Week 29, 30, & 31

Week 29

Haupei Yall!

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 2017!!! I cannot believe how fast time is flying! I hope that yall all had a great new years eve and are looking forward to a great new year! 

Happy new year things :)

1. Hermana Activity! These are not normal with the rules that we have BUT we got special permission to all get together and play volley and have lunch! I love each of these girls so much :)

2. CAMBIOS. super bitter sweet butt.....I left Mariano! I am now in Luque 1A, or better known as Luque Centro! My new, awesome, super cute comp is HERMANA TANDIMAN!!! She is the cutest, from Utah, went to BYU Hawaii before the mish and in one word she is DOPE. Legit. We are going to have the best time together! 

3. ANO NUEVO! A really sweet menos activo family I just met here in Luque offered us cena my first day! We ate real well and then headed home at the normal hour. We set the alarm for 1150, got up, went to the balcony, and watched all the fireworks! Drank some Fanta guarana to ring in the new year!!! It was a good one, but we were so tired so it was way chill.

Todays quick thought comes from Moses 7 verse 44 <And as Enoch saw this, he had bitterness of soul, and wept over his brethern, and said unto the heavens I will refuse to be comforted, and the Lord said unto Enoch, Lift up your heart and be glad and Look!> How many times have we gotten upset with how things were going and blamed the Lord? I can count a numberless times where I have prayed and said, Lord I cannot put up with this, but I know that he has the same response for each of us. Lift up your heard and be glad! Then look. And in the rest of this chapter the Lord continues to tell Enoch about the Atonement and the tender mercies of the lord. We must look to the atonement and we must lift up our hearts and be glad! We are so blessed and we are even more blessed because we know that through Jesus Christ we can be glad. WE CAN HAVE JOY! I encourage each of yall to make goals for this year for your spirit. Maybe its praying more often, reading the more than one verse in the scriptures, or maybe its planning service every week, but the best goal we can set is to lift up our hearts, be glad, and look to the Lord and his Atonement for each and everyone of us! 

All my love!!!

Hermana Vergara

3 Nephi 5:13 

PS Hermana Activity, WE CAN DRINK COKE NOW!, Ano Nuevo Cena, the Dakar race came through town today! so sick! 

Week 30

Haupei Yall! 

Roll Tide Roll! Shoutout to the Tide :)

Happy Things!

1. Los 3 Reyes came this week! Dia de Los Reyes Magos here is more like our normal Santa Claus Christmas so Hermana Tandiman and I had a fun time trying to surprise the other with some good eats and cute gifts. I was super happy with some chocolate cake and all her love :)

2. CELINA! Wow we have been trying to find her since I first got here and we finally found her, taught her, and she came to church yesterday! She is a sweet sweet single mom who works so so hard to give her sons the best and is recognizing that the gospel is the best she can give to them for their lives. She told us that at church she felt so much peace and truly refreshed for the week. And that is how its done! Just one sunday in the chapel and people are truly changed. The spirit is so strong there and truly testifies that everything we teach is true. We are so excited to see how she will progress! 

3. Hermana Tandiman is so dope. I am so siked to be her comp. We are having so much fun working and finding. And even though we are sweating out a storm her in 100 degrees we make the most of it with ice cream and keep moving one step at a time!

Quick Thought:

"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not to thine own understanding." Proverbs 3:5. More than anything I feel that I am not just learning to apply this scripture, but being forced to. It is a lot easier on the mission to go out and work and be distracted from anything and everything that might be pulling at my attention, but when the day is finished and done, when we have talked to one last person, read one last verse, I feel very human again and weak. I am having to learn to trust in the Lord, truly exercise faith and confidence in Him and the grand plan he has for me and my loved ones. He is the only one that can comfort me, sanctify me, and give me the courage to get up one more day and do His work in His way, or with His understanding. He is the grand plan maker and He knows exactly what He is doing. I know that His ways are higher than my ways, and His thoughts higher than my thoughts. I find comfort and strength in Him. I know that we can all learn to trust him more, let Him pull us out of our comfort zones a little further, and let Him work on us to help us become more like Him. I am so grateful that He loves me enough to give me hard things to help me grow. I am so grateful that I have been raised by loving parents that have taught me and are firm examples to me of this strong faith and confidence in the Lord. I know I am who I am today because of my parents loving examples and their love of the Lord.

Thank you all for all your support and prayers on my behalf and for my family. 

All my love from Paraguay, 

Hermana Vergara

3 Nephi 5:13 

PS beautiful Luque, some good home cooking thanks to mama, and my cute comp and our favorite thing PIZZA 

Week 31

Haupei Yall! 

Happy Things:

1. We had the coolest experience this week. We were really exhausted from the heat and it was the end of the day, but we had one more lesson planned a little far away. We almost made our way in closer to home, but something told us to go. We went to the lesson as planned and actually got to teach the mom of the home that usually is so busy she is in and out of lessons, so we have never actually gotten to really teach her. We sat down with her and started talking about the Restoration and the Book of Mormon. We taught with as much energy as we could muster and truly the Spirit did the rest because when we asked her to read and pray about the BOM she looked at us and said "no i dont have to, i already know it is true. when can i get baptized?" when before she had told us she was catholic and did not want to get baptized again! Needless to say we were shocked out of our minds. Her name is Fanny. Keep her in your prayers!

2. Another one of our investigators, Celina (I think i mentioned her this past week) is doing so well! Well, after we got her a priesthood blessing from a member for her home and for her. When we visited her on Monday she told us she was seeing spirits, was not comfortable being alone in her own home, and could not pray because the spirits would become violent with her. After the blessing she told us she felt complete peace and the spirits have left her! It was an incredible moment to feel the spirit testify to me the power of the priesthood and how blessed we are to have the power of God restored to the earth!

3. Truly the best part of the week was getting a phone call from the mission telling me that all went well with my Moms surgery. I am so blessed to see the blessings come pouring in. The Lords timing is perfect and his love is so huge for us. I am so grateful for every prayer on behalf of my mom and all the support that my family is receiving. THANK YALL!

It is hot hot hot down here, but every day I feel the Lords protecting hand and the umbrella he is holding up to protect us so that we can do his work. I know that if we put in the work and try our best, he will do the rest! 

All my love from Paraguay! Les quiero muchisimo! 

Hermana Vergara

3 Nephi 5:13 

PS great views in the city, its Dengue season=got our nets up ;), and Hermana Roncallo, Tandiman, and Montaño! :)