Feb 23, 2009

Hey folks, how’s it goin?

Things just keep moving forward down here in what feels like the depths of h-e-double hockey sticks. This week almost every day has been over 100 degrees, and wow, it’s hot. But today it’s a little cooler, because its going to rain… actually I think its raining right now, but we’re inside so I’m not sure. Anyways, I’m sorry those photos didn’t make it through last week. This week I got to use my other camera for a little bit because I borrowed the charger of someone who has the same camera and got my battery charged up a little, so that was cool. So I have a ton of photos that I’m sending your way this week. But tell Grandma Karen Happy belated birthday for me, I feel bad I didn’t know it was her birthday.

Well this week we had 5 baptisms… so we were stoked for that. They were of Maria Elena and Ruth, and of Zully, Jessica, and Sara. But the most amazing part of this week is even though we had 5 baptisms, we’ve maintained the same amount of investigators and people in church from week to week. But it was truly amazing this week, because on Friday we met Juan and Angelica by helping them in a mini service of bringing these big pallets of wood to their house, and then we went back on Saturday but Juan’s mom was there so we just got talking and didn’t get to teach anything, but we invited them to go to church but he was going to take the wood and make his fence with it so it was just a small invitation, but then yesterday they just showed up on their own for church! It was awesome. We went back last night and put them with fecha, and it was probably one of the best lessons ever. They understood everything perfectly; it was like I was doing a practice with a pair of missionaries. And there was a HUGE blessing in a miracle that the Lord worked for us during that lesson. We’re in that part of our area every night, and the mosquitoes bite like CRAZY! And they were biting last night like normal, but when we showed up to their house, I don’t think I was bit once until we left again, and that just helped us teach so much better. I’m not gonna lie, it’s like super hard to teach a lessons when everyone is being bitten like crazy by mosquitoes and everyone is just restless and smacking away. So it was just a special day for me.

But as for my MTC district, Elder Reid is out in La Paloma still, and Elder Bullcreek is out in Pedro Juan Caballero as a district leader, so I got to see him this week because we had a huge consilio guazu… which is a leadership training meeting which is usually only for zone leaders (consilio), but it was a special invite of the district leaders as well, so it was consilio guasu, or grande, or big (Guarani, Spanish, English). So that was cool. That was on Thursday. But as for Elder Legler, I actually saw him for the first time since my first change during the changes when everyone is hooking up with their new comps. He’s still in his second area, as a senior comp, but I’m pretty sure he’s doing pretty well, that goofy kid.

Anyways, keep it real. Love,

Elder Dennis