Crazy Week--Last One

Hi! Family and Friends,

With my last interview with the president and all the travels and stuff that happened yesterday, I was not able to write. But I begged the office here and they have allowed me some minutes to write you all.

My interview with President was awesome!  He helped me a lot with the things that I needed to see. He helped me feel much better about my mission and to see some of the good that has come out of this.

Things were crazy this week and I didn’t have a lot of time to write you this week, but I do love you all.
See you in a couple of days!

Love,
Elder Call

EDITORS NOTE:

Elder Dallin Call will be flying home on Thursday, June 23, 2016.  He will report his mission in the Meadows Ward, Sunday, June 26th at 1:00 pm.  All is invited to come. 

His Work

Well, Well, family and friends:

This past Tuesday, we were able to meet up with Cecilia, the girlfriend of Rene, and we began talking about the Fast and Testimony Meeting she attended last Sunday.  She had felt something so strong and pure while the people where bearing their testimonies, which of course, was the Holy Ghost and that made her want to talk with us and learn more. She has been able to feel a similar feeling as we talked and as she prayed to know if Joseph Smith is a Prophet of God. The only thing is that she wants to take teachings slowly, which is okay as long as she doesn’t abandon it for her parents.  She did get sick because of how cold it has been here and did not attend church this week but is now reading the Book of Mormon and is loving it.

Anais and Elias are doing great and are continually reading and progressing in the scriptures. Carlos and Sonia have moved back to Conception and are waiting up there until some things settle down.  Christian and Griselda are doing somewhat fine, but they also didn’t come this last week and with Christian always being gone from home, we don’t have many opportunities to share with him or Griselda

This week I have been learning how to cook much of the traditional food of Paraguay to teach you all back there.

The Church is God’s Church and we are his servants and this is His work. May we all be a part of it and reap the blessings.

Love,
Elder Call

The Gospel is LOVE

Hi Family,

This last week was a ton of fun.  With it being my last couple of weeks here in Paraguay, and realizing that the missionary work generally works a lot better when the members bring their friends to church, we have been planning and doing a ton of FHE with the members, strengthening them and just having a great time.  One of the results we saw was that the girlfriend of Rene (one of the kids here in the ward) came to church and loved it.

Hahaha so I was thinking about what could have been funny this last week and just came to mind what happened last night!!

So we had a FHE in the house of a RM whose family is MA and father is not a member.  Anyways when we arrived the dad had already emptied 2 six packs and was very happy.  So he comes up to us and asks us where we are from and I say Wyoming and my companion says the Philippines (side note: Dallin’s companion is from California).  The dad just about freaks with excitement and starts asking us about our ancestors like the Shoshone and the native Philippinos and wants to learn their rain dances. He proceeds to show us how the Guarani do their rain dance. Afterwards my companion starts doing a weird dance and the dad tries to imitate it and really gets into it pounding his chest and turning in all sorts of circles.  We just started busting out laughing and he loved it.

That was the story of the week.

The mission is a blast and we just have to be ourselves here and always.

As President Monson says the Gospel is LOVE if we don’t have love we don’t have the gospel. Keep up the good work!

Love you all!
Elder Call