hey mom!
wow that`s super nuts and awesome with trev! trev`s a good guy. i know we kinda hated each other before his mission, or maybe it was only kinda one sided on my part...haha but i`ve always looked up to him. he`s definitely a good example, so congrats! he deserves it :) and yeah i got pretty sick, and for some reason i still had it almost all this week. monday and tuesday it kinda was going away, but it came back and even today i`m coughing a little bit and just don`t feel normal. i think it`s cause i`m just not sleeping at all anymore. i don`t know what`s wrong with me. my comp says almost nightly i talk in my sleep, that one time it even seemed like i was like mad and my tone of voice was just like negative haha, he says i talk in both english and spanish, but i don`t know. i don`t know if i`m just stressed out or something, but for a good 3 or 4 weeks i just haven`t been sleeping. it`s hard cause then i`m wasted during the day, and when i get home i`m tired and want to go to bed, but just don`t sleep well at all. i don`t know, i guess we`ll see how it goes :) as far as money goes, i recently bought a little yoga kit, just like a mat, and a pair of somewhat cheap shoes, so i`m pretty sure that my account is empty now, but i would say that if you put money in, i would just do it like my last month so i`m not tempted to buy anything dumb. i just need a few soccer jerseys, maybe a few bags for you guys too, and maybe a few other things, but for right now it`s no big deal :) and congrats on your new calling! you`ll do good :) that`s something that i`m still not very good at, teaching big groups. give me 2 or 3 or 4 and i`ll be ok, but a big class is hard for me. i just feel like i can`t be as personal and see what the needs are of each person. but you`ll do good i know :)
well, we had a pretty decent week. i hope i didn`t tell you this story, but it`s about a lady called betty. so one day we decided to leave with a recent convert to visit some neighbors and see if we couldn`t find anything. nothing was really happening though, so we stopped at this one house to buy some ice cream, cause that`s how things are around here, every few houses someone sells ice cream or ice or things called "duros," and what they are are just bags filled with like kool aid or some sugary liquid, but it`s frozen. just like a popsicle i guess. they`re good. anyway, we stopped to get some ice cream, and ended up talking with this lady, betty, for a little. she`s a little old lady that is in that house to kinda care for her grandson cause his mom is working and stuff, so she comes to help. so we start talking with her and ask if we could share something with her, and she said yes. so we sat down, chatted for a little bit, and it was good i guess, just like an average contact, so we put another appointment and that was that. we`ve gone back twice now, and she is super awesome. she`s one of those that the Lord has prepared, and it`s cool. she shared a story once that she`s always been catholic, but just never felt anything, and one day she was super sick and it was right after her son had just died too, so she was just like depressed, and she said one day she was just in her bed and just said like she thought it was a punishment from God and she was like ok now i just turn it all over to you God, and i`ll do what you want me to do. so she went to a few other churches for a few years but just never felt like it was the thing God wanted. but we come, and she said she feels really good with what we`ve taught her, and really wants to keep learning more and go to church and everything. it was super spiritual though. she`s all crying and it was just awesome. the only bad thing is that she`s only here in my area during the week, cause she lives somewhere else and so she`s there from saturday to monday, so she`ll never go to church with us, and officially it won`t be our baptism, but i`ll still say she was mine :) she`s just a sweet little old lady, so i really hope she gets baptized. we don`t know if she went to church yesterday, so we`ll talk to her later this week to see.
another cool guy, whose name is ernan, he was also a contact one day, and it was a very typical contact, not positive, but not negative either, so we put another appointment and we came back a few days later. we start talking with him for a little bit, and we asked him how his day was and everything, and he was just like well honestly not very good, it was a pretty tough day, cause i just got back from the funeral of my dad, so it`s tough. we were just like oh that`s terrible and talked to him about his dad for a little, and then tried to talk about the plan of salvation. it went super well. we start talking, and we would do a few questions here and there, and he would respond, but mostly just sat there, quiet, listening. he just looked like he was absorbing it and loved it. we just reassured him that it`s possible to see him again, and it was just awesome. we ended and everything, and asked if we could end with a prayer. he was like yeah that`s fine, could we do it inside? we`re like yeah for sure, so we go in, and he calls his whole family, his wife and 3 girls, and we talk for a little bit, then pray, and leave. i thought it was just cool. just how he was listening and wanted to pray with his family, and so i have high hopes for him and his family now :)
a cool little interesting news bit, the other day i saw a comercial for beer down here, and it said that one 12 ounce can of beer costs 44 cents, which is crazy since a normal 12 ounce can of soda around here is 65. beer down here is like free! it`s crazy! it`s no wonder everyone is just drunk all the time haha, i think it may even be cheaper that just pure water! i don`t know how they do it! but yeah, weird :)
and i think that about wraps it up. still a little sick this week, but we found a few new people to teach and everything so we should have a good last week of the change. changes are the 26th, and i think my comp should leave cause he already has 4 changes here, so he should leave and i should stay, but i guess we``ll see. as far as the new president goes, i don`t know anything. i know he`s from like new jersey, and i`ve seen his picture like once, but that`s about it. i`m sure he`s a good guy though so it should be good. thanks for everything, i`m glad that everyone is well, congrats to trev again, and to karissa for her big new job :) and lyce and chip with they`re getting bigger babies, i`m happy :) so i hope this week is great as well!
much love,
elder paskett
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