Elder Gong

Hey Everyone,

I hope it has been a good week for everyone, and I hope he smoke in Napa isn't too bad for everyone back home. This past week was super good down here in Paraguay. We got a visit from Elder Gerrit Gong from the Quorum of the 12 Apostles. He was super nice and I actually got to talk to him for a few minutes because he had the mission divide up into their districts and all the district leaders got to introduce their missionaries. He talked about how improving companionship relationships improves missionary work and asked us all to study 2 Nephi 31 with our companions and look at patterns that we can find in the word use etc. It has been a very interesting study although Elder Jensen and I have not yet finished analyzing everything we want to from it. But it basically talks about what we need to do in order to be worthy to gain our salvation, have faith, repent, be baptized, receive the gift of the holy ghost and endure to the end. 

We also found some cool new people this week but unfortunately it rained on Sunday so we were not able to see any of our investigators at church, and not many members either. There were 20 people in sacrament meeting in our Ward (not branch) and 16 of them were related to each other in some way, and 2 of them were my companion and I. So if you guys are feeling up for it we appreciate prayers so that there is no rain on Sundays in Paraguay, it kills the work. We have a good attitude though, we know that everything happens for a reason and the success we want to see will come in its time and in its own way. 

Love,
Elder Seibert 

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