Week of May 18, 2026 — Coronel Bogado, Paraguay

Hi everyone! Happy Monday! Hope you are all doing awesome! Things are going well down here!!! Here are a few of the highlights from the past week!

• Coronel Bogado had a super huge Paraguay independence parade on main street! Everyone in town came to celebrate! Super fun to watch for a little bit! I love Paraguay!!
• Divisions with Hermana Nazar from Argentina! Had an awesome time! Learned a lot and had some really spiritual lessons with some people the Lord led us to!
• This week we were really focusing on getting friends to church. We fasted Saturday night to have people at church. Sunday morning we passed by our friends’ houses to pick them up and nobody could come! We ended up being late to church with no friends… and then about halfway through Sacrament meeting a random boy showed up! He heard someone was getting baptized and the Elders invited him into the building! Turns out he lives in our area! Literal miracle!!! Fasting works. And when you do your best, God will do the rest.
• Two Saturdays ago we met these two really awesome kids, Nancy and Ramon. We haven’t been able to find them since, as they actually live at their dad’s house. With the help of the Lord, we were able to find them at their dad’s house! Such a big tender mercy!!!
• The Elders of Coronel Bogado had three baptisms yesterday!! The Spirit was super strong!! Such a great Sunday!

Hope you all have an amazing week! Feel free to email anytime! I love hearing updates from you all!!

Spiritual Thought

This week I’ve been studying a lot about the Restoration. As I was reading about prophets Jacob 4:6 really stood out to me which says “Wherefore, we search the prophets, and we have many revelations and the Spirit of prophecy; and having all these witnesses we obtain a hope, and our faith becometh unshaken, insomuch that we truly can command in the name of Jesus and the very trees obey us, or the mountains, or the waves of the sea”. Prophets and Apostles are special witnesses of Jesus Christ. As we listen and apply their words to our lives our faith in our Savior will increase. So much that we can become unshakable! We have so many records from prophets in the scriptures and we are so blessed to having a living prophet on the earth today. I know without a doubt that Dallin H Oaks is a prophet called of God and serves as a mouthpiece of the Lord.