August 27, 2012

Anyways this will be a short email because of malfunctions of Paraguayan Technology. It ate up all my time.

     Tuesday we didn´t have district meeting because wednesday we had Zone Conference. It was Presidente Agazzani´s First and My Last. The New Area Seventy was there too, Pdte Zeballos. I had to Pee and he talked an extra hour! Anyways they didn´t really tell me anything that I haven´t heard before, but they made My Group give our testimonies because we are leaving. Oddly enough all of my group was present except for Elder Chatterly who went home early for schooling. I felt the spirit in a cool new way. I was hot before I got up but then I cooled down. My mind was calm, cool, and clear, so I actually got to say what I was thinking instead of just having words fly out. Then my body started to get all Tingly. Especially my hands and feet. That was cool.

     Lunch was not cool. They basically just gave us sandwhiches and kicked us out. GET TO WORK! Worst Zone Conference lunch ever. I could have made a sandwhich. After we got back at 3 we ate for real and then we had Mission Correlation with our new Mission Leader Rodrigo Segovia Returned Missionary Extrodinaire. That was cool I guess.

     Thursday we saw Yamil run away and hide from us. We made eye contact before he ran, so I am done with this kid. We will just give him a cake for his birthday with a note saying "Salvation is Personal don´t let your friends screw yours up" or something like that. Later we went to talk to Bernabe and he said "I don´t have that much time, but then he talked our ears of for an hour before we were even able to share anything.

     Friday I tried making Brownies for a Noche de Hogar, but everything was going wrong and to top it off the District Leader Called and said I need Baptismal Pants. So I stuck it in the oven and turned it down to the lowest setting, but when we got back 15 minutes later they were burnt. No smoke, no fire, but it ruined the brownies. That´s ok the Noche de Hogar didn´t end up working out anyways. It got really cold.

     Saturday was freezing cold. We went with a member to contact his reference, but she wasn´t home. Niether was Teresa who told us to come back later and then she wasn´t there. Paí-Ñu 1.2 was going to have a baptism, but the guy couldn´t make it because he came late from his trip. He didn´t show up for church sunday either. Miguel also wasn´t home, but it was because his Uncle died and he went to visit his family.

     Sunday we got the new Bishoprick and Not Many people were happy. It´s still cold.

I´m out of time, but I love you!

Elder Zachary James Singson

August 20, 2012

Hi Family, or at least whats left of it.

     It seems like your lives are just as crazy as mine. At least we are united by this common bond. This is what happened to me this week. Monday I bought some Caramelos for Miguel to help him quit smoking. He said he wasn´t going to be home, so we took them to his house, but we ended up staying and teaching him in his daughter. Vanesa is just like him. Doesn´t talk, doesn´t understand, doesn´t really do anything, but she says she likes it. Now I am thinking about teaching the entire family and Baptizing them all! Fwa Hahahahahaha!!!

     Tuesday we had a "Zone Capacitation" instead of District Meeting. It was dumb because we had to take two buses to get to the Stake Center, then everybody else came late even though they are closer, then nobody had the keys to get in, then we had to take another bus to go to a different capilla. We wasted so much time. All though I kind of enjoyed it I didn´t really hear anything I haven´t heard before. We finished at 2 ish and got back to our area at 3. Elder Ackerman ran out of Money, so I had to pay the 3 buses back for the both of us. 9 Buses! 20 Mil!

     When we got off the bus Elder Ackerman jumped off while the bus was moving. He would have been fine if he was facing forward and if he didn´t plant both of his feet. He didn´t get hurt, but it made me laugh. After Lunch we went to Yamil. He seems like he is doing good now and wants to come back to church. One of his Non-Member friends even sat down for part of the lesson and listened. I noticed that he came after the first prayer and left before the second. 

     Unfortunately while we were teaching a less active family to help them come back to church the Hna Aguilera showed up and ruined the whole thing with her non-stop tears and non-stop talking.

     Wednesday we happen to get lunch from the Flia Morinigo for the first time on the same day that the Priesthood activity was going on. It was a good lunch, but they had Asado at the church and nobody told us about it until after. Later we went to get the clothes and it started to rain. Luckily the clothes didn´t get that wet. Then while we were teaching Miguel and Lidia about the plan of salvation the power went out. We taught the rest by candle light. They said they understood, but I`m not quite sure they did. At least I made it very clear that if You Keep God´s Commandments You Will Be Happy! That was understood by all.

