D&C 68:8 and Mormon
(Go to all the world preaching the gospel to every creature)
Cutting a tree with EM! This mango tree was so thick and heavy!
SC is going to Rosario Argentina! He is one of the youth I taught mission prep!
Hola Familia!
I am so happy to hear that you guys got my letter! This time really fast! I hope that Kody enjoyed his little note! I really enjoyed the notes that were in my package! He is really good at spelling!
Also I cannot believe that school is starting so soon. Time really flies! It doesn't surprise me that the kids are excited and meanwhile Megan is not haha! But that is okay I know how she feels! :) Also the 1970 mustang sounds super cool! I have only seen one mustang since I have been here and it was fairly new! So Kody will enjoy that!
Well the news this week is that I will be leaving :( changes are on Wednesday and I am going to a new area called San Pedro! Which I guess is across the country and also its more jungle! Its a Unity so we meet in a members house! This will be pretty crazy, I had to receive travel arrangements through a double-decker bus! Honestly I am pretty sad. I really am going to miss a whole lot of people here! But time to go I guess! I also am going to miss Elder G! This chump is going to stay here until he returns home in October so he is really happy! haha not but there is some good to this change! The Lord has called me to be the District Leader so I am humbled and excited to learn and help the missionaries!
According to Elder G I can enter the Temple with the AD Family even if I leave! So that will be exciting! But we will see because I will be far away!
The AG family is doing well also! And continue with the date of August 9th! So it will be super exciting for them!
The Q family is doing alright! We had a promise from them to attend church this Sunday and they didn't show up! Recently we taught them about the Plan of Salvation and that thanks to modern day prophets we have eternal perspective! In other words we know where we came from, why we are here and where we are going! They thought it was interesting and wanted to ask their pastor about it! So that was interesting!
I am glad that you could use some of what we talked about in your visiting teaching! That is really cool! I hope that they understood it and are now applying it :)
Mosiah 2 is an awesome chapter that we assigned some of the members last week to read! I personally like it because King Benjamin isn't chastising the people, they are righteous so there is little room for chastising! But I love it because King Benjamin really had a way with words and conveyed his message plainly and simply! But there are a lot of key verses that you have highlighted mom :) so now the assignment this week is 2 Nephi 9!
Well this week was good for me! I am excited to start a new chapter in the mission but really sad at the same time! I have grown a huge love for some people that I can call me family! Some of them are really sad also haha but I have to do what the Lord wants me to do! So here I go and you will hear all about it next week! :) I love you all and pray for you!
Love,
Elder Milton
Elder Milton
Dearest family,
It has been a really long time since I last wrote you guys! But now, I have a lot of stamps, and I am very excited to write you guys again. The only thing is that I hope I stay in an area that is close to the mission office! Right now, I am about 1 hour away, which is really nice! The perfect distance away from the city. I love the area I am in, and I would love to stay for my whole mission! But I feel that the Lord has different plans for me. I just hope not too far away.
This week in the mission field has been a really balanced week. What I mean by balanced is we spent equal time with investigators, less-actives, and also new converts. We also included a few services projects in our week which made me feel good! In the mission field, I have learned that it is difficult to find this balance. It is easy to focus on one thing or person. But at the same time, we only get a little done at a time with each category, however, that is the way President Mc Mullin had asked us to work, and I know he received this manner from the Lord. So, I will continue to strive and work in a balance manner.
Well, the two families I would like to specifically write about this week are the Q. Family and also the A. Family. Firstly, the Q. Family is part of the congregation we have been teaching. The problem we have been encountered with them is that a family member of theirs in the pastor who has "restored" the church of God on the earth today. Sound familiar? So, it has been difficult for us to have them attend with us because they don't want to offend their pastor -- (family.)
Once again, this week we taught them of the importance of the Book of Mormon and also the 17 attributes of the Church of Jesus Christ. We left it pretty clear -- it's just up to them to test the "fruit" like it's said in Matthew 7 or to plant the "seed" like it says in Alma 32.
Also, we have been teaching a family named A. Who have recently started to be active in the church again. After 4 years! They are sealed and endowed! So we finally saw them in church a few weeks ago. Now, the son, M., will be baptized on July 19th. We are super excited for him!
