Week 13

Haopai! 

First of all the BIGGEST of Happy Birthdays to my baby brother Ryan! And another grateful heart for the best country in the world and the remembrance we always have on 9 11 and all that our armed forces do. 

Happy things here in Paraguay!

1. We had multizone conference this week! Our zone got together with two other zones in the office for a huge capacitacion given by President, his wife, the APs, and testimonies given by our zone leaders. The focused and emphasized the importance of the Book of Mormon in conversion and I can testify that if we pray to ask if the book is true we will be given an answer and will know with a surety that this church is the Lord-s restored church on the earth today!

2. PANTS. yes you read that right. We had a huge hermana reunion where they told us we are wearing pants from october to april in the summer to avoid more dengue and zika. Our mission last year had the highest number of cases of dengue in the whole. world. So we are taking more precautions! 

3. I went to the CHACO! not really. but got the closest that an hermana can get in the mission! We did a rescate with our zone in the area of Benjamin this week. We all got together, got a map, and they said go talk to everyone possible and come back with a list of future investigators for the elders there! It was really fun to see another area, and I am oh so grateful to be in Mariano!

4. Elder Bragg, an area seventy, visited our branch this Sunday! It was a blessing to have the spirit of a general authority all the way out here in Paraguay! 

6. We found the sweetest girl ever this week. Remember Yanina and Erika? Well they are still progressing! But they also introduced us to their friend that lives with them, Nicol! She is only 12 years old, but she is so excited for the gospel! She reads the Book of Mormon AT SCHOOL and loves us so much she wants to be with us everyday! We are so grateful for her love and her fun spirit. 

Something I want to share with yall this week is a talk on humility from this past Aprils general conference! Its called Be Thou Humble and it has become our go to to share with our families here in Mariano. I thought and think a lot about my home or my different homes I got to make in college and how much this principle applies to the environment we are told to create in our homes. ªOur genuine concern should be for the success of othersª How can we all be more humble and think of others more often? We can pray for others, we can think of others, and we can always ask the Lord to help us learn this christlike attribute through prayer. Something I also love and can bear testimony of is that we need to be humble before we are made humble by just life experience. Very often we are brought to our knees in prayer with a humbling experience when we start to become prideful and forget to thank the Lord every day. Think of how much easier life would be if we could apply humility in all things. Easier said than done, but I know that we constant prayer that is specific and heartfelt, we can be more humble in the sense that we truly need the Lord every hour. I know that when we are humble we can avoid contention and receive the blessings that the gospel bring. 

I love you all so much!

Hermana Vergara

3 Nephi 5:13