5/17/2011

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How’s every body doing? Sounds like everything is good with school ending! That was a really fast year it feels like, time is flying. I still feel like i am in March cause that was a long month. I always dreaded when you said we were going to plays or acts or something mom, but I’m bummed i missed Wicked. But really i get a show every single day. It was crazy this last week. Not much success but a lot of action that’s for sure. But first dad the name of the city is cuidad del este and its freezing, I wear gloves every night and sleep in a parka! Also i haven’t gotten the package yet but zone conference is coming up on the 26 and they will bring them to here i believe. All your talk about basketball and i got a little trunky (missing something) for basketball so i called up 6 member and 4 missionaries and we are playing in 2 hours at the church. I am so stoked!!!!!!!

This week was very action packed. Our couple that has 4 assistencias (go to church i don’t know the word is) had a bump and she found out that he cheated on here a couple months back and we talked on the phone with her for 3 hours at night trying to calm her down and get her to forgive him and then spent a lot of the next day with them all in all she forgave him but doesn’t want to get married anymore so they can’t get baptized until they do..... So we are starting from scratch but they are still bomb awesome. Then another familia heard that we worship pigs after baptism and that we get a lot of money for every baptism that the do and that we grow horns later..... ha! so he is a little doubt full but said he was going to come to church. Really all this talk about forgiving and repenting and becoming a better person made me think and learn, and how much i owe to the church, cause really the person i am i owe to mom and dad but really the gospel. It’s so apparent when teaching that if you put God first in your marriage relationship that everything will work out fine. I’m so grateful for the gospel. I love reading the Book of Mormon. It’s my favorite book on the mission so far..... and really the only book ha i don’t read the bible much.

We also found another couple this last week named ramon y lurces, and we have taught then twice and the spirit was so strong!! Both lessons ramon ended up crying and saying he wants to be with his family forever. It was really touching. He’s really sincere and has told us he knows the Book of Mormon is true.... he didn’t come to church (fail!) oh and when we did a kneeing prayer at the end, we taught him how to pray and said would you like to try and he said yes and then, lifted his hands in the air bowed his head like in the movies and gave such a powerful prayer. A little off with the hands but the prayer was awesome. I have the best stories in the world about some of the prayers I’ve had, drunk people making me hold there hands, screaming things, people that prayed to me cause they didn’t know what the heck was going on but we are going to help him again this week. He has alot of potential, all they need to do is come to church.. The big problem.

As for a funny story, a drunk out of his mindman walked up to me in the night and said o Lord bless me i need your help, and he threatened me to give him a blessing so he said put your hands on my head and give me a blessing Lord.... he thought i was Jesus cause I’m white and then he sat there. So i put one of my hands on his head and just sat in there in silence for like 5 seconds and then said you’re blessed and he said thanks and walked away!!! Blasphemy i know but he was drunk and won’t remember a thing it was so funny. My comp and I were laughing so hard. Right now I’m reading in Alma about the wars and stripling warriors. It’s really interesting right there, Where are you in you personal study. That’s about all for now, chou I love you Elder Shaw