9-24-2012

Whats up fam.
Wow that is awesome! Sounds like it was a fun week, and way to go Braiden for the studliness. What changes have they done to the temple? Can you see it from the highway? That is super cool that the coaches went and had dinner. What’s Braiden doing right now with basketball? This last pday we played soccer as a district and... wow i am horrible, I cant shoot worth beans and i cant keep up with myself. I want to do certain things but i am just out of practice but i am getting pretty good with dribbling with my feet and a soccer ball.  Well for the big news on the transfers, nothing happened. My comp and I are still together for the last change. I am super glad that i have the chance to stay and be apart of the baptism of raul and ruby! This week flew by!!! We had alot of activities and things to do. Friday i did changes with elder hatch (my good friend from the mtc and now is my zone leader) and we partied and worked hard. He is a very good elder. Then Saturday we went to Centro to do a massive service project of cleaning the trash from a river. It was very fun and President Agazzani was with us getting dirty. He is a good guy. I was looking for Jordan but he didn’t go. I did run into a couple elders from his district. GUESS WHAT i found out that the 27 of October Elder Bednard is coming to Paraguay to speak to the north and the south mission together so i will be able to see Jordan! I am so excited for that. Last night we had a lesson with raul and ruby and they are so excited and happy. They have had so many changes in their life and are being so blessed- I love them. They are super excited for their baptism and they have the baptismal date for this weekend!!!! I am so excited and they are ready. They started to tell us a story that a Jehova Witness came to their house and started to converse with them at their door and they told them no  ``no thanks we are from the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints``! It was so cool. We are also working with another señora named Ilda who is also progressing. We had a lesson with her yesterday and her brother in law and sister where at the house visiting her and they came out of the house and said we want to know what ilda is learning about can we participate. Turns out the guy is die hard Baptist and his wife and they started to ask question and try and prove the Book of Mormon wrong with their reasoning. We answered a couple of his questions and the spirit slapped him the face and he said that he will read the whole Book of Mormon and ask god if it is true and if he tells him yes he will change his beliefs.... it was really cool and then ilda said she new that it was true. We have just got to get her to put in batteries and get going. Everything is going really well. I am kind of getting sick of write emails so sorry if they are not as good of quality any more. I love you all and i love this work. It’s a very rewarding work if you look closely. Not all the time does one baptize alot but there are so many more ways of feeling the blessings of this work. Just gotta find the silver lining! The church is true. Keep your eyes peeled as dad would say for the small and simple things in your life.
elder shaw