another great week in paraguay. my companion reminded me this week that the chapel we attend sacrament meeting is the same chapel they dedicated the temple in and that gordon b hickley was there when it happened. i've sat in the same place gordon b hinckley sat. pretty cool haha
well i still can't speak spanish. people talk and talk and talk in our lessons and then just look at me like they need help and i just have to shrug and look at my companion... it stinks. but i get better every day. i'm definitely learning a lot, and i improve daily.
this last week we met some interesting people. we taught a woman named antonia yesterday. she's 85 years old. and she has a glass eyeball. creepiest thing ever. she can't close that eye when she blinks so it's always staring at you, and it's an off shade so it doesn't match the other eye. creepy. we went and saw that schizophrenic lady again. she's super nice haha we're making brownies with her tomorrow!
on wednesday we're starting to teach english classes at the chapel in the night time. we run into a lot of people who want to learn english so starting now once a week, they'll feel like the stupid ones and i'll be the ones laughing at them for a change haha
not much else to talk about. we went to a restaraunt for lunch today called Paulista's. fanciest place i will ever be in. and it cost about 100,000 guaranies. thats like $20 american dollars. they have salad, pasta, and dessert buffets with personal chefs at each table, and waiters walk around with giant sticks of meat that they slice out for you. super chuchi haha i've never been so full. we're really lucky because it's in our zone so we don't have to ask for permission to go there for lunch on p days.
we have a baptism date on the 27th of december, if our investigator comes to church the next two weeks. i hope she does. her name is lara and she's 9. she really wants to be baptized but her mom is sooo lazy haha. we'll help her out this week.
we taught a lady the other day with a 5 yr old daughter who was super hyper. worse than avery or wake haha she was wack. no one was paying attention to her when we were teaching and she threw a tantrum. she walked up to the front door of the house, squatted down and pooped on the floor. hahaha her mom was soooo angry ha
i'll be skyping on christmas from the bishops house. i think we're 4 hours ahead here. and we have church from 9 to 12. and it takes forever to walk everywhere here so i told mom anywhere from 2 to 6. i only have an hour. i think i'll be fine. it'll be weird but it'll be good too.
oh yeah, mom was gonna send a package this week i think. if you don't want anything to be stolen tape it like crazy and put some pictures of the virgin mary on it for good measure. the latinos shouldn't touch it if they see it like that ha
we invited this kid gabriel to be baptized with a date on his first lesson last week. he's 19 and he's really cool. but we havent been able to find him since. and there are these less active kids Lilly and Kevin. they really don't care for the church that much anymore. they were baptized about a year ago but stopped coming to church after a few months. when we met them this week i felt like they were important. that we need them to come back. especially Lilly. theyre both 15. we'll see what happens. if i could speak spanish i would have rebuked them right there. ha
thanks for all the emails love you all! talk to you next week. god bless
-elder glasgow
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