Week of Jun 8, 2026 — Coronel Bogado, Paraguay

Haupei! Hope you are all doing great! It’s been another good week here in Coronel Bogado! Here are a few of the highlights!

• Hermana Barney and I explored a new little town called Kuruñai! It’s about a 20 minute bus ride with tons of fields and cows! And it was incredible! We had just sat down for a lesson when this guy walks into the yard greeting us in english! Turns out he is from Argentina and his wife is from West Jordan Utah! So wild! Definitely no coincidences in the Lord’s timing!!
• We were up in Kuruñai working during lunch time and some members last minute invited us over for some really yummy food!! It felt a little bit like our own Alma and Amulek story! Super grateful for the amazing members here who do SO much for the missionaries!!
• Church was super amazing yesterday!! The Spirit was SO strong in fast & testimony meeting!! And the Elders had the baptism of their friend Lider! He is super awesome and it was super special to see him make His first covenant with God!
• It was really amazing to see the Lord working in the details this week! There were many times where we were sitting talking to people and then all of a sudden more people would just come over! It’s incredible to see that this really is the Lord’s work and His plan is perfect!
• This past week we’ve had the opportunity to go try and visit a lot of inactive members here in Coronel Bogado. A scripture that keeps coming to mind is D&C 18:10 which says “remember the worth of souls is great in the sight of God”. God is in relentless pursuit of ALL of His children for each of them is dear to Him!
• I haven’t really written about this in my emails but just about every transfer of the mission my fake tooth has fallen out. It’s in the front of my mouth and very obvious. I’m currently on day 4 of prosyleting without it… a little bit unfortunate but it helps me fit in a bit more and gives us a good laugh!

Have an awesome week! Feel free to send updates anytime! I love hearing from you guys!!

Spiritual Thought

This week I was watching an amazing devotional by Sister Tania Runia called “Let His Radiance Shine Through You”. If you have a little bit of time, I definitely would recommend!! She shared a story of a little blind girl on a train ride with her dad. A friend on the train offered to hold the little girl to give the dad a break. The dad asked his daughter if she knew who was holding her. The little girl responded “no but you do”.

Connecting this to our own lives, Sister Runia then shared “When life is messy and heaven whispers, ‘Do you know why this is happening to you?’ what if we could have the faith to answer, ‘No, but You do’? We’ve been asked to trust that God knows what He’s doing with us even though we cannot see how He can possibly do it.”

I love this SO much! We don’t know everything but we do know God and that is enough! We can always trust in Him and in His perfect plan!! God knows how to be God!! And in the end, if we stay close to Him, it will all work out more than okay!!