Well, I am super happy to write you guys again! And also, I was filled with joy and love through your letters. Thank you guys SO MUCH! But I need to send this letter off. I love you all and I will write very, very soon!
Love,
Elder Milton
P.S. Happy Late Birthday to Mikewasowski! I love you and I hope it was a good one!
It has been a really long time since I last wrote you guys! But now, I have a lot of stamps, and I am very excited to write you guys again. The only thing is that I hope I stay in an area that is close to the mission office! Right now, I am about 1 hour away, which is really nice! The perfect distance away from the city. I love the area I am in, and I would love to stay for my whole mission! But I feel that the Lord has different plans for me. I just hope not too far away.
This week in the mission field has been a really balanced week. What I mean by balanced is we spent equal time with investigators, less-actives, and also new converts. We also included a few services projects in our week which made me feel good! In the mission field, I have learned that it is difficult to find this balance. It is easy to focus on one thing or person. But at the same time, we only get a little done at a time with each category, however, that is the way President Mc Mullin had asked us to work, and I know he received this manner from the Lord. So, I will continue to strive and work in a balance manner.
Well, the two families I would like to specifically write about this week are the Q. Family and also the A. Family. Firstly, the Q. Family is part of the congregation we have been teaching. The problem we have been encountered with them is that a family member of theirs in the pastor who has "restored" the church of God on the earth today. Sound familiar? So, it has been difficult for us to have them attend with us because they don't want to offend their pastor -- (family.)
Once again, this week we taught them of the importance of the Book of Mormon and also the 17 attributes of the Church of Jesus Christ. We left it pretty clear -- it's just up to them to test the "fruit" like it's said in Matthew 7 or to plant the "seed" like it says in Alma 32.
Also, we have been teaching a family named A. Who have recently started to be active in the church again. After 4 years! They are sealed and endowed! So we finally saw them in church a few weeks ago. Now, the son, M., will be baptized on July 19th. We are super excited for him!
Well, I am super happy to write you guys again! And also, I was filled with joy and love through your letters. Thank you guys SO MUCH! But I need to send this letter off. I love you all and I will write very, very soon!
Love,
Elder Milton
P.S. Happy Late Birthday to Mikewasowski! I love you and I hope it was a good one!
Dear Family,
Well...The kids are almost back to school which is crazy! I cant believe how fast summer went! Well for you guys, I dont want to winter to end here!
Well...The kids are almost back to school which is crazy! I cant believe how fast summer went! Well for you guys, I dont want to winter to end here!
This week was good! We have been really focusing on the Q family, they are progressing little by little! One of the kids went to the Seminary class the stake offers on Saturdays and he really enjoyed it! So it was a good sign and they also attend the cooking class that Elder G teaches!
This week I went out of the area for the first time in forever on a division! I went to an area named Emboscada and it was BEAUTIFUL! My companion for the day is named Elder M from Peru and well basically to sum it all up his plans all fell through haha. So we walked around a bunch which was good! He also introduced me to an investigator that wants to be baptized but she lacks permission from her parents! So he had this plan to bring her aunt to this lesson with her parents so that we could get the permission! So off we went and the Dad was willing to listen to us for a little bit and I was really lost because he didnt tell me how or what we were going to do! Haha
Well he is a little new so I had to have a little patience with him! Well we were like going in circles and Elder M was scared and didn't want to ask the golden question. So I had to do it! I asked him very respectfully if his daughter MA had his permission to be baptized and he said YES! I dont know how or why but for sure the spirit was there to help me gain the confidence of this dad to have her daughter be baptized! Elder M was so relieved and gave me the biggest hug afterward haha. But It was a huge blessing! So she will be baptized next week!
After the division, I was reunited with Elder G in Salado and gave me more great news! M. asked that I would baptize him! So I was super honored! And later that night the baptism was super super spiritual! The whole family attended to support him and he was super excited. His Mom and Dad were super proud! Also JC baptized a little girl from the ward so there were a lot of people! JC will be leaving on the 30th for Columbia so he was a little emotional. And now that I think about it...we will probably leave Salado together! Changes are on the 30th! So we will find out soon! The spirit was so strong and the A family is working to re-enter the temple and we have permission to enter with them! So I am super excited!
