Mi querido familia,
It is raining so much and i wore a sweater today and my rain coat! woo hoo!!! It is starting to cool down down here and it is definitly true... it rains more than seatle WA! No joke! But that is why it is so beautiful and I love it!
We had a neat experience the other day. Thanks to Sister Matney and her box of surprises and cookie mixes all of our members in our ward think that I am the best cook in the world! haha but no, I dont know if I have ever told you about Hna. Gomez but she is the RS President here and has a huge heart. She has been through a lot physically and is in remission for breast cancer right now. She works hard to make everyone feel loved and to remember everyone that she can to help them come to church and to just be happy. We eat lunch with her and her 14 year-old daughter Laura every Saturday while her husband is working. Her birthday is in September, so to celebrate her half birthday we make some of the cookie mixes and brought them over. We put a huge candle in the center of one of the cookies while she was out of the room and started singining Feliz Cumple when she walked in! She was really confussed at first, but then she just got the biggest smile on her face. As we finished she almost started crying as she told us... "I will never forget this". Acts of kindness go a long, long way. I love her and her family so much. I really hope I never leave Ñemby!
Norma still has not come to church and we are worried about her because she has not been reading a lot in her Book of Mormon. I know that the Lord has prepared her though. I have never in my mission felt so guided to someone and what to teach them.
I think I told you about Denge the other week? They have an epedemic of it here in Ñemby and all of our investigators are getting it! It is spread by mosquitos and so we are just really careful to use lots of DEET (dont worry mom!). But if someone gets Dengee and they are already sick or they are older, it can be really dangerous. Aquilina and her grandaughter have had Denge since this past Monday so we havent gone by to teach them. We are going over tonight to visit them por fin! finally!
Midium is doing great! We taught her about living prophets and she is excited for General Conference this weekend and has been reading and taking notes from the Liahona of Gen. conf. that we left for her! She thought she had Denge also because she got really, really sick, so we havent been able to teach her as much as we would like, but we had a great lesson with Hna. Rosa and we basically didnt teach...theyn just talked! haha but it was the best lesson that we have ever had with her because Hna. Rosa shared her testimony about a million things that Midium needed to here and now she has a friend at the church with boys the same age... or close to her girls!
We are still trying to have a lesson with her husband Crisitan, but each time we passed by late at night (the only time that he is home) Midium was sick! Her girls want them to get married- it truley is a commandment from teh Lord and children feel the security and love when their parents are married. When we were talking to her just a few days ago, her oldest daughter Nydum, brought over a drawing she had just made. She proudly showed it to us and it was of her parents getting married!
Also, at the beginning of one of our lessons we were asking Midium how she was and everything and she told us that she had had a really strange dream (Paraguayans and their dreams! They all have them!). She told us that she was with us in this forest and she wanted to get somewhere but she wasnt exactly sure where to. She knew that we knew how to get there so we were guiding her. In my head I thought, "YESS!!! First baptism and then the temple!!!" But we just smiled and used the opportunity to share our testimonies and testify of our role as missionaries!
The baptism of Alejandro was great! He has such as strong testimony and his dad even shared his testimony for the FIRST time! Another little boy was baptized also named Ablel. He is the son of Hna. Rosa. His dad even came to church and he hasnt been to church in almost 6 months. Abel is the smallest but cutest little boy that I have ever met in my life! After Alejandro bore his testimony Abel went up and instead of bearing his testimony, he started praying! hahah one by one, as we realized what he was doing, we all bowed our heads! It was really hard not to laugh, but we couldnt because his prayer had been so heartfelt!
Well, ¡feliz semana de conferencia general! I am so excited for General Conference and am excited to listen to the words of a living prophet. I bear testimony that Christ lives and loves and guides us through His servants. This is not just a church or a "way" to worship and follow our Savior. The Gospel is the ONLY way and we must LIVE the Gospel to be happy.
Thank you for your love and support! I love you all so much and I love you all more and more every day. How thats possible when i cant see or talk to you? A blessing from our Father in Heaven.
¡Dios les bendiga!
con amor,
su Hermana Natasha Jones
(Just to let you know, I got your DearElders dad and nick from March 18th! pretty fast huh? and I got a happy birthday card from you all! I LOVE IT SO MUCH... i cried. surprise surprise)
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