Jack - November 13

Hey guys this week kinda flew by, kinda, it´s more or less that I´m having trouble remembering everything we did. It´s also probably because I´m a bit sick this week. It feels like we didn´t get much done this week, which is a bummer, we had some great goals for finding people to be able to teach that didn´t really work out. Exchanges last week were pretty fun though, I was with Elder G from Paraguay and he´s pretty cool, he was really excited to do exchanges with me so he could practice his english haha. He really wants to learn english its cool, he´s probably one of the most dedicated to learning it out of the missionaries here. He´s a funny guy though, before we went to bed at the end of the day we were talking and he said he wants to marry a North American and live in America. Apparently he doesn´t like Paraguay. He´s a cool guy though, he´s 25 I think (but much smaller than me) and so when one of their investigators asked how old we were he´s like ¨25¨ then he looks at me and I say ¨18¨ and his face was hilarious, he did like a double take and everyone burst out laughing haha. Also during intercambios we ¨taught¨ one of their investigators who is Brazilian and wow does he like to talk, I had such a headache because he basically talked for 2 hours in more or less spanish and portuguese mixed together, while we read scriptures or said like one sentence every once in a while. It was crazy, but he´s actually a good investigator. In my sector we had some good lessons with our investigators this week but not much more. Our best lesson was with the family I think I wrote a little about a week or two ago that has like no food or water, we taught the father of that family about faith, prayer, the Holy Ghost, and Baptism. But it was crazy because the first time we were at their appartment it was a mess, with random things everywhere, it was dimly lit and filthy, and they didn't look too great either. But this time it was way way way cleaner and everything was more or less organised, they looked clean and happy, it was a crazy change. All of that and the dad understood and agreed with everything we taught him, like it was something he already knew he just didn´t know how to describe it. We have another lesson with their whole family this wednesday, though actually he´s the one who insisted we set up the appointment. It was great. Other than our lessons we tried really hard especially near the end of the week to meet our goals to find new investigators to teach. So we spent whole days passing by all of the people or references that were receptive when we contacted them but nobody was there or they were busy. We literally went through all the people we knew, and did more contacting in the streets and at houses but nothing worked. It was a couple long days with a lot of walking and it didnt help that I am a bit sick. This sunday directly after church though we set up a table with pamphlets and pass along cards and other things and talked to all the members about missionary work and invited them all to share with people they know and it was awesome. We´ve been having trouble finding people to teach in this sector but we figure that we have a really good ward so we´re planning on working with the ward to find people. Also one couple that lived in Utah for a little bit invited us to a Thanksgiving dinner later this month, so thats cool!

Anyways that was our week, I hope everyone is doing well back home!

Elder Blaylock