Blood, Sweat, Tears, Parasites, Etc

Hi everybody!! 

This week was iiinsaaaaaaaaaaane. 

SERGIO IS GETTING BAPTIZED TOMORROW!!!! I'M SO EXCITED!!! We are planning everything, and he passed his entrevista [interview] and he's so excited!!! We are making dessert and he chose me to give a talk on the Espiritu Santo [Holy Ghost] so pray for me on that one hahaha. 

"How it feels to have a baptism this week. Please don't judge me"

Oh and THREE PEOPLE came to church!!! We had two menos activos [less actives] that we worked with and they both came!! And then we met this guy Sebastian who basically invited himself to be baptized when we met him Saturday night. Okay I have to tell you this! So we knocked on this door because our other cita [appointment] fell through and we meet this guy, right, and we say the opening prayer and he's like, "So you guys said something about baptism, right? I want to start over in my life, I want to be closer to God. I say little prayers every day, but I feel like I need to do something more. What do you have to do to be baptized?" This is Saturday night, right? He comes to Church the NEXT DAY and he's like, yeah, I read the entire chapter you left me yesterday in my LDM. I feel something in my heart when I read it. And we're like, what!?!? THEN after church he said, "I never knew I wasn't supposed to work on Sunday, but I learned today. I'm going to rearrange my schedule so I don't have to work sunday." :O So he's committed to be baptized in four weeks. 

AKA God blessed us so much!!! I am really feeling the love and I'm SO excited to keep working this week!!! We are so excited for everything, I'll let you know how it goes!!!! 

Reading assignment: 1 Nephi 21. I love that the Lord has "graven [us] on the palms of [his] hands." We use our hands for everything!!! The Lord cannot forget us. He literally can't. He chose to keep these marks on His hands, despite His resurrected body, and why? So that he will know how to succor His people. 2 Nephi 2. 

Love all of you!!!! :D HAPPY 1st BAPTISM WEEK!!! Celebrate with me!!!

Hna Scott

Other Things that Happened this Week:

-we didn't have electricity for 24 hours. aka no air conditioning. that was a prueba.

-hna Noorda got a fever

-I made us stay home for a day with some kind of heat exhaustion sickness thingy?

- got hit on by a drunk guy on the bus!!! XD Oh jeez it was scary but also funny. He kept saying "My name is Zacarias, like in the Bible. You're a missionary. Jesus is in you, Jesus is in me, Jesus is in everything." Wow. #palabradesabiduria  [wise words]

-accidentally stood on an anthill, my entire right leg is covered in bites

-i lost 15 mil on the street. :( que pucha. [?]

- we had divisions!!! I went to limpio with Hna Jones and I learned so much!!! It was awesome to go and see how a pro faces the mission. I wrote like three pages in my journal of stuff I learned. The most important thing I think, is that she taught me that our personalities are gifts of God and when we teach we should teach with our personality because it makes things interesting and easier for people to relate to us. :) 

- we committed three people to baptism!!!!

-We got parasites!!! Whoo! we are real paraguayas now!!! It's this bug called pique and it climbs in your feet and lays eggs!!! :D Hna Noorda had one really bad and she also has a fear of needles so that was a reaaaaaaaaal problem (i feel so bad I was laughing at her but it was one of those laugh or cry moments and it was kinda funny!!!) But no worries we fished them out like slivers and we are now pique-free. Apparently they are really common.