not much time for this letter but this week was great. had a baptism on thursday that i ended up performing. such a cool experience. i was gonna send pics but i didnt have an opportunity to buy a new camera today. i'll try next week.
other updates, i found a crepe shop in my area, i'll let you know how it goes after i try it out this week. im going on another division w/ Elder Schmidt tomorrow, so that should be lit. do people say lit anymore? i feel like i've been gone so long.
thanks for the pics its good to see your faces. cannon and annalee didnt want to come with you on vacation?
man i miss vacations like that haha even if i was home right now, i wouldnt have gone on any or felt the need to. i guess the mission shows you how many things you took granted in your previous life haha be safe, and safe travels
so Lara's baptism was on thursday. that morning we ran to her house to create the agenda, and Elder Villacreses put into her mind that i should baptize her. so thursday night i went swimming in the baptismal font haha it was a great experience. got through the whole thing in spanish without breaking a sweat. the spirit was so strong there. she was different than our other investigators. i knew that even though shes only 9, she really has a desire to follow the commandments and Christ.
we have some other dates but most of them are really iffy. its really hard to get people to keep commitments. especially church attendance. all of our investigators are in the chacarita. its like a really poor village in the center of asuncion. its probably 5 miles from the church bldg. and there arent any buses that run from the chacarita to the chapel. so its nigh impossible to get attendances. and people are also really lazy. so we have dates for 5 people right now but i think only one of them is really for sure. his name is gabriel, he's my age. we met him a couple weeks ago and we extended the baptismal invitation with a date and he accepted both. but we havent been able to teach him for two weeks now because he's been in concepcion since christmas. but we meet with him on christmas eve and he told us when he came back he would listen to us and then get baptized. he sounded really excited so i think it's for sure.
we have other investigators but no one is progressing. no one follows through with commitments. its not difficult to find people to teach but they never want to actually hear our lesson, they just want to talk to us cuz they're friendly. so we visit people week after week but they just want to talk, not live the gospel that we're teaching. its kind of a bummer but there is always that person we find every once in a while who is just awesome and ready to recieve the gospel. afterwards its just a little hard to find them to teach them again. people are never at their houses, so when we find people to teach, its rarely the person who actually lives there, so its hard to find them there again.
we find a lot of inactives. the church here has about 300 people baptized in our area but only about 70 attend. we try to have lessons with them but they usually go inactive for a reason. they know its true, but they just dont have a desire to follow or they dont want to, and for that all we can do is pray for them.
the members here are so lazy. they never hand out references, our ward mission leader is all talk, too. he's active and tells us he'll go out with us but when we ask he always says he's too busy. i want to give a talk in church so i can drop the cane on everyone.
my first transfer wasnt that big of a deal. i didnt go anywhere neither did my comp. i doubt i'll leave moroni, not for another 3 months at least. i finish my training at the end of this change. we read and do exercises in a book for trainers and trainees. it helps with development of newbies. i think its a bunch of bologna but we do it all the same. i think my spanish is improving. i can go into about any store or building and converse with most people. i'd say i understand about 75 % of lessons. i just talk sooo slow. people here talk a million miles a minute. its so difficult to discern sometimes.
god bless, everyone. hope you had a great new year, hope 2017 is full of success. in the meantime, i'll keep trucking it out here in paraguay. suerte.
-Elder Glasgow
A visitor sent us this picture of Chase at church. Said he was doing fine.
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