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| June 16-17 there was lots of rain in Asuncion |
Life is hard at any stage and we make it even harder when we don't look at the hard with the view of the perfect (scriptural meaning of perfect = whole or complete) picture. Sometimes the whole picture is not available to our view, so what do we do? We live by faith in Heavenly Father and His Son, that their promises are sure, that "joy cometh in the morning," and it will dawns, and all things will work together for our good.
This week was filled with lots of meetings, planned and unplanned with many things out of our control, some of which made us feel uncertain, uneasy and frustrated. Heavenly Father heard all the meetings and He is working a greater plan than we can possible know. Christ says, "my yoke is easy, my burden is light." Just like Peter began to sink in the water when his focus was toward the waves and storm instead the Savior, so it is if our focus in what we set out to do changes from the complete view of the Savior. How many times in the scriptures does the Savior say something about knowing He is God or denying not his power? Do we do everything in His name with faith in Him, his power to move any mountain? Do we really put our trust in Him as a God of power at all times and in all places that His will be done or just when things happen on our time line and desire?
Our mission has strengthened our faith in Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. We are coming to know them better and more able to see their hand in our work. They truly are making more of our lives and those we help than we could and we don't want to separate ourselves from any member of the Godhead but work to become one with them.
Some of our work that happened in between meetings was to prepare 5 more projects in Chas to move on to approval. We are pleased that although a majority of our projects are in Asuncion and Central departments (states) we have been able to reach out to other parts of the country as well. Hopefully next year the percentage outside of the capital will continue to increase. There will also be more service projects connected to humanitarian projects which is an exciting way for members to be involved, serve and donate in sweat equity to the total project. Humanitarian projects are all about building Zion in many different ways. It has been exciting, joyful and a little painful to see the continual changes that move the work forward. Sometimes if we didn't know the joy of the gospel or the need for us to change, the discomfort of change would make it easy to give up.
Friday and Saturday we were busy helping with mammography cape service projects. The one on Friday night with the blue capes were the sisters from a totally different ward and stake willing to make the capes because they have sewing talent and "love to serve their fellow human beings." The district who received the updated digitilization of the mammography machine, had too few sisters who sew. Double service from the sisters of the Pai-Ñu Ward, helping other sisters in the La Paloma District and helping all women who receive mammographies at Hospital Regional Saltos del Guairá. Saturday we went to take pictures at the Limpio Stake(gray capes) where the sisters there were also doing a great work.
Friday at Pai-Ñu
Saturday at Limpio
Celebrating the first day of winter with the Sisters at Mr Lomitos! Very Paraguayan to eat dinner at 8:45pm or later. We ended up getting to go boxes because the sisters had to be in by 9. Good thing it is right around the corner from our apartments(for many reasons). It is always a pleasure to be strengthened by the sisters testimonies and faith.
Wisdom from Juan (the guard): tereré(the drink of Paraguay) is a combination of the quarani words for té and jere (tea and round) as it was a communal drink and as they visited or counseled together in a circle they passed the tereré around and everyone drank from the same bomba(straw) and cup. COVID change that so it is now more individual.
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