     Thursday we went back to Yamil at 3 and from there we just had one lesson right after the other. I liked it because I didn´t have to walk a lot and we didn´t get bored. Next was Felipe a recent convert and we watched "Monte Del Señor" so he could learn about temples. Then we went to Flia Irala on one side of our area then ran all the way to the other side to teach Miguel. We watched "Jose Smith: Profeta de la Restauracíon". We were mostly watching it for Lidia, but their two daughters also watched... At least in Part. Andrea had to take care of her baby and Vanesa had to take care of her puppy that is suicidal. They seemed to always be absent for the most important parts. Lidia liked it though and she said she will pray about all of it.

     Friday we had a Mini Miracle at the beginning of the day, so it made me feel better about walking around "De Balde" the rest of the day. Elder Ackerman saw a lady outside and he said that we contacted her once and she said that we could come back but she was never around. So we contacted her and her husband wasn´t there. We were about to just leave her with a Pamphlet and leave and suddenly she says that she has a Book of Mormon that two of her students gave her and she really liked it but when she moved here 2 years ago she lost it. So we gave her a Book of Mormon and read her the last two Paragraphs of the Introduction and invited her to pray about it. She said she will and that we need to come back on a Friday when her husband will be home. I see a Baptism in her Future. She will definitely be a future convert.

     Saturday we had Mission Correlation at 6:30 but Charly showed up late. We had an appointment at 7:30 with Miguel, so we just left the Progress Form with the other Elders and left. Miguel was the only one home, so we watched a movie about Revelation. The story of Oliver Cowdery. Miguel has had a hard time with the Prayer and I think this helped him a lot. Since somebody gave us Salad at lunchtime I used ranch and then we bought a pizza to use the rest with. It was really good, but now I´m out of Ranch. Dang. Anyways the Dueña saw that we had ordered a Pizza and she said that she is a Gastronomer (My own invented word for a person who studies gastronomy) and she will cook stuff for us if we tell her in advance and all we have to do is pay for the Ingredients. I wish I knew that sooner. I´ll have to take her up on that.

     Sunday was the worst. They called Rodrigo Segovia (a returned missionary) as Ward Mission Leader, but he probably won´t be as good as Charly. It turns out that Charly was never the Ward Mission Leader he just filled in the calling while being 2nd counselor. He was the Most Faithful Ward Mission Leader Ever and it wasn´t even his calling!  Next sad thing was the Epic Fail when we tried to watch a movie with Yamil and his friends and other Jovenes. We planned the activity before hand and they even announced it in church, but literaly nobody showed up except for a couple of people that came early to seminary.

     Miguel came to church, but he wasn´t home when we passed by at 6. Then as we walked back home on this very disappointing day of nothing we got a call from Elder Call and he says that we might not have a Bishop anymore. Ugh! How are we supposed to work with the ward when there is no Bishop!

I am still happy though, just a little crazy. ;P

Love Ya´ll,

Elder Zachary James Singson

August 13, 2012

Holas Family,

     This week was pretty uneventful until the Final Day, so I hope I don´t repeat myself too much. On Monday we ate at Real with Elder Villalba because he was finishing his mission. Then Tuesday after we received the Changes we also ate at "Masters Pizza". Elder Cristaldo is leaving and an Elder Carroll is replacing him. Elder Call replaced Elder Villalba. They are both new, so I didn´t know them.

     Wednesday and Thursday all we did were contacts all day. Because of the endless walking I also had an endless hunger, so throughout the day I went to Every Empanada Stand in Paí-Ñu to see who had the best. I like the ones across the street from the Church best. We tried to visit Mirna and again she isn´t home. Then we also went to Miguel´s house because he said he should be back from his trip on Thursday, but his house was dark the windows were open and nobody was home. We kinda thought that maybe they had Moved Randomly, Got Robbed, or maybe even abducted by aliens. It was just weird.

     Friday we finally met Elder Call when we went to Mission Correlation Meeting. We got to talk a lot with him because the Ward Mission Leader never showed up. Elder Call is from Idaho. He is pretty Tranquilo and Funny. He likes video games and Potatoes. Mostly we just talked about mission experiences so I don´t know much about his life.

     Saturday we ate with the Flia Cantero for the first time since I´ve been here. Elder Ackerman said that it was because one time Elder Villalba said that their Rice was "Sempiterno" (aka Everlasting). Well Elder Tyler thought that was funny, so he told them, but they obviously got offended because recently (The very week after Elder Villalba left) we got lunch from them again. Well since we were close to the other Elder´s house we ate with them.

