Feb 28

Hello again. It´s me, Elder Singson. I do love you guys and I would send you pictures, but I can´t. It´s not worth the risk and frankly I don´t have the time or patience for it. Someday you´ll get all my pictures and my journal entries (someday could possibly mean when I get home, cuz I don´t want to lose it in the mail, I´m still thinking about it). Well we are teaching a bunch of people, but we only have one guy with a baptism date. It rained for a week straight. Both of my pairs of shoes were wet, and one had a hole in the front so sand got in too. Elder Parker and I are always singing. He usually sings the base or tenor part and I usually sing the melody. Sometimes I´ll just start singing and he´ll just join in. Lately we´ve been singing Disney songs. It´s been fun. Have you ever had soy coffee? I hate it, but I can´t just say "Thanks a lot! You might as well just pour it down the drain" to the members. The whole situation could be avoided if they asked me if I wanted any instead of just giving it to me. There are two teams that are really popular, they are super rivals, and they had a game on Saturday. Cerro Portanio vs. Olympia, Blue and Red vs Black and White, Tornado vs King of cups. During the 90 min of game time it was a ghost town. Half of the Paraguayans like Cerro because they are really good, but the other half like Olympia because once upon a time they one the South American Futbol cup. After the game, Olympia won, the entire town went crazy, but I was told it wasn´t as bad as the World Cup.

     I´m going to actually talk more about my investigators, so you choose what you want to pray for. Since last sunday we´ve had 4 lessons with Alex, Karina, Ernesto, e Yrani. They are really good. They say that they will get baptised once they receive an answer from God. They really like the church and they are all reading the Book of Mormorn. Karina e Yrani are sisters who live with their boyfriends. They know they are living in sin and they want to get married. But... they don´t have plans until August or September. We want them to get married now, or at least at the end of this month, so they can get baptised and then in a year get sealed (so I can be there for it). Please pray that they can find their answers and that they will want to get baptised (so they will want to get married) sooner. We have taught them lesson 1 and 2. They didn´t come to Church, but they went to a special meeting for new members and investigators by President Arnold.
     All the lessons we´ve done with them have definitely had the spirit there really strongly. Elder Parker told me that one lesson (the first half of the Plan of Salvation) had the spirit really strongly when I talked. Especially when I talked about the Atonement. They all have studied into all sorts of religions and have a bunch of odd ideas, but I can see that they really believe in what we are telling them.

I can´t beleive I´m out of time ALREADY!!! ARGGGH!!! I have so much more that I want to tell you.
Since I´m out of time here are my investigators and what you should pray for them.
Alejandro=Stop Smoking and Drinking
Alex, Karina, Nestor, e Yrani=Desire to get married and baptized now.
Reuben and Isabel=An answer that the church is true and the only church on earth with the proper Authority
Sergio Brega=That he will have time for us to teach him.
David Insauralde=Earn money for a divorce so he can get married and then baptized. (Divorces are super expensive)

Thats all folks,
Elder Zachary James Singson