August 22, 2016

well this week is transfers.. and i will be staying LA PALOMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but get this.. so this zone has been 8 missionaries for a while.... 6 elders and 2 sisters.... but WE NOW HAVE MORE SISTERS IN THE ZONE! WOOO as hermana lider i will have more sisters to take care of.. hahahah but 

ESCUCHE....... THEY ARE BOTH PERUANAS... hahahhahahah and then my comp is peruana... I was dying its just going to be me and all the peruvians here in the middle of paraguay-brasil.. but dont be too worried if in 6 weeks i am peruvian.. hahahhah no im kidding.

my companion will be hermana palomares! i dont know her super well... but she is super sweet... she is kinda quiet but hermana merchan says that she cooks....... A LOT. soo i think we will be a good pare.. hahahahahha but she seems super sweet! so im excited to get to know her better! 

Im super excited to get a second chance here in la paloma.. seriously i am excited to keep working and helping the investigators that we have in this branch! We are currently working with the same people but this past week we were able to find 13 new investigators... it was seriously exactly what we needed.. and now with a new fresh start with hermana palomares! i am excited for this next week! its going to be a crazy transfer.. with stuff every week! ahhahaha lots of divisions and lots of viajes... 

This past week we had quite a few crazy experience.... SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO IT POURED EVERY SINGLE DAY THIS WEEK! Seriously poured.. but with the lots of rain drops there were lots of blessings! 

1. WE did something that we call divisions GUAZU.... which means that all of us switch areas for a day and everyone works in a different area.. but since there are only 2 sisters in the zone... the elders did a white wash here and we did a whitewash in salto del guiara which is the city that is on the border with brazil... anyways it was super fun being there and reliving my time in CDE a little bit... but the elders went to our investigator that some what dropped us to visit with his wife too that goes to the temple this week... ADILSON AND MATILDE... sooo long story short... adilson recieved a preisthood blessing and we were able to see some progress.. that was the real miracle with him.. THAT HE ASKED FOR A BLESSING!!!!!!!!! And It just soo happened that a brazilian elder was there and could give it to him in portuguese!!!!!!!!

2. The branch presidents ex daughter in law came to town with there grand daughter to visit and she brought her niece that speaks straight up portugues..... soooooo she was hooked at our hips and we were able to explain a little bit of the book of mormon and she said that she would try to read it and find out more! SOOOOO COOOOOL... its crazy that we can all be speaking different languages but the gospel is the same.. its touches the hearts and changes lives. I love it! 

Well family these are just a few few of the many experiencese that i had this week. i am so grateful for this opporutninty to serve! it seriously is the best and i know that this is the lords work!

i love your letters.. shoot me one.. I love you!

xoxoxoxoxox 

rohayhu

God speed the right....

keep the faith

hermana pitts 

Aug. 15, 2016

Seriously time is just flyying. This week was good. we were able to find more people to teach. but we had interviews. we were schedule to have our interviews at 1 in the afternoon.. while we get a call at 9:30 that president wants to see us at 10.... in salto which is 25 mins away...

sooo we seriously left our house running... but we got there at 10:05 and entered our interviews... 

hahahah it was good! but a lot different than presdient la pierre.. but i am sure he is just getting the hang of things still.. i mean where are we at 6 weeks in the mission. but we were able to talk about these last few transfers that i have and got to know each other more. 

but these weeks i am going to be honest. have been hard.. I sometimes get home and cant keep myself from getting on my knees and complaining... but really i know that the lord gives us the strength that we need. Next week will be transfers and most likely my companion is leaving the area.. she will leave me to teach the area to someone else.. but the thing that is hard is that we have dropped almost all of our investigators... 

i am kinda nervous becausue we have been searching but no one is progressing.  but i know that god is going to give a miracle. that he is going to help us help us recognize the person that he has prepared. Everytime that i feel that way.. hopeless and a little bit overwhelmed. I just remember the promise that moroni has given us in ether 12... that if we keep working and keep going the witness will come. I dont mean to tell you the bad things about my week.. but i will let you know that when we have challenges.. god is still there. because i have still be able to see the hand of the lord in my life. 

this next week will be a good one. i know that this is the lords work and that he has a plan for every single one of us.. every single person here in la paloma and the branch here.. he has a plan for me and my mission and i know that he is there! 

i love you keep the faith

xxoxo hermana pitts

Aug. 8, 2016

OI..... COMO VAI?!?! COMO LE VA?!?!? MBAECHEPA

wow... i swear this transfer has gone by in a blink of an eye...

