Hello Family and Friends! Thank you all for the letters and thank
you all for the support! I'll now write about my week, or try too at least. Every
single Monday I come to the computer desk and I think about what happened and it
literally just blurs together, but luckily I have an agenda!!! I will try and
tell you what happened last week according to my agenda. Events, Spiritual
Experiences, People that I have met, cosas así.
Martes: We had our district meeting today and we decided to go to the
district meeting in Reducto, which is a place in our Zone. The district leader
is a Colombian named Elder Vanegas who goes home in October. We went there and
it was awesome. I learned that the importance of the spirit can´t be substituted
for anything else. A testimony can´t be bought, sold, taught, or given. A
testimony is something earned and something that requires work and something
that makes us who we are. I have a testimony that the church is true and I act
according to that testimony and when I share it I can help other people feel the
spirit so that they can receive their own testimony. ALWAYS SHARE YOUR TESTIMONY!
That's what I learned :-). Later that same day we had a lesson with a family of 3
and I tried applying what I learned in the district meeting and I shared my
testimony and later invited the 3 to be baptized and they accepted a baptism
date!! They are named Carlos, Rueben, and Graciela. We hope to see tons of
progress with them ITS BAPTISM TIME!!
Miércoles: Wednesday we went to Asuncion because I went to the dentist. I
went to the dentist because my teeth hurt really bad and it so happens that my
wisdom teeth are growing in an pain is normal. She said that it is like being a
baby and your teeth grow in! I guess I am a baby now. I don't have to get them
taken out for now luckily! I was scared. I also learned this day that we don't
have to wait for blessings that the Lord has promised us. We can receive them
now! We just need to act and work and they will come. We don't have to wait
passively for blessings, but we can receive them daily if we work actively in
the Lords work.
Jueves: We had the Noche de Barrio on Thursday and I don't remember the word
in English but the translated word is ward night. We had an investigator come
too!! Her name was Belen and she has 16 years and she brought her cousin. She
has had it hard recently because her dad recently passed away. We shared with
her about the Plan of Salvation and we invited her to read the pamphlet and we
invited her to church. We really feel like she is ready for the gospel and that
the atonement of Jesus Christ can heal her pain. She will be baptized shortly. I
also did a baptism interview of a girl named Michelle that is an investigator of
the Elders in Reducto! She passed and she will get baptized Saturday!
Viernes: I did a division with the other district leader of my district
named Elder Guitarra. He is from Ecuador and he has been in the mission since
January. He is awesome and they will be baptizing a girl this Saturday named
Michaela!! I'm supper stocked for that and she came to church Sunday!! That was a
great division!
Sábado: Saturday there were 5 baptisms in my Zone!! A family of 4 and the
girl Michelle!
Domingo: Sunday is always the best day. It was fast Sunday today and it was
a very great day at church! I really felt good and I want to invite everyone to
church. A lady told us the other day that church wasn't important that you didn't
need to go and we testified to her that it was and that we really need to go to
church to renew our covenants and be happy. I'm happy and I love going to church.
God fulfills with his promised blessings!
I'm doing pretty good. I love it here I'm doing awesome. I'm happy and I've
been here for a long time now but there are still more people here in Paraguay
that I have to help receive the restored gospel and be baptized!!! Keep me in
your prayers and the people I teach in your prayers too please! I will try to
take more pictures haha.
Elder Jessop
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