One whole month in Paraguay! Wow. I`ve been in this beautiful country for a whole month tomorrow! Can you believe it?? It`s been such a good time though. I love it here so much. So this week was really good and super spiritual for me.
So we`ve just been working really good with some of our investigators all week and things have been going along smoothly. So there is this family (Familia Portillo) and they are members. Hno. Portillo has this brother though, named Jorge, who is not a member, but has come to live with them. He has a wife (not really though, because no one in Paraguay is actually married) named Angela, and four kids. We have been working with them since like the first day that I got here and I have gotten to know them so well. I love them and their kids are just like the cutest things ever. Also, they speak a lot of Guarani, so it`s nice to have his brother there to help his understand everything if they don`t quite understand. (BTW-Guarani is SUPER weird sounding! It sould so hard to learn! I only know how to say `a little` which is `mishimi`--I think that`s how you spell it.) So they are totally like preparing to be baptized and stuff and we`ve just seen this whole change come over them and stuff. Then, we find out that they are moving back to where they were before because he thinks he will be able to find work better there (Paraguayans and their trabajo..... It`s super important to them... As it should be I guess... ; ) ) So they are leaving! It makes me so sad, but we are going to try to see if they can or still want to get baptized before they leave... It`s a little bit confusing, but I was just way sad cuz I love them!
Then, we have this less active girl named Jenny. Her whole family are members, but they have just been a little bit less active lately, so we went to talk with her. She`s like 16 years old and has kind of been going through a rough time lately... So we shared Moses 1 with her about the part where Moses says `get thee hence, Satan` and it was really good! The spirit was just SUPER strong then! It was such a cool experience. She really got something out of it, too. I could tell. And it`s cool, cuz it was totally inspiration that I received to share that with her! Wow it was just so awesome. Moments like those.... Are just the greatest. Plus I just love her so much. She is just the cutest and she totally dyed her hair purple... It`s so cool. And she is in LOVE with my eyes (lots of people here are... They always say `Que linda su ojos!` or `Ojos azules!`--it`s really funny). So it`s relaly great that she is progressing. She came to church this Sunday, so we were so happy!
Everything else is going really good too. I had a super good Sunday yesterday. The classes that we had were just so great! And I understood all of it, for the most part. I just really felt the spirit. (I say that a lot... But, it`s so true!) And since it was Fast Sunday, everyone got up and bore their testimonies... Super cool. And I honestly felt like this Sunday I felt the most comfortable with everyone! Like I was just talking to everyone and trying to respond and it was all just really good! I honestly love the people so much.... I have just become friends with tons of people. Honestly, one of the hardest parts about having to learn Spanish is that sometimes I feel like my personality doesn`t show to people because a lot of the times I don`t know how to say what I want to say and stuff.... But, the more and more I try to just talk and understand.... The easier it gets! Haha I have been able to be myself and say funny things sometimes and just really relate to the people! It`s just super cool to me. Also, we taught a lesson to a new investigator we have yesterday and I said A TON in the lesson. It was seriously so awesome. I just was really calm and just said what the spirit told me to say. Sounds crazy, but it`s true!
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