5-1-2012

What’s upppp!!!!!

Wow sounds like life is just trucking right along with out me. Well that’s fine. i hope everything is going really well cause everything for me is fantastic. Tell Danielle congratulations, and thanks you for the emails. Tyler thanks for writing me too it was good to hear from ya. You’re just as much family as anyone else! Where are you Braiden and Caleb? We just got out of a leaders council and it was amazing!! My companion had to give his last testimony in the meeting... it was very powerful. He is a good missionary. President talked the whole time about becoming our message, about applying the gospel and the teachings to us mismos, and about the sacraments. I really left that meeting with a better.. spirit. i think sometimes we get after missionaries for there numbers when the are lazy and not working, but it really made me realize that if someone is not fulfilling with his covenants or responsibilities it is cause he does not understand the doctrine and someone has to put them in their place and make them learn. I love president. I really don’t like it when people don’t speak highly of him! I can’t say in my new area we are not having success because we are.. Just not in the way I’m use to having it. My comp and I since we have been together have activated 3 or 4 families together and they are very strong in the church now. It is a really a satisfying feeling to see them walk into church.  They are just not investigators. We are going to try and get them to invite their friends. I love this work and it is good to take a look back and the importance. This is the only true church that leads someone to the true forgiveness of Christ, which brings the real happiness. The sacrament is so important but its frustrating when the people don’t listen or follow through. This last week on Thursday i had thee most physically exhausting days. We walk so far and for some reasoning no body was home and we tried everyone. When we got home i didn’t feel good i walked straight to my bed as well as my comp and in my clothes fell on to my bed and we fell asleep till 3 in the morning when i guess my comp got up and turned off the lights and changed... i didn’t. I slept through the night. It was a hard day but gratifying.  The for the strength of youth finally got to Paraguay. The new one is amazing!!! They make some bold remarks, and it is a lot more forward! Great

Stuff.  There was a lightning this last week that killed to people in ITA and burnt some many televisions. It was crazy we were in the chaplet when it hit and the lights surged i thought they were going to burst. We found an incomplete family and the 16 year daughter in not baptized. A member gave us the reference and we arrived with a member and it was a very spiritual lesson. During the lesson the mom stopped and said wait wait wait... do you feel that. I came home exhausted from work and right now I feel something! It was a very spiritual moment. They committed to come to church this week that comes! The daughter has a baptismal date. Really i do love this work and want to help a lot of people but one of the biggest homework that i have here is the elders in our zone. A lot of them are struggling and need help and my comp and I are trying very hard to animate them and help them have success. We don’t know what to do now to help them... its sad. I really want to be a better `person i feel like i have leveled out and i want to keep progressing, developing more and more in the attributes of Christ but sometimes i don’t feel like i progress. I think God is teaching me a lot of humility right now again. Its kind of fun taking the trials and seeing what good i can get out of them. l love you and desire the best.

elder shaw

p.s. Sorry i suck at sending pictures home but i really am taking more pictures then you think don’t worry. It’s the journal that i am not to good at