Tuesday, March 27, 2012
¡¿¡¿Wow, one year in Paraguay already?!?!
Wow, time is flying by so fast, i honestly cant believe that i already have 14 months in the mish, and 1 year in paraguay, that is soooo crazy.
But everything is going good here. Me and my comp are getting along soooo well, the work is going better than it ever has, my obedience and diligence has skyrocketed, my knowledge for the scriptures are improving, my testimony is even more unbreakable then before, and yet at the same time, as Alma says, I am nothing, as for my strengths, I dont have any, but with the Lord I can do everything and I know this to be true, I am so thankful for the miracles, the tender mercies, and the blessing that the lord shows me every second of the day, he always has, but it has take me this long to finally recognize them.
I think it is finally fall here in Paraguay, not because the leafs are falling on the ground (here the leaves stay on the tree all year round), but because it is cold in the morning and the night, and the paraguayans are in their houses instead of playing volleyball or soccer, and if they are outside they have a sweater on hahaha, their fall here, is like our summer there haha. For me, it still seems really hot, but whatever
So the teaching is all going good, and this week, Nicholas recieved the Priesthood, he actually chose me to give it to him, kind of cool, it was a first for me.
This weekend we have a baptism of a little 8 year old girl named Diana Maciel, her parents are already members, sealed in the temple, so it isnt a convert baptism, but it is still cool. This family was inactive when i got here, but now they are coming to church every week, and actully the little girl wants me to baptize her, so that will be cool.
So the highlights of the week were noticing that here in paraguay, especially here in Natalio 10, that if people dont want to talk to you, they just hide, even when we see them and they still hide. We were walking to go talk to an old investigator, and my comp pointed to a pink house out in the distance, and told me, as soon as we get close to that house, everyone will run inside and close the doors and windows: well when we walked past, gusee what happened, Yep they all hid. HaHAHA, and when we passed again going home, the same thing happened, they even left their little baby in a chair, just to hide from us hahaha
Also, here they have a little circus thingy here, and when we walked past, a kid that was working there through up his had to wave at us and yelled ALOHA...... so i dont know where that came from, either he was saying hi to us in Hawaiian, or he yelled lemonade in guarani. haha who knows
Here in paraguay i am starting to get sick of how a religion is like a sport. Everyone has a religion and never is going to change, even if God tell them that they need to change. A drunk guy told us the other day, si, Dios es catolico, or in english, Ya God is Catholic,. Ya i am pretty sure not mr. drunk hahaha, it is sad to see the ignorance and apostasy here at work in paraguay. After telling us that god is catholic, he told us that he never will change his religion, and he will never change his football team, to them, religion is just a sport, and they dont see the importance really (like their salvation). But with the help of the Lord, we can change that. I LOVE THIS WORK
well love you guys and i am always praying for you, especially hailey after her accident, Curt for being sick (i aint sure if he is still sick, but i am praying for u uncle Curt), and stephanie that she can be able to handle herself when Elder Liddiard gets home in 8 days
Love Elder Chase Coy Stewart
p.s It is nice to write a little in english since i speak 100 percent spanish besides email, and hahaha, its nice to here spanish when most people speal guarani here. Here in church, in the talks, the people always say. please exscuse me elders, but i would like to talk in guarani ahahaha, i ove paraguay
But everything is going good here. Me and my comp are getting along soooo well, the work is going better than it ever has, my obedience and diligence has skyrocketed, my knowledge for the scriptures are improving, my testimony is even more unbreakable then before, and yet at the same time, as Alma says, I am nothing, as for my strengths, I dont have any, but with the Lord I can do everything and I know this to be true, I am so thankful for the miracles, the tender mercies, and the blessing that the lord shows me every second of the day, he always has, but it has take me this long to finally recognize them.
I think it is finally fall here in Paraguay, not because the leafs are falling on the ground (here the leaves stay on the tree all year round), but because it is cold in the morning and the night, and the paraguayans are in their houses instead of playing volleyball or soccer, and if they are outside they have a sweater on hahaha, their fall here, is like our summer there haha. For me, it still seems really hot, but whatever
So the teaching is all going good, and this week, Nicholas recieved the Priesthood, he actually chose me to give it to him, kind of cool, it was a first for me.
This weekend we have a baptism of a little 8 year old girl named Diana Maciel, her parents are already members, sealed in the temple, so it isnt a convert baptism, but it is still cool. This family was inactive when i got here, but now they are coming to church every week, and actully the little girl wants me to baptize her, so that will be cool.
