12-19-22

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU PUT A KID FROM KANSAS AND A KID FROM CHILE TOGTHER!?!?


YOU GUYS REMEMBER MY EMAIL FROM LAST WEEK? LIKE I SAID THIS WEEK WAS FULL OF ADVENTURES AND STORIES. SO PLEASE GRAB YOUR POPCORN AND BUCKLE YOUR SEATBELTS BECAUSE THIS IS GOING TO BE THE BEST EMAIL YOU EVER READ. 


So, Elder Turner left. He left me to run the area. Yeah...my time now baby. However, he left me to run the area with a kid who doesn't speak English. Ummmmm, yeah.... light work.  So, what happens when you put me, the best missionary ever, and Elder Figueroa together... you got two young kids running around the streets of paraguay making miracles happen baby. That is right, miracles. 


Elder Turner and I had tried for 3 months to set a bauptismal date for Cristina, one of our friends that we have been teaching, and she has always been scared to commit. However on this day, I told Elder Figueroa that I was going to ask her to get baptized. He looked at me like I was crazy. And he is right, I am. So, I asked her to get baptized and it was the fastest yes ever. Crazy huh. MIRACLES BABY.


We also had about 200 people show up for our activity we have on Fridays. It was freaking crazy. Members and non-members. We had some good steak and rice and I got a chance to talk to some people that I had not met before. Now we got more people to talk to and teach. BANG MIRACLES.


Another cool thing that happened for me this week was that we had a lesson with a family and at the end of our lesson, one of the family members said, "Elder Ressel, your Spanish is so much better and I actually understood everything that you said." I was like, "What are you talking about, my Spanish was already perfect before I left. ahah, but it was really cool to hear how much I have progressed in my Spanish. BANG MIRACLES. 


My amazing family sent me a package for Christmas and for my birthday and in that package was a bunch of food that I have not eaten in months. Mac and cheese, fruit snacks, granola bars, DOTS PRETZELS. However, I did not see any Reese´s take 5. Momma... Que paso? Nah, but for real I freakin love my snacks. BANG MIRACLES.


I hope this week's email had a little more excitement and energy. I hit a slump, but I am back. I hope you guys have an amazing Christmas and can feel the love of our heavenly father this season. And of course, eat some freakin amazing food. Trust me, I am going to make some amazing food too... I hope...


I love you all and miss you tons

From your favorite,

Elder Ressel  









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