Week 15 in Paraguay

Since last time was so rushed I made sure I wrote a few things down in my planner this week that I forgot to tell you last week.
First off, the big one I forgot was something that happened while we were down in Asuncion for zone conference. So it is a 100 mil ticket to get on the bus to go down to Asuncion. That is 1/8 of all the money we get for the whole month and zone conference was on the 24th of February, almost the end of the month. Monday we had to use pretty much all the money we had left to buy our tickets just to get down to zone conference. It wasn´t really that big of a deal though because at zone conference we always get the money back from the office and then they pay for the ticket back. Well we were at the very end of conference and President Wade was giving his testimony to all of us and his phone goes off, he silences it and then it goes off again, he picks it up and it's one of his Assistants. He says, "Elder Peterson, what is so important it can´t wait until after zone conference?" His face got really serious. Turns out three guys with guns and knives went and robbed the office with all the Office Elders there. One of the robbers knocked on the door and one of the Office Elders looked through the peep hole to see who it was and the guy looked normal. They have a lot of people come in and out of the Mission Home all through the day to drop off letters and important things. So the Elder opens the door and right as he did he got hit over the head with a revolver and this guy puts all the Elders into a corner while two other guys were searching and robbing the place. To say the least, we never got our money back, which really was fine, but we had about 4 days until the end of last month and we were were completely broke. It was really interesting to see how the Lord took care of us. There were many times during those few days where people would invite us to eat with them. Random people, that we contacted even invited us to eat some sanwhiches that they were making. It is just amazing to me how important this work is to the Lord and how whatever happens here the Lord will always take care of us and help our testimonies to grow. It was faith promoting and testimony strengthening to see how when we had no money left, people were so willing to share with us, without even knowing about anything about our money situation.
Anyway, so that was really the only thing I really forgot to put in the last letter. It was better this way because I was able to tell the story well because I have a lot more time.
I´m going answer some of those other questions now from last week.
I was wondering how the new companionship is going? I felt the spirit and wondered if there are a few challenges?
The new companionship is going really well, and I´m learning a lot of Spanish, its really fun to be with a Latin, it's really different from being with an American. Especially those times when you just don´t know how to say something so you just end up acting out things right in the middle of the street until your companion can figure out what you want and tell you how to say it in Spanish. It is really different in the teaching and contacting situations too, he´ll just go right up to anyone and tell them just as it is. I would say the only challenge I have been having lately is trying to let the Spirit have a bigger place in the teaching situations and trying to be really united with my companion. Sometimes we have completely different ideas of what we should do or who we should see. That is just a little frustrating sometimes, but for the most part we are doing really well together and as of right now the language has not really been a barrier at all, which has been a huge blessing.
This week was a really fast week, but really hard. We finally had a real investigator in church, but she is moving, I really think she will get baptized this month, but it won´t be in our area. It is amazing how we can teach more than 40 lessons every week and then not have anyone go to church. This week I´m going to really work hard on how we can make the lessons more effective and truly find the elect. It is amazing how much this mission has us as missionaries do. We saw the Brazilian Elders the other day and compared numbers, every one of our mission normas, or numbers we have to have as a minimum goal for the week, are double theirs. The biggest being contacts, they have to do 70 every week and we have to do 150 every week. I am so glad to be here is such a blessed mission, and I don´t mean to say that to brag about the mission, but to really just show how fortunate I am to be in a mission where the missionaries work hard and actually teach. This week we´re going to get some more to church for sure.