So the highlights of the week were noticing that here in paraguay, especially here in Natalio 10, that if people dont want to talk to you, they just hide, even when we see them and they still hide. We were walking to go talk to an old investigator, and my comp pointed to a pink house out in the distance, and told me, as soon as we get close to that house, everyone will run inside and close the doors and windows: well when we walked past, gusee what happened, Yep they all hid. HaHAHA, and when we passed again going home, the same thing happened, they even left their little baby in a chair, just to hide from us hahaha
Also, here they have a little circus thingy here, and when we walked past, a kid that was working there through up his had to wave at us and yelled ALOHA...... so i dont know where that came from, either he was saying hi to us in Hawaiian, or he yelled lemonade in guarani. haha who knows
Here in paraguay i am starting to get sick of how a religion is like a sport. Everyone has a religion and never is going to change, even if God tell them that they need to change. A drunk guy told us the other day, si, Dios es catolico, or in english, Ya God is Catholic,. Ya i am pretty sure not mr. drunk hahaha, it is sad to see the ignorance and apostasy here at work in paraguay. After telling us that god is catholic, he told us that he never will change his religion, and he will never change his football team, to them, religion is just a sport, and they dont see the importance really (like their salvation). But with the help of the Lord, we can change that. I LOVE THIS WORK
well love you guys and i am always praying for you, especially hailey after her accident, Curt for being sick (i aint sure if he is still sick, but i am praying for u uncle Curt), and stephanie that she can be able to handle herself when Elder Liddiard gets home in 8 days
Love Elder Chase Coy Stewart
p.s It is nice to write a little in english since i speak 100 percent spanish besides email, and hahaha, its nice to here spanish when most people speal guarani here. Here in church, in the talks, the people always say. please exscuse me elders, but i would like to talk in guarani ahahaha, i ove paraguay
3 Miracles, and 14 months completed
Dear Family
Wow, these week has been a long good week. The assitants to the president arrived here last Sunday night to work with us a Little here, they are awesome an helped our area out a ton.
So we started this week hoping to have one baptism, but that baptism didnt go through, he is faaaaarrrrr from ready to being baptized. But after a week full of miracles, we did have 3 baptisms, the Lord blessed us alot.
So we went to an investigators house on Monday, his name is Nicholas, and he has tons of assistances already from years ago, but we found his name in the area book, and decided to check it out. We went there on a Wednesday, and he accepted a baptismal date right off the bat, then on Sunday, him his wife and a daughter came to district conference with us. Then on Monday we started getting serious with him, telling him that his family are ready for baptism, and after a couple days, all five of them wanted to get baptized, and married. So on Thursday when we did the interviews, everything was going great until we had the interview of the mom, she passed the interview, but when she was asked if she wanted to be baptized and married this coming Saturday, she went a Little crazy, ok I lied she went totally crazy, she just ran away and wouldnt even talk to us.
It was actually kind of sad to see, but through the power of faith, prayer, fasting, priesthood, hope, and with the members, finally Saturday morning she agreed to being married, but she doesnt want to get baptized yet. So we had the wedding and the marriage. And it was a sweet experience because Nicholas was so ready to get baptized, it was just his wife that was impeeding him. He was even willing to be seperated from her in order to complete the lords commandments, and get baptized, but it all worked out good, and the lord blessed us with a tender mercie, a miracle, and 3 baptisms.
But besides the heat and sun that make you sweat and burn you, the bugs that are constantly in your ears and hair at about 6 o clock at night, and the dust that turns your clothes red, the work is going amazing here in Natalio 10, we will be baptizing every week.The work is going amazingly good, just dont have money because it all went to the travels to the temple and district meeting, and the wedding we had to pay for. So this week me and my comp will be learning the real meaning of sacrifice, as we eat rice, bread and water.
Hope all is well there, and I love you, and am always praying for u guys
Love Elder Chase Coy Stewart
p.s. sorry it is short, i did send like 40 pics, but next weeks will be better
Wow, these week has been a long good week. The assitants to the president arrived here last Sunday night to work with us a Little here, they are awesome an helped our area out a ton.
So we started this week hoping to have one baptism, but that baptism didnt go through, he is faaaaarrrrr from ready to being baptized. But after a week full of miracles, we did have 3 baptisms, the Lord blessed us alot.
