so the title of this week is what my trainer calls me haha because im her first ¨daughter¨or sister thats shes trained haha I thought it was pretty funny!
anyways! this has been quite the week, its been super physically exausting. I think its safe to say ive never sweated so much in my entire life. Like living in paraguay you just have to be used to sweat running down your face from 6 in the morning until 10 at night.
but anyways i will just start with the first of the week and tell you about everything! last monday night we had family home evening with the acosta family and they live in this huge field with nothing around them and when it got dark, there were fireflies! i died! ive never seen them before and it was so cool! but then the other bugs started to come out and i had like a mini panic attack because they were flying down my shirt and up my skirt and getting stuck in my hair and i couldnt escape! it mustve been quite a sight to see!
Tuesday we had a fun lunch with hermana gomez and she has all these friends that are probably about 80 and 90 and only speak guarani. but this one grandma was sitting there talking to me and pinching me and telling me she wants me to date her son haha I didnt completely understand what she was saying and i heard her say paraguayan and i just replied, i like the people in paraguay theyre really nice! and then she was like my sons paraguayan! you need a paraguayn boyfriend! haha it was so funny! it was also elder hunsakers birthday that day and so we decided to make him chocolate chip cookies! but chocolate chips dont exist here so we went and bought all the packets of rocklets they had at the dispensa. haha rocklets are kinda like m&ms but then brown sugar doesnt exist either but hermana tomco is genius and we made our own with regular sugar and molasses! haha
okay so wednesday we died. it was soooo hot. elder hunsaker got mad at us because we got sunburned because we didnt have hats but you have to have a hat because the sun can make you physically sick here. but wednesday was one of those days that every single one of our investigators appointments fell through. and we had a girl in our ward who was going to take us to the bishops house but she didnt know how to get there so we ended up getting lost for about 2 and a half hours and then on our way home i stepped in an ant pile and i never knew getting bit by ants hurt so bad! they got my whole foot and leg! and then we missed the bus to get home and it was dark so we ran the 45 minute walk home! once again, physically exausted.
but it was all worth it on thursday because we had a conference in asuncion and i finally got your package! thank you so much for all the pictures and notes! it made my day! and mom i dont know how you knew but it is soooo hard to find notebooks here and pens! and i needed some so thank you! on the bus ride home from asuncion all the elders were looking at cades chart of sports stuff and it was so funny some of the elders were like what? the world series already happened?! haha I also got a letter from aunt becky and i was so thankful for that! its exactly what I needed to hear! she just told me her experiences on the first few months of her mission and they were things i had been feeling and it was comforting to know she felt the same way! so that was special!
we met with our super interested family saturday night! we taught them about the plan of salvation and they are so excited about learning! this is what makes it all worth it. the daughter ana victoria, when we walked in started telling us she read like 12 chapters last night out of nephi and then went back and read the intro and testimony of joseph smith and the three witnesses and then the daughters came to church with us again yesterday! they have a baptism date for december 28th! we just need to get the dad interested in learning about it now too so the whole family can do it together! also saturday night they had us eat dinner with them and she made us brazilian food with like rice beans and chicken and pineapple juice and it was soooo good! im so thankful for the people that feed us!
then yesterday was another physically exhausting day. we woke up at 5 so we could make the hour walk to meet an investigator that was going to come to church with us but when she showed up she wasnt home so we made the hour walk back to the church and we just walked and sweated and sweated and walked. haha this weekend here is kinda crazy! yesterday was the day of celebration for Caukupe, shes like a virgin they worship here and in the city of Caukupe is this statue that everyone pilgramiges too and shes supposed to give you a miracle, but its more of an excuse to party. firecrackers go off all hours of the day and everyone just blasts their music and drinks! there were sooooo many drunk people while we were walking home last night haha oh but the best was last night we were like out of food and gonna make some rice for dinner when we got home but as we were walking down the ruta, norma and angels family (the family we baptized) got off the collectivo and were going to anothers members house for family night and norma pulled out some empanadas she had just made and gave us each one! it was honestly a miracle! once again so grateful for the members that keep us fed! she is such a sweet lady!
so thats a week in the life of a missionary in paraguay haha i hope everyones doing good! love you all! the gospel is amazing! especailly seeing how it changes peoples lives! the church is true and the book is blue!
love you all so much!
love
hermana meese
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