Also this week we started teaching this family named Ag.. The Dad/Husband is member but his wife isn't. Well they aren't legally married but we set a marriage date and baptismal date with them for August 9th! They are excited but have a lot of work to do from here until then! So we are excited to work with them more!
So did you all read Preach My Gospel chapter 1?!
Well I am excited to hear your answers to my question from last week! The studying I did this week made me arrive at this conclusion:
People say that we are saved by the faith and grace of Jesus Christ and that there is nothing we can do to achieve our salvation without Jesus Christ no matter how good we are! This is true! However we need to understand what it means to be saved. Jesus Christ saved us from physical death and spiritual death. That is to say we will all be resurrected! However this does not meant that we will automatically be made good when we are resurrected as it says in Alma 41:2-3. We will be resurrected and then be judged according to our works. According to our works we will be put accordingly in the Kingdom of Glory we earned in this life. So faith and works are necessary! A really good parable that Jesus used is found in John 15:1-8! Write me what the symbols are and what they mean :)
Well this week was super good! And I am super blessed...I am going to really miss Salado and more importantly the people! I am working hard to leave it knowing that I gave my all! Thank you for your prayers and love! I will write you more next week with the news of the changes! I love you all!
Love Always,
Elder Milton
Mi Querida Familia,
Well this week turned out to be a good week! It was really hot but Elder G and I worked hard equally I feel! This week included a Zone conference with the President and it was really good! He is really hammering us to memorize these 100 scriptures so that we can be better teachers! I am really trying and I enjoy it so I dont have any problem! Also he taught us and asked us how we thought Jesus taught. What made him such a great teacher! It was something that I never thought of but he invited us to teach more like the Savior taught! So Elder G and I have tried to apply this in our teaching this week with the Book of Mormon of course! Which brings up the question: Did you guys read Alma 34? Well the next assignment is more for Megan but the family should read it with her also! Preach My Gospel chapter 1!
Well the Q family is proving to be tough! We taught them again this week two times! We learned a little more about their congregation and it seems that their pastor in a dream received instruction that he needed to start a new church to restore all the things that were lost when Christ died and also his Apostles! So they asked us what is the difference between their church and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints? Well we read with them Matthew 7 and I don't know it perfectly in English but should say something like Through the fruits we would know if Joseph Smith was a false prophet! And his fruit is The Book of Mormon. So really the problem with them is they don't read the Book of Mormon! So we really urged them t continue to read it personally and not only with the missionaries!
The A Family attended church again and are progressing! They were inactive for 4 years and now we have helped them return to the church! Their son M will be baptized on Saturday! They are a special family! Endowed and sealed so we really needed to help them come back to the church and receive a calling! So they are doing really well!
It was weird this week because we encountered a lot of people with the same doubts! So I wanted to ask you guys if you know how to resolve these doubts! We heard at least 5 times this week that we are Saved by faith not by works. So the question is why do we need to be baptized if we only need faith to be saved? :) I am anxious to hear your answers!
Well this week came and went really fast! One of my companions Elder V is going home this week! So he is really excited but The time is passing by super fast! I feel that I am working hard but as always I can be better! Thank you guys for your love and support! I pray for you always and I love you! I will write more next week!
Love,
Elder Milton
Dear Family,
I am really sorry to hear that this week camping didn't really turn out
like the other times we had! However I am really happy to hear about
the rain! That is a really big blessing! The stories definitely put a
huge smile on my face wit Kody and Kali leaving the tent hahahaha!
This week was a really strange week weather wise! I had unpacked all
my winter gear! Well for nothing! It was sooo hot and humid this week,
well until Sunday. Which seems to be the story of Paraguay! When it is
hot like inferno people have no problem attending church, but when it
is cold...the world has ended and we can hardly encounter people! So
it was really hot this week and then really cold on Sunday. I just
laugh at how dramatically it changes, but I love the cold! This week I
was reminded of how hot it is hear and needless to say I am not
excited...but the mission goes on!
