Wow! it was so good to hear from all of you guys! the last email didnt have the pictures, haha so you will have to tell stacey or erin to work there technological skills...i am so excited for you all....haha it made me laugh really hard when you said to nicole that she she ask again next summer to shave her legs...wow everyone is just growin up! and kort is having another boy!! maybe when she gets to the 8th kid it will be a girl!
well, my new companion is great i am really blessed to have been placed with her...even though we are completelu different, i honestly have learned more from her example in just one week than i had in the first 2 changes....and guess what? she is teaching me how to speak guarani haha we´re starting with a few small frases.. anyways, i thought it would be harder ahving had to be in charge of showing my new companion the area, but it really wasnt at all... i really feel like i have grown a lot this past weel, because most of the things that my companion before always did, i have been doing...like calling all the investigators and the members and making the appointments, and having to decide more things, because i know the area, and my comp doesnt...its been good tho, things that i thought were hard before, or that i was a little hesitant in doing, have become natural, and easy, just another part of missionary work....but i cant describe how much my new comp has taught me, she is really obedient and i love her testimony and how she works hard and does thing the right way!! and she is a little OCD like me and she keeps things really clean!! its been a relief to have a change of companions!! and we have been able to focus more on finding people whom the Lord really has prepared...we have always had a lot of investigators, that love us and let us come and teach them regualry, but they never still after these few months have come to church....so long story short, we had to be really honest with oursleves this week and going to drop a lot of the investigators that we had been teaching, because we had been losing a lot of time on people that were not progressing and willing to make the necessary changes in their lives....its hard, because we try so hard to convince these people the truth, and many of them have become our friends, but they are not ready to accept the gospel now, and i know that the their are people that have been prepared to hear our message and that really want to investigate the gospel, because they really are searching for the truth...i know these people are out there, and me and my companion are really excited, its going to be hard, sometimes it feels like we have nothing or nobody to work with...but i know that we are going to have succes, and that we will be led to those willig to change there lives.
i love you all, thank you for writing....i cant wait to see the pics of the wedding
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love, gioia