So we went to an investigators house on Monday, his name is Nicholas, and he has tons of assistances already from years ago, but we found his name in the area book, and decided to check it out. We went there on a Wednesday, and he accepted a baptismal date right off the bat, then on Sunday, him his wife and a daughter came to district conference with us. Then on Monday we started getting serious with him, telling him that his family are ready for baptism, and after a couple days, all five of them wanted to get baptized, and married. So on Thursday when we did the interviews, everything was going great until we had the interview of the mom, she passed the interview, but when she was asked if she wanted to be baptized and married this coming Saturday, she went a Little crazy, ok I lied she went totally crazy, she just ran away and wouldnt even talk to us.
It was actually kind of sad to see, but through the power of faith, prayer, fasting, priesthood, hope, and with the members, finally Saturday morning she agreed to being married, but she doesnt want to get baptized yet. So we had the wedding and the marriage. And it was a sweet experience because Nicholas was so ready to get baptized, it was just his wife that was impeeding him. He was even willing to be seperated from her in order to complete the lords commandments, and get baptized, but it all worked out good, and the lord blessed us with a tender mercie, a miracle, and 3 baptisms.
But besides the heat and sun that make you sweat and burn you, the bugs that are constantly in your ears and hair at about 6 o clock at night, and the dust that turns your clothes red, the work is going amazing here in Natalio 10, we will be baptizing every week.The work is going amazingly good, just dont have money because it all went to the travels to the temple and district meeting, and the wedding we had to pay for. So this week me and my comp will be learning the real meaning of sacrifice, as we eat rice, bread and water.
Hope all is well there, and I love you, and am always praying for u guys
Love Elder Chase Coy Stewart
p.s. sorry it is short, i did send like 40 pics, but next weeks will be better
Monday, March 12, 2012
Che añe´é imi guarani (I speak a little guarani)
Wow, I love this area! Hahaha, but we have been finding that lately, there are quite a few people here that dont speak a word of spanish, yep, just guarani. So i have been learning the language pretty fast, hahaha so a normal contact on the street with someone that dosent speak spanish, usually goes like this
Me- Hola como esta hermano, nosotros somos los misioneros aqui en Natalio 10 (hi how are you brother, we are the missionaries here in Natalio 10)
Them- blank stare
Me- Como se llama usted hermano (what is your name brother)
Them- more blank stare
Me- Mbae che nderera (what is your name(in guarani))
Them- cherera Pablo (I am paul)
Me - Mucho gusto cherera Elder Stewart (nice to meet you I am elder Stewart)
Them- giggle a little
Me- Hey hermano ndereñe´é castellano (hey my brother do you speak spanish)
Them- no
Me- Dí...... bueno ñande tupao esta alla, domingo..... a las 8 (darnet.... ok our church is over there, sunday at 8(as i hold up 8 fingers to show them the time)
Them- oima (ok)
Me- ja yo hay sha pe ve ( see you later)
Them- oime, ja jay to pata (ok goodbye)
hahahha, not to effective but what can you do. I am learning a little more every day. But it is still fun hahaha
Well busy week lately with not that much sleep. We are still pretty tired from the temple trip, and then on sunday we had district conference in encarnacion (here the have a district not a stake). But we woke up at 430 to go start getting investigators. We were blessed with 7 that came to district conference. But we left our church at 7 to start heading to encarnacion, then we arrived at 930 (we took a big bus with all the members here in Natalio, and the other pueblo in our area paloma there was 68 of us in total.) The conference was great, and it was great to here President Callan and his wife speak. Then we traveled the 2 and a half hours back.
The traveling AP´s (we have 2 normal ones and 2 traveling ones) got here last night at 8, they will be here working with us for a week, with their help we went from having maybe one baptism this weekend, to now having 5!!! We got alot of work to do, but we will do it.
Then today at 9 o clock president and his wife showed up at our pension to inspect it and see if it was clean. Suprisingly we passed with flying colors. But i am excited to work my tail off this week with these guys, we are going to have tons of success, and see tons of miracles.
