Well we had a good week once again! I'll just get right to it. We started off with District Meeting, which is always a good learning experience. We had a good lesson on diligence. One of the scriptures used was one of my favorites: Doctrine and Covenants 107: 99-100.
Tuesday the Elders from Neuland both came to Loma Plata,and we had a division. I went with Elder Brunson for the day. He has about 6 months here in Paraguay, speaks good Spanish, and is from Idaho. The rest of the week Elder Castellaw and I just continued with the work. We were able to set a few new baptismal dates and were in double digits for new investigators again! Here are a couple things that happened this week:
(1) We had a service project cleaning up a yard and had to fend off the scorpions. We ended up killing 18!
(2) We walked to a community where everyone says our bike thief probably lives, which is an estimated 7 or so km. We didn't find a bike, but the community's police are looking for it and it got announced on the radio. A blessing came and we got a ride back to town
(3) Summer is ending! We had a couple days where we almost had to use sweaters!
(4) We found out that your day goes a lot better when you cook breakfast. We've been eating pancakes every day, with fruit (and carrot and cucumber) smoothies. They taste surprisingly well and honestly eating healthy food just makes you feel... healthier! hahaha
(5) We have Zone Conference this week, so we had to take a colectivo yesterday that left from Filadelfia. As such, we were supposed to take a colectivo from Loma to get to Filadelfia, but our bus came and left an hour early... so we had to take a different one and wait in Abundancia instead. Elder Castellaw is getting to know the whole Chaco really fast!
(6) Elder Castellaw had the idea to make a calendar with the attributes of Christ (you can find them in Preach my Gospel chapter 6) for the change,and we have been focusing on 1 attribute every day. Today's attribute is patience. That has been a theme I've seen come up time and time again on my mission. We all need to remember, that the Lord does what He wants on His own time, and He knows what's best for us! As missionaries we sometimes want success and to see the fruits of our labors right now, but God will do what He wants when He wants. We are currently working our hardest, and having fun. as one Mission President said, we should be tired, happy missionaries. And we are!
Today we are in Asuncion, for a Zone Conference tomorrow. It's always awesome seeing all the missionaries from my old areas, and learning about what new wisdom Pte Evans is going to give us this week! Thank you all for the prayers, emails, and again, pictures! 1 picture is worth 1000 words!
Pictures:
1 With Fm Colman, our member family: they don't even live here... but they always come from Abundancia for church!
2 Our cheap cherry punch looks just like the hand sanitizer.
3 We're always visiting.
4 And with Elder Castellaw.
5 At service for Esteban's family! His mom is a member, and he wants to get baptized soon!
6 We cleaned up the yard in the back.
7 It got a little chilly.
8 Kitchen creations: fruit smoothies and coconut syrup.
9 At the airport.
10 We went looking for the bike.
11 Hitching a ride home.
12 Sign pointing to a store......
13 ... but there never was a store there.
14 Filadelfia sunrise.
15 Dream team.
16 Welcome to the Chaco!
17 We found a lake in our area! It's called a taja mar; they make them to store water, like a reservoir.
18 Broken luggage wheels (it's like a rite of passage into the Chaco).
19 We found a door in our house, so we just use it as a table since we don't have one.
20 Go look at my email from last Christmas's Zone Conference!
21 Walking to Abundancia late last week during changes.
22 Throwback to Christmas conference... who would have known!
23 When someone gave us a ride.
24 Running for exercise at 6:30 a.m.
25 I promise I didn't drink all that! hahhaa
Well that's it. The ciber we went to had lightning fast internet! I hope y'all like the pictures! Have a great week, I love you all!
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