Hello all,
This
week has been quite the week. So to start it all out on Saturday or
Sunday or somewhere along there our phone broke and so this whole week
we have been living without a phone. Ya I am pretty sure that a lot of
you are asking why do I have a phone anyway, but to really tell you the
truth without a phone it was actually pretty hard to function and have
success as a missionary. We wanted to try and get some members to come
to our lessons but we had no way to get in contact with them so it was a
little hard this week to get some good lessons in. Another joy is that
we found out today that still we won´t have our phone yet another week.
ahhhhhhhh Office elders. We make jokes that office elders were less
valiant in the pre earth life and so that’s why they are in the mission
office. It good for a laugh once in a while but its ok. I know that
they have their own stuff going on so I will just have to learn to be
patient and have success without the phone. ahhhhhhh
Anyway,
so this last week we really have been focusing on finding some new
people to teach. Its crazy because we found this Italian guy who is as
big as Coach Cullimore. He is huge!!!!!!!! But he is sooo funny and so
cool. We will have to see how he turns out.
We
also found this family that just moved back from Argentina and they are
members. The DAD actually used to be the Branch president here in this
area when it was smaller. And so we talked with him and he has 2 kids
that are 12 and 14 that he wants to get baptized and so we have been
talking with them. They are so nice and love the church. They were sad
when they went to Argentina because they couldn´t find the church there
and so they couldn´t get baptized. But now they are here and want to
be baptized. I think we can help them with that hahaha. The hard thing
is the mom. She is a member and she went through the temple, but she
is having a ton of doubts as far as her testimony and that spiritual
things are important in this life. She is the one that doesn´t want her
kids to listen. I think it’s mostly because she has fallen away from
the church and doesn´t want to waste the energy to change her life from
the ways that she has gained (drinking, smoking, going to church) Ya
who said that the gospel was easy to live but really it is what sets us
free and gives us the true happiness. So we are going to be working
with that family a lot this next week.
This
last week during our hardcore search of amazingly awesome people who
are going to progress; we were bombarded with lots of trials and stuff.
We got a TON of mandarins thrown at us. It was a group of maybe 12 or
15 kids who were playing soccer and they saw us coming and so they ran
away and so we kept walking and we passed the point where they were at
and then they all just started throwing mandarins at us. Well at first I
just would pick them up and throw them back, but then they started
picking up rocks and so we just bounced right out of there. It was
crazy. My comp wanted to tear them apart but I had to help him just let
it go. So that was a little funny. We had a bunch of people just
really yelling at us this week and I don´t know why. Usually people
here are really non aggressive even in a vocal way. But this week
everyone just decided to pick on us and make sure that we knew that we
didn´t belong here.
We
ran in a SUPER racist guy. He was soooo pissed that we were here in
his country. It was super hard because he said that he wanted us to
teach him but he wouldn´t stop baggin on the Americans. He said that
Paraguayans were the best because they loved everyone and that Americans
are selfish because they won´t let anyone in their country. It was
pretty interesting because in the end he kept saying that he was super
humble and loved everybody but he most definitely didn´t love us hahaha
We
had interviews this week as well with President Callan. It was crazy
when he told me that I was coming up on a year in the mission. It truly
has been amazing to see the growth and experiences that I have had. He
asked me a lot about where I see myself going as a missionary. I told
him a few of the goals that I have and he said that there are two types
of missionaries that he has seen. The missionaries that really just
turn on the gas the second part of the mission or those that just turn
on the cruise control and just ride out the rest of the mission. After
seeing a few of the older guys that are in the district I can tell that
it is totally true. I want to be the missionary that really just takes
off and starts having a ton of success. I guess it will just be a
result of the desire that I have. I’ve just got to keep moving forward
and keep looking and teaching with power.
This
last Sunday we had a Hermana speak in church. She got back from her
mission in Ecuador this last week and she gave her homecoming. Really
it wasn’t sad or exciting or anything it just made me think about all
these experiences that I’m having in the mission. Will I let these
experiences change me forever or will I just forget and return to being
the person I was before. We all have been giving the chance to change.
Not only here in the mission do we progress and become better, not only
when we become adults do we have to start being responsible and gaining
knowledge from our errors and faults. Now is the time to see what we
can improve. There were a lot of lessons that I could have learned
about life if I would have just taken a little time in the moment to
make myself better. We sometimes think that life is fast that we don´t
have time to learn, relax and ponder on the miracles of God. But really
that is WHY we are here. We are here in our mortal life to help us
learn and progress to become to the nature that God wants us to be, but
if we don´t look around us, learn from the Lord´s miracles, and become
better then there is no purpose. We need to become humble and learn.
Become as a child. When we can see this world around us with the eyes
of a child, and with the vision of God, we gain so much more hope,
peace, and love. But it all starts with us, and our desire. No one can
make us change, no one can tell us to do anything. The decision lies
with us in the end. We need to decide why we do the things we do.
I
love you all so much and hope that have a super awesome fantastic sunny
bright and happy week. The Lord is my light. I LOVE THE MISSION!!!!!
ROHYHU FAMILIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Elder Beatty
Elder Beatty
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