¡Hola from Paraguay, Ñemby!
How are all of you? It has been getting hotter and hotter here! I will tell you about some of our investigators and our lessons! We finalay had a lesson with a lady named Suni. She has two little kids, both under the age of ten. She lives more in the chaco, so it is pretty difficult to get to her house. We took the bus to her house at the beginning of the week and taught her lesson one. She had read the entire pamphlet about the restauration that hermana plummer and her old companion left with and had lots of questions. As we taught the first vision, the spirit was very strong. Her children are so beautiful nd for parts of the lesson would be running around wrestlin and at first i thought it would be distracting. but then i remembered two things- 1. the savior always set the best example of how to never ¨turn the children away¨ for such is the kingdom of God. and 2. how that sound, of children laughing is one of dad´s favorite sounds and for sure it might be distracting but the they are so perfect that I think that it only made it more possible for the spirit to be there! There was a part where her son jsut ran up to her in the middle of the lesson and gave her a big hug for no reason. I thought of your letter dad about caden during family home evening. I think the little boy could feel the spirit ad that was one of his ways of expressing that too, just like caden.
Often the past couple of days, I have thought of this mission very much like our mission here on earth and my decision to come here to earth. In heaven, I was excited to come to earth and to learn and grow so that I could recieve the blessings that Father in Heaven wants to give to all of his children- eternal life. I don´t kjnow if in heaven i was taught specifically about all of my trials, but i believe i at least knew it wouldn´t be easy, but that there was a way provided...namely our savior, Jesus Christ. I was excited to come and had been taught and prepared but probably didn´t know exactly what to expect. The same is with the mission. When I was trying to decide to come, there were many things that seemed might be hard but I didn´t know exactly what to expect. I had and have been taught and prepared to serve this mission in so many ways. And now i am here. Now I have the decision to make to choose how I am going to rely on my Savior and how much I am going to do every second of every day to help others recieve the same blessings of the restored gospel for their families.
I do know though that the blessings recieved from following the doctrine of our saviors gospel here in this life and here on this mission are far greater than I could ever repay or even think of repaying my Father in Heaven for. I am learning to love the people here and learning how to live more focused in one purpose... to teach the restored gospel of Jesus Christ for others to recieve the full blessings of the Atonement in this life for themsleves and for their families now and for eternities.
Everyone has their nativies and christmas lights up. It is neat to see and hear more about Jesus during this season than discounts on girfts, deadlines for sales, and Santa Clause in place of the true meaning of Christmas, the birth of our Savior. I miss the family, but it was interesting today... I erad some of the family history you gave me Grandma during breakfast and i felt and recognized a little bit of my bigger picture. My ancestors have been faithfull and obedient and diligent in building the kingdom. And with great oppornituies comes great sacrifice and hearing their stories boyed me up, feelin and knowing I have help that surrounds me from those i may not reme3mber but that i love. Also a sense of hertiage and responsibiliy to live up to that- truly the spirit of Elijah.
I know this is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I know He lives. I love each of you so so much.
Love,
Hermana Natasha Jones
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