HOW ARE YOU GUYS?!?!?! hope everything is good and hot back at home nice and hot... if you can believe it its the middle of the winter and its about 75 80 degrees outside... sometimes i think how did we do it in the summer... but its all good here! 

hahaha well la paloma.. this week was full of lots of challenges... but sometimes those are the blessings from the lord in disguise... 

but alright soo here in the dove of the holy spirit.. (LA PALOMA DEL ESPIRITU SANTO) literally its called the dove of the holy spirit... but we shorten it to la paloma. hahahhaha  this week we were able to work a lot with the members which was awesome... we were able to double our lessons with member sooo that was a miracle... 

one of the menos activas that we have been working with her name is matilde... SHE ISSSSS SOOOOO COOL. So matilde started coming back to church in may... when i got here... 

she had problems before cause she worked on sundays but she recently changed her job and now is amazing..... ANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNDDDDD SHE IS GOING TO THE TEMPLE TO RECEIVE HER ENDOWNMENTS IN 2 SEMANAS!!!!

SOOO crazy... seriously its sureal... sometimes as missionaries we are soo focused in the work of finding and teaching but seriously one the miracles this week was matilde.. even though a lot of our investigators werent home and we werent able to teach a lot matilde really showed the spirit of missionary work this week.. and it makes me even more excited to be able to see her go through the temple.. knowing that she really loves this gospel... so anyways matilde calls us on saturday during lunch and asks if we could come to her house later that day.. we thought that she had a question or something but... SHE TOOK US TO HER FRIENDS HOUSE FOR A CHARLA... WOW... i love when people are excited to share the gospel... IT was amaziong...  she is sooo cool...but her friends name is cecilia and is this brazilian that her daughter left a few weeks back.. and she really has been seeing the hand of god in her life... it will be an adventure to be able to teach her.... (living about 7 km away from our house... BUT I HAVE FAITH!!) but really I am soo grateful for the hand of the lord in our lives... 

Sometimes its hard to see... sometimes i just think... ahhhh heavenly father you are pushing me... pushing my faith but really truly honestly ether 12:6 is real...  the miracles come after the trial of our faith... 

but i love you guys.. Pray for the people here in la paloma.. they need it! we need to find those that are truly prepared to hear this gosepl. I love you all and hope you have the best week ever... 

keep the faith 

hasta la proxima.... 

Rohayhu. 

xoxoxoo hermana pitts 

August 1, 2016

HELLO. I hope you didnt forget about me this week.. hahaha no im kidding... but wow... i hope you all are doing well.. this week was good. 

I cant remember much.. im sorry. i need to really think about what i am going to say before i get on to write but sometimes i get to the computer and my mind goes blank about what happened this week. but that is ok! we saw miracles and we saw gods hand in our lives and i think that is really what matters.

I am blown away seriously about how much my feelings about heavenly fathers love for me have been strengthen.. SERIOUSLY HE LOVES ME SOO MUCH. HE HAS GIVEN ME SOO MUCH. 

Everyday i wake up and just think wow... im soo lucky. this is the biggest opportunity that i have been given and never in my life i thought i would be where i am... in the middle of a farm town on the brazilian border of paraguay... speak a different language and understanding 3 others... 

I never thought that i would get to know these people that are just soo happy. Never thought i would be soo grateful for a dish washer and carpet. for a family that has been sealed in the temple and where all my sisters are my best friends.  i dont know how or why my heavenly father has blessed me soo much. 

