Another 3 For The Lord

Hey everybody!  Hope yall had a good week!


We had transfers! I'm still here being blessed in the promised land called pirayú, where the missionary work moves along incomparablely fast because there has never been a more blessed people over the face of the earth.  (I realize I exaggerate a little but hey, I like it here).  I received my new comp, Elder Ulloa from Honduras, and he's the best! I absolutely love learning from him and especially teaching with him.


We had three more baptisms on Sunday!  Remember the super awesome family that I've been talking about recently? The 3 kids got baptized!  My old comp, Elder Smith, got unexpectedly transferred on Friday and missed it all, but hey, he did his part right?  It was a really hectic day full of waiting for nonexistent buses and trying to not cancel our baptisms, but in the end the Lord blessed us with what we needed and they got baptized!  The best part was afterwards when the dad told me, "These baptisms are very nice.  I saw my last kid get baptized and I wished I was next."  How exciting!  I've never baptized any potential priesthood leaders before, only kids.  But we'll be working hard with this family and I'm certain they'll get married and baptized soon!


It's a whole lot of fun out here.  My new comp is hilarious!  He wants to give everything to the work, but he's gonna make sure we have fun doing it!


Other notes:
-Saw 2 more tarantulas, my comp has never seen one in Paraguay before and now I've seen 3
-We had 9 friends at church again, that makes our average number over the last 6 weeks in pirayú, 7 friends at church every week.  What a miracle!
-I received my pants and they fit great


Love yall


Elder Más Negro


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