Week 37

Haupei Yall! 

Shoutout to a brand new missionary we have in the family! HERMANA KRIEGER! 

Happy Things!

1. I hit 8 months this week! Woohoo! 

2. I went on divisions this week with Hermana Llanos again but IN ARREGUA! Yall I cannot tell yall how much a of a fresh breath of air it was to get out of the city and to a place full of green, normal paraguay houses, guarani, and just green for miles. It was a fabulous division too. I love learning from Hermana Llanos too! She has a lot of experience down here and was teaching me a whole lot of guarani! 

3. We were challenged by our zone leaders to practice teaching the Restoration in shorter than 10 minutes, asking good questions, and truly addressing the investigators needs with lesson 1. We got to test it all out with an investigator of ours, Blanca. We had more than 10 minutes, but with all our practice we were able to teach a really solid lesson 1 with her that was truly led by the spirit. The spirit was strong and Hermana Christiansen and I walked out of that lesson walking on air. We are so excited to see how sweet Blanca progresses! 

4. We have another investigator with aspergers, his name is Seba and he is 10 yrs old and the youngest in a part member family. We talked with his mom the other day and she doesnt want him to get baptized until he truly understands everything so we have been working really hard on being creative with him so that he remembers. We decided to review some of the baptism interview questions with him and we were so happily surprised to see how much he remembered and how much he has learned. He is progressing so incredibly. 

5. Special prayers for three other of our investigators that are SO READY to be baptized but just have to pull the trigger. Paola is looking for a new house, a single mom with two youngins, and going through a hard divorce. Francisco is looking for a new house too so that he can keep the law of chastity. Rafael is afraid of the water and that fear has kept him from coming to church for about a month now. Prayers prayers prayers! I know they work! We are going to see miracles here in Campo Grande. 

Spiritual Thought: "Just keep swimming!" -Dory. Or in more formal language "Perseverar hasta el fin!" or "Endure to the end." Yeah its hard and sometimes we want to just sit down and quit, but we have to keep pushing, or swimming, or we will drown! But we dont want to just float either. So push hard and make things happen with lots of prayer and the Lord will follow through. 

xoxo,

Hermana Vergara

3 Nephi 5:13 

PS FHE in Arregua, Hermana meet up in Luque to finish up divisions! shoutout to Hermana Tandiman for the awesome breakfast, Teatime Bakery SO YUM, 8 months from my temporary desk lol jk its hermana evans!