Fam!!!! Hope you guys are rockin' it.
Ok, I have a ton of random things to tell you about so prepare for whiplash.
I want you all to know that I´ve been eating bananas like crazy. I don´t know what´s wrong with me, but all of a sudden I like them. I eat them with everything. My new favorite thing for breakfast is Pan con Dulce de Leche, bananas with cinnamon sugar.
This week we walked along the border of Paraguay. Legit. Also, because we are so close to Paraguay a lot of people speak Guarani. A lot of the missionaries have been trying to learn Guarani because a ton of people here speak it. We teach some people that speak Guarani and Spanish so every once and a while we have them translate some words for us. Honestly it all sounds the same to me, like a jumble, so I´m trying to focus on Spanish first, haha.
My mind gets so confused. Sometimes I think I´m talking in English but it comes out Spanish and sometimes I think Spanish and it comes out English. The hardest is when we are teaching a lesson and there is North American music playing in the streets. English in one ear and Spanish in the other. My brain literally hurts at night when I go to bed.
Epi and Ignacio. Oh man they are champs. They have 12 kids, and then those kids all have a bunch of kids and then they have three pigs, a ton of dogs, 30 chicken/roosters and a parrot that talks. They all live in the same house. We go to pick them up for church and they are like, "Oh church! Let us get ready!" All the hundreds of children strip down and hop into this giant bucket and they take a bath and wash their hair in the spigot in their front yard. Exactly like girls camp when we wash our hair in the spit. Except for at camp, that´s not real life, it´s just a week. Luckily Epi and Ignacio only washed their hair. But. Good news! They want to get married. Yay! It´s awesome that there are so many people in their family because there are lots of people to bring the gospel to! But. The hard part is we never know who to plan for because cada vez we teach a differente persona.
Sabastian. Oh man. He came to church on Sunday and now he doesn´t drink or smoke. Holla. He is awesome. I'm so excited about him. He reads and he understands and he is just SO ready. Totally prepared. Pray for his sister! She has a crunchy shell.
I seriously get nervous every time we sing in Sacrament Meeting because it's always an adventure. SO, as for this week- I´m playing the piano and we are singing Senior Te Nessicito or I need thee every hour and an investigator of the Elders who is a little drunk, I´m pretty sure, stands up and starts praising God, Hallelujah Style and runs to the sacrament table. There are only like, 15 people there so the songs are quiet anyway, but everyone stop singing in shock and didn´t know what to do. I just kept awkwardly playing through the song and about the same time I played through all the verses, the Elders had her sitting in her seat again. Interesting.
It´s been raining like crazy!!!!!! We´ve been rockin' the block in rain botas and jackets. So much mud!!!!
This week I´ve been studying in Alma. Moroni is in charge these days and there are two different times that he´s like, "If you are going to fight against the people of God and not help us out then we are going to kill you." And then he does. At first, I was like, uhhh, he´s crazy. But God knows that everyone is probably going to think that and so He says right there in the scriptures that we need to be like Moroni and that if everyone is like him, Satan won´t have power over us. I was thinking about it a lot. There is NO room for bad in our lives. And we can´t be slack or accepting of ANYTHING bad. We have to get rid of everything bad. Kill the bad habits. Kill the bad thoughts. We can´t just put it to the side or ignore the little things, we have to ELIMINATE everything that isn´t of God. Gotta kill 'em.
Anyway,
I love you all!!!!
Have the best week ever!!!!
Megan
