Week #54

Hola Familia!

Wow it seems that you guys are on the same schedule as Paraguay! I have seen a few people put up Christmas lights this week also! Except it is burning hot so it still kind of confuses me this Christmas in summer deal haha...but the lights look really good! Kody has no fear...I would NEVER go on the roof! My hands are getting sweaty thinking about it as I am typing!

Sounds like most of the plans are finalized for the big trip! I am still quite jealous! Its an old school trip back to Las Vegas! But most importantly I am super happy about this sealing! I look forward to pictures and I will be thinking a lot about you guys this week. Thanksgiving as many know doesn't exist here so I will go one more year turkeyless! But that is okay I am happy to continue to work here in San Pedro.

This week we had a good Unity Counsel and it seems that some of the members are getting motivated to work! Last week our group leader Hermano J, his daughter randomly passed out so they went to Asuncion and I guess it was a really bad anxiety attack. From what she told them I guess its from all the kids and her cousins picking on her because she is a member of the church! I felt so bad and even worse when this family was thinking about leaving the church. I talked to them and calmed them down luckily and tried to inspire them, and it worked! They came to this counsel willing to help more than ever! His daughter is doing a lot better and we are having Family Home Evening with them regularly to help them!

We did stop by the L family this week. She did not want anything to do with us. She told us she wasn't going to go to church anymore because her Mom doesn't like it. So I told her that her Mom has never been, but she has and I know that her and her family like it! So then she countered by saying that all we want to do is baptize her, so I told her if that meant saving her and her family from Hell then yes we want to baptize her! She came up with more excuses about being busy so we gave her the talk by Elder Bednar from General Conference for why we are so persistent and told her we would come by another day! It was sad, but like President told me in my interview, people always do have agency.

Hermana C is progressing so well! She will have an interview this week with President McM and we are planning for a baptism this Saturday! She is ready and she has changed so much. The only thing we are worried about is she is under conditional freedom, so it might be postponed but President will know what is best!

Thank you for the support of my pictures! :) haha something about Elder S just says to mess with him. But he is a good sport and he does fight back! I just don't send you his pictures haha. But I am hoping to stay together one more change with him! But we will find out next week with the word of changes!

I had to be a little hard on the M family this week, they believe that any church that preaches Jesus name is a good church. They are comfortable in the church they are in. So I had to get after them a little bit with their own testimonies of the Book of Mormon and we read 1 Nephi 14 with them. They still didn't come to church but we have hopes for them!

Well the Holidays are almost here! But don't be too bummed or miss me too much! Time is going by fast so please enjoy my absence! Haha :) but all our family memories and times inspire me to look and help families so that they can have similar and long lasting happiness through the gospel! We will skype soon! As soon as I know the schedule I will let you know! Thank you all for your time and love and prayers! I pray for you every day! I love you and I will write more soon! 

Love Always,
Elder Milton