Email: Week#34 in Paraguay

I had a less active week last week because of Conference. I could have watched them in English, but for me I have enough time that I can watch it in Spanish and understand it igual. The only thing is that it is I miss the same voices in English that I am used to hearing haha. But Conference was just so super amazing! It honestly was like the best thing ever, I really enjoyed it and it sure helped me a lot.

But so this week was super amazing! It honestly was one of the best weeks. Normally, our numbers aren't like the best because we are in the office and don't get to leave very often, but we had SO MUCH SUCCESS! It was honestly to amazing to see our area grow. I started this area in a whitewash, so we started with basically nothing.

On Tuesday, we were able to find David. He is super awesome, he told us that he shared with the missionaries when he was super young, but never found contact with them again. So he was interested that we could come in and teach him. We started to teach about The Plan of Salvation, and how that he could one day come to see his grandma that had recently passed away, as he told us. He enjoyed the lesson a lot, only that he had a ton of questions. But, por fin, we found someone that was able to easily understand what we taught so we taught a little deeper in the lesson. He is a super awesome guy. He accepted the baptismal challenge, and is interested in learning more.

We also were able to find another awesome investigator that we have been trying to meet with for months. For some reason, there just were a lot of problems, like we would fail or he wouldn't be home when we had a cita with him. But we finally found him this week! It turned out to be a super awesome lesson, honestly, he loves to talk. He talked for most of the time we were there haha. But he is a really sincere guy that told us he loves reading the BoM and is already sure that it is true. He really does want to get baptized, but he has a hard time attending church because he is a guard for a house, so he has no set schedule and is set to work on a lot of Sundays. He has trouble with that, but he really wants to come. We are going to work with him that he can come as many Sundays as possible, because he really wants to get baptized. It honestly was super awesome to find him... we almost gave up on him, but I just wanted to keep trying, and we were rewarded.

Yesterday, was really a super awesome day too. We got a reference to teach a family, the family Jimenez. They really were super awesome to go meet. We only taught the mom, because she was working during the lesson, but he really is a sincere guy. He spoke with the missionaries  before, and knows a lot. He told us he already knows the church and BoM is true, but didn't baptize because he lost contact with the missionaries because of a whitewash and change of Mission President a year ago. So we taught him L1 and he is awesome! Then, his wife came from work a little after we finished and then they drove us over to the church, and we showed the wife a tour of the church, who had never attended before. It was super awesome, and we expect to have quite a bit of investigators in church this week!

Things might be super hard in your area sometimes, but never stop working or contacting, the Lord will bless you in the time and WILL put people in the way that are ready to hear.

Rohayhu!

Elder Crandall