June 3, 2013

hey mom!

 

yeah it worked just fine, and it sounds like it was an exciting week so i´m happy! congrats to karissa for graduating! i hope she went to the little party thing after, if there even was one. it´s pretty stupid, we just went to boondocks, nothing too exciting, but it´s something you´ll never get to do again, so you gotta take advantage of it while you can. not that i want to go back to highschool, but looking back i realize i could have had so much more fun haha, worked a little harder too, i guess that´s always the bad thing. in the moment you never really appreciate what you have, and then you look back and have regrets, you just gotta learn the way to get over that! speaking of yellowstone, last pday we went to this place called Cerro Azul, and it reminded me a lot of yellowstone. the animals no, but the scenery and everything yes. there are a surprising amount of pine trees here, and driving through all these pine trees made me think of yellowstone. dad would love the scenery down here. i honestly havent seen too many animals, and despite the fact there´s a lot of garbage here, its really a beautiful country. i´ll be sure to think of trev too, but i know he´ll do fine. he´s always been the smartest one in the family, so i´m not worried. not to say that it wont be hard, but i´m sure he´ll do great :)

 

things are pretty good down here too. it was a fairly quiet week, but we were blessed to have a few baptisms yesterday, so that´s always exciting. i did get kinda bummed out a few times this week though. so there´s this one family, familia hernandez, that has known the missionaries for like 7 years, have gone to church who knows how many times, the mom went to the temple open house, they know like everything, but just haven´t been baptized. we talked to the mom on like thursday i think, and we talked a little bit about that.  it was tough cause she basically said it was all true and she knew it, and she shared this dream that even though she didnt know it had to do a lot with the temple, but said she doesn´t dare for some reason. she said her mom is super catholic and she was talking to her about the church and stuff, and her mom said something along the lines of how there can only be one true church, and she seems to just be hung up on that. i know she´s got her answer and knows it all, but just is afraid to take the step. they´re super cool though and would be such a solid family, so we really want to work with them. they´ve never gone to the temple as a family, and so we want to take them and invite president ward too and i think that would be the thing to do it. the funny thing, or interesting i guess is that she said her husband will have like a month of vacations coming up here pretty quick, so i think this might be the time. we´re gonna work hard with them, and i think that would just be the best thing ever to see them get baptized!

 

we did divisions once this week too, and so i went  to the other area to see how things are going. we went to see a few people, and they´ve been teaching this lady, hermana esperanza for a little bit now, and we went to see her that day. she´s an older lady, and had talked with missionaries years ago, and it was just a super good lesson. she was super nice, gave us some (unintentionally, i think) burned popcorn, and some juice, and was just friendly and it was cool. they had left 3 nephi 11 to read, and so we talked about that a little. it went super well, and i know the Spirit was there testifying of what we were teaching, and we invited her to be baptized, and in my heart i knew she was gonna say yes, but for some reason she just didn´t. that´s always tough, when i know the Spirit is there and it´s super strong, and i know they´re feeling it too, but they don´t accept it. and even though she´s not my investigator, i worry about her and hope that some day she will get baptized, and i think she will.

 

umm trying to think...it was a fairly quiet week. we worked hard, had a good week. i´m excited to be here. me and my comp are doing super well, no problems there. i think he might end up being one of my favorite comps. the area is good. we´re actually  lacking a little bit on new investigators, but we´ll do some searching this week, so i´m not too worried. and yeah we just had a few baptisms so we´re happy. this is president wards last change as mission president, he goes home like july 2 or 3 or something, and he said that ever since he got here his dream has been to have like 180 baptisms in one month, so he´s trying to pump the mission up to do that as his going away present, and so we´ll see if we can´t help out a little more :) but i think that´s about it. not too much to say, but again i´m glad everyone and everything is good. good luck to trev and karissa with their tests, and to the babies with chip and lyce too. and i hope the yellowstone trip is enjoyable too :) have a great week!

 

much love,

 

elder paskett