This week is to make up for the past two, so let's get started shall we?
I'm going to start with P-day fun.
Two weeks ago was 4th of July, and you guys already heard about that and will finaly get to see pictures! Yay! Elder Gallegos was the guest star!
Last week was the birthday of Hna. Minks who's in our Ward and just turned 21! Yay!!!! It was great because Elder Gallegos came again! Yes! It's so good to see him. I realized that we came to be really good friends and there's really nothing quite like training to bind two people together (I send a shout out to my recently deceased Elder Yauney. Rest In Laziness until school begins my friendly Kaiguei).
In any case, it was fun and we were able to take lots of good pictures. When in the store looking for fun party articles, we found that Paraguayan supermarkets get super, super random. Including having clown noses. Expect to see those come back for the rest of my mission. The best part of it all is one of the Elders there was Elder Bonzo. I feel like we helped him get in touch with the missionary he was always meant to be.
This P-day we just did business. So, not terribly much.
The work! It's been rough these weeks. A lot of people falling through and a lot of disappointments on all sides, but we push on. I think we need to work this week on talking to everyone all the time and not just when plans fall through and working on having better, set plans, because we just had a lot of empty days where we set plans that aren't actually any appointments, and because of that, more appointments fall, and we just go house to house for lack of something better to do. We're resolving that slowyly but surely and I'd definitely say that each week has shown improvement in one way or another. This week that improvement was definitely in our companionship. We grew much closer together and stronger. Also, on a totally non-mission related note, I improved my cooking skills quite a bit this week. However, if anyone has any additional instructions about how to make a good risotto, I'm all ears, because I'm pretty sure you don't just do what I did (throw rice in a pan, then water, and when the water's gone, milk, add flavors and cheese and all of that). I didn't even get the rice all the way cooked. :(
But, there were plenty of other successes.
I have to tell everyone about Hipólito Oviedo, because a blessing disguised heavily as a serious medical emergency gave him more time to see us this week. Though he lives thirty minutes away from the nearest useful thing to do, I love going out to visit him because he's been so prepared to receive us. He was in the hospital on Thursday and had a rough weekend, but we helped him through and he's starting to do better. He also was able to get his glasses repaired today so he'll finally be able to read the Book of Mormon! Yes! This man is amazing and he's suffered so much. His wife left him and he's had to repent of a lot of things, but now he's made some changes and wants to make so many more. God sent us out one day to a far off place that made little sense to go to find him, but he was there waiting for us, and we've been able to strengthen him since then. You will hear more about him!
Other things:
This week, you will all read of the baptism of the Sister's investigator, Carlos Figueredo, who has won a really difficult battle against a smoking addiction and alcohol to come to this moment. He's getting baptized this Saturday.
We've also been working to prepare a Fireside for all families about Eternal Families this Friday in which we can get some new investigators. That should go wonderfully.
I hope you all have a wonderful week and do wonderful things! Enjoy a flurry of pictures!
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