This week has been good! My favorite part was General Conference. I
love how everyone has to go to the church to watch it, it makes you feel more
united as a church. I never realized how amazing it is too that I can sit here,
thousands of miles away, and see into the Conference Center in Salt Lake. It
made me realize how really united we are as a church. There are people all over
the world who come together every 6 months to hear the prophet and Apostles
speak. It´s kind of amazing. I got to hear it in English, so that was good too!
We had three of our investigators show up to the Sunday morning session, and I
was so glad they did. They don´t realized how great of an opportunity this is,
but I´m hoping we can help them learn. To be quite honest, I don´t remember much
of the week besides that.. we spent every day inviting people to conference
because of what a special opportunity it is. I never appreciated conference at
home as much as I do here. I loved how many messages there were about families..
it made me want my own. But we all know that´s not going to happen for a while
so.. haha. We did teach Abrahan again, the guy that came up to us while drunk in
the street a couple weeks ago. He´s really great. I know he has a strong desire
to quit smoking and drinking, but its hard for him, and it´s hard for me to know
how to help him since I´ve never known anyone that does that before. It is kind
of upsetting when he pulls out his cigarettes in the middle of the lesson.. I
just want to yell what are you doing!?!?!!! I have a feeling like that wouldn´t
go over too well though.. sometimes I feel like Paraguayans have no concept of
the word commitment.. but I¨m going to keep trying! And Conference helped a lot.
I also loved how they said that now is the time for members and missionaries to
work together. I feel like that was something this ward needed to hear as well
as many others. I feel bad now for not trying to help them when I was at home..
there really is more success in the work when the member help the missionaries.
I guess we´ll see if anyone´s attitude changes. We also went to Itaipú this
morning, which is apparently the biggest dam in the world. It was pretty huge..
I think it powers all of Paraguay and part of Brazil.. crazy, huh? I thought it
was really cool that we got to go see that. Well, have a good week everyone!
Elder Taylor
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