¡¡¡HOLA EVERYONE!!!
This week has been pretty chill not a whole lot of progress with the investigators but a lot of progress with me and my companion. First of all this week was ROASTING. I didn´t know that the sun and the air could make my skin feel like it was laying on a stove, but it can here, I was surpirsed I wasn´t getting blisters in my skin just from walking. It is so so so so hot. It was 100 degrees with 80% humidity on either Tuesday or Wednesday. We thought we were going to die, the other days were close to that but not quite so hot and sadly the natives told me this is nothing compared to summer. We are just in Spring . . . .YAY!!!! One of the elders was telling me that you knocked on every door you walked by just ot get a glass of water and by the time you make to the next house 10 feet away you have sweated off twice as much water as you just drank. Then he said that you don´t walk in straight lines in the Summer, you run from tree shade to tree shade. All I have to say is I´m excited!!! We went home and changed three times on the really hot day just because you could wring the sweat out of our clothes!!! Well yeah it´s hot . . . anyways on with my life . . . this week was a week full of AMAZING and I mean AMAZING meetings!!!
First meeting: We had a leadership meeting for my companion that they wanted all the new missionaries to come to too and so it was really good. We talked about the Book of Mormon and how the mission needs to up their baptisms. President Callan gave a really great 6 hour class and we learned a ton, were quite humbilied and have a whole new drive that we are really excited about. I just love President Callan, he is such an inspired man. He said everything that we needed to be working on and he is just great. President Callan sends out a letter every week of something to work on that week and then we have a zone conference every other change and then interviews every other change and now there is this leadership meeting for all the trainers, Distric Leaders, and zone leaders every other change and so we get to receive a lot of help and a lot of inspiracion from this amazing man!!! At first he seemed really quiet and timid but I have found that he is very funny and just amazing. I´m blessed to have such a great mission president.
Next is General Conference we have a couple of amazing and scary experiences with General Conference. I know dad has warned me about the rain but when you have investigators to get to conference then you have to push through. Well Saturday we wake up to a cloudy sky and then we call the Paniagua house to see if we were still going to eat lunch with them. Well Ramona answers the phone and tells us that a huge storm is coming and we need to stay inside. Well we just assumed it was being Paraguan paranoia about the storms but it was actually pretty bad, like we were in life danger but we were definitely wading through rivers and soaking wet within a few seconds. So I´ll start with the funny story of Saturday and then I´ll end with the spiritual one. So first of all it was like 9 and we headed out of the apartment to go find investigators for conference at 12 well we walked out the door of our apartment and there was a naked lady running our in front of our apartment complex. Both me and Hermana Knapp were really surprised, we live on one of the most public roads in Asuncion and the most public road in our neighborhood and there was this naked lady running around and washing her clothes in the gutter water coming off the roof. It was quite the surprise and we were laughing pretty hard. Then we spent the rest of the day with water up to mid-calf trying to get different places. Well we got to conference and they were trying and trying to get the satelite to work and it wasn´t working. Well no one showed up to conference because of the rain and so it was 14 missionaries and like 5 of our ward members sitting in the chapel. Well 12 came and went without the satelite working then 1230 came and went, we started calling around to the other chapels to see if someone had it working but no one had it working in the other chapel that was showing conference. Well we sat there until about 1 and then the zone leaders gathered up us missionaries and we headed into a classroom. We all knelt down and said a prayer that conference would work. We got done with the prayer and we all headed back to the chapel and the second, literally the second we stepped into the chapel, conference turned on. IT was such a miracle and we are so blessed to be able to hear conference and get the learn from the living prophet and apostals because they teach us what we need in these days, and what is important. We are truly blessed to be a part of this gospel and have the joy and happiness it brings, it doesn´t bring a temporary joy it brings a lasting, eternal joy. There is so much confusion in the world and so many problems but as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints we have the blessing of saying that we know who we are, we know where we are going, and we know the purpose of this life which is to have faith in Jesus Christ, repent and change those things that draw us away from Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father, come unto him through baptism, receive his guidance in this life through the gift of the Holy Ghost and then work everyday, try everyday to be better and read the scriptures, pray and keep the commandments of God. I testify this is where the peace and the joy is, this is what life is about, nothing else will bring that peace or that joy, NOTHING ELSE!!!
Love you all
Hermana Hubbard
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