Week #97

Hola Familia!

Here I am still, very good and very much alive! Today I write home a little earlier than normal because we have our zone activity today! But I am super surprised and pleased to see so much rain! That is a wonderful thing! This week in Paraguay was scorching hot, but my prayers were answered to be cooled off by rain as well! But overall I am glad to see that everyone is doing good :) Today would be a interesting start to my day to open my email and receive my Itinerary...what a long trip! 

This week was a good week and full of good surprises and bad surprises, first off on Tuesday I received the changes from the assistants...and Elder H. would head out! He was SO sad, he loves Benjamin so I don't blame him! So the beginning of the week we would be going around saying goodbye for him. And my new companion would be....Elder R.! Haha I still cant really believe it but the same one that lived with me a year and a half ago! He has changed quite a bit! He is not the same little kid from Peru that I met a year ago, he is a great missionary and I am excited to have this one change with him. Luckily Elder R. stayed and he is training a new missionary named Elder K. so we have one more change to work as Zone Leaders together! ALL the zone had changes, so there are a lot of new faces to meet and to do divisions, so we will see how it goes! 

Another good surprise that happened this week was a phone call from President McM. Of course I answered and we talked briefly about the zone and the missionaries and then what would follow would be one of the happiest moments of my mission! He told me that in the Chaco (part of my zone that I never visit because it is extremely far away) he noticed that they would be having 8 baptisms this month from the Nivacle Tribe and he wanted me to go out there and do the interviews! I WAS SO HAPPY! I have ALWAYS wanted to at least go out to the Chaco! Its like pure wilderness and many parts are still virgin to modern society. It will be a trip of 3 days this month, so I am beyond excited and more than honored to do so :)

An unexpected surprise was that S. (An. and S.´s daughter) was not able to be operated on Saturday, she got really sick and the doctors did not feel it was good to continue with the operation. They were really sad and down, but luckily with a handful of members we went and visited them yesterday and taught them about the Plan of Salvation and they were extremely grateful! The members helped us so much, it was a powerful lesson with a great spirit! 

I know that I do not give any of my stories any justice, I am not the greatest of writers but I am so excited to share and reshare these experiences in person! It will be a lot better :) but thank you for the patience and love to keep reading anyways. I love you all so much and I hope that everyone has a wonderful week! I will write more next week :) 

Love Always,

Elder Milton