I just wanted to update everyone real quick on my totally exciting life. I am still going to school at SUU for my BSN, I am working in Central Staffing at DRMC and I love it, and my boyfriend gets home in 5 weeks! ok, so the last part was really the only one I wanted to talk about! I am so excited. He is doing awesome but he said one thing in his letter that scared me a bit. He said that he loves his new area (i'll explain later) that he considered extending because there is so much work to be done. uh...i don't think that is a good idea. I love missions, i love missionaries, but 2 years and 1 week is plenty. He did say that he wouldn't because he cares about my sanity though so that was sweet of him! ha Here are a couple parts from his last couple letters. He has been given the opportunity to go back out to the field (out of the office) for his last transfer. He is actually opening up a totally new area... 65,000 people-4 members-no former knowledge of latter-day saint missionaries. sounds pretty intense to me! He loves it!
Im having the best time of my life right now. I cant believe i only have like 5 weeks left to do this because there is just so much stuff to do for the church in my new area. Im seriously going to be so focused and busy till the end. im pumped! So we had the very first ever sacrament meeting in the area yesterday and it actually went pretty well. We had a total of 18 people. There are 4 active members, us and then we actually found a 27 year guy who has been inactive for like 9 years, he called us down when we were just in the streets and so we kept visiting him and hes been caught up in all sorts of worldly things but we have taught him to start reading and praying again and he came to the sacrament meeting. We just did it in a room in one of the members houses and just set up a bunch of plastic chairs. We had a keyboard and so my comp played the hymns and I lead the music, presided, and directed the meetings! We had the members give talks, and then my comp and i blessed and passed the sacrament. It was so amazing though because you just know that we are doing the right thing and that we have the priesthood so we can. We also had a family of 4 who were there and its a family just beyond prepared who had gone to the meetings in a different city with the members earlier in the year. We went to their house yesterday and had an amazing lesson with them and invited them to be baptized next sunday, and the mom and dad and their two little girls ages 8 and 11 accepted. This week we are going to be focusing on them big time. There names are Ramon, Carolina, camila and Lorena. I am really excited for them.
The lord has already blessed us big time. Its amazing because every person we meet is just super curious and wants to know what we are doing, and who we are because they have never seen missionaries before. I'm loving it. We are going to do the baptisms in a little river like 2 miles out of town because obviously we dont have a baptismal font. I feel like im living in the 1800's! forget about it! What a blessing and opportunity though right.
But for real the people here are Amazing. I seriously do love the paraguayan people down here, they truly are incredible and i cant even tell you how amazing the mission has been. I have loved every second of it, i'm going to miss it big time. The people just need the gospel so bad and they are ready for it also. We have seriously been rejected by only 2 people here out of like the 200 we have talked to. Every one just lets us in and wants to hear our message its awesome! I am super pumped about this family that is preparing for baptism on Sunday, i pray that everything will go well for them.
As you can tell, he is really excited and busy and I don't blame him for wanting to extend...doesn't mean I'm gonna let it happen though. :)
He is an amazing missionary. I am lucky to have him.
The lord has already blessed us big time. Its amazing because every person we meet is just super curious and wants to know what we are doing, and who we are because they have never seen missionaries before. I'm loving it. We are going to do the baptisms in a little river like 2 miles out of town because obviously we dont have a baptismal font. I feel like im living in the 1800's! forget about it! What a blessing and opportunity though right.
But for real the people here are Amazing. I seriously do love the paraguayan people down here, they truly are incredible and i cant even tell you how amazing the mission has been. I have loved every second of it, i'm going to miss it big time. The people just need the gospel so bad and they are ready for it also. We have seriously been rejected by only 2 people here out of like the 200 we have talked to. Every one just lets us in and wants to hear our message its awesome! I am super pumped about this family that is preparing for baptism on Sunday, i pray that everything will go well for them.
As you can tell, he is really excited and busy and I don't blame him for wanting to extend...doesn't mean I'm gonna let it happen though. :)
He is an amazing missionary. I am lucky to have him.
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He is totally amazing and my boys can't wait for someone else to bug. We have been very blessed to have him serving and teaching the kids what great things he is doing. Tate kind of thinks TJ is bringing him a monkey, why only tate knows, disappointment will sure follow. good luck!
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