The Second Week

Hello Everyone!

This week has been interesting. I'm not going to lie, the only problems this week were me and a frustrated stutter-stop growth of our investigators, less-actives, and new converts. The only person in church was Mario Alum, who is a young man investigator from the asentamiento (poor part). So, yesterday was a pretty big disappointment. We weren't able to meet as often with Hno. Benitez, and I think that it's because of that that they weren't quite able to get up and come to church, but we'll find out. The Hna. Benitez's mother is living with them and has alzheimers and can't really walk, so I think that's going to be the problem. Pray that they may be able to find a solution or someone to care for her while they go to church this Sunday!

I was an obstacle to progress because I just got distracted this week and it wasn't the best. But, I have been able to regain much of my focus and feel a lot better in these last couple of days. As well, the lack of focus didn't kill us. We were still able to get a better number of lessons this week than in any of my previous weeks here in Capiatá, and we were able to help some people progress. The cool thing about a good number of the people with whom we're working right now is that they're reading and praying, which is totally important. We found a sister this week and came back for a return appointment on Friday and she told us she had prayed and asked specifically if Joseph Smith were a Prophet and she just straight up said that she had felt from the Holy Ghost that peace and joy in her heart and that she really felt like God had told her that this was the true church. Wow. That's amazing. But, like a lamewad, I just focused on the fact that her husband is really catholic and can only meet with us on Saturdays (we couldn't come by last Saturday) and she really doesn't think he'll be interested in participating. So, that's a really solid potential baptism, but we're going to REALLY work with her husband because there are TOO MANY families here that have just the mom and the kids, or even just the mom.

Hipólito wasn't home.

And among other things the phone has lost all minutes, and so we've not been able to make any calls to anyone other than missionaries this week! How crazy is that? We should've gotten more minutes for the phone a long while ago, but it just hasn't been coming and they don't know why.... We'll see what happens.

The Ughelli-Ayala family has been doing well and the Hermano Ughelli has been reading a ton in the Book of Mormon. They're really interested. We're hoping to see them more this week and hopefully there won't be any of those frustrating interruptions that have frequented our visits with them.

The bigger district is super interesting during district meetings and I really enjoy the additional participation. It's pretty different from what was going on before, but it's a good district. However, we're struggling to get investigators to stick, and so we're setting goals of baptismal dates, which will help us really be able to baptize some people. On the whole, we're growing and the work continues, and I'm happy for these missionaries. We do our best.

I love you all! Let me know if there is aught I might do for any of you.

Love,

Elder Harris

Pictures!

Oreo Sunday!

Also, for lunch yesterday, we had to cook. I feel like giving a couple of strapping young lads like us money each month and the ability to decide what to cook with what's spent is kinda like giving a child a big wardrobe and letting them decide what to wear. 

The result: Elder Harris' classic pasta with white sauce and home-made fried chicken nuggets.

That's right, be jealous.