Carson's Missionary Blog

He´s been there before The alarm bell rings at 6:30, I stumble to my feet I grab my companions bedding and pull off his sheets A groan fills the room, is it already time to arise? It seems like just a second ago, I was able to shut my eyes The morning activities follow with study, prayer and such When it’s time to leave the apartment, you feel you haven’t accomplished much “We have a super day planned,” My comp. says with a grin I lowly utter a faithless breath, “Yeah, if anyone lets us in.” With the word of God and my faithful Schwinn, we ride off in the street Prepared to face another day of humidity and heat It’s 9:30 in the evening, the day is almost through My companion and I are riding home not accomplishing what we thought to do We ride up to the mailbox, hoping to receive a lot Only to look inside and hear my echo reverberate “air box” We go up to our apartment, the day is now complete The only thing to show for our work is a cas...

Hey Everyone, I hope everyone had a great week. As many of you know this is my last week in Paraguay, I will arrive in San Francisco about 1030 on Thursday morning. As a result I just want to share in this email 10 of the most important things that I have learned or received a greater testimony of in these 2 years. 1. I have an exceptional family, and I know that families can be together forever. 2. Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world, and if we let Him, he can change our lives. 3. The Book of Mormon is the most correct book in the world, and it, along with the Bible can teach us everything we need to gain our salvation. 4. The gospel of Jesus Christ is not hard to live, but it can be hard to maintain faith in difficult situations. 5. Whenever we are about to have our most spiritual experiences, Satan will always try to stop our efforts before the miracle comes. 6. God hears and answers our prayers, even if it isnt' how we wanted. 7. Joseph Smith is a prophe...

Hey Everyone, Hope you all had a good week. Here in Paraguay things are going well. This last week we found some super cool new investigators. Last week I talked a little bit about Junior. This week we went back and he introduced us to his friend Vivian. She had a ton of questions for us and we talked for a very long time with the two of them. We left an assignment for them to read in Alma 32 about faith. At the end of the lesson with them, Vivian asked us what someone would have to do in order to join our church. We taught her briefly about baptism and how it must be done by someone who has the authority. She seemed very interested, although still hesitant about committing to be baptized. She said that if she were able to get an answer she probably would though. It was a great lesson.  Also this week we had Zone conference. It was the last zone conference for President Evans and my own last Zone conference here in Paraguay as well. It was really special. President and Herm...

Hey everyone, Hope you all had a good week. Here in Paraguay things are going well. This week I want to talk a little bit about one of our cool new investigators. His name is Junior, pronounced how you would pronounce it in English. He is 17 years old and has tons of questions about our church and religion in general. Yesterday we had our second lesson with him and it became very apparent that he has done his research on the history of Christianity. He knows names like Martin Luther and John Calvin and what they did. This is a big change from what I am used to down here. As is common in South America, a large majority of the people down here identify as Catholic but don't even really know what they believe. It really has been interesting to start teaching Junior and help him understand the importance of a Restoration in stead of just reformation. Hopefully things continue going well with him. Love, Elder Seibert Pictures with some of the members here in Concepcion Ram...

Well things are going well in Paraguay. We are having a good time and things are going well. My companion and I get along well and we are working hard. Love Elder Seibert 

Hey everyone, Well this week was pretty good. But really not too much to report. We found some good new investigators and we had lots of fun teaching some of our progressing investigators. Elder Vincent got to give his first talk in Paraguay yesterday and he did a good job. So we were both very happy about that. Anyway, that is all I have to report.  Love, Elder Seibert