And I Took Such Good Care Of That Car... ...

Dear Family,

Hi Grandpa, Hi Grandma!


That's too bad that you had to go back a little on the dance room. You should send miy pictures... :)
Happy birthday STAN!  On this special day you officially have permission from Paraguay to have fun.
 To tell you the truth if you could send a Reeses peanut butter cup for Christmas, I might just love it.  That and if you could send maple syrup extract as well, that would be really cool.

About my shoes... Well I kinda wore them to death, and I don´t think it's possible to fix them anymore, so I just bought some new ones.
 
This week we went to the Temple again in Asuncion!  Wow, The temple is wonderful.  We spent 12 hours travelling there and back, but that was the smallest sacrifice we could make.  The temple is the House of God.  It is the place where heaven and earth truly meet.  In the mission they tell us that our apartments should be an extension to the church.  We should walk, talk, and act in our apartments as we would do in the church.  The truth is that we should really raise the bar in our houses.  Our houses should become an extension of the temple.  A place where we can fully enjoy the presence of the Holy Spirit of the Lord.

Love ya´ll, Keep te faith

Elder McShinsky

It is Absolutely Beautiful Warm Weather as Well...But it Will Change.... A Lot Hotter...

Dear Family

Keep working on scouting.  There you learn a ton of skills that you never dreamed that you would need!  It really is amazing how you now at this time have the opportunity to experiment in more different kinds of activities than possibly anywhere else.  Keep it up!

Lately I've been thinking a lot about our district goal here in Ciudad del Este, which is, "Using the tools we've been given".  As missionaries we have a ton of wonderful tools that come directly from the Lord and are here to bless our lives as missionaries and to help us have the most success possible.  As well in the lives we lead God has given us all the tools that we need to have success.  A lot of the times we, as people and individuals, think that we have some great idea or that we don´t need to use something God has given us.  Maybe we think we've passed that stage in life already.  BUT that in not the way of the Lord.  In using what He´s given us we now can work in a way mucho mas exitoso.  We begin to drop out of our time the things that take second most importance in our lives because we become so excited to serve the Lord in his way in every moment. 

Elder McShinsky

It's going to rain today!

Hola familia,

Hey, so this week we had changes and now I'm not in Sajonia anymore.  I just crossed the country and I'm here in Presidente Franco in Ciudad Del Este.  My comanion is Elder Villalba from Jejui Argentina.  (Thats the same place as my trainer Elder Berimendi is from.)  He has been here a month and a half in Paraguay and excited to be here.  I got here yesterday and found out that they just split the zone and called my old district leader from asuncion is to be the new zone leader and 2 new district leaders as well.  I'm serving as one of them.  I was the only one transferred into the district.  We're both really excited to get to work.  One funny thing about being here is that I went from having one of the biggest rivers in Paraguay by my area to now having the other one right next to me.

That's great that you're all still working on the house, and speaking of mudding, last night it rained a ton and while we were sleeping our house flooded!  That was a big supprise to wake up to!  But now we have about half an inch of mud all through the house.  I guess its a good thing that it's P-day so that we can do a big clean up job.  But just so you know Dad I'm doing my share of the mudding as well...

As well we just had the Conference, and wow I don't know how to express how wonderfully the messages were directed to us here in this time.  Thomas s. Monson IS a prophet of God and we are eternally blessed to be able to hear God's voice and receive his guidance through His prophet Thomas S. Monson.

Elder McShinsky