Ok, so God
really had us in the lucha at the beginning of this week. We had an activity
with the Elders on Monday so we were late. I was walking fast and I remembered
I needed to call a sister so I looked down for two seconds and I stepped into a
manhole. They are everywhere here, they need to have like a little metal plate
but I guess people steal them and sell them. I just stepped right in and I just
start running around screaming. Hermana Austin is like “Sit down, sit down”
haha. I fling my arm around and I guess I smack her in the nose. So she is
leaning over in pain and I’m running around screaming and I grab a small palm
tree and I’m like shaking it saying “Whyyyyyyy?” hahhah I start walking toward
the bus and Hermana Austin is like “Where are you going? We have to clean that
up.” We go back to the house and we
cleaned it all up. I was bleeding pretty badly. I was so bugged because it cut
me right on the back of the foot where your shoe goes so I couldn’t put my foot
in like any shoe, and we walk all day every day. But don’t worry. It didn’t
keep us from working.
I don’t know
if I told you but like 2 weeks ago it got hot, like REALLY HOT. Of course right
when it got hot our air conditioner broke. We finally got it fixed on Monday as
well so at least that night after the big fall I slept well. Then Tuesday comes,
it was sooooo hot!!!! but we had the first good day in a long time. People
WANTED to talk to us, it was great. We were looking for a girl that had
listened to the missionaries in the past. We asked this couple and they said
they didn’t know but then they just pull up chairs and started talking to us. Oh
wait, back up. Hermana Austin and I had been saying the day before when it was
so hot why don’t otter pops exist in Paraguay. They have this thing called
chupa chup but they are so sugary and I don’t like them. It turns out these
people are chupa chup sales people. The lady jumps up and is like I’m going to
give you guys one for free. You look hot. She gave us each two and it was a
brand I had never seen before. Turns out it was literally an otter pop! We were
so happy, and it gets better. They are like distributers so they don’t sell one
or two, they sell packs of 40 for 2 dollars. She comes out with this huge pack
to show us and guess what. They just give us the pack. So I used that to start
a church conversation about the Book of Mormon. We gave them one. She was so
excited. She kept hugging it and saying I’m going to read this. Then we
say we have to go and they are like where??? Can we give you a ride? You guys, this
never happens! They drove us to the church so we didn’t have to walk. They
leave us with 40 otter pops. We were so happy. We literally have seen them like
every day after that. We always run into them in the street. They are so great.
So look for them in emails to follow. They are named Lourda and Vet.
That night we
get home and we turn on the air and we are just dying. It doesn’t matter when
the sun goes down. The humidity just sticks to you. All of a sudden the lights
just go out and we are like “Well that’s great.” We go talk to our landlord and
he says he will talk to the light people. We wait and wait and finally at 10:30
our landlord closes his door and turns his lights off. We realize maybe they
weren’t coming right then, so we sleep on our deck on a mattress. It was sooooo
hot!!! At midnight the lights come on and Hermana Austin literally jumped for
joy. haha After literally two really hard, hard days God sent us so many miracles.
It was amazing. We found Angel and his grandma. We just have been finding new
people and things are really looking up in our area.
AND the best
part is that things are really looking up with Pablo. He is on his 8th day
without drinking or anything. He is so cute about it. We all shouted and waved
our hands in the air when he told us. We gave him a blue tie that they make
here with the temple on it and told him it’s to remember his goal. Then we gave
him an all white tie and told him that it is to wear when he makes his goal. He
can only wear it then and then Hermana Austin added that unless he could baptize
someone. He said, “We are going to baptize mama with this.” (Norma) He is so
great. I love them both so much. It’s like living with parents. They made us
food last night when we were studying. This morning Wanilda came up to say
goodbye and she saw we were eating chupa chup and was like what is that, in the
morning. hahah She got all mad at us and said we can only drink milk in the
morning. I really know that God is making things work out for them. They went
to the clinic this week and they said he doesn’t need to enter the clinic because
the alcohol in his blood is really low. He doesn’t need detox. So he is going
to go to psychological appointments every Thursday which is great because that
means he gets to go back to work. So just pray that he can be strong in his job
because everyone drinks there or that he can find a new one.
Last thought,
I was reading about patience this week and it was so cool. There is a talk from
the August Liahona and it’s called paciencia mas que esperar (Patience is more
than waiting). She talks about when we don’t get miracles when we ask it’s not
that we don’t have faith but that God wants to try our patience and see if we
can stick with our faith. It’s really cool. You should look up the talk. I love
you all,
oxoxooxoxoxo
Hermana Ball
PS: I hope you all have conference on your calendars
and make it a priority this week. We don’t get 3 new apostles every week!!! I
know that these men are called of God and what they tell us is exactly what God
would have us do at this time.
I love you all,
oxoxoxo
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