     Next we ran out of things to do again, so we just watched Legado with a recent convert so he would sacrifice a little more to go to church and not just let any inconvenience get in the way. It went well because he came to church on Sunday even though he had a doctors appointment.

     Sunday was the best day. Miguel showed up out of nowhere at church, so I was happy. The classes were very spiritual and that made me happier. During the sacrament meeting they asked a recently sealed member, Junior Morinigo, to bear his testimony about his experiece. It was very touching and that made me even more happy. After eating good food after church with the other Elders and I was at a spiritual and physical high.

     So we went to Miguel´s house and did as the Zone Leaders told us and we tried to commit him to a baptismal date this weekend or the next. It didn´t work. Not even after watching the Parable about the 10 virgins and making him say a kneeling prayer to ask God for the answer. It was obvious that he felt the spirit really strongly, but it was obvious that he was scared of something and didn´t know what to do. Fortunately he told us what he was thinking so now we can help him overcome. I think there is something he is still hiding, but he has come to church 5 times and he says he wants to get baptized, but he doesn´t feel ready yet. I think that What happened next will solve the entire problem.

     Next Lidia, the uninterested Evangelical wife, who was present for the lesson started telling us about her problems and was asking for our help, so We taught her. She basically understands everything, but she still unsure about the Restoration, but we committed her to reading the Book of Mormon and to Pray with Miguel. We Promised her So many blessings and she definitely felt the spirit aswell. Now I think they can progress together and in time will get baptized together. I felt super happy.

     After I that hour and a half long lesson we went to the bathroom and I got a feeling like we should visit Carlos Ledesma (a Recent Convert). We visited him and he was feeling Disanimated and we happened to come at the right time. We shared with him and he said he felt a little better. Next thing I know I get a prompting to visit Yamil who has been hiding from us since two weeks after his baptism. Now we have an appointment with him on Tuesday and His friends are all going to come to the Capilla after Church next week and we will watch The Prophet Joseph Smith movie. Non of his friends are members so I am also thinking of inviting the Youth so they can all be friends. They really need the Gospel.

I feel like finally things are looking up again in this area.

Love You Family,

Elder Zachary James Singson

August 9, 2012

Last Monday was the Paraguayan "Dia de la Amistad", but I thought it was dumb because absolutely nobody was friendly to us. So after failed attempts of visiting people we decided to buy a Pizza and celebrate. Fortunately I had enough money to do a small amount shopping because I ran out of money because it´s the end of the month. Tuesday we pulled out money, but since we couldn´t go to the supermarket I decided that if I get hungry I´ll just buy empanadas during the week. We went to our cita with Mirna, but she had to leave to go to Luque again, so now I feel like she will never progress. Stupid work, it´s always getting in the way!

     Wednesday it got really hot again. I hate the BiPolar weather. It made me sweat a lot and the last hour before we went back home the power went out. We had to do planning in the dark and it was really hot and we couldn´t use the fan. We went to Miguel, but his wife says that he has to work really late this week again. Why can´t any of our Investigators stick around long enough to Progress?

     Thursday after Plan Guasu we did Divisions with Elder Geary. I stayed in Paí-Ñu with Elder Geary and Elder Ackerman went with Elder Cristaldo. Besides talking a lot nothing happened. I was surprised because usually some really crazy stuff happens while we are on divisions, then after all the strangeness we usually get a miracle. Well we found some people, but I could have done that with Elder Ackerman.

     Friday we ate with Paí-Ñu 1.2 at our house. Afterwards we ended the exchanges and returned to normalness. Randomly the Assistants called us and asked if we knew an Hermana that could serve as a Local Missionary during the next change, so we gave them the number of Noelia who just happens to be preparing for a mission. But she has to be ready by Tuesday and I don´t know if she works. I was really hungry all day, so at every empanada stand I bought food to eat as I walked.

     Saturday we ate with the Paí-Ñu 1.2 Elders again in our house and then they showed us a house that has gone up for rent in their area. Elder Ackerman wants to move there, but I just don´t want to deal with the Hassle. I can endure in our defective house.  I´ve had worse. There was a football game during the afternoon and everybody said "come back later I´m watching football". It was lame because the game wasn´t very important and nobody seemed excited about it, but they used it as an excuse anyways. We had Mission Correlation at night and Paí-Ñu is on a crazy rollercoaster of Good and Bad. Ay yay yay.

