Dear Family,
Um, sorry I can't send pictures this week because the computer doesn't want to read my memory card this week... I`ll try again next week. But speaking of which, people love to see pictures of my family, my home, and everything else as well. So you can always send me photos and I can print them off down here. (Plus I like to see them too).
Sobre mi castillano, no se, yo puedo decir todos cosas que yo necesito hablar sobre, pero no tango un grande vocabulario todovia. Es bueno tener Elder Beramendi conmigo, porque con el no tango una eleccion, yo hablo castillano o no hablo nada. (Does that answer your question about my spanish.)
I can't think of any storys offhand right now so I`ll tell you about an experience that we have every now and again. Every so often we run into semi religious people, super religious people (mostly catholic), but most of the time it's people who think they know what their talking about but are pretty far off track with all kinds of funky doctines :) When we run into these people they all get excited to tell us all about the bible... So they run off to get their bibles (About half the time the Bible is in guarani and has hunks of the apocrifa in it.). They then begin to try and show us all kinds of funky stuff, its pretty much always an interesting expierience. We then procede to staighten them out... :) Of all the funky stuff we`ve heard, here`s a couple of things: One man tried to tell me that in the spanish translation of the bible it has the exact measurements for Noa's ark in centimeters. Another man tried to tell us that there is a spiritual gift that gives you the ability to know absolutly everything about a person, he then proceded to tell us that it is like a prophet, but a prophet only knows 60, 70 or 80% about a person and really good prophets 90%, but that this gift is more and greater then a prophet... with it you can know 100%... Another tried to convince us that we are all literally children of Mary, spiritually and physically in every way a child of Mary. One man tried to tell us that Jesus taught that we should gather riches and money in this world... But like I said, we then procede to staighten them out with the gospel of Jesus Christ and our testimonies of him... :) (That or we just leave because they refuse to hear our message.)
Sorry I can`t think of anything else right now.
But have a good one. Oh and Pray for Richard and Norma Please. We find out if they are going to get married this week. (If so, we have to go plan a wedding... I didn`t think I`d have to do that for awhile...)
Elder McShinsky
Note from editor (Mike): Elder McShinsky will be following in a tradition of matchmakers in our family of getting people married :)
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