Week of Jun 15, 2026 — Coronel Bogado, Paraguay

Mba’éichapa!! How’s it going? Hope you are all doing well!! This week has been really good here full of lots of miracles and tender mercies! Here are a couple of the highlights!

• We’ve been really trying to work a lot with the inactive members and the other night we clapped at an inactive member house. The mom answered and told us she was too busy so we left and continued to walk a little bit further. Then it started downpouring REALLY hard. She waved us back and invited us inside her house. Huge miracle! We ended up having a super awesome family home evening! Their family is amazing! She even ended up joining the zoom call for Sacrament meeting!! Super grateful for that big rainstorm!
• Divisions with my trainer Hermana Whitesides! Had so much fun and learned so much!! We worked up in the little town called Kuruñai and met some amazing people! However, Kuruñai is kinda in the middle of nowhere (4 hr walk and a 20 min bus ride on the route). The members’ car had broken down, it was getting late and we were a little stranded. But God answers prayers!! A bus passed and we were able to make it home before curfew! Such a big miracle!
• Hermana Barney and I were walking home one night when this guy stopped us and asked if we could share a scripture verse with him. We gave him a Book of Mormon. And before we even brought it up, he mentioned that he had never been baptized and wants to be saved. Come to find out, he is the uncle of one of the recent converts here in Coronel Bogado! Crazy big miracle! So thankful that God put Him in our path!
• Sunday morning we were sitting in Sacrament meeting when our phone starting buzzing, an inactive member, named Oscar was calling to let us know that he was outside trying to find the church building! Missionaries have been trying to get him back to church for months… it was incredible to finally see him in church again!!! Such a big blessing!!!

Have an amazing week! Thank you for all the thoughts and prayers… they are certainly felt!!

Spiritual Thought

This week I was studying a lot about baptism and covenants. And a quote from President Nelson really stuck out which says “Once we make a covenant with God, we leave neutral ground forever. God will not abandon His relationship with those who have forged such a bond with Him. In fact, all those who have made a covenant with God have access to a special kind of love and mercy”. That is SO cool!! Baptism opens the gate for a life full of God’s strength and power!! Once we make our first covenant with God our lives will never be the same again!! As we make and keep more covenants we will be even more connected to them! There is no one better to be bounded to than our Heavenly Father and Savior, Jesus Christ!!