Monday, January 27, 2014

Hey Family!

Hola familia!

sorry I had no time last week! we had a good time going to the doctors office and hermana Lutz got to get her spider bite all fixed up! we have to go back today for a follow up but her leg looks all better! plus last monday we finally got our christmas packages and thank you sooooo much for all the presents!!! it was soo great! doritos and fruit roll ups never tasted so good! haha and thank you mom for the magazine about toms! can I tell you how happy that makes me?! they are helping people to get glasses here and its such a problem that people really cant see because they cant afford to get their eyes fixed. so many times we have met people and have asked them to read the book of mormon but they cant because theyre eyes are bad, and now i feel thankful for toms like they are helping us in our missionaries efforts! people need to be able to read the book of mormon!
anyways, here are the rest of the highlights of this week! Tuesday during our district meeting we were talking about how we can do more service, and after our meeting we went to hermana gomezs house for lunch and shes sick so we offered to help her and ended up washing all her laundry! haha by hand of course! they have these big tub bucket kinda things they used that are made out of tires and clothes soap comes in like a bar so you gotta scrub with your hands to get them all clean, and lets just say our arms were sore for the next couple of days! haha we washed so much!
the next day was so special! we went to visit this member named aurelio and hes about 85 years old and doesnt speak that much spanish because he speaks guarani, but after our lesson he bought us each a piece of cake from someone selling it on the street and then he read us his poetry he writes in guarani! after he told us what it meant and it was about how christ is our remedy for anything in our lives that needs healing, it was beautiful! also all the little kids were nice and dressed up all through the neighborhood because they were taking pictures at the school and putting them up on this website so they can get a sponser family for them to pay for them to go to school! its so humbling to see what an opportunity it is to be able to go to school.
also we have this family we are working with right now, and they are amazing! they told us they feel like god has prepared them to recieve the gospel, and the dad edgar is very quiet and serious but he just told us the past lesson we had with him that he just wants to know the truth and for us to teach him. I think me and hna lutz both just had mini heartattacks when he said that! im so excited to keep teaching them!
on saturday we celebrated hermana Lutz halfway mark with 9 months in the mission! Crazy! time flies when your having fun! haha
and then sunday was a true day at church in paraguay... first off because the power went off and came back on three different times during sacrament meeting and then halfway through the meeting a dog came running into the chapel! dirt and all, the young men jumped up and caught him and pulled him back outside! haha then afterwards in gospel priinciples we pulled the books off the shelf and a couple cockroaches came with them and they were big ones too! me and hna lutz died a little when that happened! haha
also exciting news is that the youth get to go to SEM this week! aka EFY but no one owns suitcases here and so all us missionaries loaned out our luggage to them for the week! sarah took one of mine and she was sooo excited about the color of my suitcases! Haha
anyways thats a little peek into my past week! also I read a super good talk that hermana lutz gave to read that I highly suggest! Its called Lessons from Liberty by Elder Holland so you guys can look that up if you have time! love you guys! hope everyone has a good week!

love
hermana meese

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