Week 29
Haupei Yall!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
2017!!! I cannot believe how fast time is flying! I hope that yall all had a
great new years eve and are looking forward to a great new year!
Happy new year things
:)
1. Hermana Activity!
These are not normal with the rules that we have BUT we got special permission
to all get together and play volley and have lunch! I love each of these girls
so much :)
2. CAMBIOS. super
bitter sweet butt.....I left Mariano! I am now in Luque 1A, or better known as
Luque Centro! My new, awesome, super cute comp is HERMANA TANDIMAN!!! She is
the cutest, from Utah, went to BYU Hawaii before the mish and in one word she
is DOPE. Legit. We are going to have the best time together!
3. ANO NUEVO! A really
sweet menos activo family I just met here in Luque offered us cena my first
day! We ate real well and then headed home at the normal hour. We set the alarm
for 1150, got up, went to the balcony, and watched all the fireworks! Drank
some Fanta guarana to ring in the new year!!! It was a good one, but we were so
tired so it was way chill.
Todays quick thought
comes from Moses 7 verse 44 <And as Enoch saw this, he had bitterness of
soul, and wept over his brethern, and said unto the heavens I will refuse to be
comforted, and the Lord said unto Enoch, Lift up your heart and be glad and
Look!> How many times have we gotten upset with how things were going and
blamed the Lord? I can count a numberless times where I have prayed and said,
Lord I cannot put up with this, but I know that he has the same response for
each of us. Lift up your heard and be glad! Then look. And in the rest of this
chapter the Lord continues to tell Enoch about the Atonement and the tender
mercies of the lord. We must look to the atonement and we must lift up our
hearts and be glad! We are so blessed and we are even more blessed because we
know that through Jesus Christ we can be glad. WE CAN HAVE JOY! I encourage
each of yall to make goals for this year for your spirit. Maybe its praying
more often, reading the more than one verse in the scriptures, or maybe its
planning service every week, but the best goal we can set is to lift up our
hearts, be glad, and look to the Lord and his Atonement for each and everyone
of us!
All my love!!!
Hermana Vergara
3 Nephi 5:13
PS Hermana Activity,
WE CAN DRINK COKE NOW!, Ano Nuevo Cena, the Dakar race came through town today!
so sick!
Week 30
Haupei Yall!
Roll Tide Roll!
Shoutout to the Tide :)
Happy Things!
1. Los 3 Reyes came
this week! Dia de Los Reyes Magos here is more like our normal Santa Claus
Christmas so Hermana Tandiman and I had a fun time trying to surprise the other
with some good eats and cute gifts. I was super happy with some chocolate cake
and all her love :)
2. CELINA! Wow we have
been trying to find her since I first got here and we finally found her, taught
her, and she came to church yesterday! She is a sweet sweet single mom who
works so so hard to give her sons the best and is recognizing that the gospel
is the best she can give to them for their lives. She told us that at church
she felt so much peace and truly refreshed for the week. And that is how its
done! Just one sunday in the chapel and people are truly changed. The spirit is
so strong there and truly testifies that everything we teach is true. We are so
excited to see how she will progress!
3. Hermana Tandiman is
so dope. I am so siked to be her comp. We are having so much fun working and
finding. And even though we are sweating out a storm her in 100 degrees we make
the most of it with ice cream and keep moving one step at a time!
Quick Thought:
"Trust in the
Lord with all thine heart and lean not to thine own understanding."
Proverbs 3:5. More than anything I feel that I am not just learning to apply this
scripture, but being forced to. It is a lot easier on the mission to go out and
work and be distracted from anything and everything that might be pulling at my
attention, but when the day is finished and done, when we have talked to one
last person, read one last verse, I feel very human again and weak. I am having
to learn to trust in the Lord, truly exercise faith and confidence in Him and
the grand plan he has for me and my loved ones. He is the only one that can
comfort me, sanctify me, and give me the courage to get up one more day and do
His work in His way, or with His understanding. He is the grand plan maker and
He knows exactly what He is doing. I know that His ways are higher than my
ways, and His thoughts higher than my thoughts. I find comfort and strength in
Him. I know that we can all learn to trust him more, let Him pull us out of our
comfort zones a little further, and let Him work on us to help us become more
like Him. I am so grateful that He loves me enough to give me hard things to help
me grow. I am so grateful that I have been raised by loving parents that have
taught me and are firm examples to me of this strong faith and confidence in
the Lord. I know I am who I am today because of my parents loving examples and
their love of the Lord.
Thank you all for all
your support and prayers on my behalf and for my family.
All my love from
Paraguay,
Hermana Vergara
3 Nephi 5:13
PS beautiful Luque,
some good home cooking thanks to mama, and my cute comp and our favorite thing
PIZZA
Week 31
Haupei Yall!
Happy Things:
1. We had the coolest
experience this week. We were really exhausted from the heat and it was the end
of the day, but we had one more lesson planned a little far away. We almost
made our way in closer to home, but something told us to go. We went to the
lesson as planned and actually got to teach the mom of the home that usually is
so busy she is in and out of lessons, so we have never actually gotten to
really teach her. We sat down with her and started talking about the Restoration
and the Book of Mormon. We taught with as much energy as we could muster and
truly the Spirit did the rest because when we asked her to read and pray about
the BOM she looked at us and said "no i dont have to, i already know it is
true. when can i get baptized?" when before she had told us she was
catholic and did not want to get baptized again! Needless to say we were
shocked out of our minds. Her name is Fanny. Keep her in your prayers!
2. Another one of our
investigators, Celina (I think i mentioned her this past week) is doing so
well! Well, after we got her a priesthood blessing from a member for her home
and for her. When we visited her on Monday she told us she was seeing spirits,
was not comfortable being alone in her own home, and could not pray because the
spirits would become violent with her. After the blessing she told us she felt
complete peace and the spirits have left her! It was an incredible moment to
feel the spirit testify to me the power of the priesthood and how blessed we are
to have the power of God restored to the earth!
3. Truly the best part
of the week was getting a phone call from the mission telling me that all went
well with my Moms surgery. I am so blessed to see the blessings come pouring
in. The Lords timing is perfect and his love is so huge for us. I am so
grateful for every prayer on behalf of my mom and all the support that my
family is receiving. THANK YALL!
It is hot hot hot down
here, but every day I feel the Lords protecting hand and the umbrella he is
holding up to protect us so that we can do his work. I know that if we put in
the work and try our best, he will do the rest!
All my love from
Paraguay! Les quiero muchisimo!
Hermana Vergara
3 Nephi 5:13
PS great views in the
city, its Dengue season=got our nets up ;), and Hermana Roncallo, Tandiman, and
Montaño! :)
