This week!!!
Heck, it was a great week! I’m with
Hermana Lopez again! God loves me because these have been the best last 14
months. They have been so fun and happy and just saving souls.
First things first, I never thought
I looked so young. Everyone we ask how old they think I am, they say 15 or
16... WHAT? Everyone thinks I look like a baby. haha, Oh well, when I’m 30 it
will be awesome!
So what did I learn this week with Hermana
Lopez? FAITH. So it was Thursday like last hour and all our plans had fallen
apart. We were walking and decided to contact all the yellow houses that we saw
(because that is my favorite color) and so we contact this house and a lady
opens up. We talk with her a bit and she invites us in. We walk in and there is
her husband and her two children. She is Mirta, her husband is Luis and the
sons are Jeremias( 4) and Santiago ( 2). We sit down, and we talk and give them
lesson 1. They were super interested. As we left I was a little negative and
said, “They are amazing, but they are probably not married...” (like the
majority of the Paraguayans) and Hermana Lopez turned to me and gave me a
lesson, she said, “Hermana, where is the faith??” We laughed about it afterwards,
but it made me really think.
Then we met Norma and Griselda, two
references from a member. On Saturday we invited them to come to church and
they said that they would come! I being myself was a little like, “they
probably won’t actually come”. But that night I told God that I was going to
have faith that they would come. When we went by Sunday morning to bring them
to church they were all ready to go!!! They walked to church with us and really
enjoyed the meetings!
Also Saturday we went back to visit with
Mirta and Luis. Mirta’s sister and
brother-in-law were there. We taught the restoration with them all. It was so
good!
Honestly though, I have learned, and
am putting it more into practice, that when we have faith we are positive at
all times. That it is always a “YES, they are going to come”, and not a “Well
we will see”... where is the faith in that??
Anyways I am being more positive and
always saying that the people WILL and not that, WE WILL SEE.
We have seen
miracles this past week and it has been incredible. I am so excited to be with Hermana
Lopez again. I miss Hermana Martinez. She is amazing. But with Hermana Lopez it
is going amazing as well. She still has her Honduran accent! And
she told me that I picked up some of Hermana Martinez’s Uruguayan accent...
like the Argentines. haha. The Paraguayan
Spanish is awful, honestly, it is like the worst but it is super fun. haha
We have so many ideas to implement
in this area. We are going to start working with the youth, members and not
members, to animate, activate and baptized youth. They are the future of the
church and they bring the energy to the wards and the branches! We are starting
English classes every Saturday. We are going to be putting notices up in the
university. We have people who are already signed up and want to come!
Investigators too! So we are doing a lot to try and get this branch moving, and
it IS going to work, we have the faith and God has the power!
I love this gospel. I love God. He
is amazing, honestly, he is wonderful! Keep going, never lose hope and keep on trekking!
I love you all!
Hermana Newell!
More photos from our trip to the ruins:
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