The Paraguay River in San Antonio

Junior's mom has a baptismal date so we are excited for her. Everything is going well here. We are getting ready for the Christmas season the best way missionaries know how. Kicking it in and working that much harder. It should make the time pass more quickly and we will be able to help more people and by so doing miss our families a little bit less. We have a goal to teach 40 lessons this week which really shouldn´t be that hard considering all things (there are 52 proselyting hours in a week). Let's hope we can get the goal.

I'm glad to hear your talk went well in sacrament meeting. I'm glad to hear that you learned and keep learning a lot. As you said Alma has a deep understanding of the Atonement and I know why. He understands it deeply because he needed to use it. We don't gain testimonies nor understanding on principles of the gospel unless we use them, and the more often we use them the more deeply we understand them. This doesn´t necessarily mean we need to mess up big time to understand the Atonement. Repentance doesn't always mean you did something wrong, really it's just a change of heart. For example right now I am repenting of my attitude as a missionary, I have been an obedient missionary so far in my mission, I've kept the rules done my best, but my heart was in a different place. My heart was in that blue chair in our basement playing video games and watching TV. I was doing the right things because it was my duty as a missionary, but I recognize now that my heart wasn´t in it. I wasn´t having charity. In the bible, I think it's Paul that teaches that no matter how much good you do "if ye have not charity it availeth ye nothing". I was doing good things but my heart wasn´t in it, so now I'm repenting and gaining a deeper understanding of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Note I wasn´t doing bad things before and yet I still needed to repent. Really repentance needs to be more an internal thing than an external thing. Repentance is only aligning our will with God's, so in more than a few words that's what I learned this week. So now we both understand a little bit better how Alma knows so much about the atonement. I'm grateful that you got to speak in church and see how Kevin grew from his mission. Right now I need to finish this up quick and go do the letter to president, but know that I love you and look forward to next week and the phone call in 12 days.

Te quiero mucho
Elder Brown

Questions:
1. What do you do on P-days in this new area and companionship?
Not much. We usually dont have much time. Usually deep doctrine discussions and naps.

2. What kinds of food are you eating (besides Pastas)?
um..... rice?