I love this opportunity that i have had to be able to grow. YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST. for those of you who are doubting the mission who are on the mission in a time when its hard... IT GETS BETTER... IT FLYYYS... You will look back and just think what happened.. i blinked and 3 months passed. hahhahahahahhahaha but seriously and those who are thinking about going... GOOOOO get out of here.. seriously you will love it. I love this place. i love guarani... i love portugues... i love spanish.. i love this work. its the lords work. and its the best thing that we can be doing! 

i love you all have the best week ever.. keep the faith

xoxoxo hermana pitts 

July 25, 2016

alright soo this week was a lot of frustration and little sleep... but really there is no day more joyous than sunday.... 

this week we spent a lot of time in buses with headlice and holes in the floor... but we lived... no im kidding but we did spend a lot of time in colectivos. but we got into encarnacion had a day where i was able to visit some of my converts and then WE HAD OUR MEETING. 

wow..... this mission is getting ready for a 180---- which will be super good but we have some serious metas for baptisms.. 

but wow 4 days of TRAVELING!!!!!! we had consejo with president svec and it was cold in encarnacion... other than that my week was normal. 

hahahahah but alright to the good stuff! sunday was GLORIOUS! even though we werent in the area for 6 days there were people that came to church and its been so cool to see the progress in the rama.. there is one family that has been reactivating and now they are going to the temple in a few weeks! like sooooo awesome. she is finally going to the temple after like 20 years and the branch presidnet said that he is going to give her a calling! 

i love this work.. its crazy that even though we were exhausted and at a point where we hadnt slept in a few days and had travelled over 20 hours in just a few days.... there were so many miracles. that is what the mission is MIRACLES!!!!

but alright today i was studying about the priesthood.. seriously i love this topic... its amazing that this power that god gives to worthy men here on earth is the same power that he used to create the world.. to resurrect us in the future.... he used to move mountains to part the red sea... all these amazing miracles and we have that power. 

i was thinking about all the gifts and blessings that i have been given through the priesthood.... 

1. baptism... that my baptism opened the door for me to be on the right path to my heavenly father...

2. the gift of the holy ghost.. i dont know what i would do with out this gift. HOLY COW. 

3. the sacrament.. every week to start over again and have a nice clean slate.

4. my patriarchal blessing.. i seriously think this is the most important.. no im kidding but seriously i love my patriarchal blessing i have already seen things that have been fulfilled and its crazy i know that it is personal scripture for every one of us! 

5. that my covenants in the temple are valid and were actually made. holy cow i wouldnt be alive here in paraguay with out the divine help that i have been given through the covenants that we make in the temple... seriously i am sooo excited to be able to go back and remember all the promises that we have been given. 

these are just 5 of the blessings that i have seen in my life recently from the priesthood.. really there are so much more... #healingthesick but i am so grateful for you big greg... thank you for being a worthy priesthood holder... and for Tgneit that too is another worthy priesthood leader.. its soooo important! i am so grateful to be surrrounded by a ful laso de poseedores del sacerdocio.... 

i love you all and know that i know that we have the truth. we have the power of god! we are a powerful people! we were made to do this. that is why we are here on the earth! 

keep the faith and remember who you are.

xoxox hermana pitts 

July 11, 2016

No seriously i love this area... its amazing and this week was one of the best and fastest of my mission.. i know i say it every week.. but where did july go... we are already 11 days into it.. its feels like it should still be may.. but no the weeks and the months are flying. 

so this week we wont be changing! we wont have transfers...WOOOOO hermana merchan and i will be staying in la paloma! 

but this week: 

so there is this investigator that is seriously my best friend.. i love her..... 

