Que Tal familia That is so awesome about Jordan! I can't believe it. Tell him to start learning how to cook without meat cheese or peanut butter. (the first two are just really expensive)! Oh I am so excited for him. He will probably know Gaurni better than me when we are both back because there is more Gaurni in his mission. There is also a lot of Portuguese in his mission and the temple is in his mission and about 3 fourths of Asunicion is in his mission. We have the campo or boonies and black market areas. We also have a pretty large Japanese area. Ha that is just so cool. I hear in the North mission they can wear Sombreros and drink the tee de de. I don't know for sure though.
This last week we had a General Authority come to our mission and he laid down the law. I am pretty sure our mission has more rules than any other mission in the world but really it makes a difference in the missionaries. It is all good.
That�s awesome about basketball and the sports going on! I hope Caleb you make the A team but hey.... I didn't, and B team was awesome! But good luck I hope you make it Caleb! How is school boys? The kids here started school and one day we visited a family in a place called Predera Alta which is about 2 hours from our pension and its straight Gaurani out there. They speak Spanish like I do because they speak mostly Gaurnai. The mom was not able to pay for the schooling for her children because they didn't have enough money and she said she didn't come to church because her children feel embarrassed when they get asked to read and they can't. It really makes you look at life differently. They have it hard. Right now we are looking for a solution for her children to get in school to learn how to read. I think we are just going to take personal money and pay for the kids schooling this week. But I love the people
Guess what! this week in church we had 30 people and two of them we investigators!! Both with fecha and they are so solid. Their names are Arial Arias and Edgar Marcelo. Both are men about 27 years old. It was testimony meeting so we were a little scared but it went well. We are hoping to baptize them on the 26 of this month. We are having a hard time balancing member work and investigator work cause this rama really needs both. We also have an investigator named Hermana Prerda we actually don't know her first name but she asked to be baptized out the blue! Then we found out that she can't get baptized because she is married but they don't know if it is legit or not. They are going to go to church this Sunday so pray for them because she is really nice and always gives us food! Usually carrots grounded up in nasty water but hey it is a vegetable.
This week I have really felt the blessing of the spirit with the language! I feel like I can really understand and talk more fluently. I sat with one of our investigators through church and answered all his questions, I'm am being blessed. I'm focusing on vocabulary right now because I understand well enough, I just need a wider vocabulary. Dad I'm trying to keep a journal but what I'm learning is to write what I'm learning. That isn't easy because I learn so much. Right now I'm learning so much about charity, it's so much deeper than I ever thought. It is perfectly said as the pure love of Christ. accepting others for how they are, not seeing their faults and giving them the benefit of the doubt. Judging someone is sometime necessary for our safety and a situation but the line is so gray that... idk. Charity is loving someone so much to the point where they don't have faults in your eyes. I learned a lot in the scriptures from this awesome Book of Mormon guide I found in our pension.
Something funny: we were teaching an investigator the first lesson and he really is good but during the part about where Christ comes to the Americas, their dog ran to the middle of our circle where their chickens were walking around. The dog broke the neck of the chicken and started tearing it apart. Everybody screamed the dog was crazy and the dog just took the chicken outside to finish it off. We continued and at the end when we did the last prayer for the investigator you could hear the dog crunching the bones of the chicken. You would be amazed at some of the conditions we teach in. Ha it was so funny. We have our last p-day next week for the change
I love you family Elder Shaw
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