Well this week was a good week! I am still getting used to the city and office life but it is a huge blessing and honor to be where I am and to serve the Lord in a way that I never thought I would do! Office wise the week has been a normal quiet week for me. I spent the majority of the week calling landlords and trying to renew some contracts. Some were easy and others wanted to raise the price so I am doing my best in all aspects to now represent the Church in a business/professional way. Also looking at mission stats is something I never thought about but we do have a huge potential as a mission and I hope that we can reach that. Right now we aren't where we need to be to baptize more people, retain them, and to reactivate people that have fallen away. Seeing the more administrative part of the mission has really opened my eyes and almost literally uncovered a part that I never took into account! So its a huge blessing from Heavenly Father to be here and I hope to do it the way he expects of me!
Meanwhile our ward is doing good! We have been focusing on some key families because our proselyting times are so limited but there is an American Family that the Dad is a Lieutenant Colonel and works in the US Embassy named the C. Family. So we have been helping them with their sons who are inactive due to the language barrier so we are trying to help them come back to church and help them learn some Spanish! They are a super cool family and the first time I have ever taught anyone in English in the mission! Yesterday they gave us Twinkies (they don't have them here)and Elder H and I almost died we were so happy haha.
We also do have an Investigator that his name is R. He is an older man that has something wrong with him...we aren't quite sure but we think he has had a stroke in the past and it is hard for him to hold still. His body is always shaking. But this week we taught him about Faith and he understood really well! He said a super good prayer at the end and loves to share with us. We are super hopeful to see him at church tomorrow and help him to get to know the members also! He has such an old Book of Mormon from 1952! The translation is even different! But due to his medical issues he has tons of time to read so he has read ALL of the Book of Mormon, but never prayed about it! So we are convinced that this man was prepared for the missionaries. He is so humble and super intelligent!
So this is the update of Elder Milton in Paraguay for this week :) thank you for your prayers and support! I know that Heavenly Father is blessing me and answering prayers. I feel it everyday! I hope that everyone has a good week and to keep working hard! I love you and I will write more next Saturday ;)
Love Always,
Elder Milton
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