Happy Mothers Day in Paraguay!!!!
Hey, so I have not been able to send
pictures because my connector from my memory card to the computer isn’t
working... so when I find a new one I’ll send pictures.
This past week went really well! We
did splits on Tuesday, and then Wednesday we had our every-three-month
interview with Pres. LaPierre. Those interviews are always great! It was really
sad, tho, because it is the last one that I will have with Pst. LaPieere,
because we switch mission presidents in a month-ish... Pst. LaPierre gave me
some tips for my life and kinda said good bye, it was super sad. I’ll see them
a few more times because of conferences and our leader meeting, but it will be
so weird!
This past week was AWESOME with
Leuteria. She is an investigator. About a week ago she had given us two
references of her sister and her brother-in-law, and this past Thursday we went
to visit them with Leuteria. We shared a little about Faith and then gave them
a Book of Mormon. As we gave it to them, Leuteria started to tell her sister
how great a book it is, that she reads it every night before bed and that it
has brought her so much peace. She was testifying of the Book of Mormon!!! How
awesome it that?? Who knows if she will get baptized but at least she has a
testimony of the Book of Mormon, and that is a first step.
Also, on Thursday night, Hermana
Martinez and I were super tired, we had walked like 20 miles that day (Okay
maybe not that much, but at least 10!), and so we sat down for a sec. As we sat
down, a young man said “Hola, hermanas!” He introduced himself. He is Samuel
Sosa, from the Sosa family from Ciudad del Este; they were in my ward, and
Samuel got home from his mission in Sao Paolo this past Monday!!! So we talked
and then he went with us to a lesson with Margarita! That was pretty awesome!
And then on Saturday we went to
visit Bernardina! She is our investigadora, she is like 65. We talked
about baptism and she said that we were convincing her, haha, she said that she
would be baptized in the month of June but that she was going to pray about
which day!!! She then came to Church on Sunday!!! She is awesome!
Sunday was also Mothers Day here in
Paraguay, yet Bernardina still came! That night, last night, we went to visit
with Jani and Gabi. Jani has a baptismal date for the 18th of June, and we went
and Jani’s sister was there!! She is from Brazil, Foz de Iguazu. She is very
evangelical but we talked about the talk from Elder Holland, He ahi tu Madre
[Behold, Your Mother], and we gave her a Book of Mormon to have, and she gave
us her information to pass to the missionaries in Foz!!! She was awesome!
Today we went with Margarita again
for Pday to learn more of the Paraguayan knitted art, and it was so much fun. I
love it, it is gorgeous and it is so Paraguayan!
Everything is going really well here
in Encarnacion. Oh! Yesterday at church, Hermana Martinez and I were asked to
give the gospel doctrine class for the adults, and then the relief society prez
left early without saying anything, so we also gave the Relief Society class,
haha, and there were only 4 people in gospel doctrine and 2 in relief
society.... Lots of work to do!!!
Oh and Guess
what ELSE??? Victor, my investigator from Ciudad del Este is getting Baptized
this Saturday!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm soooo happy, honestly i was like jumping for
joy! Hermana Pitts and I found him, through a member, taught him everything,
all the lessons and were just waiting for him to get the courage to get
baptized, he knew and knows that the church is true and he is getting baptized
on Saturday!!!!!!
God is real, and he loves each and
everyone of you. This is HIS church and he leads it. I know it.
Hermana Newell
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