I love Paraguay

Dear Family,

Yay New Little ones to play with when I get home!!!!!!!  I wish all the luck of the world to Jessica this week and pray for God's help.  Whoo Hoo I'm real excited! 

Dawn, I didn´t get to go the the last wedding you had... Hope you take me with you to see this one... :) (P.S. I'd love to see it in Hawaii as well...) Love ya!

Small hint about the batting cage.  It's got a bunch of holes in it, so it might be a good idea to check it and fix up the holes so that you don't have to fix up a window later when random balls decide to attack.  

O.k. Now about the little Paraguayan  Missionary Down here.  O.k. The story is that since I got here in Presidente Franco my goal has been to split our overly large area, so that we can work even harder in this ward.  Well this week we received a call from Presidente Callan that he wants to send us 2 more missionaries to work with us!  So for the past week we have been searching like crazy for a house for them.  In the end we found one right next to us and today we have to move all the desks, beds and all that stuff in.  So we're working hard on that today.  We received the new missionaries yesterday and last night they slept in our house.  With their arrival me and my compañon got split and now I'm with Elder Palma De Mexico (Estado Veracruz)  He's great and we're really excited to get to work in our area.  And the other elder, you know him, is Elder Hewett.  (He´s the one you met in REI the week before I went into the MTC)  Along with that we're all working hard here in Franco.

Elder McShinsky

LOVE YOU

Dear Family

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!! (Please Send Pictures...)(Lots of Pictures!)

That's wonderful that your going to be studying the Family a proclamation to the world as a family. Just happens that this Sunday I talked in church about that same subject. As part of that talk I shared a story to introduce the subject. and maybe it you'll like as well. 

Once upon a time, there was a very rich man who had a very strong desire to find a painting that represented Peace.  Unsatisfied with what he found he decided to hold an art contest to find the painting that truly represented Peace.  Artists from all over sent in their painting.  And finally arrived the day of the contest.  One by one the paintings where shown followed by ooo´s anh ahh´s.  But finally the arrived at the last two paintings. 

The judge uncovered the first as the crowed hushed in silence.  A perfectly calm lake in the reflecting the last rays of dimming sunset.  Surrounded by lushes green rolling hills with a flock of sheep grazing without a single fear.  Everyone thought that this would be the winner.  The the crowed let forth gasps of surprise as the last painting was uncovered. 

¿Could this be Peace? 

A torrential waterfall with bursts of water flying forth as to defy gravity.  A gray sky waiting just moments to explode into rain, wind, thunder and lightning.  Along the side of a precarious cliff clung a tree as if desperate to survive and as almost to temp the terrifying strength of the falling water a thin branch stretched out towards the cascading water.  And it was just at that point that a nest had been build almost oblivious of it's dangerous position.  And within that nest a small bird with it wings half open at to protect the little ones within. 

This is the painting that won.  True peace is found within the loving protection of the home, and under the heavenly wings of our Eternal Father.

Elder McShinsky

BYU Nationals Week 2011!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dear Family,

Tell Bob that if I could dance Jr. Smooth I'd be in the program too.... :)

Whoo Hoo New car!!! Please don't break it before I get home (That means don´t let Dawn use it...) (Love you Dawn!) Please Send picture.

Wow I'm really excited to see this new dance room. Sounds like your getting it all spoofed up. Getting it ready for THE DANCER (Thats Me...) Ya know Dad doing the construction, mom saying that it looks nice, Brothers breaking in the floor, so that it will be ready for THE DANCER... (Me)... :) I'm really excited to se it.

That's GREAT that everyone is getting ready to go on missions. Let me know where they're all going!

...Shoes... ... Shoes... Well they don't seem to last to long around here. It's because of the roads, they are made of Empedradal, which is like cobblestone but really really bad done cobblestone. It's all jagged and tears into you shoes like crazy. My old ones are officially dead. (I had them repaired 7 times!!!)

This week we found this great family real close to our church building! There's about 30 people that live in the house and 7 of the are already members, and they are really excited to come back to church again. As well as prepare the rest of the family to be baptized in the church as well. The Lord truly blesses us with miracles everyday. He loves us and wants the very best for each and everyone of us!

Elder McShinsky

P.s.

 !DANCE!