So this past week Mother
Nature hasn't decided if it wants to officially be summer or still be stuck in
the tail end of winter. It has gone from 80 and sunny (which after the past 6
months is unbelievably hot; I'm not excited for summer) to the next day 60 and
rainy again. Then throw in the ridiculous winds that come through on occasion
and you don't know if you need short sleeves or if you need to unpack the big
jackets again. Either way, it keeps you on your feet. Naturally the nicest day
of the week was the day we had to spend 5 hours inside planning but I guess
that's just how life works sometimes.
So some random goings-on for
the week. We walked into a lesson kind of out of town around 6:30 PM and by the
time we walked out at 8 (we had dinner as well) we look towards town and on the
horizon there's a giant fire. My comp and I look at each other and remark
"Well that’s not good." As we started driving back into town our
first thought was that the packing plant in town had caught on fire. As we
drove closer we were relieved to find out that it wasn't actually the packing
plant. Only to have our hearts drop again when we realized that the fire was
coming from a small part of town just outside the main city composed entirely
of trailers and low-income housing. The smoke literally darkened the sky with
how thick it was. Thankfully we came to find out later that no houses actually
burned it was just a field that lay between the two parts of town. I guess
that's a benefit of acres and acres of farm land.
Another fun story from this
week was when we had district meeting all in Spanish. We attended a district
meeting in the zone where the district leader was from Paraguay, his companion
was from Mexico, and one of the other hermanas [sister missionaries] in the
district was from Mexico as well, so we decided to have district meeting all in
Spanish. Not the norm out here but it was a fun experience.
Another out-of-the-norm
experience this week was when we got to teach a little bit in Primary on
Sunday. They had asked us to come in and teach a little bit about Joseph Smith
translating the Book of Mormon and the restoration of the Gospel. To be
perfectly honest, we completely forgot about it until 5 minutes before we were
supposed to do it. Good thing we teach that lesson a lot though, so it went
fine. It’s definitely a lot different teaching a bunch of 3 - 11 year olds
instead of adults but it keeps you on your toes. It was a good exercise in
teaching simply, let’s just say that.
The quote of the week comes
from a talk delivered in church yesterday. Side note about church recently - I
don't know if it’s because the end of my mission is drawing nigh or if all of a
sudden everyone is interested in the subject but lately a lot of the talks and
lessons and discussions have been about marriage. I can’t decide if this is
mere happenstance or if someone somewhere is trying to send a message to me and
my companion who goes home just before I do... but moving on to more pertinent
things, the speaker was a young man who is in the same family boat as me, in
that he is the oldest of 3 boys. When we was giving his talk (about the family,
might I add) he said that he was so grateful that he "could be sealed with
my brothers and sisters for eternity." It took a second and after he
started his next thought he stopped and a sudden realization crossed his face
as he said:
"Wait! I don't have any sisters!"
And that’s about all for this
week folks. This transfer is winding down to an end so stay tuned next week to
see what you think will happen with Elder Kupferer's future.
Until then,
Elder Kupferer
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