no pretty sure they don´t celebrate that one, i didn´t even realize it was st patrick´s day until the day after when another elder mentioned it. i have a green bag though so i would have been safe anyway :) and yeah just a few weeks ago we started a little english class, it´s alright i guess. i´m definitely not a school teacher so i don´t know what to do or what to talk about, but it´s fun. there´s a few that come cause they really do want to learn and even speak ok, but then a few that come just cause other people go or cause i´m white haha. but we do get a few non-members coming so who knows, something might come from it :) and i did hear about the pope, and i guess one might think that everyone would take up a new desire to be catholic, but it didn´t really happen. i guess the rumor was was that he was gonna be black cause that was some prophecy, so when everyone saw he was white they probably just didn´t care haha, who knows? and yes actually this package did get here, and it was great! i fell in love with the watch haha. and getting new shirts made me realize that mine are actually not very white at all haha. and i listened to the tape, and i was gonna mention about taylor, it was funny listening to him :) and then the other biggest surprise was isaac! he doesn´t sound like a little kid anymore! haha i may have laughed just a little bit, it was awesome! :)
well, i´ve been thinking about what to write this week, cause it was a little interesting, and i don´t know if i´m exactly proud of it haha, not that it´s anything bad, more just a little embarrassing. but i guess i´ll give it to you...:)
so, on saturday there was a baptism in the zone, and we decided to take marilyn, this girl that we had contacted and is super positive. so anyway we went and it was really cool. she loved it, and even cried a little bit. she kinda has a hard family life and is worried that no one will come from her family to her baptism to support her, so she´s a little sad, but really likes everything and is progressing well. so that was saturday in the morning, and that afternoon she came to our english class, but here´s where it gets interesting. so she got up and walked out, and then a few minutes my comp did the same, i didn´t really think anything of it cause there were other members in the church, but a few minutes later i decided i should go look for him, and so i left and found them two in this classroom talking. i told them that more or less they couldn´t do that, and my comp got kinda mad and i guess she felt super bad about it, she was just like i´m sorry i didn´t know i just had to tell him something, so we went back to the class and finished and everything, but after she was still bummed, so we went to talk to her, and my comp basically started the little chat with the question "elder paskett, what would you do if marilyn felt something for me?" i was just like i can´t answer that, and i think she should explain what´s going on first. so she was just like "ok look, elder paskett, i feel something for you, yeah?" and it just completely caught me off guard. i had no idea what to do or say. it was pretty awkward. she assured us that she´s getting baptized really because she wants to and feels that it´s right, and that this feeling came after, but it came. long story short she ended up just leaving before i could say anything, and when we went to get her for church the next morning it was even more awkward, and during church even more. i don´t know what to do. i tried talking with my ZL but he didn´t really have much advice for me either. it seems like it´s just a really fine line i´ve got to walk on now. needless to say we´re trying to make sure the members help us out even more, and she´s already made some really good friends in the ward, so we´ll see how it goes. i´m really not worried about me, i know i won´t do anything, but i´m more worried for her, cause she has progressed a ton and knows it´s true, so i don´t want her just to leave it. but yeah, i guess you can all decide when you see the picture of her baptism :)
and as you have probably noticed, we changed pday to today cause we wanted to go to the temple, and sad to say it, but this is the first time i´ve gone to the temple since the mtc! partly cause we couldn´t go when i was in david or in blas, so i have a little bit of an excuse, but it was kinda scary cause i didn´t hardly remember anything! plus it was in spanish so it was even more tough! but it went well. the temple here is pretty small, but super cool. i had forgotten a lot of things so it was good to go through again :)
the weather is slowly starting to change here, it´s rained probably twice in the last week, so that should mean the rainy season is coming up. i´m not really excited about that though. i think i´ve been pretty lucky in my mission cause i haven´t seen a lot of rain. in my first area it almost never rained, in david it did rain a little bit, but maybe only 3 or 4 times a week, and in blas it only rained at night so it was great. my last area rained just a little, and other than the last 2 times it´s rained it hasn´t for 2 months at least, so i consider myself fortunate :) i´m both excited and scared of the snow, cause i´m ready for some cold, but i think it might kill me haha.
well, i think that more or less sums this week up. we´re working hard, and i feel like we´ve got some really good investigators. we´ll be having a baptism this weekend so that´s always exciting. thanks again for the package, it was great, but super expensive! :) anyway i hope you have a great week, cuídense much, ¡hasta luego!
much love,
elder paskett
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