Week 59

The best part of this week was going to help Fanny do Family History work. Shes going to the temple, and we helped her set up an account on FamilySearch.org. I took pictures, but I cant send them. Sorry. Anyway, we were going to help her do some indexing, or at least teach her how to do it. well, we got on to the site, and we tried to find her grandparents on the Paraguay registry. And there were only 1000 names. In all of Paraguay. We couldnt believe it. So we couldnt really do anything. It was really sad.

So now our goal is to contact the chruch and contact the municipality building in ciudad del este and in asuncion and talk to them about giving the church some census records or some baptismal records from the catholic church. But... yeah. Well see how far it gets. Just trying to help redeem the dead down here.

Fanny now teaches classes in church, she goes on visits with us, and even gave a prayer yesterday in sacrament meeting. It was quite wonderful. Transfers are next week, and if i go, i will really miss her. She has remarked about her sadness, as well. I hope she doesnt try and pull anything, like a hug or something like that.

A couple months ago, we were walking in a REALLY far out neighborhood, 5 km from downtown, and... yes. Well, we got a call the next day from a member from La Paloma. She said that her friend from km5 saw us walking around, and had a lot of questions for us, and wanted to learn more about the church. She came to chruch, and has now attended 3 times. We have had several lessons with her, and she just said that she recieved an answer that the Book of Mormon is true! Even her boyfriend attended with her! Well, shes pretty much our greatest joy in investigators right now. Her biggest obstacle is that she is not married to the man that she lives with. Soo.. yes.

We also found a man the other day. We walked up to his neighbors house -a reference- clapped, and then he called us over from next door. So we went. As we walked up, i thought ´´this is the new branch president we have been looking for!´´ I just had that feel. He said that he always sees us pass by, and has always wanted to talk to us. So we taught him about the restoration and the book of mormon. And hes from the Seventh day adventist church. So, as always, he started to combat us about the saturday worship thing. And it kind of destroyed the lesson.

we went back the next day, and bore our testimonies, and he still wanted to combat, but hes just too cool and too valuable. He kind of talked the saturday worship thing out of style, and we shared with him acts 20 7 about the apostoles taking the sacrament on sunday, and the fact that christ resurrected on sundAY and we explained our beliefs. Then he stopped wanting to combat, and we bore our testimonies again aobut the book of mormon, and it ended up a great lesson. Very spiritual. I hope you can get a little sense about it. Well.. he didnt come to chruch, but we will continue with him, He WILL be the new branch president.

we got a gym membership 2 weeks ago, and theres a gay guy there that always stares and winks at me. its very uncomfortable. But its not holding us back from going to the gym.

I love you all.

Elder Christensen