yeah that doesn´t really help me decide when i want to come home...haha. it´s just a tough decision. i still haven´t come closer to choosing cause i hear different opinions from everyone. i guess i´ll keep thinking about it. i´m not sure by what date i need to decide, so we´ll see how it goes. as far as applying goes, i really don´t know what to do. i would think that right now it doesn´t really matter too much, but i´ll look a little more into it in the summer. i´m sure it´ll take a few hours to get it all done, so yeah i´ll just have to pick a pday and work on it. ok and with the packages, i haven´t heard any other news. if you really want to you can send another one, cause it seems less likely ever day that it´s gonna come, but i´m surviving with what i have now. so i´ll leave it up to you :)
interesting about what dad said about my comp, cause i more or less did that this week. so one day just about every one of our citas fell, and just no one wanted to talk to us, and my comp was still being kinda dumb and would walk 30 steps behind me on the other side of the street, so things were just out of control and i couldn´t take it. so i just went to the house, and he came it, kinda avoided me for awhile, went to the bathroom, did whatever, and i just sat and waited for him. he finally sat down, and i said look dude we gotta talk. he asked about what, and i said you know perfectly well what. i tried to be nice about it, like not really place any blame and i shared a scripture and said things gotta change, but he just got mad and kinda ripped me apart. he listed off all these things i was doing wrong and how it was all my fault that things were bad and said some really stupid things actually, so i got mad then. i told him i wasn´t trying to attack anything, but after that i kinda let him have it. i told him he had to change and had to follow the rules and a bunch of other things, but he said he just doesn´t care. i said there´s no way we´re gonna help anyone if things are so bad between us, and we´re never gonna bring the Spirit to people´s houses if we don´t follow the rules, and he just tells me that he always feels the Spirit when he teaches, so i must have a problem since i don´t feel it. short of giving all the little details, he just said some really dumb things. we sat there in silence for a few minutes, and i asked him what needs to change then. he just asked ok what do i need to change. so i told him things he did well, but that he needed to follow a few more rules. then i asked him what i needed to change, and i accepted it, then we kinda made up a little bit, hugged it out, and we went on with the day. that was like wednesday, and until then i was just wondering why i was there, cause we weren´t doing anything. i felt bad cause we have a lot of people to teach, but we couldn´t help them as things were going. it seems after that day it kinda picked up, but things aren´t exactly good still.
because of all the changes in ages and time in the mtc and stuff, this change got changed from a 6 weeker to 9, so we don´t have changes until the 20th, so about 2 weeks. honestly this has kind of turned into one of the hardest changes in my mission. i´ve never had a comp like this, and it´s tough. this week was probably the first time i thought about going home since my first change because i just didn´t feel like i was doing anything good or right, and i couldn´t take it. so i´m just trying to endure and do what i´m supposed to, cause my comp more or less told me he won´t change. we´ll see how this week goes, but yeah it´s still a little tough.
i wanted to tell you a little bit about this one family we´re trying to help. so they come from way back when elder clarke was here, a year ago now. they´re a super cool family, and it´s really tough that they haven´t gotten baptized still. when elder clarke was here they went to the temple with president and ate in his house and everything, had heard all the lessons, gone to church and everything, but then elder clarke´s companion left and for whatever reason they just never got baptized. i guess the next elder that came with elder clarke told people he was afraid of their son and never felt the Spirit in their house and would always walk by without saying hi so they just got really turned off. and since then the elders haven´t passed by consistently and they´re mad that an elder of the church would do something like that. the weird thing is that when i was in david, for a valid reason that i don´t have the time to explain :) me and the comp that was with elder clarke that then left and so they didn´t get baptized, we went by their house and talked with them a little bit, and they ended up giving us some new church shoes for nothing. i told them that day that i would have to do something awesome for them if i ever got to come to this area, and now that i´m here i´ve gotta be true to my word. so we´re trying to work with them, and i´ve got high hopes for them :)
i do have some sad news too. so like saturday morning my comp went outside and asked me if i had taken down my hammock, cause i had put it up outside to just chill in, and i told him no, and when i went outside my hammock was gone! someone had taken it during the night! i was so mad haha, that was my blas hammock! i slept in that guy for 2 months! haha and now it´s gone...i guess i´ll need to go buy another one now, but it just won´t mean the same haha. now that means i´ve had my hammock stolen, my ipod, and a lost pair of shoes on top of that (i don´t know if i ever told you that, but i lost those running shoes we got, and i lost them like my 2nd change:) and man i´ve lost a lot of money!
but i think that more or less sums up my week. we do have some really cool people to teach right now. we´re getting this couple married so they can get baptized and everything is going great with that so that´s good. this should be a better week. i´m happy things are good at home. we´ll talk next week!
much love,
elder paskett
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