March 10, 2014
Hi Family –
So this week has been pretty cool, we did a lot of walking
around. We didn’t get our goals for this
week, but we have five “Goldens” so that is pretty sick. I know that Mom has asked for a more detailed
account of my week, so I have been writing things down on a card so my emails
are a bit more specific. So here’s a
re-cap of my week.
Monday we had P-day and I played Piki Volley (which is like
volleyball, but you play with your chest, legs, feet, and head) and that was
pretty fun although I wasn’t very good at it.
I am used to playing regular volleyball and so my instinct was to go for
the ball with my hands, but after a little while I got better and it was super
fun. After volleyball, we got some food
to eat and that was good. We ended the
night with a “Noche de Hogar” which is Family Home Evening in Spanish – “Night at
Home” which actually doesn’t make sense to me because it doesn’t say “family”
at all, with the Lopez Family and that was a lot of fun. As I was leaving the Lopez Family’s house, they cracked eggs on my head
and threw flour all over me. It was pretty funny! The Lopez Family also made me a birthday
cake, which I wrote “Happy Birthday” in
Guarani on, which was pretty cool!
was pretty funny! The Lopez Family also made me a birthday
cake, which I wrote “Happy Birthday” in
Guarani on, which was pretty cool!
Tuesday: On Sunday we had a family come to Church that we had never talked to before and they weren’t members, so we made an appointment with them for Tuesday. Tuesday’s appointment was so amazing because after we taught them, they asked when they could be baptized. This practically never happens and we are so excited. The family is super into the church, they are “Golden.” They are going to be baptized on April 12th for the wife and two daughters, and we are trying to get the dad ready to be baptized as well so we can complete the household. On Tuesday, we also taught a less-active member, and it was really cool because she is so ready to come back to church..
Wednesday: On Wednesday, we walked a lot. That wasn’t very fun, but we apparently need
to learn diligence, so I guess that is chill.
We did end up talking to one guy and the conversation was easier than it
has been in the past, so my Spanish is definitely coming along. But other than that, it was just a lot and
lot of walking.
Thursday: We had lunch at the Lopez
home, and then walked around a bunch. We
didn’t get that many lessons in this week, so we had to walk a lot and that was
pretty boring. A sad thing, we saw a dog
that had a ton of fleas on it, and it looked like it was about to die, and I
felt super bad because there are a lot of dogs just like this all over the place.
Thursday night was had a Noche de Hogar with the Prietto Family and that was
pretty cool. My companion cooked soup
and apparently they had never had it before. HaHa. But yeah, that was pretty cool. A crazy thing, while we were walking around
on Thursday there was a guy that was having a bowel movement right in the middle
of the street. It was gross, but really,
really funny. It is so different living in a third world country. Other than that, it was just a normal
day. A lot of our lessons have been
falling through, and so we do a lot and walking and I may be losing weight so
that would be cool.
Friday. We walked a whole lot again
with little to no success in trying to get lessons, but it’s all good – I am
getting in shape. We did hit our goals
on Friday, so our week was 1/5. While
out, we stopped by a member’s house, and it was her grandpa’s birthday so they
were having a meal for him, and her husband was drunk and kept giving us lots
and lots of really good meat, so that was fun.
Saturday: Well Saturday was my birthday, and that was
pretty fun. We had a chill day and
cooked steak (they have this thing called asalido or whatever and it is
just steak marinated in soy sauce and some salt and it is super, super dank for
like homemade kebabs) and made French fries for lunch, and
then had dinner at the Bishop’s house, and he got a cake and everything so that
was really cool. We taught a few lessons
with less active members on Saturday, in particular, one family we taught
embraced what we were saying really well and when we left, they had planned to
come to church the next day, which was sick.
Funny thing … While we were cooking lunch for my birthday, the next
house had some American music playing, so I got to listen to American music on
my birthday and that was super sick. Thanks
everyone for the birthday wishes, they meant a lot. It is really, really nice to have the support
of all of you! ;)
Sunday, we had five “progressing
investigators” in church and they all have baptismal dates, and we feel like
they are super solid. We taught Grandma
Ilsa again Sunday and she was with her brother and asked us to teach him, which
we did. She then bore her testimony to
him about how she feels so much peace and guidance when we talk to her and
about how she wants us to baptize her whole family because she knows that it is
the right path to be on, so that was super cool. Please keep praying for Grandma Ilsa because
she is struggling with the Word of Wisdom, but really wants to be baptized. Finally, we taught the family who we are
going to baptize in April, and they asked us if we were still going to baptize
them, and that was pretty cool. The dad
is kind of “iffy” about being baptized, so we are still not sure about
him. Anyway, it turned out that the two
daughters in the family are taking an English class, and if they don’t learn
it, they have to re-take the class, so who better to teach them than the Mormon
Missionaries. Hopefully we can serve
them and in the process convince the dad to be baptized as well. Sunday
we also had pizza with the Lopez Family.
The Lopez family seems to be the family in the ward who likes to take
care of the missionaries.
Monday: I went into Luque and got a
fake Rolex, so that is sick. I also
bought some sick Chelsea Soccer socks, and now here I am writing to you.
Hopefully you have enjoyed this more
detailed email, I will keep writing like this in the future.
I love you all and hope you have a
good week!
Elder Turley
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