Day 82

¡Hola Familia!
Another week of amazing-ness. i told my companion a lot this week how fast the time seemed to go. these past few weeks have just flown by!!! last monday, we never went to play more futbol, but we took a bus with another district to go to the beach. it was so awesome there but we couldnt go in... that was kind of a downer. BUT- we are planning on going again to play some futbol and eat some vaca loca (sandwich place that is incredible with eggs and milanesa, and every amazing thing imaginable). should be great. one time on the bus, it was only me and e´ escobar in the back of the bus with 3 lamanitas (we call them that sometimes because they are darker than the other people and they arent the nicest) ahead of us. we watched them very closely and they were so dumb with all of their hand signals and they would turn around a lot to watch us. we knew they wanted ´´all the money that we carried with us all the time´´. at one bus stop, as the doors starting closing again, we jumped off the bus and just ran away. it was intense but it was pretty fun too. we looked back and they all stood up on the bus to follow but there was nothing they could do. i felt like jason bourne or something. i also had some samuel the lamanite experiences as well this week. one time we were walking down this hill and this dog starting attacking me but a huge rock the size of my fist pegged the dog in the neck. we looked over and there were some punks throwing rocks at us but we just walked away and none of them hit us. the dog started pursuing us again because it was possessed or something and i heard it whelp again as we left. awesome.
there is a book that my comp is reading right now called the ´´teachings of the prophet joseph smith´´ and he tells me that i should get it in english because there was a lot of stuff in there that blew his mind and he would make loud noises when he read something awesome. i want to read really bad so i am going to ask pte peterson if i can get it in english or something but i think i could be fine reading it in castellano too... i saw a 3 legged dog and a puppy kill a cat together. that was something i will probably never see again and my comp really enjoyed watching it. that puppy was so brave.
ihadthe opportunity to give a woman a blessing of healing this week. when we talked to her, she was crying and miserable saying her heart was really hurting and the doctors dont know what is wrong with her. her eyes were very heavy and she had difficulties breathing. i asked her ´´do you have faith in Jesus Christ?´´. she said she did so i offered to give her a blessing of healing and she accepted. in ten minutes she was a completely different person and she was laughing as we left the house. she hasnt come to church though and she wont get married to her ´´partner´´ because she was married before and she doesn´t want to be married to anyone else. we had 3 investigators come to church yesterday!!!!!!! that was HUGE!!! rosa and her daughter came, rosa wants to be baptized but her ´´partner´´ is already married to a woman in peru with 2 kids and he wont get divorced to marry her. maxi also came. he is 14 and he came to church all by himself. his dad was baptized like 20 years ago but is now menos activo his family is very cool and none of them are members. yet. i taught the lesson for him all by myself because my comp went to teach a different class for sunday school and i had direct the class for investigators. i just starting talking about the espiritu santo and everything just went from there. i surprised myself with how well i was able to do it and i am glad i had the help from my father in heaven. now, maxi wants to baptized but we havent taught his family anything so far. it was so awesome. we had divisions with other elders in the area next to ours. elder perez stayed the night in my pension while my comp stayed at the other place. we worked a whole day together but the day was very strange. pte peterson asked us to complete a survey online so we went to a ciber close to e´ perez´s pension and we had a little extra time before our next cita. he wanted to play a quick prank on his comp so we snuck into their pensión and we hid all of the valuables and money and rifled through everything to look like they were robbed because they left their window open. we met up with the other elders and we all went to their place together but his comp didnt really do anything. my comp was very upset and ran to tell the family that pay rent to but we already told them what we did so they were in on it. e´ perez hid in the bathroom because he couldnt keep a straight face and i was left by myself to deal with them. he pretended to call pte peterson and then my comp wanted to say a prayer before e´ perez finally told them anything. it was great. mom- we email pte peterson every week and i sometimes get personal emails from him to see how i am doing because he knows how abásalo can be. i actually have an interview with him on wednesday because he is coming to comodoro this week and i am excited to see him again. still no glasses but my zone leaders made it sound like i got lots of stuff in la bolsa del correo this week. i hope i got my packages today... we will see. dad- i am actually doing very well with my journal writing and i have written in it every day on my mission so far. i have another journal that i write in everyday for my goals and for the things that i learn during my study time everyday. it is awesome looking back because i can remember those days perfectly when i read in my journal. wasn´t evita´s name eva duarte before she was married? we live off of a street called eva duarte and our chapel is on the corner of that street and huergo. oh- and i do at least 50 really good pushups everyday when i wake up so i can be extra buff when i go home. my comp is a beast in the mornings and he is very serious when he works out. that is not a time for jokes... i have read a lot with my study time. so far on my mission i have read the book of mormon, d&c, the pearl of great price, almost half of the old testament, our search for happiness by e´ ballard, and i am reading Jesus the Christ right now. almost done. i have learned so much and i am just ´´thirsting´´ for more knowledge. i found lots and lots of scriptures and i am working on including more from the new testament along with the BoM in the teachings. i am getting very good and my companion is really good at explaining everything. i have learned so much from him and i am grateful to have him as a friend. oh, how much would a roundtrip flight to costa rica cost? i told him i might go to his wedding if he converts his girlfriend and marries her in the temple after the mission. i am so excited for the bolsa because i can feel lots of love coming in the mail. we will see... i feel like i have made tons of progress here. in church, the people have watched me progress and tell me how much better i have become because my first week i didn´t talk very much. now i almost understand everything and i can say pretty much whatever i want. the natives tell me i am very good at conjugating the words i can use por and para a lot better than any of the gringo missionaries they have ever talked to. i take that as a compliment even though i dont consider myself a gringo. lately, i have been surprised how much these people will tell the missionaries because they are ´´men of God´´. there are lots of people here with lots of problems and it is so sad to sit and listen but we do our best to comfort them and demonstrate how the gospel will actually help them. i am grateful for this chance to be a missionary and i know that it has changed me already for the rest of my life. i love abásalo and these people (aunque hay muchísimos chorros y lamanitas) and i love to serve them. i know that the Savior lives and i see His hand in everything. thank you all for all of your support and i love you all!
¡¡¡Con una sonrisa y mucho amor!!!
Elder Summers