PARAGUAY

Hola yall!

I am safe and sound in Asuncion, Paraguay and loving it. I am serving in Mariano Roque Alonso area and we have the best branch. My mom and trainer is Hermana Taylor and she is so solid. She is from Las Vegas and went to BYU! shout out to Hermana Sage Iverson and that connection! 

Our branch is seriously fabulous. We are fed everyday and until we are bursting. The members are incredibly helpful in the obra misional. And everyone is so so loving! I bore my testimony on sunday as the newbie and everyone was so impressed that I had just arrived! The spanish is coming along nicely. Our mission president and his wife are the absolute greatest! They are from Chicago and are so sweet. They are in this months Liahona look them up!

The best part here so far is our recent converts and investigators. We have so many to be teaching it can be hard to plan because we just want to visit with them all! Tatiana is my highlight of the week because she has been working with missionaries forever and has finally decided for real that she will be baptized and her date is August 12! she came to church Sunday and we are teaching and we are just chugging along. Please add her to your prayers! another one of our investigators is Giuselle. She has had a really rough go at life and her boyfriend is not the best at all, but i swear I knew her before this life. As we teach her the spirit is so strong and I know she is one of the people I promised in the premortal life to come and find. Sadly she didn't come to church Sunday and we were really surprised. We are teaching her tonight and hopefully we can find out what happened. Please add her to your prayers as well! Recent convert family that is the best is Familia Barrios. They are so so incredible and so solid. They are so humble and half the time the father is jobless but they are so happy. They offer to help us with everything and always want us to visit. They have kept me going this week with their hugs and smiles. 

This week has not been particularly hard at all. It is definitely a different schedule to get used to and being on your feet for a good part of the day in the cold is mentally challenging as well. Contacting is actually super fun and all the people are so willing to listen and kind. I think the hardest part so far has been just mentally pushing myself to keep paying attention and have energy when I have none at all. 

I read the talk the fourth missionary this week and have really been trying to apply the principles to my mission and attitude. Everyday I pray and give up my will, heart, and mind to the Lord and ask him to work on me and through me. Life is truly easier when we can just hand him our burdens and trials and he will lift us up. This work is so fulfilling. I am so grateful to be here truly. I am still adjusting, but with Hermana Taylor´s loving help I know I can. I know that we can all do hard things and do things the lord has commanded us because he always provides a way. I look up to Nephi so much and his willingness to just serve and just have faith even when he did not know exactly why or how he was supposed to do the lords work. I feel a lot like that everyday and I hope that with the example of Nephi and all the other missionaries and examples I have my life I will be able to with the Lords help be molded into the instrument he needs me to be! 

I love you all and love hearing from you! Thank you for all your support and encouragement. 

Love, 

Hermana Vergara

3 Nephi 5:13