Week 9!

Hola Yall!

I hope life is fabulous and I hope life is treating yall well. I know a lot of yall are starting back to school this fall, which is so crazy to believe, but I hope this semester starts off great!

Happy things!

1. We are house hunters! Our dueno has been causing issues with the office and the office has asked us to search out a house and move ASAP. We are working on filming a House Hunters International Paraguay Episode. Stay tuned...

2. ONE OF OUR CONVERTS IS PREGNANT! for 3 months. we have been calling it since I got here and she FINALLY told us. Our sweet sweet Ramona is going to have a baby in January! Hopefully while I am still around...

3. So this past week on Monday was a little crazy and we split up our cyber hours in order to go get some work done. We left the house to finish cyber later that night and they were all closed! Luckily we found this really awesome guy who let us use his computer to send off a quick big email. While my comp was finishing up her email I had this crazy opportunity to teach Juan! It was like a super long contact/como comenzar with him. He even asked us to come teach him and accepted our baptism invitation! The people here are truly prepared by the Lord!

4. We had our baptism! My second little convert! Tatiana. Wow I cannot believe I still havent told yall about her! She was my very first lesson here in our area. My first ever investigator! She has been through several sets of sisters because her whole family, who was baptized before she was 8, has been menos activos for a while. We were shocked when in this very first lesson she realized that she has to be baptized. It is crazy how a knowledge of the Plan of Salvation that the Lord has for us truly changes our desires. We continued to work with her obviously and her whole family is active now AND she was baptized! She is 12 years old, but she is so mature, especially in her knowledge of the gospel. It is such a blessing so see how the gospel changes families! 

5. We had divisions with the Hermana Lideres! Hermana Jara and Hermana Trujillo! I got to go to their area of Campo Grande to work with Hermana Jara. She is such a spit fire. She is peruvian, so full of energy, loves this work with her whole heart, and has so much to offer! She truly has found pure joy in this work. Campo Grande is only her second area and she has been there for 7 months! She heads home in December which really stinks, but we are trying so hard to get her out to BYU! She might have a sponsor which will be a huge blessing! 

So we had a rough sunday. 5 of our 7 baptismal dates fell. It is hard thing to learn that you truly cannot control other people! They have felt the spirit, they know this gospel is true, but there still is not that fire that drives people to enter into this pathway of the gospel of Christ! So many people in this world are procrastinating their repentance! We live in a world where Satan has lulled us in to laziness or contentness. We think we are already saved and we practice selective obedience. We truly only have two options- to love the Lord or be disobedient and love Satan. Something that helps me is praying and studying commandments until I love them. Its this love of the commandments and a testimony that obedience truly brings blessings that make me WANT to be obedient. Especially on the mission with a billion more rules, obedience is truly what brings success. When we are doing our best to love the Lord and show him that we appreciate this gift of salvation that he has already given us, we. see. blessings.

Press forward with faith, daily repentance, and a love of the commandments!

xoxo,

Hermana Vergara

3 Nephi 5:13

PS reppin BYU in our killer bunk beds, Tatiana!, cleaning the font, divisions!