Week 23

Haupei Yall!!! 

Happy Things:

1. NO CHANGES!!! I get to finish training with Hermana Montaño and have Christmas in Mariano! SO SIKED. 

2. LEIS GOT BAPTIZED!! It truly was the sweetest thing. Well, after the whole craziness of not having water in the whole city...so we called the firefighters and they helped us out! It truly was the sweetest scene. Her whole family has been reactivating for this baptism and her dad got to baptize and confirm her! Such a blessing to be a part of this family and this big step in their lives! 

3. Elder Rasband, one of the Twelve Apostles, came to visit and we had a special missionary conference! The day before I was called by Presidente Evans to be the photographer too! haha he heard I have skills? shoutout to my friends in the office...BUT it was truly an amazing experience. I was so grateful to be so close to a servant of the Lord and could truly feel a testimony of his divine calling as an apostle. More thoughts to come below...

4. After 5 months (THATS RIGHT 5 MONTHS TODAY...) my branch asked me to give a talk! in spanish. wow. afterwards I had to ask to make sure I was speaking spanish the whole time. It was based on Elder Mervyn B. Arnolds talk To the Rescue: We can do it! It truly increased my testimony of the importance of missionary work, but not only by the people with the tags. Lets put in some work y'all and get inviting and rescuing. 

5. So we were walking along the road and a little puppy came out of some grass. Of course I just about started crying and loving this puppy and then another one and another one and well there were 5! We picked them all up and as we starting gifting them out we got to do some good ole contacting! One of the most fun maneras of contacting I have done on the mish! 

6. This is going to blow your mind. That is why it is at  the end. But seriously listen. We have an incredible investigator and her name is Lourdes. She is the mom of two little girls and her husband, we haven't met yet, but is studying to be a doctor. SO we taught the Restoration and we asked her to pray to know if it is true. The next day we had lunch with her and she told us after lunch that she had a dream...She saw beautiful, crystal, blue water and then a tall, blonde man gave her a beautiful white flower. And thats that. Everything we have been teaching she accepts and she even attended the baptism this past weekend. SO keep her in your prayers because we have a wedding to plan too! 

Quick thought: Mostly about what Elder Rasband taught us. Basically he said, "We need you to do your VERY best. We need you to do MORE." He read with us the dedicatory prayer of Paraguay and testified to us that the work we are doing here is only just beginning. But this work and this consejo does not only apply to us down in Paraguay, truly we must all gain a testimony of this work and do our VERY best to invite others to come unto Christ through faith, repentance, and more importantly baptism so that they can enter in at the gate and follow the example of Jesus Christ. I have a strong testimony that we have a living prophet on the earth today with Twelve apostles and that they hold the sacred authority and power of God. I know this because I have prayed and I have felt the spirit testify to me time and time again that these men are his servants to guide us to salvation. I invite each of y'all to ask yourself what can you do this week to do your VERY best. There is always something more we can do to build up the Lords kingdom!

All my love, all my gratitude for each of you and for my Savior, and a Happy Thanksgiving! 

Hermana Vergara

3 Nephi 5:13