June 18, 2012
What I’ve learned since being in Paraguay: If you feel like there’s a bug on you, there is.
We experienced a miracle at church yesterday! The young couple, Liz Mabel and Luis, came to church with their two-month old baby. Luis was planning on working on Sunday but after a powerful lesson about Sabbath Day Observance, he finally committed to coming and was true to his word! We are very excited for him. Hermana Greer made him a promise from God that if he observed the Sabbath Day, his family would always have enough to eat. It was really cool. We are now focusing our lessons with them on receiving and recognizing an answer to know if the Church is true, the importance of marriage and some Word of Wisdom issues. If they truly have the desire, it will happen. It all depends on them.
We also had another investigator, Santiago, come to church. He is what we would call an `eternigador` because he has investigated the church for a long time with the elders and still hasn’t gotten baptized.
What I’ve learned since being in Paraguay: If you feel like there’s a bug on you, there is.
We experienced a miracle at church yesterday! The young couple, Liz Mabel and Luis, came to church with their two-month old baby. Luis was planning on working on Sunday but after a powerful lesson about Sabbath Day Observance, he finally committed to coming and was true to his word! We are very excited for him. Hermana Greer made him a promise from God that if he observed the Sabbath Day, his family would always have enough to eat. It was really cool. We are now focusing our lessons with them on receiving and recognizing an answer to know if the Church is true, the importance of marriage and some Word of Wisdom issues. If they truly have the desire, it will happen. It all depends on them.
We also had another investigator, Santiago, come to church. He is what we would call an `eternigador` because he has investigated the church for a long time with the elders and still hasn’t gotten baptized.
We had a sweet Relief Society activity this week that we helped out with. We talked about visiting teaching and the importance of making those visits each month. Hermana Greer and I did two demonstrations- one of a terrible visit, which was really funny which I really enjoyed, and one of a good visit. The bad visit included not preparing a lesson, asking for food, laying across the chair and talking about nothing of importance. I really hope it inspired the hermanas here to get more involved! Visits to members are so important for the growth of the ward!
I don’t know if I have mentioned before but there are a lot of older women in our branch, who speak primarily Guarani, so the majority of our lessons in Relief Society on Sunday are taught in Guarani. I can understand, more or less, what is going on because they mix in Spanish words every now and then and I know a few Guarani words. I’ve gotten use to it and it seems normal now.
Thought I would tell you a little bit more about where I live. In 1869, Mariscal Lopez, a famous Paraguayan military guy, named Piribebuy the capital of Paraguay. I’m not sure when they changed it to Asuncion. The town I am in was also a site of a huge battle in the triple alliance war. The Brazilians attacked the Paraguayans and the women and men fought and died here to defend their country.
The water and electricity randomly go out in our house. It happens at least a few times a week in Piribebuy and makes you appreciate running water and light when it eventually comes back on. When you walk out our front door and turn left, you run into a cemetery, which is in the middle of a neighborhood. It’s a constant reminder of those who have passed on. Even more strange, all of the coffins are above ground and some are stacked 3 high. Actually there is cement placed over the coffin, so it’s a cement outline of the coffins.
I am not sure who our miracle baptism this weekend is supposed to be, but we will see!! We started working in a new area and I am really excited! We basically killed our old area- we had talked to EVERYONE. We started looking through the area book to find new investigators and I love it- it’s like a treasure hunt! I sort of feel like Sherlock Holmes. haha
God is real. He loves you and He is there for you. Don’t ever forget that. All you have to do is get on your knees and talk to Him.
Love you all!! Happy Father’s Day! Enjoy the heat. Down here the weather is quite nice!!
Hermana Brittner
PS: Dani Edgar is going on a mission!!! WHOO-HOO Always knew she would go!! Congrats! She is going to Taiwan!!
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