Grace, Study it.. :)

Dear Family,

Keep Dancing.  Tip: Stop thinking how you see yourself dancing, and start thinking about how everyone else sees your dancing.

Keep up the good work on the math rich.  study it a lot.  it will help you a lot in the future.  Plan on going as far as you can in your math studies in high school.  Especially A.P. Classes.  Don't let yourself think you can do it later.  Say yes to every oportunity to get the highest education possible. (Especially when it's gratis...).

 

Rich, a challenge, just for you.  Try and take the most advanced classes you can and get a 4.0 in every one of them.  Dedicate yourself to it.  You'll never regret it.  Looking back, I should have done just that.  It will bless you life and open more opportunities then you can imagine.  Even if it seems silly right now, trust me and just do it. You will not regret it in the long run.

Baseball... :) It doesn't exist here... :( I wanna play tooo..... (But they do play a whole lot of soccer)

This week Elder Arnold is here in our misiòn to do a capacitaciòn.  It's amazing how truly inspired our leaders are.  If we could only remember and apply every word we here from them, we would truly be applying God's council in our lives.  For that reason we have the liahona to remind us of our duty to obey their words, we should really be studying a little bit of the modern word of God everyday along with our studies of the Book of Mormon.

Let the grace of God bless you!\

Elder McShinsky

Dancing Season Is Heating Up!

I've decided to keep this unedited just so you can see the grammar and spelling. He's basically going to come back only knowing Spanish and we all thought the letter was all the more funny because of all the errors.

Dear Family,

Compañion, he´s great, from columbia and speaks spanish a little different then the paraguayos, but we still love him... He´s 22 years old. Of course i speek spanish all the time, I´m in paraguay... :)

Well about our friends here, Angel still don´t got no house... Bishop´s working on it. And our family just moved, so they didn´t come to church this week, Not good, But it´s all good cuz their right back on track and kicking.  Paul Winkelman, I was thinking about him the other day, How´s he doing? And hows brent doing? And how about the rest of the clan, How they all doing??

Snowing.... .... ... I wonder what that looks like :) Here, its HOT, But i´m really excited, cuz We just go an air conditioning today!!!!!! Basicly when i got here in this area there really wasn´t anything here, But,.... Now theres a whole lot more tools for the missionarys to use now :) (Plates, utencils, cooking bowls, Microwave, Table cloths, Blender, Airconditioning, Beds, Matresses) Ya all that stuff ! We didn´t have too many things before, But we did have a Grill cheese sandwich maker! It´s amazing what you can do with one of those.... :) It makes a pretty good cake...

Good job Scouter!

Elder McShinsky

Happy Valentine's Day xoxoxoxoxo

Dear Family,

Thanks for the love, I bought some chocolates for mom, and ate then in her behalf... :)

No he still doesn't have a house, but now he does have teeth... :)

How bout that, I talked in church too! But my talk was about Repentance.

Good job at the comp! And who beat them?

Today we went to Itaipu again, and it never ceases to amaze me how big the place is and really how much power there is in the naturaleza that god has given us.

And for the past 3 days its been raining a lot!!! And we got wet...

Love you all,
Elder McShinsky

O.K. I Repent, I´ll Start Telling Stories Too

Dear Family,

More Then Preaching??? But thats all we do... :)

O.k. Stories,

First, Elder Singson just left to another area in Asuncion, and Elder Noreña is here with me in Presidente Franco. He's From Columbia. Next, the picture's, Are of angel. He's 71, from Venisuela, and just got baptized a little while ago. Angel was found way out in the middle of nowhere really far from the church, and super Drunk. We taught him and he has been coming to church ever since, but what's so great about the pictures is that I'm finally cutting his beard. The Bishop told us that for him to keep progressing he needed to improve his personal image. Part of which was to cut his beard....

Well he didn't like that one little bit, and it took us 3 months of teaching him to help him understand the importance of following our leaders council. Even if we don't understand why. And yes it was a major acomplishment to finally get it cut. :) P.S. He also got kicked out of his appartment, and for about a week he has been living in our water tower. Kinda like a Little Mormon Hermit, but he'll be out of there in a jiffy.

Next, it rains a lot here, and I seem to have some sort of bad luck with the whole umbrella thing... Today I had to buy a new umbrella because my other one broke in a big storm we had the other day. This is the 6th umbrella I've had to buy in the last 6 months. That's not a good thing. This time I bought a nice one, so I hope it lasts me at least for the rest of my time here. If not, well then I give up on umbrellas!

Happy Birthday ELLA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pleas pray for Cristian y Blanca. We would love for them to get baptized this next week. Thank you!

Love,

Elder McShinsky

The Lord Needs Willing Families!

Dear family,

Sorry for not writing last week.  I had some problems with the internet here and my letter couldn't get sent.  About transfers, not yet.  They are next week, and we still don't know who's getting transferred. 


¿So you think you can dance Mike?


Sounds like you all had fun dancing at Provo. That's great that we have such great blessings in the gospel so that we can communicate one with another so easily.  Say hi to mita`ikuera from Uncle Elder McShinsky.  And that's the truth, we have been given so many blessings from God that we can't even number them in any way shape or form.  God gives them to us so liberally that we cant help but recognize them and feel so humble.  Like the hymn says, "Count your many blessings and see what God has done."


Here in the mission I feel like there couldn't be more blessing waiting for us, that wow I'm drowning in blessings.  Then God just keeps giving us more and more.  I truly believe if we would all just throw our pride out the window, and see what God has done for us, then we would all grow in a grand desire to serve and to the biggest blessing we can for someone else.

Love you all, And Keep the Faith.

Elder McShinsky