Via La Porte! Familia Dang sounds like alot is hapening with everything. I can't believe everybody is finally leaving on their missions. When is Gunnar's farewell? Every week I want to write an email to all the guys that are going on missions but I never have time. But that is awesome. It is also weird to think that this is the last pday of my first change. Next week I will have completed my first change, and I think my companion will get a change and I will get a new companion because there are 21 new missionaries coming this next change and I will probably get another trainer. It is going to be a bummer because he is such a good teacher, every story he tells is just a small story but I love the elder to death! Mom how is junior miss? Dad is business picking up? Tiffany how is the baby, any kicking or pictures or whatever the heck happens in your body during this time? Caleb when in the world when did you get so good a snowboarding. I could never grind and the one time I tried to spin I manage to hurt my MCL or whatever that thing was? Braiden...dang that’s so cool. Keep up the good work. Thanks for the package too it will be the best! My companion got a Dear John in the MTC and throughout his mission he has gotten 6 dear johns from different girls but his family sends him packages all the time to make him feel better ha!! I get some of his candy some times.
This week was a trial of patience that's what the Lord was trying to teach us this week. We did find two men that look pretty good but neither of them have phones so we have to walk 1 and half hours away to see if they are even home and we have failed 3 times now so we don't know what to do. This last week it rained 3 different days and when I say rain, it's like taking any Arizona monsoon storm and multiply the heat and water by like 10 fold. The streets were rivers and I saw a dog floating down the street! Paraguayans are afraid of rain so all the rain days we only got like 4 lessons in... It’s difficult and we were soaked... but I love the rain!
I have one good story! SATURDAY- okay so we had a baptism this day and we went to church at 11:00 to fill the font and the font wouldn't work so my companion did something with the pump and it filled at about half the rate, then some internet people showed up to install internet in the building and the President called and asked us if it would be alright if we stayed with them because they couldn't be at the chapel alone. He said it would only be an hour or so. The font was due to finish right at 7 when the baptism started. The bad news is the internet people took 5 hours!!!! So it was 6:00pm when we finally got out of the chapel to go get ready. We had to travel to another rama to get their baptismal clothing because we didn't have any. It was about 6:25 and we were 30 minutes from home. We had the baptismal clothing and got on a bus. But wait, when I got off the bus at I left the baptismal clothing on the bus. The baptism was starting in 5 minutes. I lost them. We had no idea what we were going to do. We walked to the chapel without baptismal clothes and turns out that the President brought some without knowing why. The water was really low. We started like 5 minutes late. Her name was Gisel, and she picked me to baptize her, the clothes were short and fat on me but I stapled them around my waist, and stepped into the font with this 14 year old girl and baptized her! That’s what we fight for every day. It was a hectic day and I'm sure that didn't make much sense because I was everywhere but it was amazing!
I'm trying to upload a foto but i cant... ill try and send it next week. Hopefully this next week is a bit more productive and efficient. We have a 35 year old man who we are trying to get to keep his commitments but he won't go to church! So we are working with him. He had a fecha to be baptized this week but it won't work. We are going to have to push it back a couple weeks. The language is coming slowly. I just really want understand people’s doubts and to be able to respond to them but its so hard, especially when they switch over to Guarni.
Oh a couple quick side notes 1. I found a basketball, and a court in our area. From now on we are waking up at 6:10am and running there and playing! 2. 2 Nephi 4:32-35 3. I'm sending a letter home with a couple letters inside it because it is 3 dollars to send a letter so could you put them in the mail with a stamp? It's so much cheaper. I won't do it every week I promise. 4. Funniest thing, I walked into the bathroom and found my companion washing his hands and face in the badee´ haha, we have switched over and use the badee´ as a face and hand washer because it is so powerful it hurts to be used another way!
Oh I forgot to say something, the planter warts.... gone, it's a miracle but they are completely gone. They were ugly and I have some pictures of them here but they disappeared one night! And at the baptism our piano player didn't show so I played... ya I messed up but I'm getting pretty good again, because I play in church every once in awhile. Les amo mucho Elder Shaw
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