Hola Familia
Okay so on change weeks we have Pday on Thursday and then again on Monday so that's why I didn't email. This last week and a half was awesome, we found a lot of investigator but struggled a little bit at getting people to church. Thanks for the pictures! Those are awesome, I'm sorry I haven't sent many pictures. My camera is hard to hook up to the computer so I'm waiting to see what kind of chip you sent so I can buy an adapter here and then it will be easier. It's so weird that it's already the 10th of February! Time flies here but at the same time it can be so slow my sense of time is warped like crazy! We had changes this week and our entire district didn't change. I have the same companion and place which is really good cause he is a good teacher and I'm learning a lot from watching him. Everybody is the same so I think we are making hoodies this Pday that are custom made and it will only cost like 10 dollars. I love that about this place. For the last 4 days it has rained so hard, I always end up soaking and it's so much fun but it really isn't good for the work. It's also really hard to get a picture of the crazy rain storms because I don't want to carry my camera with me for fear of getting robbed or rained on. Sunday we struggled with attendance and only had 13 people which was really awkward usually we have like 30 and the Branch President was out of town and he doesn't have any counselors so we did everything! I have played the piano for the last 3 weeks. I slaughtered one last week! It was hilarious. This last week the funniest thing happened, I laughed all the way to our next appointment. There were massive puddles outside from rain yesterday and we were walking on the side walk and people were driving in the street and there was a motorcycle with 3 teenagers on it who thought it would be funny to splash the Mormons. So they swerved to hit a massive poodle next to us and I was closer to the road and it engulfed me like a wave and I was soaked in mud because it was mostly muddy water. They didn't think through the whole situation and hydroplaned on their motorcycle. I was walking and laughing at the fact that I was soaked because it felt really good. It was so hot I wasn't mad. The best part is they hydroplaned and fell into a bigger puddle. I feel bad for laughing so hard but I think that was a way for the lord giving them some karma. They fell and they all flew into the puddle and were so wet but not hurt.
Also this last week me and my companion found a family and set a cita with them to come back the next day. When we returned it was pouring a windy and they still answered the door which was a miracle. They let us in and we taught 5 people all teenagers expect the mom and we taught them by the light of a candle on the table cause the storm had knocked out the electricity. It was so cool! We taught the whole lesson one and got to the Book of Mormon and the 18 year old kid said, "I have always wondered that, why Christ would only help the people in Jerusalem and not here in the Americas' because I know there were people here because we are their descendants." It was amazing they were so interested, and then the best part is we got to teaching them how to pray and the wife interrupted us and said, "Elders I have been taught this before (she is a Guaraní teacher) I talked with a tribe of Guaraní and they told me that I was praying wrong and that we can talk with God directly and not through priests, they said that their ancestors were taught this way to pray by God himself." She actually met some direct descendants from that time and she said I know this is true because of my encounter with them. It's hard to describe in an email but it was so cool and we are going back tonight to set fecha (baptism date) we will see what happens
A great week with finding investigators. It was a answer to our fast because the day before we fasted to find more families.
I feel like the language is coming along fine. I can understand and I know most all the words people use but now it is the problem of forming them together to make sense in my brain fast enough which is difficult.
I hope everything is going really well, and I pray for you every day, I actually pray like 50 times a day but you're in at least a couple.
I love you
Elder Shaw
Okay so on change weeks we have Pday on Thursday and then again on Monday so that's why I didn't email. This last week and a half was awesome, we found a lot of investigator but struggled a little bit at getting people to church. Thanks for the pictures! Those are awesome, I'm sorry I haven't sent many pictures. My camera is hard to hook up to the computer so I'm waiting to see what kind of chip you sent so I can buy an adapter here and then it will be easier. It's so weird that it's already the 10th of February! Time flies here but at the same time it can be so slow my sense of time is warped like crazy! We had changes this week and our entire district didn't change. I have the same companion and place which is really good cause he is a good teacher and I'm learning a lot from watching him. Everybody is the same so I think we are making hoodies this Pday that are custom made and it will only cost like 10 dollars. I love that about this place. For the last 4 days it has rained so hard, I always end up soaking and it's so much fun but it really isn't good for the work. It's also really hard to get a picture of the crazy rain storms because I don't want to carry my camera with me for fear of getting robbed or rained on. Sunday we struggled with attendance and only had 13 people which was really awkward usually we have like 30 and the Branch President was out of town and he doesn't have any counselors so we did everything! I have played the piano for the last 3 weeks. I slaughtered one last week! It was hilarious. This last week the funniest thing happened, I laughed all the way to our next appointment. There were massive puddles outside from rain yesterday and we were walking on the side walk and people were driving in the street and there was a motorcycle with 3 teenagers on it who thought it would be funny to splash the Mormons. So they swerved to hit a massive poodle next to us and I was closer to the road and it engulfed me like a wave and I was soaked in mud because it was mostly muddy water. They didn't think through the whole situation and hydroplaned on their motorcycle. I was walking and laughing at the fact that I was soaked because it felt really good. It was so hot I wasn't mad. The best part is they hydroplaned and fell into a bigger puddle. I feel bad for laughing so hard but I think that was a way for the lord giving them some karma. They fell and they all flew into the puddle and were so wet but not hurt.
Also this last week me and my companion found a family and set a cita with them to come back the next day. When we returned it was pouring a windy and they still answered the door which was a miracle. They let us in and we taught 5 people all teenagers expect the mom and we taught them by the light of a candle on the table cause the storm had knocked out the electricity. It was so cool! We taught the whole lesson one and got to the Book of Mormon and the 18 year old kid said, "I have always wondered that, why Christ would only help the people in Jerusalem and not here in the Americas' because I know there were people here because we are their descendants." It was amazing they were so interested, and then the best part is we got to teaching them how to pray and the wife interrupted us and said, "Elders I have been taught this before (she is a Guaraní teacher) I talked with a tribe of Guaraní and they told me that I was praying wrong and that we can talk with God directly and not through priests, they said that their ancestors were taught this way to pray by God himself." She actually met some direct descendants from that time and she said I know this is true because of my encounter with them. It's hard to describe in an email but it was so cool and we are going back tonight to set fecha (baptism date) we will see what happens
A great week with finding investigators. It was a answer to our fast because the day before we fasted to find more families.
I feel like the language is coming along fine. I can understand and I know most all the words people use but now it is the problem of forming them together to make sense in my brain fast enough which is difficult.
I hope everything is going really well, and I pray for you every day, I actually pray like 50 times a day but you're in at least a couple.
I love you
Elder Shaw
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