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tal estan?? entonces, this week was really, really good!! we have been
seeing miracles every single day! so we had 29 lecciones this week! we
worked our butts off!! i got a pretty nasty sun burn too... sun screen
only works for 80 min when your sweating like a normal human being and
we are sweating like a rented mule... translation... we look disgusting
and smell and sun screen doesn't work... but we still have our
paraguayan admirers wolf whistling at us every 5 min! it's hard being
beautiful isn't it... :) haha. we found a guy that is a vietnam war
veteran and he can't speak a word of spanish and his wife doesn't speak a
word of english... so idk how that one works... but then i remembered
little mermaid and the advice of ursula... "you've got your looks, your
pretty face and dont forget about BODY LANGUAGE HA" hahaha :) it cracked
me up! people here are strange when it comes to health... when we ask
what is the most important thing in your life.. they all answer.. "mi
salud" which is health.. and they eat like rabbits! they just go grab
some weeds on the side of the road and chow down like its the most
delicious substance on the planet! i also saw some magic mud witch
doctor action this week. that was cool too. interesting, yes ;) becuse
of the humidity something awful happened!!! our apartment that has
termites and every other species of insects known to man, had an
eruption of ants!!! we have scrubbed down our apartment and they are
still everywhere! i poured some cereal the other day and guess what came
out.. yup an ARMY of ants! so i picked ants out of every bite of my
froot loops.
okay....so
we have some awesome investigators!!! Norma and her mom sabina and her
girls stefi y feriorela. they are awesome and all want to be baptized so
bad!!! every time we visit they have another question about the day of
their baptism. we are going to get them there! next we have Gladis. she
is 60ish years old and super funny, and makes sure to tell me every
timeout see her, how much work i need on my spanish. but she has huge
problems with her knee and an even worse problem with her ankle. she can
hardly walk. but we got her to church this sunday for the first time!!
:) she loved it!! and si o si she's coming back next week! we are so
excited! now for our little miracle karen. she is 16 and the sweetest
girl EVER!!! she is going to be baptized the 31 of january. when
she received the book of mormon she started to cry. the next lesson she
told us she prayed and received an answer and started crying again when
trying to explain her feelings! she's our amiga! we asked her mom if we
could take her to church and when she said yes, karen litrally did like a
touch down dance!! she came to church, prayed, and bore her testimony
in young women's of how she knows this is the truth! then after, she
told us that she wants to be a missionary some day too! i just keep
imagining her in white, smiling in the baptismal font!!! oh it's going
to be an amazing day!! :) and we are just having faith that it's going
to happen and not having any doubts because one thought can change your
destiny says elder... can't remember. but it's been an amazing week and
we are going to keep working hard! we had a zone conference and the
theme was take the strength of the whole house! significa... we need all
the members!! really it's like in one huge area were 2 girls that are
19 and 20... we need help! one out of every 1000 people contacted
without a member is baptized.... 600 out of 1000 people are baptized
when we contact them with a member! so i know you all have busy lives...
but this is the work of salvation.. it's peoples souls on the line..
and they need your help too! so invite a friend to church, share your
testimony, give names to the missionaries and help them.. and pray for
investigators by name, and pray for opportunities to share the gospel!!
when we all do this, miracles happen! i'm so happy that grandma's
shoulder is healing nicely and that poor grandpa can finally go home. i
miss you all like crazy and love you all! thank you for your prayers and
for everything!! always keep the faith!
Love, Hermana McDougal
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