Week 19
Haupei Yall!
FIRST HBD to my cute
baby sis Elayna!!! wow. getting old.
Happy things from the
purete Paraguay!
1. We had zone
conference this week with Presidente and his sweet wife. I am so so grateful
for both of them and know that they were divinely inspired to be MINE. Best
part too was that she made chocolate chip cookies. Thats right. With the Crisco
she brought from the states she sacrificed a little for us. LOVE HER.
2. Lomipizza. Yeah my
hija has been bugging me for FOREVER, actually just 3 weeks, because its all we
hear about and we finally did it! We couldnt even eat half and actually still
have it in the fridge...
3. Tobias and Leys,
two of our progressing investigators, both in part member families (see the
next happy thing) are literally my siblings. Tobias is 11 and has so much
energy and when he isnt outside playing he is inside causing a ruckus, BUT when
we show up he sits right down and is ready to learn. He wants to get baptized
so bad. The desire is incredible! and LEYS! Her family is in a really tough
spot with family which makes it hard to come to church, BUT (oh wait they are
also included in the point below) they have come to church 2 weeks in a row
now! The goal is that her Dad will baptize her and her Mom wants them to be
active again before they make this big commitment and promise with the Lord!
They are a great family and I am so grateful for their testimonies.
4. Okay, so most of
our work here is with reactivation (see above). I swear just about 2 in every 5
contacts are menos activos and they give us a whole lot of references. We are
enjoying this work and the new work that it brings for us. One of our sweet
reactivation families (the family of Ema) brought a friend to come meet us and
we cant wait to start teaching her! Her name is Maria and is the youngest in
her family of 4. She is a sweetheart and even came to church on Sunday! We are so
grateful when members step it up and participate in the work.
5. And it is so
incredibly hard to believe I hit 4 months on the mish this week. Time is flying
by down here and every Monday I am shocked. I think its because I am having
WAYYY to much fun down here!
Quick thought!
This past week with
all the menos activos we have been finding, we have been teaching a lot of Dia
de Reposo and the importance of the Santa Cena. Then justamente on Sunday, our
principios class was about the Santa Cena too. AND THEN my sweet mama told me
all about the best talk ever (PS I have been studying that too mama) called
Always Retain a Remission of Your Sins by Elder Bednard, AND THEN in my Libro
de Mormon study I hit the big King Benjamin discurso which is all about having
a remission of your sins. Im pretty sure the Lord is guiding my study :) BUT
the point is and what I want yall to ask yourselves right now is if you stopped
talking the sacrament for the rest of your lives this week, what would happen?
Well. Its super simple. You will not have joy, you will not be clean, and you
could not live with God again. BUT WE WANT THOSE THINGS! so we take the
sacrament. We remind ourselves each week the promise that we made with the Lord
when we got baptized, to always remember him, be representatives of his name in
word and in deed, and keep all his commandments. And I think his promise to us
is even greater- that we will always have the spirit to be with us. Without
this spirit we cannot retain a remission of our sins aka we cannot be clean. I
know the the Holy Ghost guides us and comforts us, but more than that it
SANCTIFIES us. Take a second and remind yourself this next sunday what exactly
the sacrament means to you and truly prepare for this cleansing moment, this
chictito bautismo. We need it and I know I WANT to take it worthily the rest of
my life.
Every ounce of love I
can send from Paraguay!
xoxo,
Hermana Vergara
3 Nephi 5:13
PS I know I have been
slacking on my food pics. My camera was a little messed up for a bit, but here
is a few :)
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