Hey!!!!
Wow the world is still moving. I feel like it hasn't changed and that everything is the same... I mean all that stuff happening is awesome but what really hit me was, A TRAMP what the heck I want a tramp, those don't exist here! That is so cool about Jordan and Michael; man so far almost all of us are Spanish speaking. As for Michael and Guarani no he won't hear a word of it. It really is only a Paraguay thing. Like the Brazileros here hate it when the Paraguayans speak Guaraní. I mean they fight ha! But that is so cool Matt Burnett is in that mission he is a great guy. I really want his address. If any knows how to get on to my Facebook his addressis under the mail. Jordan wow that's so cool he is coming here. He is going to love it! You have to tell Jordan that he has the best job in the world! Make sure he saves the picture on the computer at the office. I have a better picture that is kind of like it that I want to send to Bro Grieves. I think I will mail it home or something so that Jordan can take it to him! Can you tell Jordan to pass my love to Mike the funny one!
Thank you so much for sending a package, I haven't received anything for like 2 .. 2 and half months nobody loves me. But that's all right I’m going to write my comps sister in Ecuador as a joke and see if she will write back.
This week was a huge success and failure at the same time, Bueno, it's never a failure. During the week we had 17 with a baptism date after Sunday we have 4. I don't know what is going on or what we are doing wrong but none of the investigators will come to church. I know we are doing all we can, maybe exercise more faith. We decided to focus on faith (1 Nephi 12 7) and this next Sunday wel will have better success. 3 of our baptisms fell through this upcoming week because they didn't come. They were suppose to get baptized this weekend but I don't know, they didn't come out of their house, we clapped and clapped and clapped to accompany them (I thought of throwing a rock like Devin's comp did ha). Other then assistencia we were blessed extremely with finding people. I love the people here, honestly if you walk up to someone standing in the street and say we are representatives of Jesus Christ and have a message for you can we walk to you house and share with you they love of the Saviror, everyone will listen. Later we find out that they are in love the virgin Mary and worship her but most people are still so nice. Yesterday we had a very spiritual lesson. Yesterday we found a 15 year old kid named Rubin. We were walking and he yelled my last name from his house! I don't know how he knew but he did, so we went over there and he said he asked his friend who is a member how to get a hold of the missionaries and he told him my name. We taught him the first lesson and at the end he said, "ya i know the Book of Mormon is true I read it every day right now I am reading about Amulek in Alma.... wow it was so cool! We challenged him to be baptized and he paused (we were thinking oh crap) but he said I don't know.. We said what would impede you from becoming baptized. He said I don't know if my family will follow my example. I'm willing to get baptized but i don't know if they are going to follow me! It was so cool, he is ready! It is like that here; people are just begging to hear the word of God. Most won't change from the Catholic religion but they want the word of God!
Another cool experience we found a familia that was really searching for the truth, they said they would read and pray to God. We returned the next time and they threw the Book of Mormon at us saying leave my house! We calmed them down and said what happened? They explained that some neighbors were making fun of them, and they didn't want that. We then challenged them to pray on their knees with us to ask God and not their neighbors if it was true. The husband gave the prayer and after the prayer nobody talked and the spirit was so strong my comp started to cry and gave his testimony and I followed. They said they felt the spirit but wanted to continue praying like this for another week! It was such a spiritual moment! There are great people here.
I really hope that president leaves this area open because I don't want to leave. It is weird to think that we are already through half a change, man the time flies! Mom as for the plaque ya I will find my favorite scripture and send it with the next email but that's a hard question because my favorite scriptures changes like every single week.
I love p-days, like I love working and preaching and stuff like that but really missionaries would not last 2 months without their p-days. We want to go to some waterfall this next week and that would be so cool I could get some good pictures however it’s 2 hours away. We usually play volleyball or futbol... and eat! I love the food here. Oh and I bought a sweet Ferrari watch like the 2000 dollar watches, for 3 dollars. Thank you so much for everything and the emails, and the package. Oh and Tiffany I don't think I will be talking with an accent, but I will be talking very weird due to formation of words and phrases. The missionaries here speak a mix so I have forgotten English phrases and words. I already have to think when writing you sometime ha.
I LOVE YOU AND CHOWWWWW!
Elder Shaw
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