A House in San Antonio Paraguay

Everything is good here, we got our goal of 40 lessons this week, it wasn´t nearly as hard as I thought it would be. We got to Sunday and only had 3 lessons left to teach before we hit the goal, which was good because my companion was sick so we got out taught our 3 lessons and went back home to let my comp rest. That's the way the work goes haha.

Really besides teaching a fetchin' ton, not much else happened. We are still working with Dina, Gervacio and Fernando, and with Junior's family, and another family that just popped up this week, Zunilda and Dario. They both have ancient attendances at church so if they come this week we can marry them and baptize them. It should be great, but thats really all.

I did have one strange experience yesterday. We were talking with Gervacio and he was raising all sorts of infierno (Spanish for heck) about how the church needs to stop building chapels and start giving the money to the poor because "it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter into heaven" (he quoted that scripture like 80 times.) and the 80th time i received inspiration about the actual meaning of that scripture. The whole story popped in my head and the spirit said "that scripture isn't talking specifically about the money, it's talking about the focus of the heart." At the moment I knew what I had to say to Gervacio, I explained to him what the spirit said, I told him that how much we own doesn´t matter, that rich guy couldn't enter into heaven because his heart wasn't right, better yet he couldn´t give up his wealth. He defined himself by what he had. Without that he not only had nothing he was nothing. If we are rich or if we are poor doesn´t matter. what matters is if we are willing to give it all up to follow Christ.

Apparently Christmas Eve, "La Buena Noche" is more important in Paraguay than Christmas Day and we have like 40 million members saying "hey, you want to come hang with us en la buena noche?" So does that work if we do the phone call 4:30 ish Paraguayan time? (12:30 Utah time.) We will be waiting in our house on Saturday the 25th of December of 2010 (how specific I am haha). My companion is going to use the cell phone and I will use the house phone, (the number i gave you.) So there is no chance of interfering on one anothers phone calls. so yeah. I'll do my best to have a ton of Christmas pics to send.

Know I love you and I'm super excited to talk to you guys Saturday.

Love you tons,
Elder Brown