May 23, 2016

Wow this week was hecka crazy... seriously i never thought i was going to make it out alive.. and come sunday we were dead. 

sooo as hermana liders we are supposed to do divisions with every hermana and guess who waited until the last minute. yup thats right.... havent changed much. but anyways... we had to do 2 divisons this week and plan victors baptism. 

but IT ALL WORKED OUT!!!!!! serious that is one thing that i am beginning to learn in my mission is that it will all work out how god wants it to.. and that i cant stress. but 

really satan was working on us this week... and not as much on victor which was a blessing... but i love baptisms. 

hahaha i dont have much else to tell you other than the baptism was amazing.. and i have never seen anyone who was more prepared to be baptized and to be a member of the church. HE IS AMAZING!!! but as we were waiting for him to come back out i just got this overwhelming feeling about how this is truly the lords kingdom on the earth. that this was how our savior was baptized. and we have the authority to be able to preform saving ordinances. 

i am so grateful for this knowledge i am so grateful for a dad that is a worthy priesthood holder.. i am so grateful for that confirmation that i received this saturday. 

i love you all i hope you all know how much this gospel means to me. i am so happy to have it in my life and to be here..... 

(i didnt want to mention it but its a little crazy how long i have been here.....#oneyear) 

i love this mission. i love this gospel have a good week

xoxooxo hermana pitts 

 Hermana Lopez

 Victor's Baptism

Hermana Lopez

May 16, 2016

I swear the weeks just go by faster and faster... as i sit here in this little cyber eating my 50 cent (imported) pop rocks and listening to mariachi music im so grateful to be where i am. this week and just about every week are getting more and more sentimental seriously i cant believe the changes that are happening. 

but enough with this trunkie gushy stuff... VICTOR GETS BAPTIZED THIS WEEK. 

seriously i know that i keep talking about it...but i dont think you realize how big of a miracle this is.. (in my opinion all baptisms are miracles) but im just soo happy for him. ive really seen him change. have desires to become better andnow look.. he is going to make a covenant with our heavenly father. 

but this week has been a little bit rougher other than victors baptism. we have been working a lot with them members which is good but sometimes its hard to depend on someone and have it fall through. but we are working hard... so that is all that matters. but 

today i was studying matthew 5-7 and 3 nephi 12-14 the sermon on the mount. its super interesting... i always thought that it was the same like isaiah in 2nd nephi... the same word for word..but the doctrine is the same. soooo why is it different?? why didnt christ teach it the same... because the doctrine is the same but the people he was teaching were different. THE BOOK  OF MORMON IS WRITTEN FOR US! its written for the problems we face today!!!! 

in the bible in the sermon on the mount it explains the higher law... but really those people werent concerned about why we do those things... they just did it..they were used to the law of moses. but when christ came he fulfilled the lower law but the higher law is more than just doing the things... completeing the commandments its change... ITS THE ATONEMENT. and that is what is explains the book of mormon HOW!!! HOW WE CAN CHANGE!

I know that this church is true i know that seriously READ THE BOOK OF MORMON. if you are doubting your testimony... or life is toom uch or you just feel hopeless... if you dont know what to do... you are lost.... READ THE BOOK OF MORMON. the answers are there!!! 

i love you guys and i am so greatful for this mission even though this is the hardest thing that ive done... i am thankful for the good weeks and the bad... the hard times and the deepest sorrows. I am thankful for my savior and this message that we share about him... its the truth

love you guys have a good week and keep the faith

xoxoxo hermana pitts 

May 9, 2016

hahahh you probs dont get my pun... But VICTORY FOR VICTOR. HE is getting baptized!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

hahahahha but anyways. soooo it was great to to talk to you fam. i seriously love you guys and am so greatful for all that you have done. seriosuly they should have a contest for number 1 family... cause you would win the big prize. hahahah 

well this week was a feast of miracles and a super trunky dessert.. but its always a pleasure to talk to you guys. seriously i miss ya. 

but ok... soo i already told you majorly what happened but i just wanted to give a quick shout out to BIG GREG. man thanks daddy for the photos... AND GUESS WHAT?!?!? i bought a matching hammock a few weeks back sooo get ready.. the paraguayan hammock will preview november 2016 (resevere your tickets now) #betterkeepaspotforme.

but yeah i love you guys... i hope you have the best week ever. i know with all my heart that this is the true church and living gospel on the earth. i am sooo happy to be part of the ranks here. i know that we are in the battlefield fighting for the right and i know that heavenly fahtehr is helping us every step of the way!

i love you and i love this work. 

keep the faith 

xoxoxo hermana pitts 

May 2, 2016

well wow... its may...that means mother´s day and a year here in the mission. seriously can time pass by any faster. i swear just yesterday i was in high school and starting at byu. but the mission makes you appreciate time. hahhaha 

but alright. so i went to asuncion but i forgot my card... so i dont have pics in this moment. but yeah cool. 

soooo ITS COLD!!!!! WOOOOOOOO this week it dropped down and hermana pitts had to pull out the north face and the hunters (reaaaal high class) hahahah but anyways. 

