Hi family!
Conference was awesome and I totally would have won in the NCAA picking if I would have picked. Ii got to watch conference on Saturday in English too! The session were 1 to 3 and 5 to 7 and then 9 to 11 for the Peisthood and weird enough they let us stay out that long. You would have thought that I would have died. I just about fell asleep 5 hundred times and had to have Eder Arias slap me a couple times when he wasn't asleep. I think that I have adjusted to the schedule now because I was beat!!! I was so tired the next day Ii never want to do that again. I loved the talks! Elder Holland is such a stud. But I think my favorite was just listening to the prophets voice. It is so weird to how big the anticipation was when all we do is talk and preach about him!
Ooh and guess what I saw Aunt Carol Aunt Noreen and Ashlyne sitting together in the Saturday morning session in the crowd! But hey mom I took my notes and I want my king size candy bar. Symphony blue kind! (maybe CTR rings in Spanish and a CD player, mine broke) sorry for asking for stuff but that stuff doesn't exist here. You can send it whenever convenient.
Dad, the language is coming along great. I understand everything except for the one liner jokes those always go over my head and I just laugh not to look like a retard but that's how it is for most the North Americans here. My companion Elder Arias talks like Tiffany when telling a story, without breathing or stopping haha! Some of the Paraguayans ask him to slow down, oh and guess what I have a little humor now in Spanish. We get along real well. E thank the Lord every day for his help with the language. If I could improve anything its catching the quick stuff, but I'm improving every day. As for success, yes we are finding success here. Paraguayans are little bit lazy but that is their culture. The only thing that would impede us is lack of faith on our part, like they talk about in the conference really it's on our shoulders and our faith! That is the attribute I am working on again this week is faith! One thing I would ask is prays for the familia Margarita Monica Renet and Daniel. They are so close and need a little push! The family is amazing, there is a 21 year old girl that is very hard to teach because she never wants to join the lessons but she is coming around.
Oh I ate something interesting this week I thought you would like to know, we went to a member to eat (yes there are 3 member in our area) and what we ate just about killed me and if not now it will kill me later. Bbut we sat down and she put this stuff called Mndioka in front of us which is really like soggy potatoes and then stuck a whole cow foot cooked on the plate with pretty much no meat and said suck on the cooked foot bone after eating the Mandioka for flavor, because Mandioka doesn't have flavor! And... wow I sucked on the whole cow foot a couple times to make them happy and then just pounded mandioka.
Every day, my faith grows more and more and I realize how much the gospel blesses the family, the entire conference focused on the family. I read a chapter this week alma chapter 5 and it is very strong and direct and the last scripture in the chapter is my favorite right now. Thank you for all, I love you fam. and remember to always think of how you can bless others it more fun that way. the church is true, and your in my prayers
Love Elder Shaw
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