HEYY!
Great letters mom and dad. I love you guys so much. I barely recognized the house in that picture mom... haha. Sounds like you had a great Stake Conference in Singapore. We had Stake Conference too haha. Well... it was a zoo like normal... haha! Not too bad though.
So SIX MONTHS! Holy cow that is so crazy. It is going by way too fast. I love it here! Everyday gets better and better here. I can already see how fast these next 18 months are going to be. So that is kinda what I have been thinking about this week... just my vision for my mission and where I see myself later down the road. Elder Short the AP came to our district meeting this week and talked a little bit about goal making. A Seventy told him that we should have visions for where we see ourselves in the future. Not a literal vision... but it is the dream, the big picture right. Then after we make our vision, we set goals that will help us reach our vision. The goals are the actions that allow us to see our progress. Then we plan out how we will meet the goals. So this week I studied, meditated and prayed about what my vision is. My vision is consecration. I see myself becoming a consecrated servent to my Lord, Jesus Christ. What I realized is that in order to truly become consecrated to this work, I need to give myself to Him. I need to loose my life for Him so that I might find it. To do this I need to work with all my heart, might, mind and strength. I cannot leave my heart out of it though. After thinking about this for a great amount of time, I came to know that there is much more to be done to give Him my heart. I could go on...but I am going to stop right here. So pretty much, I have a lot of goals. The gospel is just so amazing, it really is. I never realized how sacred my dreams could be. Well anyways yeah haha. The gospel is unfolding before my eyes. There is so much that we can do and accomplish when we center our lives around the doctrines of the restored Gospel.
How about some Paraguay info.
So I hope we have all heard the rule... pedestrians first. Guess what...Paraguayans have not! Elder Hakes and I always will be walking down the street and a motorcycle will honk at us until we get out of the way haha. Even if they has the whole road to themselves they honk and makes us move. We will be crossing the street and cars will cut us off. It isn't a big deal to us... but they just do not know how to drive que pucha che`ra.
No shout outs this week sorry.
Except Ii got a letter from Karly this week! You can tell her I wrote her back. Also Jenna too woohoo.
We dont get mail till this week.
So another crazy story.. so we saw this lady on a colectivo with a brand new wheel chair with the churchs name on the back! She was taking it to a member of her family who needed a new one. So we got off the bus when she did and attempted to contact a ref. who wasnt home then desided to find this lady. /We hadnt talked to her yet so we didnt know anything about her at the time./ So we looked everywhere then we spotted the wheel chair tracts in the dirt haha and guess what... WE FOLLOWED THEM!!! sooner or later we found her house sure enough with a kid sitting in his new wheel chair. His old wheelchair right next to him just torn apart. We gave a good clap and the lady came out. We started talking to her abou the wheel chair and she told us the info. Well then we asked if she would like to learn more about the Church that donated them the wheel chair! ............ she pretty much told us no and that she is catholic. She wouldnt even let us sit down and talk for five minutes. How sad right. We will try again later but it was just shocking to me.
Virgilio should be getting baptized this week you will find out next Monday. I have to go, but I love you all! Until next week.
PEACE!
Elder Carpenter
