Paraguay Asuncion Mission
2002-2004

As I was serving in Paraguay I had the opportunity to work in the city of Fernando de la Mora. It is a good sized city just south of Asuncion. I was there for the last 5 months of my mission. I served with two great companions, Elder Rodriguez from Uruguay, and Elder Yates of Salt Lake. While I work with both of them we were able to work with a young man named Jose. Jose was only 16 when we started to work with him, he was a referral from a member. Jose loved the gospel right away, he was baptized a month after we started to teach him. While teaching him his mom was always there in the lessons just paying attention. After Jose's baptism we were giving the new member lessons with the ward mission leader and Jose's mom asked if she could take the lessons. It was definitely a blessing to Jose, he had been praying that his mom would accept the gospel. So we started to teach his mother, about a month later was his moms baptism. She was baptised by her son, as my companion and I sat in the back of the room it was definitely a great experience for us, seeing a young man we baptized is now in the water baptizing his mother. I have kept in contact with both of them over the years and both of them are still very active in the church, which is the best part of the story. They have stayed strong even after all these years.

Mike Ashmore