Happy Thanksg...cumpleanos

Dear everyone,

Cool thing of the week: Noah's flood basically happened in Itaugau friday night. If Utah got rain like that once a year, ain't nobody ever gonna complain about no draught! hahahah the streets turned into rivers!!! so what did we do? We took our shoes off, put our scriptures in plastic bags, and we walked anyways. HA! It was so fun!!! I didn't have to shower the next day because it rained so much. XD Chiste but really I didn't have to wash my makeup off so #blessins. 

We're fighting a terrible disease here. It's called tell-the-missionaries-you-want-to-be-baptized-and-then-disappear-forever syndrome. It's happened with literally every investigator we had this week. I feel like my life is a giant game of hide and seek. Oh gee. So we'll see what happens with that. 

Mauro and Leticia both set days to be baptized!!... in july. Mauro has to get divorced before he can marry Leticia, and divorces cost a LOT. And he's unemployed. And then even after the divorce goes through, they have to wait three months before they can get married again. Soooooo God is a god of miracles and I'm really feeling like they'll be baptized in March. We'll see. 

Cool scripture: Mosiah 23: 20-24. I received a lot of guidance from this one this week. 

AND WHO'S EXCITED FOR CHRISTMAS!!? I made a paper chain countdown!!! We also are writing the 12 days of paraguayan christmas. Here's a sneak peek.

On the first day of Christmas my companion gave to me 

A terere that I can't drink. 

....the second day of Christmas my companion gave to me

two mangy dogs 

and a terere that I can't drink

and the third?

three empanadas,

two mangy dogs and a terere that I can't drink!

It's a work in progress. 

Besos from Paraguay, 

Hna Scott


Bonus Mom email material. More Q & A:

How much door knocking do you do? we knock doors quite often... but its actually clapping doors hahah knocking isn't a thing here. A lot of people just invite us in off the streets and we teach mini lessons, but its hard to find people that are interested in the gospel and not the United States. 

What cultural thing do they do there that you wished we did in the US? uhhh a cultural thing?... hmmmm families just sit around and talk. Like they put their chairs in the front yard and everybody sits around and drinks terere and they just talk. For hours and hours. Mom, dad, kids, neighbors, cousins, everybody. It's cool.