     Sunday 115 people came to church. I was surprised because everybody was there on time. There was a lot of people for the Priesthood meeting. Miguel came, but then when we tried to make an appointment with him he said he is going to travel after church and he won´t be back until thursday. Ugh.

     In the Gospel Principles class we were talking about charity and while reading the lesson I thought "How are we ever supposed be like that?" I felt the Spirit a lot and I felt that one day I´ll reach that level of Charity.

     Testimony meeting went over 15 minutes because of all the testimonies. When I bore my testimony the spirit was so strong that it began to shoot out of my ears while I was speaking. Elder Villalba bore his last Testimony in Paraguay and he will be leaving this Thursday. Crazy.

I have Three New Goals for my Bucket List. I have chosen these based on promises from D&C.

1. I want to be so full of Joy that I will faint (Like Ammon). I think I got pretty close when the Spirit was shooting out of my ears.
2. I want to see the Vision of The Celestial, Terrestrial, and Telestial Kingdoms.
3. I want to see Christ Face to Face in a Vision.

All three could possibly happen at once.

July 23, 2012

This week was a walking week and very tiring, plus it warmed up again so I was always hot. Mirna left to Lambare with her mom while she is doing her Lawyer stuff, so we didn´t get to talk to her.

     Monday after we passed by Miguel, who wasn´t home, we decided to explore the area. Later after looking at the map we discovered that we had done at least half of our contacts in Villa Anita. Looks like we´ll be giving them a lot of references tomorrow. On Tuesday we went to have interviews in the office with Pdte Agazzani. 3.5 hours for a 10 minute talk. He didn´t even try to get to know me. All he said was "You have little time left. If you want to end your mission with more baptisms you need to do this..." I´m not offended or anything, but I thought it was a waste of time for information that I already know and have been doing. At least we got to eat at McDonalds afterwards. Then when we went to visit Miguel we discovered more good news. His wife bought him glasses! Now he can read! Yay! He wasn´t home, but we gave her a pamphlet so that he could read it, ha ha. ;P

     Wednesday I finally got my Birthday package. Our lunch appointment fell, so then I ate a bunch of candy. Bad decision. It made me feel bad later. The candy disappeared before Saturday. On Thursday during Noche de Barrio I handed out all the Warheads and watched all their silly reactions. That is true fun. I wish I could have recorded it all. I laughed until it hurt. Carlos Ledezma, a member that we usually leave with to teach, got mugged and now doesn´t have a cell phone. It was in the middle of the city, so now I´m never going to bring valuables around at night.

     Friday they cut down the giant mango tree in front of the capilla. We had nothing to do, so we walked around Capilla Del Monte (A place where there is only 1 house on each block and a forest in between each). Surprisingly there are a lot of members who live there so we made a bunch of appointments for Saturday. Then on Saturday we had to sacrifice some of those appointments so that we could teach Miguel and have "Mission Correlacion". When we taught Miguel he asked us to move his fecha back more because he doesn´t understand anything yet. That was the plan becuase he really isn´t ready, but I was kinda surprised he remebered his baptismal date. He really does want to get baptized.

     Sunday Miguel came to church by himself again. Yay! I gave a talk about the importance of Members doing Missionary work. They all "paid attention", but I don´t think they "Paid Comprehension". It´s hard to apply what you learn if you are hearing, but not listening. Then after church we taught Miguel and we finally got him to say an entire prayer by himself. It took much patience and rephrasing to get him to understand. Did I mention about how happy I was that he has glasses? Yay! One of the recent converts who Elder Ackerman baptized isn´t coming to church anymore. We talked to Carlos about why and he said that Church is Boring and he says he doesn´t like me because I don´t talk to him or something. When we taught him I talked the entire time! I don´t get it. We will have to work with him this week.

This week was kinda slow, so that´s all I got.

Love Ya!

Elder Zachary James Singson

July 16, 2012

Hola Familyo,

     This week has been a good one. I forgot to bring my journal with me so some of this information will be incomplete. On Monday after the Pday had ended we went to teach Miguel. He and his wife were there, so we decided to watch the Restoration hoping that he would strengthen his testimony and his wife would get some amount of interest to actually listen for herself and not just to support her husband. I don´t know if she changed, but I know that he felt the spirit. I´m not sure how to get him to express himself yet though, but it will come with time.

