Hello Everyone!
So this past week has been so much
fun and filled with miracles and spiritual experiences! We have two young women
accompanying us all the time and it has helped so much! We also have others who
want to help us and we will use them this week!
So the first miracle of the week:
the first Sunday we were here we were returning to the house of a contact to
see if we could visit with them, but they weren´t there. But as we were leaving
we ran into their neighbors, and they were just moving in. They were moving all
the couches and things in; we asked if they needed help, the dad said no thanks
but then he was like, ‘my kids are Mormon,’ and we set a visit to come back. We
went back a couple days later (this past Tuesday) and we visited with them. The
dad isn’t a member, the mom is really less active, but their 4 kids all went to
church with their grandma in Luque, Paraguay.
They moved here and their grandma
stayed in Luque. So we talked with them and met their nanny that came with
them! We then went back on Thursday and on Saturday we started to teach Clotti,
the nanny and the dad, Esteban (familia Mendieta). On Saturday we met the mom
for the first time. We taught the Restoration of the church and the spirit was
so strong! The mom asked us if we could set days every week to go and have
family home evenings with them!
We invited them to church and the
parents said that they would drop Clotti and the kids off. On Sunday they
came!!!! Clotti and the kids: Paloma is 15, Luis is 12, Juan is 11, and Matias
is 6. And Clotti is 20! She really liked the church and she felt the spirit!
The second miracle of the week:
A young woman who has been accompanying
us a lot is Lucero Sosa and this week she said that she had some friends for us
to meet. We had a meeting with them: Francisco is 16 and Emanuel is 17, and
Richard is 18. Francisco and Emanuel came to church a week ago. We talked to
them about the Book of Mormon and then yesterday about the Restoration of the gospel.
The spirit was soo strong! Francisco had read part of the Book of Mormon, the
testimonies [of the witnesses], and he came to church again yesterday!!! The
spirit was so strong and it was amazing!
Third miracle:
On Friday we ate with a member
family and the dad is from India and we had Indian food on Friday!!! Hermana
Pitts and I died! I ate WAY too much but it was amazing! Haha
The Fourth: this morning for P-day the
bishop and his family took Hermana Pitts and I to Salto de Monday. It is a HUGE waterfall here; it was SO gorgeous! It
was amazing to see the wonderful divine nature of the world!
We found 14 new investigators this
past week, which is a record for me; it was amazing. We had some SUPER
spiritual experiences! It has been SO hot but life is going super well! Today
we had a McFlurry and a big French fry from McDonalds, haha. And we have been
exploring Ciudad del Este, it is HUGE and so much to see and do!
The members are amazing here, the
food is SO much better than in Argentina, and the people are much more
receptive!
Tonight, Monday night, I go to
Asuncion, Paraguay, the capital, because of tramites [visa paperwork]. I go
with all the other missionaries that have just arrived in Paraguay. We get to
go to the temple!!! And to the LDS Distribution Center! We don’t get to go
inside the temple, but outside, and I’m sooo excited! For my birthday [Feb. 9th]
I will be up there, so today we kind of partied with the waterfalls!
I hope that you are doing really
well, and thank you all for the happy birthday emails (:
Hermana Newell
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