it goes some days. The highlight was at the very end. It was one of those moments where it was late and dark, but rather than give up a little early being already near the house, we went for one last visit, and were able to get a really good lesson in with a new investigator. Hard work pays off.
Wednesday was interesting. We got a decent amount of work done. This week we tried to visit our investigator Cleverson every day to make sure that nothing kept him from getting baptized. It was kind of funny though because he knew everything so well that we just started to run out of things to teach him. Just verify if he had any questions. Answer them. Make sure that there wasn´t anything wrong. good to go. Had an interesting lesson with one guy. He is one of those people that just speaks a lot of Guarani, and although he usually understands what you say, its kind of tricky to get him to open up or really get excited about the gospel. So we just had a little time to share and I gave him a list of Questions of the Soul that are answered in the book of Mormon. Well, I´ll give the spirit all the credit on that one. Not sure if we´ll see lots of fruits come from it or not, but it was just cool to see him open up and express all of these questions that he has about life. Hopefully it will help him get more excited to read the book of mormon and such, even though it will be tricky for him to understand it (the Libro de Mormon is written in pretty fancy spanish that is really hard for the majority of Paraguayans to understand. We are a much more simple people. :) For service in the morning, we helped re-build a ¨Tatacua¨ which is basically a little mud igloo that they use as a oldschool oven. You build a fire inside and then after the wood is all burned out, this igloo thing is really hot and you can put food in it and cook it. Everybody was using it this week to make the traditional ¨Chipa¨ for easter week. We ate TONS of chipa. Its too bad because I no longer like it as much as I used to. lol. So we did the service in the morning and then watched it get made at a different house in the afternoon. Cool stuff. We also got news that we can live in a group of 4 anymore so that means that it looks like we´ll be moving. More news on that in the future.
Thursday we had some crasy winds, and a cool light storm in the distance. It was a disaster because it hadn´t rained in forever so I felt like we were on Tatooine. Had a big Easter lunch at a members house. good stuff. Also spent a good amount of time talking to a REALLY drunk member from another area before he knocked his bike over, broke of the brake lever, and then still decided to drive away on his motorbike at full speed to go on an half hour long trip back to his house. Hopefully he made it all right.... he said that he wanted ME to visit him and nobody else. He also gave me a great big hug before he left and got his hair all up in my face.... poor guy.
Friday the highlight was definately in the morning. The evening was interesting too though. We met up with the nearest leader to our area (a district leader that lives 30 away by taxi in a completely other town), and we went to Cleversons house. He passed the interview. And not only did he pass it, but blew Elder Richins away with how good his anwers and testimony were. Awesome. Ready for baptism. He also made the final decision of who was going to baptize him. We were etstatic to hear that he chose his friend who is a recent convert of 2 months and introduced him to the missionaries. We were a little afraid that he might pick one of us, but we knew that it would be way cooler if his friend did it. As for the rest of the day... the distant storms continued to the point were the power in the whole town went out. And I mean OUT. No street lights or anything. It was crasy. Fortunately there is a little light on the top of our cell phone or it would have been worse. lol. Fortunately we were able to go back to Cleversons and fill out his baptismal record by cell phone light. Good stuff.
Saturday was a little bit of a disaster, but a great one. We spent the morning cleaning the church. The other 2 elders had another service to do, so that left me and Elder Wheatley to clean the whole thing on our own. Fortunately it didn´t take too long. Then we did lunch, studies, and invited a couple people to the baptism. Didn´t teach a single good lesson. Then we went and taught Fernando how to baptize. I told him to bring his white shirt to the baptism, but apparently he forgot. We got to the church, made a cake (which was sad because we were fasting), and then people started showing up. Great turn out. A good number of members, and 7 investigators. Crasy. The coolest part being that we didn´t know any of them. They are all Cleversons friends. we´´re going to get to know them better this week. Things went well. Didn´t get as many pics as I´d like but oh well. Sorry, I forgot my camera, but hopefully you can find the ones that they posted on FB? I´ll send some next week. Anyways, the only rough part was when we realized that fernando didn´t have a white shirt for the baptism. So in a small moment of panic, I lent him my sweaty one and wore his t-shirt. haha. Oh well. The baptism was great. You could really feel the spirit, and Fernando and cleverson both loved it. I had to put on a slightly wet shirt at the end, but it was totally worth it. Awesome feeling.
Got a good sleep with the hour change. Now w´´re back close. Cleverson got confirmed on sunday. Great day at church. Had another great lunch visit. Today we had early district meeting, and then got to have a BBQ at our house. Good stuff.
Anyways, I gotta run. Love you all! The church is true. Find your friends and invite them to church. You´ll be glad you did! Love ya! CHAU!
Elder Humphreys
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