Email April 29, 2013

Hello there Mom!!!

Greetings from Moroni! It sounds like everything is going well at home. I am also doing very well. I got my new companion Elder Hanks, from Sandy, UT, on Wednesday. We hit the ground running and worked hard. He is an excellent teacher and understands and speaks quite a bit of Guaraní, so that is nice. 

Anyway. This week we had some of the coolest lessons in my mission. On Friday we decided that we were going to commit Roque to stop smoking completely. We related it to what we had left them in the BOM to read, which was Alma 32. It went incredibly. The Spirit was there so strong. When we asked her to quit completely, she accepted without doubt and well, I don't think the smiles could have been bigger on our faces. We gave her a huge bag of candies to put in her mouth when she has the desires to smoke. As of right now (as far as I know) she is doing great and hasn't smoked. She told us on saturday that when she went out looking for another job (she has been looking for a while), she found it. She said it was if she had been led there.... Oh yeah! She recognized it was God blessing her for her efforts. She is so awesome! 

We had stake conference on Sunday. Roque wasn't able to go, but Suni and her kids were there. We are seeing lots of blessings here in Moroni. We had a very similar lesson with Suni last night and she committed to stop smoking. We are starting to work with a few members that I never had before, and I think we will see great success from it. 

We heard from President Da Silva in stake conference. He was or is a 70 from Paraguay, and right now is serving as a counselor to Pres Madariaga. He talked about the questions of the soul, and how important the Book of Mormon can answer them. It was really awesome. My testimony of the Book of Mormon has grown so much on the mission. I want everyone to read it, ponder, and pray and ask if it is true. Because it is true! It is such a powerful tool to be used in our lives. So USE IT!!! Haha. Have a great week everyone! Especially you Mom! You are the best! Love you so much.

Love, P

My Zone

Elder Callero who just went home

Elder Hanks