Email March 25, 2013

Dear Mom

Sorry I have no time today. Thanks for ruining the surprise... I thought we had settled it last week... But that is ok. I will see you when we had planned with Nate!  The Killers are here in Paraguay. Brandon Flowers is Mormon, that means I can go, right? Hahaha just kidding. But I am going to the temple on wednesday. They remodeled the inside and put a huge mural of the falls of iguazu I heard. Should be beautiful. Love you all. Have a great week. 

Forgot to tell you that the hour changed here on Sunday. So we should only be 2 hours difference now, if you already changed in Utah. Love you Mom.

Love, Elder P Naegle

Hector manda mucho saludos y que yo me porto muy mal y soy un malo misionero. Hahaha he is great. Wish he would get baptized.

Email March 18, 2013

Hello Mom,

That is really cool about all the missionaries from the ward! Tell them congrats for me! Good work Niglet on the baseball team. Keep working hard. Tell Dan hello for me. Steve too. I think he gets home this week? Today I bought a nice big old hammock. Big enough for 2! So if there are still any girls that aren't married or on a mission when I get back... A nice snuggle session is in order! haha

So, no baptism this week. Long story, but her mom wigged out a little bit. Maria José is 37, but lives right next to her mom, so it just didn't work out. But she is all good still, we are preparing for the 30th.

This week was good. Our investigator Norma is starting to really progress. She is reading a lot and went to church! Maria Jose was in church as well. Also a man showed up on his own. Fernando visited the Santiago Chile temple and got some sort of lesson there from someone, and liked it. So when he came back from vacation he decided he would stop in. He is more mature... Probably 75 or so, but is super lively and loved the meetings.

I called Hugo and Natividad last night, from Paso de Oro, and they are doing great!!!!!! They both have callings and Hugo received the Melchizedek Priesthood yesterday! It was super great to talk to them.

I am learning many many things here in my mission. I am really loving it. There are a few difficulties here and there, but that is all part of it. I love the story of Samuel the Lamanite. I was reading it these past few days. He got rejected and the Lord told him to go back. He got up on the wall and cried repentance! That is so legit. Quite the missionary. I am doing my best to be even half of the missionary that he was. 

The Church is true. Joseph Smith was a prophet. But most importantly, Jesus Christ is our Savior. I love testifying of Him. My relationship with my Savior is growing a lot and I couldn't be happier about it.

Hope you all have a great week. Hope someone in the ward gets called to the best mission in the world!

Love, Elder Naegle

Email March 11, 2013

Hello Mom,

So we got changes today. This was only a 4 week change. We are both staying. So I will have 3 and a half changes with Elder Palacios it looks like. 4 areas in my mission with 8 comps, not counting the MTC. Assuming nothing changes. By the way, I am going home when we had planned. Everyone is going home on their normal return date, at least until the new mission president comes.

So life is good. We are having the baptism of Maria Jose tomorrow. I am pumped! It should be awesome. She is going through heck with her family right now, so please keep her in your prayers. All of the new missionaries are going to be there, so it should be pretty special. Hopefully we can get lots of our investigators to go as well.

This week I did a division with Elder Barker in Mburucuya, and they live with the office elders. And 2 of the office elders are training their replacements right now, so that house is crazy! Haha it was super fun. I talked with Elder Wing and Elder Horrocks for a while. Pretty sure I will be good friends with them after the mission. Horrocks is just like James Wagstaff, it kills me.

So last night I was going over some of the numbers with one of the district leaders. He is in an area that has always been known as a "tough area". Here in Asuncion, we have a few of those. We were talking about it, and how it is great to go out with excitement, but often that just isn't enough. I brought up Nephi, and the idea of if Nephi and managed to take a fortune to Laban every single time, but just been more excited each time and more convinced it was going to work, he wouldn't have been successful. He had to try new things. Be creative. President Madariaga has made us promises regarding contacts and other things, but if we are doing those things in the same old boring ways, we probably won't see the results. We gotta mix it up. This was some good revelation for me. I know I said it to a district leader, but it was what I needed to hear. Super cool how God answers our prayers.

Enjoy the pictures. Those are my original eccos. They will easily make it to the end of my mission. I am pretty excited about it. That is Gilberto, he is hilarious.

Love you all. Tell Dan hello for me. That means Steve gets home soon. Give all my friends a hug for me! and a kick in the pants!

Love, Elder Naegle

Email March 4, 2013

Hello Mom,

It is nice and cool in Paraguay today. Such a blessing! Congrats to Niglet making the team. That is cool that Dan will be helping out on the coaching staff. Congrats to the boys in the ward getting their mission calls. I still want someone I know to come here to Asuncion North. It is awesome! Half of my areas will no longer be in the mission, but... That is ok!

So... No baptism.... This week... But we do have a baptism a week from tomorrow. Maria Jose. Elder Richins found her. We dropped her, picked her up  again. She is awesome.  Really progressing now. The Lord works in mysterious ways to prepare people. I will explain everything that has happened another time.

Quick note. It shouldn't be Open Mike Sunday. It should be fast and testimony meeting. I was actually quite glad that many of our investigators didn't go to church yesterday because of some of the things that were said. Let us not say things about other churches..... True or not, it can offend people. May I add, many times it isn't true. Good thing Maria Jose is so prepared.

Today we heard from Elder Viñas of the 70 in our zone leaders council. The district leaders were invited as well. Not much time, so I won't go into much of what he or President Madariaga said, but I do want to say that it was a super spiritual experience. 

Hope you all are doing really well.  I love you lots. You are in my prayers.

Love, Elder Naegle