January 26, 2015
Oi, bom dia pais! Eu me chama Irma Lindsay. Eu sou dos estados unidos. eu estou na
Paraguay
(translation: Hi,
good morning parents. My name is Hermana
Lindsay, I am from the United States and I am in Paraguay) Ya,
this my Portuguese for you. Hermana
Ramos is teaching the ward every Wednesday. It´s kind of fun, but it´s weird
learning a different language from a language that I’ve learned, especially
because it’s so similar to Spanish)
This week
actually flew by for me. I´m not exactly sure how I like how fast
time is passing. In just two more weeks we have changes and I´m
definitely not ready to leave San Lorenzo or Hermana Jarman! By far, this
is one of my favorite areas. I love the members here and the
investigators, so I´m just going to enjoy all the time I have here.
We have a few more baptisms lined up. Hopefully we
will have one this week, and two more the next week. That´s the plan
anyway. Clearly things happen and get in the way, but we have a lot of
faith!! The one girl we found recently is Nelly and she is 13. She is
really cool. She went to church a lot in the past and loved it and had a really
good experience. She didn´t get baptized before because her aunt and
cousins are members and the one cousin wasn´t really living up to the
standards, and she wasn´t sure if she should get baptized if she couldn´t live
up to the standards as well, but she really has good desires to follow Jesus
Christ and we helped her to understand, that the church isn´t for perfect
people. As long as we strive to do our best and sincerely repent, the Church of
Jesus Christ is the right place to do that.
We have also been working a lot with Catolino and
Matias. They are the father and brother of a recent convert. Matias
is 12 and really loves the church. Catolino loves it too, but the problem
is he isn´t married to his wife. 30 years together with 4 grown
children!! But they want to get married they just never got around to getting
it done, I guess... ? So hopefully we will be having a wedding/baptism really
soon!!
Nadia is doing really good. She has 5 younger siblings
and every time we go over there it´s an adventure. This week Angel (he´s
9) tied a hose to a tree and turned it into a jump rope by turning the other
end. So we played jump rope with the kids before we shared. Never
thought a hose would make a good jump rope, but I guess you use what you have
right?
Cristian and Antonela the other two kids that got baptized
are doing really well as well. They have been going to activities with
the primary and they are just loving it. So basically we are pretty happy
and content with what is happening in the area and we have a lot of motivation
to work even harder this week to find the miracles.
I´m so blessed in my life to have the Gospel because I learn
new things every day. I´m really learning to understand the atonement on my
mission and how you have to forgive everyone. You can´t control
everything that happens to you, but you CAN control how you respond. I´ve been learning how it really is an act of
humility to realize that you are wrong, but the more we use the atonement and
recognize our sins the happier we are!! I know that to be true with all of my
heart!! I Love this Gospel!! I Love this work!! I Hope you have a wonderful
week!!
Rohayhu!!
Hermana Lindsay
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