Wow what a crazy crazy week that we had as
a companionship. I don´t even know where to start. Well first off we had some
crazy stuff going on because it was the semana santa or the Holy week. EVERYONE
during this week decides to just go out and to visit all the of the family that
they have in the chaco or the desert. It was super super crazy on Wednesday to
see everyone just packing their bags and getting ready to travel to all sorts
of crazy parts of Paraguay. I would just look at my companion and think wow
what are we supposed to do if all the people we are supposed to be teaching
leave and go to some crazy place. We made the best of things with what we had.
I did divisions with a brand new
missionary from Argentina on Tuesday . We actually had a really really awesome
day. We found 4 people and put them all with a fecha bautismal. The younger
missionary was really really pumped because I made him put all the people with
a baptismal date and no one denied him. It was a little funny because he told
me that everyone he thought was going to reject him but in the end they all accepted
and were excited to come to church and all that jazz. We had a good time and at
the end we ended up buying some lomito arabe. It’s kind of like a taco but tons
better. We passed the night by talking about the mission and just how it is
being a missionary. It made me remember all those times that I spent as a
younger missionary not really understanding anything and just trying to
struggle through my little area in CDE. It made me feel really good that I
could help a younger missionary have a better perspective and hope for the
future in his area.
Sometimes that’s all we need as human
beings. We just need someone who can always come and pick us up no matter how
bad we are. A lot of times its our faith in Jesus Christ, it’s our hope for the
future and what he can help us achieve that just keeps us going.
So Tuesday was pretty much an awesome day.
Wednesday didn´t turn out so hot because we changed back and everything and
then I started getting a little sick and then by the middle of the afternoon I
was just plain dead. We kept working but really I was just in another world. I
had a fever and was dealing with some diarrhea. We are thinking that it came
from our lunch on Wednesday, but towards the end of the day I was feeling
better, but we really hadn´t accomplished anything. I thanked my companion for
helping me and putting up with the stuff that I always have going on.
On Thursday we went and did a weekly
planning with one of the companionships in the zone that is really struggling.
We decided that it would have been better not to tell them. So we showed up in
their house and were able to see how they were really doing. It wasn´t soo
great. We helped them as best we could and helped them put some specific plans
and all that jazz. They were more excited about the work when we left then when
we got there. It was a little funny to think about doing some surprised visits.
When I was a younger missionary I always dreaded the fact that the zone leaders
could show up in any moment and I wouldn´t know why, I was doing exactly the
same thing that I had dreaded a year ago. It just made me chuckle to myself.
We did still have a little bit of a
frustrating week in that people really weren´t very open to us. You think that
people would be more open to talk about Jesus Christ and His gospel during the
week of His death and resurrection but really it was surprising how many people
rejected us. Sometimes we just seem to be so focused on the worldly part of Easter
and the chocolate and all that stuff that we tend to forget the real reason
that we have Easter, to remember Christ.
I
love you all. Sorry that the message is really short, my mind just really isn´t
into writing today. But I hope that you all have a super awesome week.Elder Beatty
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