Well this week was another week of service! Which are always my
favorite! It started out with an odd form when a sister asked us if we
could help her take her food from the Bishop's store house and drop it
off at her house. Well first we had to get permission from our zone
leader who lives with us so that was easy enough! The bishop's store
house is about a 45 minute bus ride away from our area and the things
are really heavy so the service was warranted! Well we get there and
there is a HUGE line of people waiting to get their things! This
Hermana was waiting in line for her turn so we waited with her for a
minute but then I decided that we were going to help inside to make
things go a little bit faster! Well we go inside and I am approached
by an Elder that was in the CCM with me! He is from Paraguay and he
was called to serve in Uruguay but he has a problem with his blood so
he had to come home and now is serving as a service missionary! He was
so happy to see me! It was awesome to catch up and to see his face
when I spoke to him in fluent Spanish! He was quite impressed! Anyways
we helped in the bagging and sealing department for 2 hours to get
people through the line and the people were really grateful! I had fun
so it was an honor and blessing to help!
Our next service included cleaning a backyard for a family that I have
really grown to love! They are the C. Family, we are working to
reactivate them and also to convert the husband/dad. Well this service
was special because I tucked Moroni away and used a weed eater! It was
fun! And I am sure Moroni was a little jealous! But we cleaned it up
good and the dad/husband was really impressed! I told him that it
looks so good because we have one Mexican working(Elder G) and
one fake Mexican(Me) haha he got a good laugh!
Well the congregation that we are teaching is really progressing! We
have definitely made our point that the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints is the only true church in the world. Now it is up
to them to pray and receive their own testimonies! They love the Book
of Mormon! We read with them this week Alma 32 and they ate it up!
They would've attended this Sunday but their church had their yearly
Sacrament. So we really tried to convince them but it was a no go this
week for them!
This week was much better than last week and I tried to keep my chin
up high! I am always so grateful to be raised and taught these
principles! I know that I am doing the best thing I could be doing
right now, and I am so grateful for my testimony and for the Lord
Jesus Christ. I am thankful for the love and support at home and know
that you are all in my prayers! I love you and I will write you more
soon!
Love,
Elder Milton
P.S. My assignment for you all is to read Alma 34! Tell me how it goes!
I am really sorry to hear that this week camping didn't really turn out
like the other times we had! However I am really happy to hear about
the rain! That is a really big blessing! The stories definitely put a
huge smile on my face wit Kody and Kali leaving the tent hahahaha!
This week was a really strange week weather wise! I had unpacked all
my winter gear! Well for nothing! It was sooo hot and humid this week,
well until Sunday. Which seems to be the story of Paraguay! When it is
hot like inferno people have no problem attending church, but when it
is cold...the world has ended and we can hardly encounter people! So
it was really hot this week and then really cold on Sunday. I just
laugh at how dramatically it changes, but I love the cold! This week I
was reminded of how hot it is hear and needless to say I am not
excited...but the mission goes on!
Well this week was another week of service! Which are always my
favorite! It started out with an odd form when a sister asked us if we
could help her take her food from the Bishop's store house and drop it
off at her house. Well first we had to get permission from our zone
leader who lives with us so that was easy enough! The bishop's store
house is about a 45 minute bus ride away from our area and the things
are really heavy so the service was warranted! Well we get there and
there is a HUGE line of people waiting to get their things! This
Hermana was waiting in line for her turn so we waited with her for a
minute but then I decided that we were going to help inside to make
things go a little bit faster! Well we go inside and I am approached
by an Elder that was in the CCM with me! He is from Paraguay and he
was called to serve in Uruguay but he has a problem with his blood so
he had to come home and now is serving as a service missionary! He was
so happy to see me! It was awesome to catch up and to see his face
when I spoke to him in fluent Spanish! He was quite impressed! Anyways
we helped in the bagging and sealing department for 2 hours to get
people through the line and the people were really grateful! I had fun
so it was an honor and blessing to help!
Our next service included cleaning a backyard for a family that I have
really grown to love! They are the C. Family, we are working to
reactivate them and also to convert the husband/dad. Well this service
was special because I tucked Moroni away and used a weed eater! It was
fun! And I am sure Moroni was a little jealous! But we cleaned it up
good and the dad/husband was really impressed! I told him that it
looks so good because we have one Mexican working(Elder G) and
one fake Mexican(Me) haha he got a good laugh!
