October 17, 2011

Dear familia,

Thanks for the letters that you sent me. It’s always fun reading about what is happening in the lives of the Shaw family and beloveds. Ha dad sounds like a lot of things broke down. Hope everything is working now. Hey dad if your ever in charge of talking to the missionaries of your stake tell them to work with the members better. Now that i look back on it a missionary never ever has asked us for a reference. I still wish i would do better about that here. 
This week for us was fantastic! I have made so changes in my studies this last week. I was always afraid to study Gaurani really well cause it jacks up your Spanish so I’ve just learned it in the streets but this last week i convinced myself to start studying but just for a couple months or maybe even 2 and then straight back to Spanish. I have only been studying one week and it is so much fun to talk to the members and people. It is such an easy language, although my comp gets a little angry when i speak for a while cause he thinks that we are talking about him ha! Speaking of my comp, we have changes today and neither of us have changes we are both staying here. I am learning how to get along with all types of people. I love the elder to death. He’s my son, but we are perfectly different in every way. So we have both grown alot together. I’m learning to swallow my pride.  The president has really been focusing on the missionaries lately in his letters and interviews about how we as people can be better and apply these Christ like characteristics to us. I hope I’m doing it a little. This last week we had a baptism, his name is richard sanabria, he is 15 years old. He made a complete life turn around when he first moved here from Asuncion.  He we a rebel, mean with earrings everywhere but it just goes to show the power of repentance! Alma 36! He was a little scared to get baptized but he was ready and it went really well! The chapels here in Paraguay don’t’ have water heating so every baptism the people come out of the water sucking for air like they are about to die and red! It was funny but hey i think it still counts. The thing i am most excited about is our familia!!!!!!!!!!! i love the family De La Cruz!!!!!!!1 They are a family of 7 and have fecha for the 29th. I have a crush on a girl of theirs, named Raquel, she is so cute and she always takes my agenda and draws pictures for me when we teach,... she’s 5 years old! It keeps her quite. They came to church yesterday for the first time. There are 4 of them that are of the age of baptism, miriun roberto arturo and julieta. I love them and this women is so huge i can’t believe her stomach just doesn’t break at her belly button and everything fall out, she is a huge pregnant women. She should give birth this week. One funny story is one time this week we were teaching a drunk man at the house of an investigator named jose luis, and this drunk man stumbled up to his gate to call the Mormons devils, and that the king of the united states sends us to rob the sweet water of Paraguay, I really caught a kick out that one and laughed pretty hard and the guy picked up a brick and tried to throw it us but missed completely. It was to heavy, then jose had to escort him out. I love this work and am really happy with the area that i am in! I can’t wait for the baptism of this family, they deserve this blessing in their lives! 
Right now my studies personal are focused on the doctrina y convenios and i have learned a lot, especially about the 2nd coming of Cristo, there is a lot of hidden in that subject that not a lot of people know. I think its d and c 46 or somewhere around there. I hope your studies are going well, especially caleb and braiden! Don’t forget to read... read to understand.

love you all
edler shaw