Hola Familia,
como
estan? this week was really good! time just flies by here! i can't
believe that i already have 6 months in the mission. that's a third of
the way done and it's crazy!! so this week not a ton of exciting things
happened. i might be turning into a jungle woman since i killed a lizard
with my bare hand out of instinct ;) haha i've never been more
grateful for a washer and dryer because we have to do all of our clothes
by hand and "ain't nobody got time for that!!!" ;) it's pretty aweful.
so dont take those beautiful machines for granted! we of course have an
ant infestation again! it's a never ending battle... it's like mom and
all the birds that love to poop all over her cute porch! ;) but i will
not give up! we had intercambios on friday
for a day and i was with hermana brown. it was good.. just a regular
day. so we have a crazy ward mission leader here and we had him come
with us 2 times this week and it was horrific!! we probably lost 2
investigators because he literally scared them away.. but thats okay..
maybe they just weren't ready.... so we started our english class this
week and it was super legit and everyone loved it! we are finding new
investigators because of it! we finally found the doubt of maria
magdalena. . . her kids! :( so she is a 45 year old and she is the
cutest, best person i know, and she has such a strong testimony! she
knows that this is true and that she needs to be baptized and that she
wants to join the church... but her children hate us and don't want
anything to do with the church and so she doesn't want them to hate her
and all that jazz. . . it's so frustrating when people let others
control their salvation.... i love the nike motto... just do it!!!!! but
this is where i really have to learn a ton of patience!!! but we have 6
really great people with a baptisimal date! they all need a lot of
prayers! it's amazing how we can win the confidence of kids just by
playing a bottle cap shooting game with them! i always make bets with
them, and from that we get progress! :) it's the best when we see little
kids running up to us screaming hermanas, hermanas and give us huge
hugs! and there's this game called batti. it's a mixture of baseball,
golf, and bowling! it's pretty awesome and the little guys always want
to be on my team cuz i can smack the ball to china! haha i'm gonna bring
it to the states! :) we just play it in the street with old bottles,
sticks, and a crappy tennis ball.... but it's seriously the best!!!
hermana line and i get along great!! we are working really hard! there's
always something that we're laughing about! like the other day when we
got meowed at... yeah, that's right..... meowed at! :) haha......
usually it's wolf whistles, "que linda son" or i love yous... but that
was the first meow we've gotten! haha
i
love this area! but there's so much work to do.. so there's nothing
else to do, but get to work! i did the pencil trick to my companion and
the other two hermanas, I know uncle val, I am sharing the sinister
pencil method here in paraguay ;) haha love you :) so now they all know
how many kids their going to have and its written in all their
journals! :) so that's about it.... we are seeing little miracles all
the time, and just doing all we can with faith! we're hoping for the
baptism of maria magdalena this saturday.. so if y'all can pray for that.. it'd be awesome! :) i love and miss you all!!! Always keep the faith!!!
love, Hermana McDougal
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