Letter #16

Hola familia, 

so this week flew by! a lot of great things happened! first we taught miriam, with the evil husband miriam, who only speaks guarani miriam, which means we can't communicate with her.. so we sing :) cuz she can feel the spirit, and she knows the word oracion, so we taught her how to pray with drawings in the dirt! it was great! :) we also walked a ton!!! in seriously a million degrees!!! it's the surface of the sun!!! then the next second its a monsoon and we are soaked from head to foot, then it's a million degrees again with humidity... its always an adventure!! ;) they also have GIANT avacados here! i have a pic. its the green thing. and we didnt know what it was so martha was like oh its an awacate, i'll make some juice. hermana austin HATES avacados. so we drank deliciously thick avacado juice, which is avacados, milk, sugar, and a little ice to make it cold! i didn't think it was too bad.. hermana austin was dying so i had to drink hers too. haha :) takin one for the team ;) an old man named angel lopez wants to marry one of us because he can't find any good woman here in paraguay and his wife died 6 years ago.... so he keeps us feeling beautiful! haha :) miriam didn't come to church this sunday so i probably won't see her baptized i'm pretty sad about that. so we saw a miracle! the lord really changes hearts! so we got the permission of karen's mom for karen to get baptized and she's gonna try to be there, and she likes us know and invited us to lunch and all! but then saturday karen told us that she couldn't come to church because she had a teakwondo (how ever you spell that) tourn. that is a long ways away. so we were going to try to get her to a different ward later in the day.. but it wasn't a set thing and i was so sad!!! but we were fasting and praying and had faith it would all work out. so we're getting ready sunday morning and we have like 30 min. until church and all of a sudden she calls us and tells us that she's not going to the tourn and wants to come to church so we need to come get her!!!! oh it was the BEST!!!! a huge miracle! then we get to church and our president and his wife are there and guess who else... Linda K Burton. the General President of the relief society!! :) yup! so she's amazing and bore her testimony, and then after we met her and karen did too!!! Sister burton congratulated her on her upcoming baptism and told her to always remain strong and faithful and to remember what we were teaching her because it will bless her life forever and that she really had a special spirit! which of course she does! then sister burton taught relief society and it was all about missionary work and how all the members need to help the missionaries in their ward because they want the people in the wards of their family members to help their missionaries! and it was just so powerful and spiritual

! WOW!!! AND  then of course we got a picture with her and karen as well!! it was amazing! but i'm out of time... but i love and miss you all so much!! karen's baptism is this saturday! so excited!!!!! always keep the faith!! :) 

Love Hermana McDougal