Monday, March 15, 2010

Week 16 in Paraguay

The work here is going good, we have been working hard and getting the numbers, but it has been really hard to get people progressing and in church. Yesterday we had 4 people in church in total, 3 members, the only 3 actives in our branch, and an investigator. That is the lowest the branch has ever been. On top of that we have this huge goal for this month put out for the whole mission that President Wade gave us because the mission only had 128 baptisms in the month of February when we averaged 200 baptisms every month last year. President sent out to every district for the first district meeting, a goal of 384 baptisms in the month of March. Every companionship with a list of the things we can do to be worthy to receive the miracle we need to complete the goal. This week we have to have at least 4 investigators in church that already have one asistencia, that is that they have already gone to church once. We have one lady right now that has been to church and she has a baptismal date for the 28th and is looking good for that. We will be really working hard this week to reach that goal so we can complete what we need to do here. We could just use a lot of prayers from back home, but it really is all up to us here. We´ll be working really hard with members this week to try to figure out the people that have already gone to church and where they live, especially the people we have in our area book. There are a few really cool people in there that went to church a bunch of times. A lot of the things in the area book are from 5 years ago because Elder Dennis and I just opened up the area again.
The question you had about money, we get money the first day of every month no más. Eight hundred mil for a month, that is about 200 dollars every month for food, bathroom things, washing clothes, cutting hair, and doing other stuff. It really is actually a lot of money here for just one month, so you don´t have to worry about anything here, the only days we really spend a lot of money are on Pdays when we eat and do our shopping for the week.
Anyway, don´t have any time left, but everything here is going really well, love my companion and we are working hard, can´t wait to tell you about all the cool stuff I´m sure we are going to be able to do this week. I know the Lord will bless us as we are diligent and obedient and I´ll be super focused this week so that we can receive this miracle that we need in this branch this month. Love you so much, only one more change til calls again, time goes by very fast.

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