Well the congregation that we are teaching is really progressing! We
have definitely made our point that the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints is the only true church in the world. Now it is up
to them to pray and receive their own testimonies! They love the Book
of Mormon! We read with them this week Alma 32 and they ate it up!
They would've attended this Sunday but their church had their yearly
Sacrament. So we really tried to convince them but it was a no go this
week for them!
This week was much better than last week and I tried to keep my chin
up high! I am always so grateful to be raised and taught these
principles! I know that I am doing the best thing I could be doing
right now, and I am so grateful for my testimony and for the Lord
Jesus Christ. I am thankful for the love and support at home and know
that you are all in my prayers! I love you and I will write you more
soon!
Love,
Elder Milton
P.S. My assignment for you all is to read Alma 34! Tell me how it goes!
This is the pig they slaughtered! Well the head...it smelled awful! Elder G didn't want a picture it was so awful!
Service project with the ward! I got so dirty with the cement!
Lightning struck a tree and the tree broke the wall! I had to take a picture because I felt like the Hulk! This one is for Kody!
Dear Family!
It really makes me think about all the good times moving...haha no this week actually I was talking to Elder G about all the moving we did and how much I hated it. The subject was brought up because moving 2 times all the stuff in our house in less than 6 months really was a test for me! But yes our living conditions are much better! Right in time! This week was SOOO cold and rainy which is a combination that I am not used to! But It was definitely a test of our faithfulness! The work with the investigators froze literally and metaphorically haha. But this week we had the congregation attend the cooking class that Elder G has and they really enjoyed it! The members were really friendly and invited them to the meetings on Sunday which was very key and needed!
This week was a good time to focus on some less actives and members, with the cold and the rain hardly anyone accepted our visits. So we resorted to the members which some didnt recieve us but the ones we did we really had a good time to strenghthen and help them! Something that I have learned from President McM is that missionaries here in Paraguay have the purpose to look for people to teach and help them make covenants with the Lord. This includes helping familes prepare for the temple! He has taught us to look for the ordinances that people lack and help them prepare to recieve them! So we taught a few familes and gathered about 5 people that need to be baptized and we are excited to help them prepare themselves!
That was the good part! This week however really hit me, for the first time in my mission I felt useless! I encountered problems that I couldnt fix or control and I could only give the best counsel and wish them luck. The first happened when a sister passed out in her house due to some stress problems because her husband makes her do everything and it really stresses her out! So we visited her and her husband(who is not a member) and we taught them but the Husband is really adament and is extremely dedicated to his Catholic relgion. I know that he can change and this family can progress if he changed his attitude. It was just really sad because his wife really wants him to change but he was really hard.
The next problem we encountered is this sister that we have helped reactivate in the church is a single Mom and she doesn't have time to work because she has 3 kids one who is 9 and the other two under the age of 5, well because she doesn't work she doesn't have money to pay somebody to watch her kids. The only way she was able to buy food for her kids is her ex husband was paying child support but threatened to stop if she didnt let him live with her. But he was abusive and it got really ugly so that is why she left him in the first place. She will recieve help from the bishop in 8 days but she doesnt have any food right now to feed her kids. We counseled to her to continue and to trust in the Lord. She then looked at me and asked me what I would do? Wait 8 days and watch my kids starve or let the husband move in and pay for the food and break the law of chastity. Honestly I paused, but I testified and promised her that if she continued and trusted in the Lord, that he would provide a way. I felt confident in this promise but I felt terrible that I couldnt do anything in this moment for this family! Elder G and I are going to buy some stuff to make them a Lasagna but in this moment I felt so useless!
Sunday came and it was freezing! We had arranged to meet the congregation and accompany them to the church and they were really excited, but in the last minute and after 30 minutes of waiting for them they told us they had to clean their pig that they had slaughtered the day before! So it was a huge bummer! The good news for Sunday is that the less actives we taught during the week attended! Including a family that hadnt attended in 3 years! So Sunday proved to be decent for how cold it is!
This is my report this week! My goal of talking to 10 different people every day proved to be difficult and I didnt complete some of the days! But I am determined to complete it! Thank you guys for reading my email and I send a lot of love to all the Chubbs in Las Vegas and also to the Ruesch family who is going through a hard time! I love you all and I will email more next week :)
Love,
Elder Milton
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