January 28, 2013
Hello all,
This week has really been an adventure of the whole zone because it has been
changes. It’s always a sweet adventure when we have new missionaries that come
and its always a sweet adventure to see what happens with them when they get in
their areas. We still have the biggest zone and it’s only gonna get bigger as
President sends more sister missionaries here in Nemby. AHHHHHH Sometimes I
feel like I am turning into my own mission President and that I’m gonna be able
to open up my little own mission down here in Nemby if he keeps sending us more
and more missionaries. hahahah No its good. It’s always great to be able to
meet more missionaries. I hope that they like it here in Nemby and just keep
going with their mentality towards baptism. So that is pretty sweet that Jesse Katzenbach
is gonna be coming down here. He lucked out in that he is going to come when
things are getting cold so that he doesn´t have to suffer very much. Tell him
that he is gonna be coming down to the best mission in the world. Where the
people are the “bomb” and just love being baptized. hahahaha
So me and my comp got separated. Ugh. I thought for once that I was going to be
able to stay with a companion for more than 2 changes that I actually got along
with. He got a call from President Agazzani to go to the office to work as the
missionary that is in charge of the records. Ya it was a huge surprise to him
and he was a little bummed to find out that he was going to leave. We had just
got the ward turned around and the zone baptizing and now he has to leave. It
was a little bit of a sad day on Wednesday when we went to the bus terminal and
had to say goodbye. I got my new companion there as well. Elder Velasquez. He
is a short stocky baseball kid from Guatemala. Yes they do play baseball there.
He is a cool guy. Funny story is that when I went out to CDE my first change he
was in the zone and I was his zone leader. We did divisions once and we learned
a lot together. I told him that he was probably going to be a District and zone
leader some day for his attitude towards the work and for his baptisms. And it
was funny when I learned that he was gonna be my comp and he was gonna be the
Zone leader with me. So I guess that I was just seeing the future when I told
him that. hahaha jk. Well this week has been one super super full of adventures
and awesome people.
So we headed out on Wednesday and we had decided and had set some goals as to
what we wanted to accomplish as a companionship this change. We decided that we
wanted to baptize every single week starting next week. Well ok it was fine by
me. We left our first day and we found 5 people that are super super cool. It
was a weird experience because when we started talking to those people they
really weren´t very interested and didn´t want to hear our message and when we
left their house they had a baptismal date and wanted to come to church. Ohhh
yeahh the spirit is the teacher. We had a sweet experience in that they
actually came to church as well. The two kids that came are Jose Maria, and his
little bro Lucas. Jose is on course to be drafted as a professional soccer player
in Paraguay. So that will be pretty sweet. He said that he has a lot of dreams
and wants to do lots of great things in his life. He said that we had helped
him see that if he doesn´t do what God wants him to, he is never going to
complete his dreams. It was sweet to see his faith. He had a bunch of soccer
training commitments that he had been given to do on Sunday but he decided to
come to church instead with his bro. He loved church and wants to come again.
He says that every single time that we come to teach him he feels super good
and he wants to get baptized super super bad. Ok sweet.
We also had a super sweet experience this week in finding a family. We are
starting to work in a part of our area that is super super far away from
everything. We had found some pretty sweet people out there when I was with
Elder Hugie so we decided to start putting in a bigger amount of time to work
there. We went out and one of the people that we had found dropped us. Their
dad said that we were liars and that he would get all beat up if he joined our
church. Wow, harsh. So we were a little sad because we lost a good
investigator. While we were deciding what to do I looked over and saw a guy
that looked pretty angry walk into his house. I decided to go over and see why
he was so angry and to see if I could help him. One thing is that with Paraguans
when they are angry or offended it is very very difficult to get them to leave
their houses so I knew that I couldn´t be the one that was gonna get this guy
to leave his house, it was gonna be the spirit. So we clapped the house and he
sent out his two kids to see what we wanted. We asked them to go get their dad.
So he didn´t want to let us in but somehow we got in and we started talking to
him. We talked to him about the family and about the restoration of the gospel.
Really it was such an awesome lesson. We started out just teaching him, and by
the time that we had finished the lesson there were six people there listening
to us. It was awesome. Really I had no idea how we did it. We invited them to
be baptized and they all accepted. At the end of the lesson when we were about
to leave the guy stopped us and said ¨hey right now thanks to you guys I feel
soo much better, I don´t know why, but I am super super glad that I let you
into my house to share with my family, when are you gonna come back.¨ Wow, we
told him that he was feeling that spirit and that he will be able to always
feel that with his family if they live what we will teach them. He was super
super pumped to share with us again. We haven´t been able to find the guy again
but I know they will get baptized. I know from that experience that it is the
spirit that will guide us and help people feel the truth of our message. We
need to teach them in such a manner that they can understand what we are
teaching and that they can understand the importance of what we are teaching.
That is why we can´t be lazy in our teaching. I know that if we follow the
prompting of the spirit He will guide us. He will let us know what to say in
the precise moment that we need it and He will guide us to the people that are
being prepared by the Lord to accept this grand gospel message. I love the
mission. I love this area. I love the work and I know that we are gonna have
great and large amounts of success in this area with my companion.
I love you all and hope that you have a super super deduper week. Love you all.
Elder Beatty
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