The 3 best things about Natalio 10, are
1. getting mud, inches thick on the bottom of ur shoe, and flinging the mud at the chickens (there are tons here)
2.finding dead bay cockroaches in your ground beef u just barely bought
3. Walking through the jungle at 530 in the morning looking for investigators and hearing roosters all around you bugling as if you are in island park with the bull elk bugling
Ah, it feels like home
Love you guys
Elder Chase Coy Stewart
Me- Hola como esta hermano, nosotros somos los misioneros aqui en Natalio 10 (hi how are you brother, we are the missionaries here in Natalio 10)
Them- blank stare
Me- Como se llama usted hermano (what is your name brother)
Them- more blank stare
Me- Mbae che nderera (what is your name(in guarani))
Them- cherera Pablo (I am paul)
Me - Mucho gusto cherera Elder Stewart (nice to meet you I am elder Stewart)
Them- giggle a little
Me- Hey hermano ndereñe´é castellano (hey my brother do you speak spanish)
Them- no
Me- Dí...... bueno ñande tupao esta alla, domingo..... a las 8 (darnet.... ok our church is over there, sunday at 8(as i hold up 8 fingers to show them the time)
Them- oima (ok)
Me- ja yo hay sha pe ve ( see you later)
Them- oime, ja jay to pata (ok goodbye)
hahahha, not to effective but what can you do. I am learning a little more every day. But it is still fun hahaha
Well busy week lately with not that much sleep. We are still pretty tired from the temple trip, and then on sunday we had district conference in encarnacion (here the have a district not a stake). But we woke up at 430 to go start getting investigators. We were blessed with 7 that came to district conference. But we left our church at 7 to start heading to encarnacion, then we arrived at 930 (we took a big bus with all the members here in Natalio, and the other pueblo in our area paloma there was 68 of us in total.) The conference was great, and it was great to here President Callan and his wife speak. Then we traveled the 2 and a half hours back.
The traveling AP´s (we have 2 normal ones and 2 traveling ones) got here last night at 8, they will be here working with us for a week, with their help we went from having maybe one baptism this weekend, to now having 5!!! We got alot of work to do, but we will do it.
Then today at 9 o clock president and his wife showed up at our pension to inspect it and see if it was clean. Suprisingly we passed with flying colors. But i am excited to work my tail off this week with these guys, we are going to have tons of success, and see tons of miracles.
The 3 best things about Natalio 10, are
1. getting mud, inches thick on the bottom of ur shoe, and flinging the mud at the chickens (there are tons here)
2.finding dead bay cockroaches in your ground beef u just barely bought
3. Walking through the jungle at 530 in the morning looking for investigators and hearing roosters all around you bugling as if you are in island park with the bull elk bugling
Ah, it feels like home
Love you guys
Elder Chase Coy Stewart
Traveling, and temple
Well it has been a great week family, alot of rain, alot of dust, alot of mud, alot of red, alot of mess, alot of heat, but alot of fun and blessings.The worki is going incredibl great, we are tearing this area up, we have baptisms planned for the next three weeks, so we are going to work alot with them, and get them baptized.
I recently found out that yes, Sabrina Calderon from Ybate was baptized it was sweet to know for sure. I love the gospel and the changes it brings into peopls hearts, and lives.This monday we had a normal day, and then at 6 o clock we got a a bus to go to encarnacion, we got there at 830 and waited until 1230 to leave for asuncion with our entire district. We got to asuncion at like 6 or so in the morning, and there we found all the missionaries from the zones outside of asuncion. It was great to see people that came with me, old district leaders, old zone leaders, old people from my district, and old companions. I got to see my daddy again, Elder Faas, and he is the still same old same old, and then I saw my step son Elder Edwards, he is the same too. hahahahha. But it was great fun. Then we went to the office where we waited for a while, there I got to see all my buddy office workers, literaly, i am super close to all of them, then we went to sign `papers and we went with alot of missionaries, including my son Elder Allphin, and his new comp, so i got to hear some updates on Ybate, and how the work is going there. Then we went to the temple. I love the temple, so nice and traquillo.
Then we bought some stuff from the distribution center, ate a little, then went back to the terminal where we bought some sweet ties for 2 dollars each one, i bought 3 but i now have six from this place. Then our bus left at 5 oclock in the afternoon, we got to encarnacion at 1130 at night, then we got on our other bust at 1230, and got home at 230, we went to bed at 300 and woke up at 630 to start a new bright awesome day. So im running on about 6 or so hours of sleep the last 2 nights, but i dont have strength, but thanks to the loving brother and father we have, I have all the strength in the world.Well, love you guys, everything is great here in the middle of nowhere with no human contact hahaha jkl
ove you guys
Elder Chase Coy Stewart
I recently found out that yes, Sabrina Calderon from Ybate was baptized it was sweet to know for sure. I love the gospel and the changes it brings into peopls hearts, and lives.This monday we had a normal day, and then at 6 o clock we got a a bus to go to encarnacion, we got there at 830 and waited until 1230 to leave for asuncion with our entire district. We got to asuncion at like 6 or so in the morning, and there we found all the missionaries from the zones outside of asuncion. It was great to see people that came with me, old district leaders, old zone leaders, old people from my district, and old companions. I got to see my daddy again, Elder Faas, and he is the still same old same old, and then I saw my step son Elder Edwards, he is the same too. hahahahha. But it was great fun. Then we went to the office where we waited for a while, there I got to see all my buddy office workers, literaly, i am super close to all of them, then we went to sign `papers and we went with alot of missionaries, including my son Elder Allphin, and his new comp, so i got to hear some updates on Ybate, and how the work is going there. Then we went to the temple. I love the temple, so nice and traquillo.