This week was good. we had a hard time finding our investigators which is hard as a missionary. lots of contacting and lots of cold. but overall it was another week here living the paraguayan dream. 

hahah the other night it was cold and we were walking down a small hill of empedrado (its pretty much walking on nails google it) it was dark except for the small lights on houses and the city in the distance... every house was blasting their sterio with a different song and little naked kids were running around screaming in guarani and chasing their 18 dogs.... a little latin comp walking next to this tall white girl that talks funny.... and name tag shining bright in the light of the full moon. 

and i just thought wow.. if only every person in the world could experience this.. Paraguay. hahahah but seriously i am so grateful to be where i am. i have experienced a little of everything... from dengue to people laughing at me when i am trying to speak guarani... getting bit by a dog... and getting robbed but i am so grateful for every single one of my experiences. 

i love you guys if you have time go read eter 12 its my fave. 

rohayhu

xoxoxoxo hermana pitts 

April 25, 2016

ok.. what did i learn this week?? change is really hard. hahahah its been awesome but difficult hahaha

1. hermana lopez is KILLER. soooo she boxes... sooo no one is going to mess with us in ciudad del este... and she is from honduras. she has 2 younger brothers and her she is the oldest and her parents got baptized when she was 6 sooo she is a veteren here hahahahh but i love her! she is awesome. buttttttttt..

its been really sad. I was really sad to say goodbye to hermana newell talk about one of my best friends. we went through a lot together. but she is now in encarn. and boy we have had a crazy week

so right now we are working with armando, francisco and victor still 

armando... i have faith the guy is ready just that he lacks the faith and trust that he doesnt need to know everything he just needs to feel it. so armando is studying medicine and his parents just got baptized in pilar another city about 6 hours away... 

but he is awesome! he wants to know... he wants the answer and wont just take anything! he is like i am in a way... analyzing everything. and wants to know for sure before he gets baptized. 

franciso we found out this week doesnt go to his uncles house and stays home all day alone on sundays so that he can go to chruch he is a gem. he will get baptized. 

victor. the poor guy is nervous for change.......

kinda like we all are. we know something is going to be good. but its a change it is out of your comfort zone and its hard at first you have to get used to it.

that is where i am at but i have realized that that is the gospel... changes are necessary.. that is why we have to atonement. the whole purpose of the plan to change. to become better.. more like our heavenly fahter and i will tell you we werent like that when we were in heaven in the premortal life we were just starting our journey. i have realized here that knowledge truly comes from expereience. i love that we just expereience life and we learn how to be better... we become more perfect! 

soo next time there is a change its all good. keep your chin up and smile because sooner or later we will be grateful for it!

i love you have the best week

rohayhu!

April 18, 2016

wow. guess who is staying in the promised land!!!! #paraguay. hahahah but alright sooo this week we have been none stop work... with divisions and with lots of people to visit it helped us to not think about what is really happening tomorrow.... Cambios. transfers are always hard. but im so sad to be saying good bye to hermana newell its going to be soo hard. we have been through so much togther and i am so grateful for her to. i dont think that i could have done this whole opening an area thing with out her. SHE KEPT ME SANE. but i guess that is the mission we change so that we can learn more. 

Now hermana newell is off to rama 1 in encarnacion my old stopping grounds! hahahahh ive been giving her all the secrets about encarn. hahaha super crazy. but coming here is hermana lopez from honduras. #firstlatina. hahaahah but i am super excited we got here together she is amazing! but 

Funny stories from this week: 

1. we were on divisions the crazy things always happen on divisions. but we found this lady... and i just have explain one thing. the paraguayans are very old school and sometimes dont love to wear clothes. but anyways this lady is like half nude... without her bra and a very short crop top shirt.with 2 spears knifes on both ends hacking at a tree. probs had like 65 years hahahhaha  this lady right... ok GUARANI-ITE!!! like straight up i have a year in the mission and i could not understand a word of what she was saying... hahahah for those of you who dont know paraguay has their indigenious language that everyone speaks and its not a very written language so its super hard... and well yeah. they usually speak a mescla and so we get around. but anyways this lady was s`peaking straight up guarani and we just sat there smiled hahahaha and she kept throwing her hands up with her spears and lets just say i saw a lot of her that i didnt want to see her shirt just kept coming up.... I COULD NOT STOP LAUGHING. 

