Week 86 - Christmas: Let in Everywhere and Given Food

This week was different. every house that let us in just wanted to give us food instead of listening to us, since they had made a lot of chipa and sopa and cooked a lot of meat, so that was a good problem. There was tons of fireworks and firecrackers all over the streets on and before Christmas, so that made it an exciting day. Everyone was home, but a lot of them were doing things that didn´t make us super excited to talk to them, lots of loud music which made it hard to focus on anything for more than a little bit.

We spent Christmas with the Paraguayans, and  ate a lot, and got to know a lot of nice people that hopefully will accept the gospel. At every house that let us in they gave us food, even if they didn´t know us, so that was awesome. The mission had a sports day, so that was fun.

My companion speaks very well for only having been here since August, he´s a great teacher, and we're having an awesome time together. 

Right now we´re working with a guy named J**n, who when we told him that baptism was a way of making a promise with god, he just said, maybe I´ll wait till I´m a little older, when I won´t want to go and party anyways, so that it´ll be easier. We also met some people who when we mentioned baptism they asked if they could do it, and then they found out that they had to go to church and keep commandments, and then they weren´t as excited, it was kinda sad. We are also working with a kid named R*dr*g* who when we asked him how he was he said bad, because he was thinking alot aboiut his salvacion and how he could acheive it.

Here it frosted once this winter and the bushes almost died.

Here they sell quail eggs like crazy in the supermarket.

-Elder Bowles