SION AL RESCATE - BARRIO PIRO'Y 2014 - Video

Week 39, Big News!

So, I have some big news today. and I'm super excited to tell you all about it, so............................

...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Carlos got confirmed!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and that's my big news for the week, so I'm pretty excited. and other than that...... Well, we made tacos and salsa and guacamole today for lunch for the 4 of us and it was delicious, so its been a pretty good week. and yesterday our pregnant investigator went to church, (still pregnant, thankfully) and she is super excited to keep learning and to get baptized on the 6th of September! So we're super excited and she is sooooooooooo adorable. So yea. thanks for all your prayers and stuff, cuz things are only getting better.

Week 38!!!!!!!!!!

Well it's that time of day again!

Weee Hermana Minks is gunna send an email and its gunna be full of words! Yay words! So anyway, to start off, we've had a pretty good week, meeting people and all that fun stuff. 

I have some good news and some bad news, so i'll start with the bad. 

Carlos didn't get confirmed still... but some good news is that he did show up to church, so he's gunna get confirmed for sure next week. 

Also more good news, plus a crazy story, we had an investigator in church this Sunday and it was super cool, cuz she's so adorable. But! she's super pregnant and about half way through church she started going into labor... contractions and everything, so we went with her to the bathroom and my companion and I were so seriously afraid that we were going to deliver her baby right there during relief society. Crazy! and then in sacrament she was having contractions every 5-10 minutes and we were really freaking out!  But she made it all 3 hours and then a brother with a car drove us to her house. And that's when we got really worried, cuz she had contractions every 3-5 minutes, and then every 2 minutes, and she wouldn't let us take her to the hospital till her boyfriend got home so he got there in the nick of time, because she was laying on her bed crying with constant contractions when he got there with the taxi and they left us there with the neighbors in their house. Yea. crazy huh? But the good thing is that nobody died or had to deliver babies on bathroom floors and we aren't scared for life just yet haha. So yea. I'm pretty sure Cinthia had her baby yesterday. 

But she also told us that she liked the messages at church and felt good, so I bet when she's out of the hospital she´ll go to church again and so that's good. :))

So yea that's how my week has been! I hope you guys had a good week too, and I'll talk to you all again next week. and if she had the baby I'll totes go see her and take pictures so you all can see too. :))

The Zone on Pday

Soccer Playing Hermanas

Soccer was the last straw for these shoes

Week 37?...

I may have lost count of the weeks haha.  I'm pretty sure its 37 haha.

So there's been lots of changes! First of all, I'm now in Loma Pytá, which is in Asuncion, second, my companion is Hermana Welch, and she just finished her training, and she is AMAZING!!!!!!! The most adorable sister ever. Then, also exciting news, after 7.5 months, I'm in the same house as Hermana Speirs again an it's soooooooooo weird! We're roomies. so yea. that's fun. Hermana Speirs is with Hermana Arguile and it's so crazy fun. Hermana Speirs, for those who weren't here, or don't remember, was my trainer (my mission mom), and our companions are both from Utah haha. it's fun.

Also, we've had a really awesome week. I'm so excited, because you can literally feel the happiness in our house, its so cool.

It's weird being in a different area, because my old area was HUGE, and in comparison this area is really small. But it's good, it'll help me get used to it faster and be able to lead my way without getting lost.

She smiles. We call her Risas but her name is Chicilina.

Week 36!! (Transfers)

Hello family and friends! It has been another week, and more, it has been a whole transfer cycle already! How ridiculously fast time flies! and well I have some news!!!!!!
I have changes! SAD FACE  After 6 months in Capiatá they are sending me to Asuncion! I'm going to Loma Pytá and I'll be with Hermana Welch, who I'm assuming is new, becuase I dont know her - haha. And well now I have to say good bye to all the amazing people here in Capiatá. But its ok, because honestly I felt like if I stayed I wouldnt be able to progress, and after 6 months, I've had 5 baptisms and its been quite lovely. Which leads me to more news! After 2 months of teaching the word of wisdom and the law of chastity and all the fun stuff Carlos was baptized this saturday! woohoo! 

