Email: Week#4 in Paraguay

Hi! Everything is still going great here.

 I had stake conference yesterday also. We went to the session Saturday night as well. So I really enjoyed it and thankfully was able to figure out what everyone was talking about haha. I also have a new favorite scripture now! It is Mosiah 5:2, but really the whole chapter is great about how we can gain a testimony of something. 

And I actually do not know if I have gotten the package yet or not, I have to go to the Mission Office, which is like almost an hour bus ride to go to, so we don't go there that often, so most likely we will go next week to see if it is there.  

So here is the update on my mission! We are having Mabel's baptism this Sunday morning so her Dad can come because he is working and can not make it on Saturday. So that should be super awesome! We will be teaching her again this week to finish preparing her for her baptism, but she is super awesome and really ready!

 Also, we have been working with Dionysus. We taught him on my first day in the field and finally got to see him again on Friday because he works a lot. So we asked how he was doing reading the Book of Mormon, and he said that he really enjoyed it and did not have any questions, so that is super awesome! We really feel like he is doing well and progressing. So we really want to teach him more, because he seems closer to taking the step toward baptism. Now, he is a bit unsure. 

What more... oh so we got another reference and this should be an easy baptism. We visited the Miño family, and the father said his daughter is now living with him again (she was living with her mom before) and now they both want a baptism. Her mom did not want her to be, so she never did, but now she can because she lives with her dad now. So we are going to teach her sometime this week and try to commit her to a baptismal date soon and see how that goes.

So the family of 4 that we committed to baptism a while ago STILL has not gone to church! So there really isn't much we can do about that, just keep visiting them and trying to get them to come! But I hope they can realize the importance.

So a few weeks ago, we visited an inactive member, Mari Paredes, and we taught her and went over the first discussion with her again. So, we were able to get her to start coming to church again! So after a bit, she invited her sisters to come and visit the church, so my companion gave them a tour of the church. So we can start teaching her sister now! And her other sister lives further away, so other missionaries will teach her, but it is great!

So I guess that is really all that has happened lately, I am loving life! So some of these pictures I am sending are all older, I just stole my companion's camera and took the pictures he took of me that I never sent! Two are of when I first met my companion, and the one of the two of us is my first day in the field! And we found a house a while ago that has monkeys so we were able to feed them!

Love Elder Crandall