Welcome to the happiest place on the earth!

We will ignore how hot it is in Paraguay and focus on the place that was voted to be the happiest place in the world in 2018!  We are excited to welcome these missionaries to our mission and know that very soon they will be able to look past the thermometer and see only these wonderful people.

Welcome Hermana McCance from Iowa

Bienvenido Hermana Miranda de Paraguay

Bem Venida Hermana Link de Brasil

Welcome Elder Minnich from Texas

Welcome Elder Harris from Utah

Welcome Elder Smith from Utah

Glad to get another Missionary Elder Gleason from Utah

Bienvendios Elder Cedeño de Ecuador

Bienvenido Elder Berrocal de Argentina

Bem Vinda Elder Rocha de Brasil 

Bienvenido Elder Chavez de Bolivia

Elder Cotrina Bienvenidos de Peru

Elder Càrdenas de Colombia Bienvenidos

Bienvenido Elder Silva de Chile

Evans are happier now.....

We have seen our family blessed in so many ways since we have had the privilege of serving here in Paraguay.  We miss them but know that these blessings are in direct relation to service.  We were so grateful to add one more daughter in law to our family in December!  Isaac and Maddy were married on December 21 in the Brigham City temple in Utah.  We are a little more complete now. Thanks for joining the family Maddy!  We love you!

Another day in Mistolar

We are trying to make one more round of visits to all the areas of the mission before we start our Stake Conferences again.  This may have been the last time that we get to visit the humble beautiful people of Mistolar that have touched our lives.  There are no sweeter singing voices on the face of the earth than what you will find in this community of the Nivacle.  The children are always so happy to see what we brought.  This time we brought them all the extra blocks from our Christmas project last year and our dolls that we used for our Savior of the World production.  A few extra white boards that were left behind by missionaries returning home where a novelty as well. 
We also were intrigued by the abundant amount of butterflies everywhere!  Together they made an unusual color of blue. Apparently they are pretty but they suck the nectar from all the plants making the usual sufficient amount of honey for the Nivacle, non existent. For that reason we hope that they leave very soon. 

A Family home evening in December

We LOVE Family Home Evenings with our missionaries!  Such a great time to hear messages from them and share an evening learning about the great program of the church that we can have a great excuse to gather each week and discuss a topic in the gospel.

We hope our missionaries will choose to carry this tradition on to their own families some day.  

There is a lot that goes on behind the scenes.....

No sufficient amount of gratitude can be given for all the work that our office missionaries do and our assistants.  They work some pretty long hours as office staff and still are out teaching every day, then they take time to work on projects that just add finishing touches to our mission.  Thank you so much!!

Trying to teach through music

In the month of December we had several Capilla Abierta`s (Chapel Open Houses)  This year we brought something new to try and teach and create a sacred feeling for the Christmas season.  We had two groups of 10 missionaries that performed two scenes from the Church production "Savior of the World" or here we call it "Salvador del el Mundo".  These groups sacrificed some of their p-days in November to have this ready for December 1.  Every week they had performances and traveled to two areas of the mission.  It was very evident that the practice that they put it was extremely touching as we watched tears running down the faces of the people.  We hope that it really touched hearts and this Christmas really was focused upon the Savior. 

Lots of Christmas Zone Conferences.....

For Christmas Zone conference this year we had the privilege of having the Temple president and his wife come and talk about the privilege it is to have the covenant and the clothes of the temple.  We had testimonies from our Hermanas of their experiences of reading the Book of Mormon under the challenge of our prophet President Nelson.  To end we had President Evans talk on faith.  It was a wonderful day together and we loved our activity of a pinewood derby race where each missionary was invited to make a car to race and then to donate to a child afterwards. Since I am so late in posting this I am going to add a lot of fun pictures to remember some great days!