"Mangy”
Funny story: we showed up at the Troche Family’s house to drop off their 15 year old son that had gone out teaching with us one night. My companion was almost attacked by their little, crazy looking dog with mis-match colored eyes. His mom told us the dog had gone crazy and was attacking and jumping up on everyone that passed by. The neighbors were all frightened. Then, with that introduction, she asked us that we put him in our big blue van and take him far away and leave him there.
Maybe not using our best judgement, we agreed to do it. We spent 15 minutes trying to get him in the back and finally, unexpectedly he jumped in FRONT! I hesitated to drive with him there, but my comp sat between me and the dog to hold him down. Half way to the far away place he jumped on my lap and I had to drive with a nervous, shaking, vicious dog all the way to our next appointment, where we glady dropped him off. Crazy things that happen in the mission
We’ve also got another youth in the ward that comes out with us (there are like 3 that are absolute studs for doing divisions). This one is named Felix and he is a machine for saying stupid things in our lessons. The other day after a profound testimony from my companion, Felix shot off saying, “You know, if you ever wanted, I’d be glad to come over here and clean your house up a bit for ya.” Last night, as we were about to invite 3 ladies to be baptized on the 24th, Felix explained, “yeah, Baptism is great, but you knowwhat ISN’T fun? Getting baptized for the dead. They just dunk you under, time after time.” My companion and I just looked at eachother, like, “no you just didn’t,” and then spent 15 minutes briefly explaining vicarious ordenances and trying to get back the spirit.
Life is great on the mission. I am really happy and the office is a great, if challenging experience. It is definitely humbling, since the rewards aren’t as vivid as one out in the field who SEES lots of people changing their lives as a direct result of our service. One finds out why he really IS in this work in the first place. I know I am here to serve my Lord in the best way he needs me. I have seen Him guide me and trust him with all my heart. Thank you family. I love you all.
Elder McCarty
001 This is me driving with that dog. You can see my scared face in the rear view mirror.
Funny story: we showed up at the Troche Family’s house to drop off their 15 year old son that had gone out teaching with us one night. My companion was almost attacked by their little, crazy looking dog with mis-match colored eyes. His mom told us the dog had gone crazy and was attacking and jumping up on everyone that passed by. The neighbors were all frightened. Then, with that introduction, she asked us that we put him in our big blue van and take him far away and leave him there.
Maybe not using our best judgement, we agreed to do it. We spent 15 minutes trying to get him in the back and finally, unexpectedly he jumped in FRONT! I hesitated to drive with him there, but my comp sat between me and the dog to hold him down. Half way to the far away place he jumped on my lap and I had to drive with a nervous, shaking, vicious dog all the way to our next appointment, where we glady dropped him off. Crazy things that happen in the mission
We’ve also got another youth in the ward that comes out with us (there are like 3 that are absolute studs for doing divisions). This one is named Felix and he is a machine for saying stupid things in our lessons. The other day after a profound testimony from my companion, Felix shot off saying, “You know, if you ever wanted, I’d be glad to come over here and clean your house up a bit for ya.” Last night, as we were about to invite 3 ladies to be baptized on the 24th, Felix explained, “yeah, Baptism is great, but you knowwhat ISN’T fun? Getting baptized for the dead. They just dunk you under, time after time.” My companion and I just looked at eachother, like, “no you just didn’t,” and then spent 15 minutes briefly explaining vicarious ordenances and trying to get back the spirit.
Life is great on the mission. I am really happy and the office is a great, if challenging experience. It is definitely humbling, since the rewards aren’t as vivid as one out in the field who SEES lots of people changing their lives as a direct result of our service. One finds out why he really IS in this work in the first place. I know I am here to serve my Lord in the best way he needs me. I have seen Him guide me and trust him with all my heart. Thank you family. I love you all.
Elder McCarty
001 This is me driving with that dog. You can see my scared face in the rear view mirror.
011 We went out today for empanadas and they had like 20 different kinds. One kind, the Chilena, had RAISINS in it, gross.
020 (Just for you Mom) We went to this cool hand-made store in Luque, a city just outside Asunción and I saw these little dresses (they stuck this sombrero on me just as we were taking the pic to send it home to you). Anyhow, they cost about $8 each, Mom. I could buy some to send home to Anika, Aspen, Brindley & Caedence if you wanted. I don’t know if they’d like them or not.
029 We found an open door to this soccer stadium on Pday and went in to explore. It felt pretty cool, like professionals down on the field. We even grabbed an old soccer ball and shot some goals.
31 Here we all are inside an old broken down train. It was pretty cool.
No comments:
Post a Comment