Hola everybody. Glad to hear that things went pretty good this week. We had a pretty normal week here in San Pedro. The news on changes came Monday night and... we're staying. Tranquilo. That means that we'll probably have about 9 (now 8) more weeks together, as Elder Chatelain will be heading home a little early a change and a half from now. So thats that. Good thing we get along. The only real problem that that brought was that it meant that we didn't have to go into the office for changes. Which meant that I didn't get to pick up all my reimbursals (not sure if thats a real word...lol. Like money back for all the buses I had to pay for out of my own pocket). And that meant that being the end of the month and having spent all that money on buses and stuff... I pretty much didn't have any money for the whole week. Me and Elder Chatelain even considered not writing home this week just to save the money that we're spending to use internet right now. haha. Jks. But yeah. I had to spend what money I had SUPER wisely. Basically that means that I ate a lot when the members offered us food, and then ate a lot of cheese+bread sandwiches, and oatmeal pretty much every day for 2 or 3 meals a day. Not the healthiest thing you could eat, but thats what multivitamins are for right? haha. And I had some snack food like easy-cheese, smores and popcorn that somebody sent just at the right time. THANK YOU MYSYK FAMILY! haha. But yeah. Kind of a disaster of food and money, but somehow I think we'll make it till tomorrow when we SHOULD (crossing our fingers so we dont get stranded 4 hours away at district meeting) have our next months money to take out. I guess I could take out some money on my debit card or something, but then when the money shows up I'll be too rich and just waste it all. I think this will hopefully just train me better for next month when hopefully we can spend what we have a little wiser. lol.
But yeah. That was basically the highlight of the week. Rough stuff. Sounds like the week back home went alright. Sounds like a crasy lot of driving though. 10 hours... haven't done that since the time we road triped out to Toronto. Hopefully the girls are better trained now and didn't cry the whole way there like last time. haha. Glad to hear that nobody had an accident quading or anything either. lol. What else. Membership clerk. Legit. We could really use more of those in this country. I don't know if its the same back home, but records like that are kind of a disaster. I'm happy to hear that your keepin up the racketball because I'm going to need people to do fun stuff with like that when I get home, because the jumping jacks and pushups just aren't cutting it. And its no fun to get fat. Also crasy to hear that everybodies just trippin off to Ireland. Lucky. lol. Sounded like Sunday School was really good though. I'm sad that I missed it. Oh well. Even just sunday school in general I miss too though. Sunday school here is lame. The teacher doesn't know what he's doing and he often says the same things over and over because he still doesn't have enough words in his vocabulary. And he's teaching stuff he's just barely learning himself. Yeah, thats me. This week it was my turn to teach. We're just finishing up the Principles of the Gospel book, so I had to speak on Exaltation. Pretty deep stuff to try and teach to all new members, including people who were coming to church for their first time. Oh well. I think it went not too bad, and its helping me teach and do stuff better so its good.
Besides that... we had a good week. Not tonnes to report. Its starting to get pretty chilly at times. The thing that I noticed that makes the biggest difference is that here theres no such thing as a furnace or internal heating. So if it gets down to 5 degrees outside, it wouldn't be as big of a deal, except that it means that its only 5 degrees when you roll out of bed. Reminds me of camping. Good stuff. We got some big blankets, hoodies and long underwear so we're all good. lol. Apparently it'll keep getting cooler until July though, so we'll see what happens. I think everybodys just a little sissy, but we'll see if even the Canadian gets cold.
Had a disaster at the restaurant where I spent the last of my money for lunch. The hot sauce kind of exploded when I was strugling to get it out of the bottle. No good. Then even after I cleaned it up, my eye itched and I forgot that I still hadn't washed my hands yet... but it all turned out good because when my eye started to burn and I kinda teared up I think the waiter guy had some pity and he replaced the food that I had soaked with hotsauce free of charge. Nice guy.
Sunday was probably the highlight of the week. We had a pretty good turn out for the second week in a row. Had some good investigators finally come to church and they liked it. Set them up with some baptismal dates, so hopefully we'll have a couple more baptisms in a week or two. Yeah!
I've also been really enjoying my studies lately. I'm just about to finish reading Preach My Gospel cover to cover after President challenged us all to read it in 3 months. Good stuff. Finding all sorts of parts that I've never noticed before. Also reading a lot in the book of Mormon and enjoying that. I've really liked the part on Nephi and Lehi in the book of Helaman. Super good and underrated missionaries. Now I'm in 3 Nephi and reading all about the teachings of Christ. Great stuff.
But yeah. Things are going well. Loving life here in San Pedro. Even when it gets lonely. Tryin our best to work hard and do what we can, even when my comp gets a little trunky or the members make me want to cry by pumping the Taylor Swift music so loud that I can hear it even with my ears plugged. haha. Sharing the gospel is great. The Lord is really blessing us and we're having a great time sharing the gospel and seeing it bless peoples lives. Being a missionary is great!
But thats all for another week in Paraguay. Gotta run. Love you lots and keep doing whats right and sharing the gospel!
Love,
Elder Humphreys
PS Happy Birthday to Theo. Wherever you are....
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