     Tuesday we finally started teaching Mirna, the reference of the Hna Aguilera. I felt so happy that we are teaching her with them in their house. Unfortunately we didn´t get to finish the entire lesson. We were about to teach the Apostasy when her kid came over and said that the baby woke up. Dang Satan. She likes learning, but I´m not sure she is listening for more than just pure curiousity. That´s going to change though. Even more unfortunate was that after she had left the Hna Aguilera began to tell us her life story and cried for nearly an hour straight. I´m calling her Ms.Waterworks from now on because I seriously have no Idea where all that water came from. It was like she had sat on a hose and she was a sprikler. Fortunately we had the excuse that it was almost nine o´clock and we had to go home or she would have just kept on crying. I´m not even sure why she was crying.

 

     Wednesday we had the fortune of finishing the restoration and we even watched the restoration movie, so the Hna Aguilera wouldn´t change the subject so much. She really liked it, but she had the question. What happens to all the good Christians that follow God and don´t baptize in your Church? Luckily that´s the Lesson 2 the Plan of Salvation so we made a cita for Thursday.

     Thursday we taught lesson 2 to Mirna and I finally got to use my puzzle from Missionary mall for the first time in a long time. She said that she really liked the way that I presented it too. I asked her what she knew about the plan of God and she said that we live on the earth, we die, we get judged, and we go to heaven. I filled in those puzzle pieces and we talked about because of the apostasy most people don´t know the complete plan of God, but because of Revelation given to Prophets we know the Entire Plan of Salvation. She really liked that. Then we filled in the rest of the Puzzle and she said, "I have always believed this even though I never have really learned about it. I know God is a just God and now I see that your God is just".

 

     Unfortunately, again, The Hna Aguilera had to talk too much and would distract the lesson from it´s current course. She talked about Temples, Baptisms for the dead, Marriages in the Temple, Outer Darkness, The fall of Adam and Eve (The Deeper Doctrine) and all the deep doctrine that she didn´t need to know yet. Mirna said that lesson 1 was something she had never heard of before and that we were practically overloading her hard drive, but then with lesson 2 The Hna Aguilera was trying to shove all the information that she knows down Mirna´s Throat. I could see her trying to process it all and I tried to cut off Hna Aguilera several times and return the basics, but She would continue on the course she was on. One of these days we´ll have to teach Hno and Hna Aguilera how to teach an investigator in the correct way. Hno Aguilera isn´t that bad though (He is the Patriarch).

 

     Later on we also watched the Prophet Joseph Smith at the church with a bunch of Jovenes and Miguel. I don´t know what else to do because he needs new glasses, so he can´t read the Book of Mormon. He really liked it and he came by himself.

     We finally had a "Consejo De Barrio" on friday, even though only half of the people showed up, but we did get to eat sausages afterwards, so that was cool. On Saturday we were walking to a lesson and we saw Miguel walking with one of his friends. He said that he was going to the "Cancha" to play Volley. We thought nothing of it till later when we were in somebody´s house and we saw him walking back towards his house. Sunday we asked him what happened and he said that they were all drinking and he wanted to escape from temptation. That was sooo cool, because the reason he started talking to us is because he wanted to change and now we can see that it´s sincere. He hasn´t drinken since we started teaching, but smoking is going to be a little harder for him. 

 

     Saturday we also taught a random Noche de Hogar with the Flia Cristaldo. We were invited that evening and we prepared something for that night. Turns out that they had a surprise investigator for us. It was kinda crazy because Charlito is "Cabezudo", but I think that she felt the spirit. She is the Girlfriend of a Non-member brother and they think if we get her first then he will eventually turn to the Gospel as well. Crazy conversion stories abounded in the lesson.

     Sunday Miguel came to church by himself and on time. I don´t think he is quite prepared for his baptismal date, but he is definitely progressing. I think he and Mirna are our "Golden Investigators" for now. There were many people that didn´t come to church because of the cold, but there was still 80 or something. Felipe, a really funny recent convert, says he wants us to move in behind his house. I want to if we can break our contract with the current house. It is so much nicer than ours.

What a good week, And Yours?

Hit me up on Dear Elder! Love,

Elder Zachary James Singson

July 9, 2012

Now officially begins the reign of the Agazzani, The Reign of Argentina!

