So yes, my
title is the Pope because he came to Paraguay this week. For months we have
been hearing about this grand coming. It was a little difficult but it was
actually kind of great because it was a good way to find all the non-Catholics,
but people were definitely a little ruder to us this week. We contacted this
reference we got and an old man came out and I asked him his name and he was
like “why do you need to know?” haha Then we tried to tell him that God loves
him and that we just share a message about Jesus and how we can become better
people. He was like haha “ya we are all ready as good as we are going to get,
that’s why we have the pope here to visit us.” haha It was just funny. My comp
when we left was like “thanks for your friendship” haaha I love her. We were
also talking to a girl at her house and her mom came out and was like “just
tell them we are Catholics and that’s it. We’re done.” haha It was better in Spanish,
but I’m pretty use to rejection by now. It doesn’t even really make me
flinch.
We also met
President Wilson this week!!! Our new mission president from Uruguay. He is so
great. We had a big zone conference, I loved it. He said a lot of the answers
to my prayers. He told us that we aren’t given callings because of what we have
done but because of what we are GOING to do. That was such an answer to why I’m
a sister leader. I don’t feel like I have done anything good but I guess I’m
going to do a lot of good ... I hope.
So this week
hermana austin and I were really trying to be better in everything. We were
looking for new investigators, new ways to find people. We changed just how we
were doing things because what we were doing before wasn’t working. We had a
lot more success this week and we are just getting really excited. We found some
really great people this week, but... no one came to church. That was hard but I
really thing Heavenly Father is trying to help us learn something so we are
going to try and learn this fast so we can start having people at church
again.
I just wanted
to say a little thing about how great my companion is. I don’t know if you all
know but every Thursday we do weekly planning and at the end you do an
inventory of how you are doing in your relationship and she and I are always
like “we are good”. then we start complementing the other and then the last two
weeks we were just really open about our feelings and as we talked we found
that we had things we could work on individually and together. I just love that
we are just so in tune to how we can be better. The only hard part is that we
aren’t together every day because of splits with the sisters so it’s always so
sad. But honestly she is just so great I am learning so much from her. We are a
really good team. She just knows how to finish my thoughts perfectly in every
lesson. BEST COMPANIONSHIP EVER. I hope she doesn’t get transferred in two weeks.
I will cry like a baby.
Last thought,
Pablo is doing great. He came to church Sunday and we had a lesson with him. I
love teaching him because he just gets everything. He loves us so much. In the
night he called us and he was just like “how are you”, then his wife took the
phone and said he was worried about us and couldn’t be settled until he called.
He is seriously the best. We taught about the priesthood and he is going to
start preparing to get it! I love them soooo much!!!
That’s all. We
taught a lot of lessons, I gave a talk Sunday. Overall it was just another cold
week in Paraguay but with the difference that the Pope was here, haha but he is
gone now ... how sad.
Love you,
Hasta ver,
Hermana Ball
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