Sometimes we just have to shovel the poop out.

May 12, 2014

Hola!

So after i finished talking with you all i realized how i really didnt tell you anything haha. sorry, it was just overwhelming just to see you and i just wanted to hear you all talk. 

So we had a super great week this week:) Some really incredible lessons. We were teaching one guy who was asking every question in the book and saying how he just cant believe in it for this and that. and we got to the point of sharing the first vision and he immediately stopped talking and interrupting. The spirit was so strong and from that moment on he completely changed. He nearly couldn't speak and you just know that he'd felt it. He couldnt deny it. We have another lesson planned with him tonight so im super excited about that:) We also met a new investigator this week. It will be a bit complicated though... she's deaf and mute. well remember how in plaza huincul we also taught a deaf lady that got baptised. I learned some basic spanish sign language from her and tried comunicating with Graciela (that's this new investigator) but it became clear after a bit that she's never really learned sign language. she knows very little and reads and writes very little as well. But she's super awesome. I really know that this is what she needs in her life. So we'll be doing lots of teaching with pictures and trying to figure out how to help her undertand better. 

We also did a servic project this week. I wanted to send you pictures, but the computer can't read my camera.... we're in an older cyber today cause the better on was closed. But so we went out to the tomas.... or field... i dont know what you would call it in english...as a district to clean and clear some land for a less active family. well as the elders tore down some old pig pens us hermanas we're trying to clean up all the trash and shovle out all the poo.... thing is the whole ground is just mashed up poop. They have a billion pigs and chickens and everything else and we litterally we're just standing in poop. It was a comfort to know that we dont have a wash machine and at some point we have to face our shoes and clothes... or maybe just throw them away. so we shovled away poop and trash untill we were more or less standing on ground. Oh and maggots as well.... there were at least a billion.. hahah it really made me laugh so hard to think about where i was and what i was doing. It was fun though. maybe a could be a professional poop scooper and maggot cleaner after the mission. 

Lesson leaned- sometimes we have just have to shovel the poop out of our lives untill we can stand on clean ground. It's a dirty and gross process but there is never too much poop that you can't get it out. there's always solid ground underneath there somewhere.

So i love you all so much! have the best of weeks:) 

Hermana Ashcroft

PS- did you know that a pig can't squeak and scream if you hold it by it's tail? 

PSS- we might be killing pigs and chickens for this same family this week as another service project... that will be interesting.