Hola Familia, Okay it took me like 20 minutes to try and figure out how to import my pictures and then attach them on a Spanish computer so I don't have much time. But I learned so much this week!
I got my first rainstorm and got soaked, we were out in the middle of it, and it was so funny to see everybody scurry about and then disappear in a second. Like no way they got to their houses they had to of just found a rock and hid. It is impossible to contact or clap houses in the rain and also during the siesta. I don't know why America does not have a siesta because it sounds amazing! A 3 hour nap in the middle of the day.
This week was really good though because I realized how many people are here that are ready for the gospel they just need somebody to push them a little. Also I am amazed at how many more women there are than men are ready for the gospel. There are not enough good men in the world for all the women! Yesterday we were clapping houses and was told to come in by a women with her children and we asked if a man was home so that we could teach her and she, looked down and looked out back and said he is tomadod or drunk. He walked in at that point and started yelling something in Gaurani that I'm glad i didn't know cause he was angry. He came towards us but didn't do anything he forced us to leave and started yelling at his wife. I know that he beat her cause she already had a bruise on her faced when we came in... its so sad, if they would allow sisters in our area they would dominate, because it's so hard to get a man in the house so we can teach the women. But our area is really dangerous and 6 hours from Asuncion so they don't allow sisters out here! Yesterday I met the most interesting man in the world and he was completely sober! His name was Feli-Cristo, he followed us for 15 minutes and tried to preach to us that he was Christ with a name change and reincarnated and that he was writing another bible called the new order. ha it was so funny, he preached and preached and told us to bow to him. I guess he has already done this to my companion before I got here but it was so funny. He is so sure he Christ, oh and a crazy women at night told me to love her and to marry her!... that's the first time in my life I have been proposed to! But enough about the crazy people! One thing that I have learned on my mission is how Jesus Christ is with us in all we do, and we need to acknowledge him in everything. The moment I think I'm doing pretty good with the language I'm humbled so fast before I can say si, and then after I have been humbled he lifts me and helps me!
I was not happy yesterday cause i couldn't respond to a women and my companion was doing something and she was a member and getting frustrated... i knew for a fact I would never learn castiano and then that night my companion made me teach a quick lesson to a family that has been inactive for 15 years and I was given the gift of tongues to teach a 15 minute lesson on the spirit and they committed to go to church. In the mission we don't do anything, Christ does! There is a lot of activation work going on in Paraguay right now which is really hard, but I think that the branch will improve. Out here Satan tempts and throws more trials at the members then anything I have ever heard, and it's amazing how strong a testimony of new convert is. My comp and I are teaching a 14 year old girl and every time we walk in the door she tells us where she wants to serve her mission and that she is going to get married in the temple and she isn't even baptized yet.
I'm not sure the order of the pictures but one is food that I left out for 10 minutes to go change and came back and that's the amount of ants that can come in that short of time. Another is our district, and the other is the black-market after a rain storm, everything closed down and disappeared, another is my sweat tan lines already, and I think the last one is my area! Our area is huge!!!!! We like to work out in the Attapas which is a 1 and a half hour walk out and 1 hour and a half back in 110 degree weather. We can't get to about half of our area cause it is so big and we don't have enough time!
Oh and hey my taste buds have changed mother! I love the food here it is so good, I love chipa (the bread Devin tried to make but not as salty) and its just all good. I'm afraid that I'm going to get fat cause of the amount I am eating, every single house we go to, even though they don't own a house and are living under a tarp or only have one bed and nothing else, somehow they get something together to give the missionaries! They are so kind and give everything they have, I drink a lot of soda. The flavors here are so much better than North America! ha. I stepped on a scale at a store because I was curious and it said 91 kilos which is about 200 pounds! I flipped out and then found out it was way off so I still have no idea what I weigh but I look skinny and black!
President challenged us to read the BofM. cover to cover in Spanish and mark every teachings, words, names, spirit of Christ. It is amazing, the introduction is so powerful, we use that in lessons over Moroni 10:4 but it is a little chuchi for the people to read. I get scared to ask the investigators to read because there are so many people that cant or are slow and they still try to read the parts that we assigning them! When you have nothing you find your love for Christ and that is how these people are, they are so kind and loving, we have been rejected probably only 10 times out of every door clap and contact on the street since I have been here. They just can't say no to anybody! and Devin was right the hamburgers here....!!! amazing with eggs and they are like 50 cents. I don't have much time caused I gotta write president but I love you family, you're the best Elder Shaw
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