Op!

Op!

I love that greeting.  Paraguayans are very specific about the way they greet people.  Op is used to acknowledge the presence of someone you know, but you don't necessarily want to talk to them.  It's almost like honking your car horn in passing.

Anywayyy.... I hope you're all doing well.  My week went by really quickly.  We honestly didn't see much success.  There are days where I don't see success and usually I know that I could have done better.  This week was different.  I gave it my all and still nothing happened.  My area is the exact same as last week.  But that's okay.  I feel really happy about it.  I was really focusing on my love for God and for the people this week, and I saw the results.  I was simply really happy and ready to serve, success or not.

Also crazy story.  Being inspired by an old comp, we decided that every morning we wanted to wake up and immediately do 50 push-ups to get us going.  We started off great.  The alarm would sound and within seconds we were on the floor doing push-ups.  On about day 3 something went out of control.  I woke up one morning and saw my comp on the ground doing push-ups.  I was about to join him when I realized my alarm didn't ever go off.  Elder Linton looked at his watch and realized that it was 1 in the morning!  But it didn't stop there.  My comp kept waking up in the middle of the night to do push-ups!  Every night I woke up and he was on the ground doing push-ups.  He would wake up in the middle of the night already doing push-ups and then would realize that his alarm never went off.  One night he did it 3 different times!  We had to get together as a companionship and set goals to not do any push-ups between the hours of 10:30pm and 6:30am.  We even changed his alarm to a recording of me saying, "Ok NOW is the time to do push-ups!"  It was hilarious.

Welp!  Hope you have a great week!

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