Six Miles of Blessings This Conference Weekend!

Dear Family,

Sorry about that last week.  We spent our P-Day traveling and organizing things in the District.  And we thought we could have time between all that to teach a couple of lessens during P-Day as well, but it turned out that it didn't work out so well.  So on top of that we have been living off of my emergency ramen noodle soup for the past week because of lack of time... But its all good now! !!!!SORRY!!!!

Congratulations Jessica!  One new Nice for me!!!! :)  Wow what a great day a day to welcome into this world one more child of God, and the opportunity to look for Gods help in raising that child!

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WOW General Conference is AMAZING!!!

All of the talks were fantastic.  I loved the talk by President Uchtdorf Sunday morning.  We had an investigator there that had just that problem.  Stuck in the road to Damascus.  He knows everything and has been waiting forever to make the choice to let his faith guide him, but as the talk went on and on you could gradually see him and his wife becoming more and more unified in purpose.  Fantastic!  He'll get baptized pretty soon.  The talks touched topic after topic of just exactly what we needed as well as what our investigators needed.  Those men are truly inspired of God to dictate his word.  We watched it in the stake center.  I didn't get to see the Priesthood Session cuz they played it really late at night and here in Ciudad Del Este In the night there are no buses, so there was no possible way to get home afterwards.  But they filmed it and we are going to get to watch it this weekend!

Ya we're real excited to have another pair of missionaries here with us!  Yes, I am still the District Leader.  We have a great District here full of willing missionaries and faithfull members as well.

Please send picture of batting cage...

This week we found an incredible family here in Presidente Franco.  We were walking down the street towards the church when a man cutting the lawn nearby quietly called out to us.  At first I didn't hear him, but my compañion did, but we didn't understand him.  He called out to us again, but still as we approached I didn't understand what he said.  And upon arrival he spoke to me a third time and we began to talk.  

It reminded me of the Nephites in the Book of Mormon who when Christ came to the Americas spoke to the people not just once but three times until they adjusted their ears to hear him.  As we spoke he invited us to his house to share with his family.  We went the next day and found him waiting there with his wife and three year old child.  As we began to talk we found that they had been in contact with the missionaries years before in another city, but were never quite prepared to receive the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  We talked of their lives and of their preparation to join with God.  Now they are faithfully preparing to get married and baptized later this month.  They are amazing!  God loves his children.

Elder McShinsky