And I'm not totally lame today, I remembered my camera! Wee and my card reader, so you guys just won yourselves some pictures! haha 

I made my birthday cake, with the ingredients that my lovely mom sent me for the baptism and everybody wanted to try the green cake (it was pistachio) and everybody loved it.

2nd Email of the Day:

I forgot to tell you all a funny story!

So this week I have been a little sick with a cold, and in a lesson with an investigator he gave me some grass to boil and make tea, that is supposed to be refreshing and help you breathe and all that good stuff, so me, being stupid and forgetful and willing to do anything to get rid of an obnoxious cold I made myself some grass tea and it was tasty and I drank 2 cups before I went to bed the other night. And then, on Thursday morning, because I'm allergic to grass, I obviously woke up worse than I was the day before - haha - sore throat and all the fun stuff. haha So the lesson I've learned this week is that I should not drink grass tea, because it will certainly give me an allergic reaction and the mission nurse will scold me sternly for drinking herbs from strangers haha. But don't worry, I'm fine now, I took a benedryl and all is well.

NOTE from Mom:  I acquired a few pics from her days at the CCM in Buenos Aires, Argentina from another missionary mom today.  Thank you for sharing!!

Week 35

Thank you all for the birthday wishes! It's been a good week, and a very happy Sunday with 4 investigators in church and 9 less active members, which was awesome!

This week I made tacos from "scratch" as in without a seasoning packet, haha, and they turned out pretty good. But its not the same without corn tortillas which don't exist here. Also when you say tortillas the people think you're talking about what is basically a funnel cake without sugar or a funnel. So, the idea of tacos with corn tortillas pretty much confuses them haha.  But it turned out pretty good. I took pictures, but you know me, I forgot my camera again. 

And well, yea, haha, were pretty excited, because Carlos is getting baptized this Saturday and he's been telling all his friends about the church and the Book of Mormon and he's super adorable and excited to be changing his life, and wanted to surprise his mom by telling her hes not smoking anymore and that he's getting baptized. (In the pictures, he's the one with long curly hair.) 

And thanks to Carlos, we met his friend last Saturday, and Carlos, his friend the girlfriend and their 2 daughters came to church yesterday, and aren't drinking anymore. So weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Guys the true and the  restored gospel changes lives and helps people get their lives back on track. I know that this church is true and that our Father in Heaven is with these people helping them leave their addictions and heal their families. 

It's been an interesting week as far as the weather has gone, because for 4 or 5 days it felt like spring time in Hawaii and then one day of rain and cool, yesterday it was chilly, and then today it's back to Hawaii. so yea... winter disappeared haha.

Also, I've had headaches and been super tired lately, and couldn't think what could be my problem, but then I had a "Pedro moment" (Napoleon Dynamite) and I cut my hair. But don't worry, I didn't shave my head. or chop it crazy short. But I think it was the weight of my hair making my head hurt haha.

Anyway, that's all I have for you guys this week. I hope you are happy and healthy and that all you guys have a wonderful week. 

I love you!!! 

<3 hna. Minks

Week 34 !!!!! (1/2 Way & Birthday 21)

Ok, well, this week has been an interesting week. First of all my companion and I made 9 months together, and we baked a cake.

To be honest this week has been kinda hard.  We were supposed to have 2 baptisms this Saturday, but it looks like they're gunna have to wait. But on the bright side, it looks like we have a new family that were going to teach on Wednesday, and it should be pretty good.

We also had the attendance pretty high for Paraguay yesterday, 104 people in sacrament meeting. 

Today my old district leader and his old comp wanted to throw me a birthday party, so we went to Marcela's house and had cake and empanadas. It was quite fun.

Marcela

I'm gunna have to send a bunch of picture emails again, because I can't send very many in one email. But yea.  It's been a crazy week. and I took some super fun pictures!