Hermana Jones en Paraguay Asunción: Week 14 (Jan 2, 2012): "I know for myself, because I have fasted and prayed many days"

Dear family,

Whew! Hot and happy... it was close to 110 the other day... or at least thats what my alarm clock said the other morning... Dad you would DIE here!!! haha

I will just start at the beginnign of my week. On Tuesday, we had a couple lessons set up and a lot of them fell through which happens almost every day, but not as much as that day! So we went to pick up one of our member friends, Tati Segovia, to take her to one of our next appointments and on our way we recieved a text from one of our investigators, Salvador Aquiono. He is a father of four kids but his wife is not interested in learning about the gospel. Anyways, we have been working with him and other sets of missionaries have worked with him the past couple of months before us and for the longest time he had not recieved an answer to his prayers about the book of mormon or anything that we had been teaching him. But he has been reading from the Book of Mormon consistenly and is already in Alma! So while we were walking to our next appointment, feeling a little discouraged, he sent us a text with a scripture he had read... i think in Alma5, 20 but i cant remember right now, but it is the scripture that says "I know for myself, because I have fasted and prayed many days"... he was so excited about this scripture that he found! And later in our lesson that afternoon with him, he told us that he know that it is true! Tender mercy from the Lord to us and to him. We are working with him for baptism in the next two weeks.

We are still working with Antonia Quionez and her kids and also Vinciente Francisco. We had to move his baptismal date because of his crazy work schedule he had last week and also helping him to just understand everything to be ready for baptism.

I feel my heart growing for the people here. I find myself thinking more about them and less about myself... not really somthing that I have done, but because of the help that Heavenly Father is giving me as an answer to my prayers. He needs us to be successful missionaries and one of the basic steps is just being able to have that pure love of Christ. If we just ask it WILL be given to us. He will bless us with our richesou desires and as we are obedient, our desires slowly and steadily become more like His and we feel greater peace and joy in our lives as we slowly become more like the Savior.

I love this gospel, I love my Savior, I love the scriptures, and I am learning to love my brothers and sisters here more and more every day. Oh, and i love you all. Jessica, have fun on your way to London!!!

Con todo mi corazon,

Hermana Jones