November 24, 2014 - Week 47

Hermana Whittaker and her companion

Well.. We had a great week. We had  investigators in church... So that was awesome. We really saw a lot of success this week. So, that was awesome. So, this week, we were visiting a member that is a less active. His name is Hugo and he has  daughters--one who is  years old.. He is the member who did like a birthday party for me with that halloween cake. Well, we had a super cool lesson with him where he came to the conclusion..alone..that he needed to come back to church and be an example to his daughters. So, we are like totally helping him out so that he can come back to church. Also, we are preparing his daughter to be baptized He also told us... That he wants to be the person to baptize her. So we are just like super excited for them. And they all came to church yesterday. Him and his two daughters. And the one daughter, Malena, has a baptismal date for Dec 13... Cool right--ugh I would be using like tons of exclamation points, but this computer´s buttons for exclamation and question marks doesn´t work... Just in case you were wondering...

So, that was great. Also, the other two investigators that came to church were family of a recent convert in our area from about a year ago. We are working with her mom and her niece and her sister and her niece and nephew came to church yesterday with us. So, we are pretty excited about that, too. We will keep working with them and we are hoping to put a baptismal date this week, too. 

Flooding from rain in Chloe's backyard!

So, the work has been super good this week. Other things that happened... It rained a TON on Friday. Seriously. It was only for like 30-45 minutes, but it was so much. It was pretty lucky that we were in our house when it hit doing our weekly planning, cuz it was crazy... When it stopped, we went out and there was like this street just full of water. There was like a river flowing from one side of the street to the other and it was just nuts. Completely flooded. I guess it´s just the wrath of God here in Paraguay... More people needa come to church... ;P

So, that was how our awesome week went. This p-day was pretty good, too. We just went to the chapel and cooked some Peruvian food with the elders--cuz my companion cooks and there is also another Peruvian elder in the other area--and it was good. Pretty good food they eat in Peru, I´ll be honest. But, that is like all we did. Pretty chill. Also, we couldn´t do anything too cool cuz first, we don´t have tons of money cuz we are now in the end of the month and second, one of the elders had to go to the hospital in the emergency room last night at like midnight and is like super week. Crazy. So, we just did something chill.

That is about all for this week. We are super excited that we have some people progressing. Seriously. I am like so happy. But, this week should be interesting with Thanksgiving being on Thursday and all... But, it´ll be ok. Next year, right-question mark-

I love you all sooooo much and I hope you have a great Turkey Day. Eat TONS of mashed potatoes and think of me.... LOVE YOU 

Love, Hermana Whittaker