Clara. so Clara has been meeting with the missionaries for almost 3 years now... she is what you would call an investigador antiguo.... muy antigua but her problems is that she is living with a menos activo that was going to go on a missoin but instead hooked up with her and they arent married... BUT THIS WEEK SHE TOLD US SHE IS GETTING MARRIED AND BAPTIZED IN AUGUST! 

seriously such a milagro so we are planning a lot! we have a wedding!! WE HAVE A WEDDING! im super excited clara is sooo prepared she has been going to church every week for the past 2 years.... ahhh i am so lucky to be the missionary to be able to see the fruits. SUCH MIRACLES. but PLEASE PRAY A LOT FOR THEM! Luis is started to come back to church but they need a lot of faith to be able to get through the trials.. but all such a miracle..

there is also another investigator right now too that is ANNNNNNNNNNNTTTTTTIIIIIGUO. seriously super old like 8 years of missionaries in their house... and he is progressing he has a fecha por august.... PRAY A LOT!!! i have good feelings for this tranfers.. we are going to see a lot of miracles. 

but really what i have realized is that the mission is full of miracles whether they are big or small.. just like our lives. sometimes we notice them and other times we dont... other times its a lot harder but they are there! I love this work because it helps me to know that heavenly father is in our lives. 

just like mama meli said.... the mission really teaches you that you as an individual are important to our heavenly father... seriously its amazing his love for just one of us.... he knows what is going on.. and as i am learning right now.. he remembers even hermana pitts here in the middle of paraugay. that she is trying her best and that she cant do this alone... he is helping! 

i love this gospel. I know its true... i know that i say this every week but its soo true.. we are here doing the lords work.. helping him achieve his glory.. to bring his hijos back to him! I love you all hope you have the best week

rohayhu...

eu te amo....

I LOVE YOU! 

xoxooxo hermana pitts 

JULY 4th, 2016

again pday has come way too fast... but this week was super great... a little bit of everything. 

The mission is full of all sorts of suprises... so this week president la pierre left on tuesday back to the US of A. holy cow... I FORGOT TO TELL YOU ALL HAPPY DAY AMERICA.... I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN. 

but presidente svec... got here and started his tour of the mission. wednesday night we get a call that we are to travel the next day to meet president svec.. so it was off to cde.... where we had our first reunion with presidente svec.  

he is short and chubby.. hahahahhahahh he doesnt speak a lick of english but he seems like he his going to help the mission alot...but he pretty much told us that he was excited and that he is now going to let us drink mate and play soccer.. hahahahha but i am super excited.. his wife is a doll... but its definitly going to be different... but hey he only has a week here in the mission so how much can they do ahhahahah im sure in a few weeks it will be even more changes. but he is excited and we are excited and that is what counts! 

but this week was a week of miracles.... sooooo first of all this area is little and lots of people know the missionaries but god was too merciful this week and gave us soo many blessings.... 

right now we are working with a lot of familias partiales where one member of the family is member or less active... ignacia is a women whos husband well they arent married but her spouse is the brother of our branch president and is less active... IGNACIA TOLD US THAT SHE WANTED TO BE BAPTIZED!!!! and so we are working with them on getting married... THey have been coming to church for the past 3 weeks and soo i hoping that in the next month she can get baptized... of course there are a lot of obastacles but there always are.. satan knows that this is something that is going to change there lives  sooo he works twice as hard.. but 

tooo we are working with adilson a brazilero.. that is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO COOOOLLL... he is amazing.. seriously this guy wants to change... but he is struggling to find his answer... he prays... and this week we found the BOM on tape in portuguese.. and his wife said that he hasnt stopped listening since we gave it to him! but it was awesome.. such a blessing because it takes like 4 hours to download it and we just so happened to have it already downloaded on the comp... but holy cow.... seriously i love the mission because we are able to see gods hand in not only our own lives but in the lives of others.. 

the weather has been amazing... warm sunny and yesterday we were able to have all of our investigators in church.. seriously i feel soo lucky to be here. i dont know why heavenly father blessed us so much this week.. but i love the miracles of the mission and i love when i get the chance to see the changes in people.. that really the gospel changes them and makes them happier... that is the gospel. 

i love you all.. have the best week ever! 

i know that this gospel is everything.. its how we find the happiness... its how we are able to be happy! i love you all keep the faith and dont forget him!!! 

rohayhu. 

xoxoxo hermana pitts