Friday, February 21, 2014

I can't believe I am 20.... that seems SO much older than 19

This week has been a little better than the last. The biggest problem right now is that we don´t have any investigators besides our one that should be getting baptized on the 22nd. Her date passed another week because she didn´t go to church this week. We have had a lot of rejections lately. We have people tell us stuff like ´´I already know everything about your church´´ Then we ask them to teach us because we don´t know everything about it, haha or ´´Your church was started by a man´´ ´´you follow that john smith´´ ´´you are all tricked by evil spirits´´ ´´you don´t believe that Christ is the son of God´´ just waving their finger no ´´no, solo no´´ ´´i am the antichrist and the devil is inside would you like to meet him´´ or whatever else they say. Just the norm.
Vilma is still scared to get baptized again. We are still working with her but more with her daughter, Rocio, now. She also has been taking the lessons but she is sure about her answer. They both know that the Book of Mormon is true and that Joseph Smith is a prophet but Vilma still doesn´t want to get baptized yet. Rocio is ready she just needs to assist one more time before the 22nd and then she should be getting baptized! More than that we have no one right now... we are looking all over but just a bunch of rejection.
We hope to find out if we can move into the new apartment we found next week when he is back from vacations. The people here have this thing where they leave for the whole month of either January of February and just vacation. So he will be back next week to tell us.
It is still blistering hot here. It is at the end of it though. While this has been the hottest summer of my life and probably the hottest I will ever be the good thing is that now it will cool off and I will only be here for the beginning of the summer next year.
We will be having a multizone conference tomorrow so I will let you know how that goes! They are always great and then we will either get to have empanadas or pizza for lunch! With the best soda that they have here called pritty lemon, because they don´t have the best soda... Dr. Pepper. I did hear that in Paraguy there is Dr. Pepper and I am trying to get someone to buy it for me and bring it back, haha.
Not really much to tell for the week... lots of contacting again.
I did hear that I have a package waiting for me in the office!!!! I am going there after this to go get it! 
Oh and I was wondering if you could try to send me dollars in the mail. Maybe only like 10-20 at a time but if you did that then I could have so much more money than taking it out of the bank. I really have gotten sick of them cutting the value of my money in less than half. The ´´official value´´ is 5.50 peso to the dollar but the street value is 12 peso to the dollar. It would be great if you could send it. I am trying to find a place to be able to take out the money in dollars but so far I haven´t found it. They try to make you buy dollars for 12 pesos because they know the really value of the peso is much lower than they say. It is all just a scam. Plus the inflation is ridiculous every week the prices raise .50 - 1 peso. 
The birthday video was AWESOME!!! Thank you all very much! I still can´t believe that I am going to be 20... that seems so much older than 19, haha 

I love you all very much and can´t wait to hear from you next week!

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