Hermana Grindstaff 6-1-09

> ¡Hola!
> Mom, I am in a little town called Progreso. Our area covers all the little towns around Progreso also and I spend a lot of time out there also.
> I don´t know if I´d call it the sticks here, but well, maybe a little. The homes are made of cement and they are more then one room Scott, so it´s not as bad as it was in Paraguay. Most people don´t have much furniture (mostly cheap half broken tables and unmatching lawn chairs), but it´s not a big deal. I really do feel at home here and I love the people. I was at one of our investigator family´s home this week for a lesson and I remember feeling like I was with my own family because of the spirit that was there. I´ve learned that furniture and nice possessions are not what make a home a refuge and a place of peace. I was sitting on a lawn chair that had a beer logo on it and I felt right at home.
> Well, this week has been wonderful, difficult, at times discouraging, and cold. (yes, while you are all burning up in the states, I am freezing in Uruguay). This opportunity to serve is worth all the is worth all the challenges and awful weather that I experience. Since I don´t have time to write all my experiences, I´ll highlight a few of them.
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> Sometime last week (while it was reeeeaally cold outside) me and my companion were clapping at houses (because here we don´t ever knock) and one of the gazillion dogs in this country decided to follow us. All was going well until we stopped at one house to knock… that´s when the dog decided to mark his spot on my companion. Luckily she was holding a plastic bag and only a tiny bit actually got on her. It was during all this –(me laughing… um, feeling bad for my companions misfortune) that a man came out of his home and invited us in. We taught him and his family the first lesson and later in the week we taught them about the Book of Mormon.
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> Another time last week, me and my companion were out clapping houses again and found ourselves at a home of a man that really wasn´t interested in what we had to say and was letting us know he wasn´t interested. It was at this time that a giant pig went tropping down the road and it made me laugh. Ahhh, I´ve got more animal (and investigator) stories, but I´ll have to write them in a letter later. I´m out of time now..
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> Love you all mucho!
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> -hna. Grindstaff
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> p.s. Dad, I do try to teach at every lesson, but my companion does most of the teaching because she can say a lot more then I can. I understand a lot more now, but there are a few toothless old men who like to mumble and I can´t understand one word they say. It´s frustrating sometimes, but I´m working through it.
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> p.s.s. Kara, the pictures of Connor, Ryan, and Kylie are adorable.