This past week was a fairly slow one. We went to Laguna Blanca to visit with the less actives there. The reason for the visit is that an evangelical pastor there is visiting the members active, less active, and investigators. He is showing them some sort of anti-Mormon video. President del Castillo wants us to go there and visit for the next three weeks. Apparently the video talks about all of the benefits that the members in the states receive that the people here don't. I don't know exactly what the whole situation is but we'll be visiting members for the next 3 weeks or so. This past Saturday I was in the Toba colony with the District President. He bought chipa for my comp and I. We enjoyed some tasty pomelo juice (grapefruit).
On Sunday, we had a much better turn out. Elder Pruess gave his first complete talk. He was assigned to talk about the atonement and did a good job. During his talk, two of the sisters in the meeting couldn't contain themselves and starting laughing during his talk from something he said. It was funny to watch the two sisters place the hymn books in front of their faces to cover themselves from the view of Elder Pruess. You should have seen how much those two hymn books were shaking as the sisters kept laughing. One of the sisters got up and left for a few minutes because she couldn't handle it. I asked my comp later if he had seen the two sisters. He told me that he hadn't because he had his head down the whole time just reading what he wrote. I think it is good thing that he didn't look up.
Yesterday as we were out “tracting” we found a coati (South American version of the raccoon) in someone's yard. We are planning on returning later to speak with the family a little more and take some photos. The kid that lives there told us it is their pet and that they had bought it from some Paraguayan salesman that came by their house. What don’t the Paraguayans sell.
We continue to work towards some baptisms but our investigators just aren’t making it there. We have one hopeful at this moment and two others that are near hopeful. I really hope that the members start helping us out a lot more. We handed out a bunch of reference papers with questions on them to help the members think of their friends. I believe that we will see some success from the papers.
Zone conference was really good. President talked all about the last week of Christ's life and I learned a ton. I didn't know that President del Castillo was in the area presidency of South America South. I also found another a story in the Liahona that he wrote. That puts him to a total of 2 articles in the Liahona.
We had a really good turn out to our weekly branch family home evening. We held it in the house of a sister that can't go to church for health reasons. She thoroughly enjoyed having the members in her house to share some time together. I gave the lesson and another sister came up with the activity which had to do with scripture searching. If you lost the scripture search, you had to pick a candy out of a mound of flour with your teeth. It was fun to watch them get flour on their faces.
As for the conference call this next Saturday it would be best to do it around 1pm our time. I can't do it later because we have a zone activity a little later. I also need a way to call home. I wasn't able to get a hold of a calling card this time around and they don't exist here in Clorinda. I hope that you can find a solution for that problem. Love you all and we’ll be talking soon. Chau
Con amor,
Elder Hunsaker
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