     Last week we wrote our first Letter to Pdte Agazzani. It was strange. I didn´t know what to say. On Monday we ate at Real to celebrate me and Elder Henrie´s B day. Tuesday was fun though because we went on Divisions with the Zone Leaders after the District Meeting. I went with Elder Marple to Villa Elisa and Elder Durrant went with Elder Ackerman to Paí-Ñu. It was a crazy and very tiring day. First we had a random lesson with a Pentecostal guy. He was good and receptive, but his schedule will make it difficult for him to go to church. Next lesson was with a guy who was super slow. I don´t know why but he had no idea what we were talking about. With a simple question like "Do you believe in God?" he didn´t know what to say. After that we went to a guy who has a baptismal date to make sure he´s progressing with Keeping the Word of Wisdom.

     Then we went to talk to Edgar Pavon and his Mom to see if she would give her kid permission so he can get baptized. This was the hard part. She is like a wall, no emotion. We had brought 3 members with us to help Hna Mara (Friend of the Mom), her daughter, and Diego (Friend of Edgar). 

Basically Elder Marple did a quick and simple lesson 1 and asked Edgar to share his testimony. Honestly Edgar´s testimony sucked. I think he was scared of his mom, but he didn´t say more than 3 words at a time. Anyways to make up for it the Hna Mara gave her testimony and said that the church will help her son, then Her daughter cried when sharing her testimony. Next the Hna Pavon said I don´t think he knows enough yet to make a decision and I destroyed her doubt with Acts 2 and that we have to act on faith and not depend on knowlegde. The spirit was so powerful, but she said "We´ll see": UGH! No human could have denied the spirit!... Unless... SHE´S A ROBOT!!! AAAH!!! ROBOT INVASION!!!

     Anyways the next lesson was just as interesting. We were teaching an investigator, the Hna Fernandez, with a Recent Convert and at the very end of the lesson her drunk husband comes in and Elder Marple made the mistake of saying "Que tal Hermano?". The drunk husband runs to his room and yells "I´m not your brother I´m Athiest!" and then he slammed the door. Less than a second later he opens the door and yells "AND I HATE THE UNITED STATES" and slams the door again. Then repeats the same action and yells something random for 2 minutes straight. Then suddenly he comes over to us and says "I Just Want To Find Peace, Don´t you teach that in your church?" Of course we said yes and we gave him a lesson 3 pamphlet and told him to read it when he is sober. He talked for another 5 minutes about nonsense and then he joined us for the Prayer. The Hna Fernandez was really embarrassed. Fun Huh?

     Wednesday I turned 21 and going back to my area I discovered that our lunch appointment had been cancelled. Of course it happened on my birthday. I didn´t feel like cooking so we ordered a pizza instead. We visited a lot of other appointments that Elder Durrant had set the day before, but just like lunch, they all fell. We did kinda celebrate my birthday with the Flia Estigarribia Martinez. The Hna Made us all sandwiches and Sebastian, her son, made us Juice. I don´t like celebrating birthdays when you are new in an area.

     Thursday we went to meet the Pdte Agazzani and his wife for the first time. It started to rain, but I don´t have an umbrella and Elder Ackerman gave his for 2 Hermanas to use. So I was soaked. It was interesting meeting the new Mission President. He is really different from the Argentina Prototype. He is very young, 43, and new so I don´t know what to think of him yet. After getting back from the meeting in Asuncion I was surprised when we left with a Member, Carlos, and we taught 3 lessons with the little time we had left.

     The rain from yesterday made it freezing cold. Friday we had an appointment in the Church at 3. I decided that we should go early just in case they came early. Turns out Carlos was preparing a surprise for my birthday. I discovered them. We ate pie-ish substance and hot chocolate. Then we got to know his friends who want to learn more about the church. They are all jovens, but that's ok. Later we went back to the church to have Mission Correlation Meeting thingy, but Charly (The ward mission leader) didn´t show up and he didn´t answer his phone, so we sat outside of the Capilla pointlessly for 30 minutes.

     Saturday I woke up with my socks on, but my feet were like Icicles. We had lots of appointments, but ended up teaching only 1 lesson in someone´s house and 3 in the street while contacting. Sunday I was surprised because Miguel, an investigator that they taught on Tuesday, was waiting for us to take him to church. He actually came! That was fast. He said he really liked it. Next week we are going to bring all of Carlos´ friends too. I´m glad to see that 100 people still come to church even though it´s cold.

     It was impossible to teach because Cerro and Olympia were playing. That would be like Real Madrid and Barcelona, so nobody wanted to listen to us. They were out in the cold watching the game. The only time I´ve seen so many people outside when it´s cold. Anyways Cerro won and the Olympistas are all going to be bitter. Not fun.

I love you always,

Elder Zachary James Singson