How important missionary work is...

Adams Uncle is a mission president and they are just getting to the end of there three years. They are some of the most amazing and spiritual people that I have ever met. If you have ever second guessed the power of missionary work read this letter that she just wrote. I have a strong testimony of missionary work and the important role that it plays in the world today. This story is amazing

Dear Family and Friends,

The weeks are flying by!!! We are working fast and furious but we have tons still to do. Things are going good. We are entering the winter months in Paraguay and so it has cooled down and that is great. We have gotten some good rain and we are wearing winter coats and it feels nice.

We have had some amazing things happen during the last few weeks. We had a wonderful missionary get hit by a car. It happened about three weeks ago. They were walking down a small road out in the country. It was dark and raining. I don't know if the driver got distracted by something, phone, texting, etc but he ran right into our missionary. The Elder is a huge young man from Alpine, Utah. He is a 6'5" African American. He said he heard the car and turned and saw it coming right at him and kind of jumped up on the hood. I think that saved him from getting his legs broken. But it threw him into the windshield. His face took the impact. He split open his cheek, had a huge cut on his forehead, his chin and nose. It was TERRIBLE. The driver didn't even stop. The Elder flew up over the car and landed on his side. He didn't BREAK A BONE, DIDN'T LOOSE A TOOTH BUT had terrible cuts, scraps and lacerations on his face. He came into Asuncion in an ambulance and went into emergency surgery. He has over 300 stitches on his face. Most of those stitches are inside. It really was a miracle that his didn't break his cheek bones or loose any teeth or break any other bones in his legs or arms. The plastic surgeon said it was a MIRACLE that no bones were broken and that he didn't have a concussion or worse.

One of the first things that missionary said to us in the emergency room when we arrived was, President, I am not going to have to go home for this am I? I want to stay!........Can you even imagine that kind of an attitude? Here you have just been hit by a Paraguayan, you are in a third world country and you know the medical care is not going to be that great, you know you face is busted and feels broken. You lips are so swollen that you can hardly talk and yet you lay in a strange hospital with FAITH BURSTING FROM YOUR SCARED SOUL AND YOU SAY, I WANT TO STAY. He is an INCREDIBLE YOUNG MAN. He had a blessing and went into surgery and has had the FAITH OF NEPHI, AMMON, ALMA, MORONI AND HELAMAN. He has really been amazing through this. We are now three weeks out and he has healed up so much. The Doctors in the states said to wait for 5 months and then we will analyze and see if he needs to have another surgery to help scarring. We are hopeful that he will heal up fine and not need to have anything else done. The Dr's in the states have looked at his pictures and think that the plastic surgeon did incredible work. His name is Elder Wilkinson. We would love to have you include him in your prayers. That would be great. I know that the Lord has blessed him and will continue to bless him. It has been amazing to see the healing that has taken place in just three weeks. In the beginning I was not sure he was going to be able to stay. He has only been here six months. He has been blessed with the gift of tongues and can communicate in Spanish and in Guarani which is what a lot of Paraguayans speak. It is a very hard language to learn. In the hospital he was talking to the nurses in Guarani and it was IMPRESSIVE to say the least. I know that he has a special mission here. The Lord preserved him to do great and marvelous things here.

It has been amazing to see how mindful the Lord is of his missionaries and how he really does bless and protect them. This accident could have been soooo much worse. We have seen some crazy things in three years time but for the most part with as many missionaries as we have, they have been blessed and protected.