Then we bought some stuff from the distribution center, ate a little, then went back to the terminal where we bought some sweet ties for 2 dollars each one, i bought 3 but i now have six from this place. Then our bus left at 5 oclock in the afternoon, we got to encarnacion at 1130 at night, then we got on our other bust at 1230, and got home at 230, we went to bed at 300 and woke up at 630 to start a new bright awesome day. So im running on about 6 or so hours of sleep the last 2 nights, but i dont have strength, but thanks to the loving brother and father we have, I have all the strength in the world.Well, love you guys, everything is great here in the middle of nowhere with no human contact hahaha jkl
ove you guys
Elder Chase Coy Stewart
Monday, February 27, 2012
Dreams come true?
Wow what a week. Well i guess I wont keep you guys waiting for the news of the changes. I did get changed, and now I am in an area called Natalio 10, it is kind of close to Encarnacion. My comp stayed, and Elder Dexter my zone leader went to Ciudad Del Este, and Elder Clark went to be the finance guy in the Offices. So that was a big change haha o well I love it.
So tuesday I spent the day saying the goodbyes. It was a sad day, but at the same time, I think I was ready to leave, sadly I didnt have that much left in me in that area. But I left alot of long time friends, and it is always special when you hear what the people say, It makes me feel good that I touched their lives a little, and helped them come unto christ. Man, it was so hard to say goodbye, and especially with the fact that I might never see them again, but the Lord will bless them, I just know it. Saying goodbye to Luis Jara was hard, but he gave me one of his ties, and he also gave me his soccer Jersey of when he played as a younger man, it was something very special to him, and I felt very touched when he gave it to me. Can I just say again that I absolutely hate goodbyes, they are so tearful, and especially when the other people start crying also.
But on the good note, I just looked today and found out that Sabrina Calderon, our golden investigator from Ybate, was baptized and confirmed. It was sad that I wasnt there to see it, but now I will be able to see her again in the Celestial Kingdom. Wow she was a miracle baptism, we started with her a couple weeks ago and she didnt even believe in Jesucristo, but now, she followed him into the waters of baptism!!!!!!!!! I cant be happier than I am now. Also, last week we found out that we are getting a new President of Mission in June or July. He is from Argentina, and he is 43 (pretty young) but he will bring his 5 kids in with him, so that will be awesome.Well to get to the point, before I found out the changes I remember telling the Lord that I loved the area that I was in, and I loved the companion I was with, but I was dead in that area, (sadly enough) and I kept saying, ok I know i want to do the Lords will, but I came to Paraguay, and I want to experience every part, I am sick of the city, I aint a city boy, and i want to go to the jungle.
And also I want to go far... Well I recieved the call from the zone leaders telling me the changes, and they told me I was going to Natalio 10, which is campo yte (alot of jungle and fields) and they also told me that it is the farthest area from the mission home. Hahaha, wow, talk about dreams come true. Hahaha. I went from the closest area to the asuncion terminal (bus station) to the farthest. hahaha
So anyways wednesday in the morning we went to the asuncion terminal (which is in the area Ybate, and a five minute taxi ride from the house), and there were all the missionaries that were being changed. Well to make a long story short, we had to wait for 5 hours, until 12:30 when are bus left. So finally at 1230 our bus left and 5 of us missionaries were off to encarnacion. We went for about 30 minutes and then the bus stopped to pick more people up from a place, a man that worked on the bus came and asked 3 of us missionaries to get off the bus, because he had to talk to us. When we got off, he told us that the tickets that we had were expired. THE OFFICE ELDERS BOUGHT US EXPIRED TICKETS. So we had to scrample every penny we had to buy us 3 more tickets, so now i dont have any money for the whole month. But we were able to get back on, but we lost our front row awesome seats.
