hey mom!
about the food, i know i get enough to eat cause i may be gaining a little weight haha. it`s cause we eat rice and chicken every day, almost without fail, so i put on weight. it`s dumb though, my comp eats like a pig and he stays skinny, then i try not to eat as much and i still get fat haha, oh well. i like the food now, or at least more than i did at the start. honestly i don`t know what i`m gonna eat when i get back home cause i won`t have rice or chicken haha. with daylight savings, we don`t do that here, we just stay the same. so does that mean you`re 2 hours behind me now? or one? lyce did send me an email about her blog, so i`ll check that out every once in awhile. it sounds like things could be worse at least. personally i`m excited. i know i don`t have to deal with them but it`ll be cool haha. dad mentioned my leaving date, to be completely honest, i keep coming back to october 24th. i still haven`t taken the decision yet, hermana ward said i still have a little time, so i`m still not sure and i`ll think about it some more, but honestly i`m leaning towards that right now.
well, this was a fairly interesting week down here. it started off well, we had a ton of investigators, almost too many that we didn`t know what to do with them, but about wednesday it all kinda went down hill. we went to visit one of our fechas, and we always teach her in a members house, so we went to the member`s house and she went over to get our investigator. she came back a few minutes later and apparently her boyfriend was over and when the member asked if she wanted to come talk to us, the boyfriend just was like "for what?" and i guess didn`t let her go. she`s been a little off and on with her boyfriend, like she likes the message and everything, but wants to move in with her boyfriend and doesn`t want to like leave him, so that was depressing. i thought she was pretty positive and was gonna get baptized, but at least in the near future no. then later that night we went to 2 other fechas, and that was a terrible visit too. the mom just flat out said that she doesn`t want to get baptized anymore and wouldn`t tell us why, and the dad just seemed to take it as a joke and won`t take it fullheartedly, so those 2 both fell too. that night i was just depressed. like i feel like we`re working so hard and doing all that we possibly can, but nothing is going right. ironically i shared this idea from a parable, in mark 4:26-29, and along with Jesus the Christ, it basically just talks about how the "missionary" can plant the seed, give it water, sunshine, take out weeds, do everything, but ultimately the growth of the seed is out of his control. he can leave to other business and do other work, and it can still grow, because it`s God that really makes the seed sprout. so i guess i just need to listen to my own teaching and what i read and trust in that God will do His part now that i`ve done mine, but it`s still tough. honestly sometimes i feel like i`ve worked super hard in my mission, i`ve been obedient, i`ve done what i`m supposed to, but i haven`t seen many fruits. maybe that`s just what i`ve been called to do, but it`s hard. i want to see fruits. and when people i`ve come to love tell me that they more or less don`t want these blessings, it hurts. but i`m trying to trust in God, i`ve done what i can.
so thursday after this rather depressing wednesday, we did have a cool experience. so we had a lot of free time cause a lot of people dropped us, and i decided we should start a little working closer to the church, so we went contacting for a little bit, and we ended up finding this 18 year old girl named marilyn. we had a super good lesson, and left behind a restoration pamphlet, and left. so on friday we had divisions, and we had a good day. i went to the other area and it was good. so i came back on saturday, and my comp told me about their day yesterday, and they went back to marilyn`s house, and the night before she had read the pamphlet and answered all the questions and did everything, and she prayed after and said she just felt something that was like "woooooo" or something like that haha. it makes a lot more sense saying it haha, but basically that was just her way of saying she felt the Spirit and knew it was true. she`s an awesome girl. it`s tough though cause she has a family that doesn`t really support her, and she often feels alone, so we`re gonna work with a few youth in the ward to get her involved in activites and stuff, so it should be good.
later that day i taught my first english class, and it was interesting haha. i`m not a teacher, and i didn`t know what to do, but it was fun. this member brought a ton of her non member friends and it was a fun class. they said they liked it, and that they were gonna bring another friend next time, so we`re gonna continue and i think we might see something from it. now i don`t know if they just go just cause i`m a "gringo" but oh well haha.
well i think that more or less sums it up for this week. it was a little slow and depressing and we lost a lot of really positive people, but we`ll keep plugging along. glad to hear as always that things are going well at home. the weather sounds nice too. down here the rainy season is starting to creep in, so i`m not too excited about that, but we`ll see how it goes :) hope you have a great week, and we`ll talk soon!
much love,
elder paskett
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