2011.Nov.14
Wow what a week of sweaty shirts, long stops to the bathroom, some new people, and rain. Well to start off this last week I was super super sick on Tuesday. I woke up at like midnight and was in the bathroom for about 5 hours. My back side starting hurting so bad from using the class 25 grade sandpaper to wipe with so I finally just turned on the shower and started showering. I hit a new shower record for my life. 3 hours..... Hehehe! Finally daylight hit and I was just super tired because all my nutrients had left my body and I couldn't eat anything because I would just vomit it back up… but hey it’s ok. So we didn't end up leaving the house because of how sick I felt but its ok Elder Rios got in a lot of spiritually edifying study time that I’m sure he was just dying to have given to him. How nice of me to provide an opportunity for him: D
This week was ok. We really tried to find some new good people to teach. We found a new guy named Marcio. He is pretty cool mostly because he has no religious background at all, which is really really weird for someone here in Paraguay. He is also very very straightforward with us, which is also something very very weird for someone here in Paraguay. But it’s been good, we haven't been to his house too much but we plan on giving him a test run today so I hope everything goes well.
Braulio's uncle died this week so he wasn't able to attend church. I hope that his family is doing alright. I don't mean it in a bad way but this gives us some more leverage that we can help to get his sister to be baptized. We have been trying to treat her more as a level 1 investigator but we just can't find a time when she wants to sit down so we can teach her. We will get her sometime it’s just a matter of us passing by at the right time. But we have really been hitting Braulio hard with being a missionary in his own house. I hope that he will "Catch that Fire" to do that. It would be awesome to see that his whole family could be blessed from the gospel.
We have had some cool things happen in the ward. It’s been tough here to work with the members to get people to teach. We have had to pretty much treat the members as investigators to see who was going to follow up on commitments and to see who was going to be good in giving us good references. It’s been tough because not all the members are super strong here. We did go on some "Visitas" with the leadership in the ward. Or more to say that we went with just the bishop and the 18 year old secretary. It went really well. We went to go visit some less active members and try to get them to come to church. They were really happy to see the bishop and thought they would come to church the next day. But the next day it rained so practically no one came to church. Its alright we will keep chugging along with them.
Yesterday I was thinking about Christ and His sacrifice for us. Some of us take for granted the amount of love He has for us in that we will never be able to measure up to be good enough to use His sacrifice. All the Lord asks for us is that we try. We go and do. He will cover the rest that we fail to achieve. There are some people who think that they can't be saved because Jesus atonement can't apply to them because they aren't doing enough in this life or they aren't perfect enough. Let’s use this example. We are on a football team and the QB throws a touchdown pass to the tight end. We score!!!!!!!!!!! It doesn't matter if the guard didn't make his block or the wide receiver ran the wrong route. We scored all the same. Also....... the people on the sidelines who weren't playing or doing much, they scored too. The defensive players scored, the third string quarterback scored and yes even the kid who will never ever touch the ball but is on the team, he scored too. We are all on the team and we all get to score because Jesus is the quarterback and no matter what play or what down, HE WILL SCORE, and we all will win!!!!
I love you all and hope you have a FANTASTIC week.
les amo
Elder Beatty
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