Email: Week#35 in Paraguay

Today was just a bad day... I just woke up this morning super sick, so I have been sleeping like all day.

So I found out that one of the speakers that spoke in Spanish for General Conference was actually the bishop in the ward I am in now like 20 years ago! That is really neat, I thought. I am in the middle of Asuncion, the capital, so the houses in this area are super nice. We ate with them before General Conference.

So this last week was prettty good. On Tuesday, we had our reunion de districto. So the cool two visits we had today where with Alberto Medina. He really has never been going to church despite all the times we invited him and he said he would go. So we had a lesson to bajar la caña to him! But I started to teach the lesson after the prayer, and somehow the spirit lead me to say something else, and we started a lesson on true obedience and attending church, but a lesson with love. He told us that he wanted to start going again, and said his true desire was really to come back, so we told him that we could pass by his house Sunday and accompany him... and he told us no. He wanted to start going for himself now, and he was going to esforzarse, but we are going to see him again today.

So something crazy is when we did divisions with the Zone Leaders... but man, those guys really know how to teach. They are just some of the best in the mission. We only worked 5 hours that day, but still got 5 lessons that day! It was crazy. We visited an investigator, who is the brother of a recent convert, and had a lesson with them, then we visited the house next door and contacted, they were justo his aunts! So we had a super awesome lesson with them, and it was a really good one, people that we definitely are going to visit again. So then, we went down the street and taught another lesson, some joven who wasn't sure if God existed, so we gave him the way to find out for himself, because you can't force anyone to believe anything, that is something really important to remember. It was really funny because after the lesson, we found out he was the dad of someone who was in the last lesson we taught! So another relative of our recent convert... haha.

But this week has been super good, we will be super busy the next week for all the new missionaries coming in! I am going to the airport to meet all the new missionaries.

Love you guys and talk to you later!

PS These pictures are of our last district meeting this change (the hermana on the left is from Arizona too!) and then we took a picture before Elder Billings left the office.