Great Week

Dear Family and Friends,

Well, this week has been great. The weather has been wonderful.

The only sad thing that happened this week is that Elias and Anais faught a lot and Elias drank a lot and rebelled. They didn’t receive us almost all of last week and they didn’t come to church. Although we were able to go Sunday night with a member to their house and talk to them, which, I thought, turned out super well.  They have calmed down a bit and I hope that we helped him think clearer.

Anyways, Cesar is doing great he is excited for his baptism this Saturday and we are excited to help him do it!!!! YEAH!!!! His dad is next, haha, but maybe not for a few years. His father does not want to share with us, but that will change with a little more time. His younger sister gave a wonderful talk in Sacrament Meeting and they are back to being active!! =)

The Family of Griselda, hmmm, I am not sure if they are going to progress or not.  We shared with them a couple of times but they are not reading or doing anything else for that matter.

Anyways that is the status of the people down here in Paraguay. They are great people.  They just can’t quite understand the reality of what we are sharing or they just don’t care and it makes me sad and desirous that they can understand.

I love you all!
Love, Elder Call

Great Blessings

Hello Family,

This week was a sweet week. First of all we found some great blessings.

We had five people at Sacrament Meeting, Deila, Cecilia, Cesar, Monica and Jasmin, which was awesome. Cesar has finally decided to be baptized and will be baptized the 30 of April!!!!! As for the rest of them, we are looking for a little more time down the road.  Deila is about to finish up a divorce so that she can get married and then baptized. Anais did not come to church this week because she was sleepy y bueno.  We are going to take that out of her!!!! I forgot my camera to send pics of the baptism.  I will have to do that next week.  However, we are doing great and working hard and making the most out of the last two months in Paraguay.

Today we went to clean the temple and ate super late, so this will be all folks for today since we are short on time.

Love you all,
Elder Call

Nothing Else Matters

Dear Family & Friends:

As for our week down here in Puerto Pabla, it was great.  We are still getting to know a lot of the members that are on the other side of the ward and we have taught a lot of people.

Anyways, as we were looking around and searching for people, we found Elias and Ana'i Gacia, who are living together.  We were talking with them and turns out Elias is already a member, but just hasn’t gone to church for a really long time. We talked with them and helped them realize the reality of the things and the best part is that they CAME TO CHURCH!!!!! They liked it a lot and say they are going to continue.  We will be there behind them keeping them moving.

Today we went and dug two big holes in the dirt for a paralitico (paraplegic), who is kind of upset with God for paralyzing him and after the service while we were talking, I realized that it would be super nice if he could realize that Nothing else matters, as long as we are saved in the Kingdom of God!!!

I love you all.  May we all fight to live with our families FOREVER!

Love,
 Elder Call

Keys

Dear Family & Friends:

As for my week, it was great.  I sure did love it. Transfers were this week where Elder Paredes and I stayed and will be staying for another six weeks.  They changed up some rules this week and now we are assigned to wards or branches and we can work in the entire area now. So the four missionaries in Puerto Pabla will be working together and simply more unified!!  We hope that it will all work out and that we can help more people join the church. 

It is hot here, but feels like the temps have dropped quite a bit.  The investigators are doing great; however, none of them attended which almost made me super mad.  But, hey, they are the only ones that lose.  My favorite talk was by Elder Gary Stevenson about the keys of the kingdom and also the talk by Elder Dallin H Oaks about the perfect Plan of God and how every last element to that plan is necessary so that we can have a eternal family. 

What Elder Gary Stevenson said really hit me like a car we cannot enter unless we have the keys and the power of the car doesn’t work unless we have the keys.  It is a straight parallel with the Kingdom of God, we also can’t enter unless someone has the keys. Having said that, all of our generations that were born before 1820 are without a doubt locked outside unless we let them in!!  Please, I invite you all to prepare for the opening of the Star Valley Temple by preparing as many names to go and do their ordinances in the Holy Temple of God . 

We should all imagine us in the temple and in the heavens as an eternal family.  It is a worthy thing to fight for. 

We are working with a HUGE family and we will see that they progress.  It is the only smart thing that they can do.

Love you all!

Elder Call