May 14, 2012

Hello Family!

We already talked two days ago and I don´t have much to say anyways, so I´ll briefly explain the events of this week.

     Monday we had our District Activity at Libertad´s church. We each payed 25mil Guaranis and a part member family that literally lives next to the church made us Asado. It was really good, but kinda dumb because we ate before we played. Nobody could really run. It´s kinda funny though. I am the comic relief of sports. When I try really hard I can´t do much, but when I mess around I seem to score a lot. I totally wasted everybody in football. I ate more than everybody, but I could still run ha ha.

     Tuesday after District Meeting we did divisions with the Zone Leaders. I went with Elder King (From my district in the MTC) to "Ka´abuy Rary". His area is super chuchi. A member picked us up from district meeting and drove us to his house to eat lunch with him. We ate Ñokis de Mandioka, my favorite. We had an awesome day. I like going to other areas on divisions. Everybody else´s areas seem better than mine, but whenever I come back from divisions a miracle always happened in our area so it makes me feel better. We taught a lawyer with a 4 story house who loves to read the Book of Mormon. We had 7 lessons. We taught a guy named Nestor, who is totally going to get baptized he just needs to recognize his answer, and by himself (without the missionaries asking him to) he read 10 chapters in Mosiah. He even remembered names like Limhi, King Noah, Ammon, Etc. He was able to apply the story to his life and learn from it too. He is so cool, I want to be his friend on Facebook.

     When I got back on Wednesday I was upset to discover that Elder Schone ate all of the Charges we bought (Literally, Around 20 little candy bars). Who can eat that much candy in one day? But Elder Fale told me about an awesome family he found. They were teaching an old guy and his wife. He had absolutely no interest, so they were just going to leave after teaching half of the lesson. They said a prayer and handed him a Pamphlet and said "Will you read this", he said "I don´t really care about your teachings, but if you give it to me I´ll read it." 
     They handed him a Restoration Pamphlet he turned it to the back and saw the Book of Mormon and said "Is this your Book?" When the missionaries said yes he ran into his house and came out with a copy of the Book of Mormon and said with his tears in his eyes "I´ve been reading this book for years, but I never knew where it came from". He had a change of heart and they made a return appointment for Saturday. ¿¡What a Miracle RIGHT!?

     Wednesday and Thursday I basically followed Elder Fale around to a bunch of appointments he made, but nobody was home. Friday we tried teaching people, but it didn´t work out. Saturday the Flia Gehrmann threw a "Go Home" party for Elder Fale. Sunday was just normal, but nobody made Elder Fale speak. I sucked it up on the piano, but now I have an Idea for my next talk. Today Elder Fale had his out interview and we ate at McDonalds.

That´s all I got, Love Ya!
Elder Zachary James Singson