then later that night we find this brazilian family... who we had never met. and they were offering us their guitar dresses... food... books.. who knows what. im talking the whole shibang. I love these people.... and the best part about this charla is that it was in all portuguese... we are just getting the world culture here in ciudad del este. hahhahahah but anyways. oh that is what the picture is of... A BRAZILIAN FEAST THAT THEY JUST HAPPENED TO HAVE MADE US DURING THE CHARLA! ahhahah and the after is the pics that we took with them.... ( oh yeah so they love music and they started breaking out in come come ye saints... we were dying... it was soo cool Hay que bautizar.) 

back to the good stuff.... #evangeliodejesucristo

this week i have been studying a lot about hope. i love hope and thanks mom for the talk by elder holland it went perfectly into it. HOPE COMES THROUGH THE SAVIOR!!!! i dont think we realize it but wow arent we lucky to be able to have the knowledge of the atonement. so many people here in paraguay we find them and they tell us... we are good. we have faith in jesus.... but no... THEY DONT HAVE FAITH IN JESUS! the only way to recieve the full blessings that come from the gospel.. have this faith, the hope for things not seen is to live the gospel. The hope and faith come through the gospel. 

I am so grateful to be proclaiming it here in the eastern city. I love the people here... nude, morochito, terrere stricken teeth (if they have any left) chicken decapitating and all.... i love this place hahahahah 

preach it to your friends lets bring everyone to the hope that comes from living the gospel, and if you need some hope read eter 12. SUPER COOL. 

well have the best week ever! 

keep the faith

xoxoxo hermana pitts 

Our Investigator

April 11, 2016

Well another week has come and gone.. i swear time just keeps passing and there is nothing to do about it. (how sad i am to say that... i thought i never would.) but lets see.... this week has been nuts. Being in ciudad del este im sure i told you that we had to travel 6 hours to encarnacion and back... and then by the time that we returned i was WIPED OUT.

and then wednesday thursday friday saturday and sunday FLEWWWWWWW. BUT GUESS WHAT?!?!?!? WE FOUND ARMANDO!

ok... so while in consejo in encarnacion there were emergency transfers of some of the elders and there was this one who was in an area in the south part of paraguay in pilar which is WAAYYY out in the boonies. anyways this elder had been transfered and was super sad because he couldnt teach this family... la familia santa cruz. the mama was going to be baptized and the rest of the family was preparing as well. BUTTTT the oldest son was going to move to ciudad del este for school. so he passed along the reference!

this week we were able to meet him and now he is progressing towards baptism coming to church reading the book of mormon and alll he is super cool. ahhhhhhhh there is soo much work here to be done.

But i cant even think straight i swear every week i write and then i get home and remember everything that i wanted to tell you guys. Its like fast and testimony meeting you go up there with a plan and then it all just falls out of your head.

but this week i have been studying a lot about disciples of christ. who are they and what do they do... As missionaries WE ARE DISCIPLES that is it. this week i read a lot from the susan fulcher case study about a sister missionary that really changed the defintion of missionary work. but i think that even those that arent out here in the mission field can learn from her. She talks about love and that if we want to feel gods love we must give it. As missionaries and as members of the church we are the ultimate disciples because we have the fullness of the gospel. we are here to light the way... to LOVE!!!! that is the key

this week im super excited to apply this in my missionary work. to not just sit in a lesson and share my testimony of the restoration but serve people.. for that is why i am here... called to SERVE. not just called to teach. or called to clap doors.. me and hermana newell this week are going to try to be servants of the lord. better disciples of jesus christ. and i challenge you to do the same.

mama mel sent a little exert of president uchtdorfs talk about obedience and it really doesnt talk about this but i think that the holy ghost was working a little bit of magic. and i learned that obedience is for us to learn how to be disciples of jesus christ and how we can learn how to be obedient as we strive to keep the commandments.. its more than just doing it going through the motions but actually learning from the things that we do and doing them with full heart. for we are to serve god with all our heart might mind and strength... not just go through the motions.. I hope you have the best week ever. sometimes we just need to remember why we have commandments... they are to teach us to become like our savior.

I love you guys. have a great week

keep the faith

xoxoxoxo hermana pitts 

Herman's going to Brazil- 3rd Country on their mission!