Anyways, we continued on the 6 hour bus ride to encarnacion. We finally got there at 630 where we met with other elders, and I met my companion. The other elders left to their areas, but me and my companion had to wait until our bus came (at 12:30 at night). We waited for 6 hours just sitting on benches, beacuse we couldnt leave my suitcases. We taught a 14 year old argentinan kid who is a huge christian, we gave him a book of mormon, and he is excited to read it. Then we had the unfortunate oppurtunity to teach a 35 year old homeless drunk man. It was funny, but very sad to see how his life was. Well at 1230 we finally took off for Natalio 10. At 3 o clock in the morning we finally got there, and as tired as we were we had to drag my heavy suitcase for 2 and a half blocks across empadrada( the rock roads that they have here).
Well we finally went to sleep at 330 and then woke up at 630 to start the day.Well Natalio 10 in incredible, it is a small small town with alot of jungle and house surrounding it. Natalio 10 is probably 1/8 the size of rigby, and then it just has trees and fields and hill surrounding it. I FEEL LIKE I AM AT HOME. Honestly, if i had to describe it as anything, I would say it is a mix between ashton and Island park, just without the mountains, but when I am walking down the streets, i feel like I am hunting, with my hiking backpack instead of my proseliting one, i feel like I have a bow in my hand instead of a Book of Mormon. I am at home.
My companions name is Elder Coggins, he has like 4 or 5 months here in Paraguay, and he can speek spanish very well. He is a huge help for me, because he is very obedient, and fun, so I can start being more obedient and still have fun. He is from southern California. But we are working our tails off, and I have never loved the work more than I do now.The problems that we have here though, is that there is not that much civilization. There is one place to use internet, with 3 computers, and alot of times it isnt open.
There isnt an atm here, so we have to travel by bus for an hour and a half to go to a city to take out money, the same place we go for district meeting. So that will be fun to travel for a hour and a half to district meeting, be there for an hour and a half, and then come back. Right now, the chapel here is being remodeled, so that is a nonsense, we just barely got a baptismal font, before they did it in the river (how awesome is that). We have a branch here of like 30 or 40 people, and then about one hour walk away there is a city called Paloma (it is in our area, and there is 30 members there), and then 10 in another area a little far away. But although they are in our area, and they belong to our ward, they just meet in their own cities in houses. But when the chapel is done(hopefully soon). They will start coming here.Well I guess its welcome to the jungel, where there are tons of bugs, and here there is red dirt everywhere. So your shirts get red from the red dust, or when there is rain, there is red mud, and your shoes and pants get red. Hahahaha i am loving my mission now, more than I ever have
Love you guys, and dont worry about me, I am in heaven
Love Elder Chase Coy Stewart
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
CHANGES!!!
Haha, well i still dont know anything about changes sadly enough, buti do know they are coming. I will find out tonight, and you guys willfind out next week. I dont know what will happen, i only know that ihave been in this area for 6 months, which is alot, but ya.
This week was going to be a great long weeek, full of lots of hardwork, and success. But as hard as we tried, we didnt have that muchsuccess. We worked hard, and right now we are working with SabrinaCalderon, an investigator, that is awesome. She has a baptismal datefor this saturday, she has a testimony on everything, right now shejust doesnt want to be rushed for her baptism. It is always hard whenwe hear that, because us as missionaries, we know that they are ready,but they just dont have that feeling yet. But it is all good, we willwork with her this week, so that she can get baptized this saturday. IKNOW SHE WILL!!!!!!!!!!!!
This week, i recieved a letter from Javier Martinez, my convert fromTres Bocas. He is part of the family with martha and Edith. He wastelling me of how faithful they are in the church, and how his dad gotbaptized a while ago. Now they are just waiting for a year to go tothe temple to get sealed as an eternal family. Man, i hope i am stillhere. If i am, i will be able to go through the temple with them. Howcool would that be!!!!!!!!!
Well, Javier, was also telling me that heis about ready to recieve the Melquesidic Priesthood!!!!!! That is socool. He was 17 when he was baptized, and was saying that he wasntready to recieve the aaronic priesthood, but now he is 18 and he willbe recieving the higher priesthood, and also is preparing himself fora mission!!!!!!!!! wow that makes me happywell, we are doing great here.
Time is flying by so fast, i cantbelieve that i have already been on my mission for 13 months, here inybate for 6 months, with elder allphin for 3 months. Wow that iscrazy. We actually have 3 elderes in the district that have been herefor 6 months, so i bet some of them will go. But whatever happenshappens right. It is all up to the Lord and where he needs us.
A dondeme mandes iré señor (I will go where you want me to go dear Lord)Love you guys, and enjoy the snow while you got it
Elder Chase Coy Stewart
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