Wow! Well I have been waiting about 6 months to write this email, but finally the chapel repairs have begun! For those ever caught 6 months without a roof on your church, it's nice to get a new one. That was one for the highlights, as well as a baptism! Our investigator, Arnildo, got baptized. His uncle is Nicacio, who baptized him! Elder McEwan and I had to do a major clean-up job of the chapel before the baptism due to the workers making a mess, but in the end the baptism happened, and Arnildo was super excited. Even though he is only 11 he knows a lot of the principles we have taught him better that I did when I was that age! Our District Leader couldn't believe his ears when he heard Arnildo's answers in his baptismal interview. Smart kid! He will turn 12 in about a month or 2 and is already prepping to be a Deacon. On Thursday/Friday we had a division for the interview and I was in Neuland with Elder Hermansen (District leader). We had a good day, as he served in Neuland last year, and we've been in the same District for 5 changes (over 6 months!). There was a lot to talk about. Saturday we cleaned up the church and had Arnildo's baptism. Only a few people came, but the spirit was strong. Elder McEwan and I made some sugar cookies for the event. He makes perfectly circular cookie balls! We also had a cool lesson teaching a huge family and after teaching about the Restoration, they asked us to give a couple of people blessings. One was a little kid called Marcos that we felt impressed to bless him that he'd be a missionary and have the priesthood some day (nobody in the house is a member...yet). Elder McEwan and I got pizza to celebrate the good week in Neuland. Church went well; we had 4 investigators come. We got to teach someone about the pride cycle after church; that was the first time Elder McEwan or I had ever taught it! Other than that, I don't have any time to write more, but all is well, Elder McEwan and I are having a good time, and hoping to have a lot of success this week too! I hope y'all have a good week! I love you all!
Pictures:
1 Making some shish kabobs.
2 We eat a LOT of bananas.
3 How we pour water in Paraguay. Water from the tap is not safe in the Chaco.
4 Making peach, mburucuya (passionfruit?) and banana smoothies.
5 More kitchen creations.
6 It was Elder Hermanse'ns birthday and he had left a bottle of pepper and one of lemon pepper in our house, so we put them in a stocking and gave them to him when we went to start our division.
7 We got dumped on (rain).
8 Look at that new roof!
9 Elder McEwan was reading his hand towel's tag and it said not to use bleach (in Spanish), but he misunderstood and thought it said don't use as blanket. I had to prove him wrong hahaha!
10 Getting attacked by children.
11 Arnildo's baptism!
12 Two great guys!
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