9-10-12

What’s up!

Well i have so much i want to write and i don’t know how to put it in words so it’s probably going to be short. But i am doing good... very amazed at how the Lord works. I am put in different circumstances all the time and stretched at parts that need it. I had some interesting things happen this last week that i am probably not going to write on email but was a testimony builder and a good experience. As for the work this last week we found two very amazing families!!! They are both very receptive and young and they both claim to not have religions but believes in God... those are the best. One of the families, the wife has already read to 2 Nephi in one week and says she already has her answer and the best part is that her brother is member! But the husband is Brazilian and can’t stop drinking coffee and doesn’t know how to read well, but a very nice guy. We are working with them! They are yes or yes going to get baptized!! The other family we found has a very funny story behind it. We were walking on a street and there was a family outside a “love motel” we are going to call it. We stopped them and asked their names and got to know them and then asked to were they were going and they pointed to the love hotel and it was a very awkward moment. Then they read our thoughts and cut us off and said no no no we work and live there. So we accompanied them to there house inside the love motel and taught them lesson one and they loved it!!!! They said they want to go to church and love the Book of Mormon so we will see what happens with them. They don’t really live in the best environment and it is so awkward to enter into this place with my comp to get to their house... haha but we are going to baptize them!

Also this last week we had alot progress with Ruby. She more or less admitted that the church is true which is a huge step. But they told us before hand that they were not going to be able to go to church, but they are going to get baptized in a little. Right now we just need to throw members on them! I’m really excited. I really don’t know how much harder i can work. We are pushing ourselves so much and working very hard. I pray that God will bless us with a baptism. We are trying very hard. i have never worked so hard in my mission and had so much difficulty to get people to baptism! But i know that the Lord is going to bless us! PLEASE. My comp is getting a little disanimated, but my comp is leaving the area next week. I really hope he gets an obedient companion next change. I love this work. It is so painfully rewarding haha. Last night after getting home i laid down on the floor and had to elevate my ankles they hurt so bad. Yesterday not many people wanted to see our faces:)

I pray that all this work is paying off. I know that it is, it’s just putting the confidence in that we really will reap what we sow or however you say it in English. I love being a missionary. This last week i am having to heat metal up and burn the rubber on my shoes to try and keep the water out, the balls of my feet have broken through the bottom of my shoes, i just need to make it one more change in these shoes, but i can’t step in any water or i get soaked!.

I hope everything is going well back at home. If i have any experienced advise acquired lately it would be, do what’s asked of you even if you don’t understand or see why. The blessing will come. Magnify your calling and there will be no better joy. The true happiness will not come until your focus is not in yourself. Your ego must yield to the service of others. I’m trying so hard to learn the attributes of Christ so that i can apply them to real life later on but its amazing how much i fail even with the knowledge i have....

love

elder shaw