Waz up familia! I love this place it is so amazing. I have so many stories from the first week only! Ya turns out Encarn has a lot of Gaurani people so let’s just say i am learning a lot really fast. I’m learning how to mumble and trying to understand the mumbling! The people here have mastered the technique of not even opening their lips and getting people to understand them! I can say a couple sentences in Gaurani. There are so many Portuguese people here also but it also turns out that they don’t speak Spanish here they speak Castion which is a mix of everything. So first story and best is Friday my first day out and about we went to a lunch appointment to a very poor member who was having his New Years Day dinner, which is huge. My comp said that it was probably 2 weeks worth of food in this one meal. We got there and they mostly only speak Gaurni so i was oblivious to what was being siad but we walked over to the table and I will describe it to you. (I know I have a parasite now!) There were hundreds of flies over everything! I’m not lying, they were over all the food and there were probably 30 chickens running around and on the table. Laying on the dirt there were the chicken that were not cooked and my companion pointed out the head, they had just killed it. There was this sausage looking thing that was weir. My comp said that he had never had it, it was all parts of the cow in the sausage and it looked liked mush. I gagged but had to eat it. Then there was this rice with like dirt for seasoning and worst of all was this Gaurani traditional drink or something that I got about a half a cup down. This meal gave eating with the chickens a whole new meaning, they were on the table as we ate and they talked haha. I could say a couple things when the member directed them at me! that was my first experience it was amazing!
We have contacted probably 30 people since I have been here and only 2 rejections so far, every body will say yes. Sometimes they give fake numbers or give us the wrong mango tree address (they give direction by blocks and trees and bigger chuchi (I don’t know exactly what that means but its fits cool huh) houses) I have done a couple contacts and I can get to about when they give directions and then I look over at my comp who takes it away. This week I am going to finish one I know it! We visited a member who was recently baptized and out the blue she said her daughter want to get baptized so we are trying to set a date with her for Jan. 15 I think. There are some interesting things that happen here. Oh ya, and it was testimony meeting in church yesterday and ya.... I got up and bore my testimony, and they were all so intent. I don’t know if it was because they were trying to understand me or because they were blown away by the spirit I do not know or care. Hey something else that is cool, I keep forgetting Babylon stuff from back home like songs and movies so, I’m working on forgetting words still but ill get there. Oh and guess how many member our one area has, 650 member, and about 30 active. There is a lot of reactivating work in Paraguay going on right now. Paraguays’ have a knack for disappearing and we don’t know what to do with the records. The people are so generous and kind and funny, they all call me ether Elder Nuevito (which is new super) and Elder Sha-kira (cause when they say it it sounds like that) I’m sorry I didn’t attach any pictures I can’t take a lot of pictures here cause the people will jump you if they see a chuchi item that you have so i have taken only 4, but the place is beautiful. Our area is huge. We walk forever. Yesterday we walked for about 6 hours there and back to find a less active member, they were gone for New Years so we just clapped some houses. Turns out you really do clap house you don’t knock. It’s really funny and the people can’t tell whose house you are in so you clap at one and 3 houses on both sides come out to see if it is their house. And then they see the Mormons and they don’t answer their claps. I haven’t had the opportunity to play futbol yet but we are for noche de rama which is kinda like mutual. For the whole branch and we play volleyball. Volleyball is huge here!!!! This game called piki which is volleyball with no hands only chest and feet. There is a massive black-market in our area, parts of it we are not supposed to go into and you can get almost anything! Today we went and I bought 8 of the coolest ties. I paid 33 Gaurani which is about 6 dollars and fifty cents, its dirt cheap except electronics those are pricy here. Oh I do have a picture of our pension. I left my dinner out for about 30 minutes to go do something, came back and there were thousands of ants all over it, we have more ants then you will ever see, they just roam the place like they own it and I have killed a couple cockroaches but we do have a hot shower so I am grateful for that! Paraguay is the coolest place on earth and I couldn’t ask for a more better humbling mumbling beautiful mission in the world! Con Amor Elder Shaw
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