1-2-2012

Whats up familia!?

Thanks for the letters even though you’re busy and for the pictures Tiffany. They are great. That’s awesome that you got to go to Utah. How is the Shaw family? Wow i hope you can send my love to the Beans, they are awesome. Also I'm inviting you to join me in an activity that i am starting again, reading the Book of Mormon from cover to cover marking every name, attribute of Jesus Christ and when he talks. How’s BYU looking this year in sports?

     Right now i am in Asuncion again, we had to travel over night to talk about the month of December cause we didn’t do well as a mission... it was a ruff meeting.  The president wasn’t too happy but it ended well. I love that man, President Callan is an inspired man and even when he is throwing down the cane he knows how to do it without being like a police man and with alot of love. It put alot of pressure on us to show the example and make our areas be the example so that we can show to our zone that it is possible to have the success that the Lord wants us to have. This last week we had a very sad encountering. I cried in one of the lessons. If you remember the family i talked about the last time that went to church, well we went to their house to teach them one day and the dad sat us down really sad and basically told us not to come back because his family doesn’t like the Mormons and that they have to respect their family and they love them. So we had a very spiritual lesson with every body that day to where the wife starting crying. They know that it is the truth but they wont accept it so we lost them. But we are sending a member over there almost everyday with the hope that we won’t lose them completely. I think in this moment in my mission i am learning so much about faith. It seems like such a simple concept.... have faith, get miracles. but its hard to keep the doubts out so this week i have focused on only being optimistic and faithful and my comp has now begun to call me ^^barney^^ because i dream or my comments are so far fetched that they are imaginations but it’s a lot more fun this way to only think positively. We are being tried right now but we will see fruits in a little i know it. We don’t have many people to teach right now kind of a dry spot we find people but there always seems to be a problem. We did see one very big miracle. I was searching our area book and i found a sticky note that said the familia Machuka want us to move back in to our area. I talked to my comp and turns out he met them once they were old investigators so we decided to look for a house for them and found one and we called the number that was on the sticky note and ... boom... miracle the guy answered and was nice and is moving in to the house we found and we are going to begin teaching them. They will probably get baptized for sure 100%

A wise note and invitation is to read alma 37: 38-46 and apply that scripture to your lives. I love you all so freaking much.

elder shaw

goody bye

chou