Hola Famila, Sounds like everybody is doing good. First, thank you so much for the package. I got it this week!!!! It was perfect, and the best part was the granola bars! I love those and I only have one left and it was perfect timing. We didn’t have any money for very many groceries this last week so the peanut butter and g. bars were fantastic and candy from the states is amazing! Although there are some here that the states need like boillos. They are fried dough with dulce de leche inside andits only 15 cents and its the size of my fist. Thank you so much. That’s awesome about basketball. I hope you win. The state tournament is a awesome experience Braiden. And wow everybody is finally leaving. I’m getting email from a lot of missionaries but can never right back, except to say I cant write back. I think it must be a rule for our mission. This week was great. We had 45 people in church! That’s a lot. Once again we did a lot of work with the member and inactives. Quite a few people that said they were going to come still didn’t make it. A family of 13 that live 2 hours away came. It was awesome. We still couldn’t get any of our investigators to church, which is a problem. We have baptismal dates with a couple of people but they will not come to church so we have to keep changing the date. We worked out in a place called predera alta this week. It is as much as a camp as gets. Everybody spoke Gaurani to each other except when talking to us and then they spoke a mix. I can pick words out here and there and can say some stuff but by no means able to talk. With Spanish I know that I’m improving every week with understanding and talking but I’m still being patient for it to come! I can say what I want right now but as for the understanding, I don’t catch jokes or specific details and I ask people to repeat things for me. It’s so weird to think that I can speak a different language! Remember the family that was perfect with the Gaurani ancestors? Well, the kid that new for a fact the church was true went to Asuncion and the daughter has moved out we think. We went back 2 days ago and the herman said that she was to keep learning but has gone back to some of her old beliefs. Dang traditions of her forefathers. We haven’t given up on her yet. We will give her another week and go all out and see what happens. We have found 3 different 26 years old that have fecha. One of them invited us over and we talked and found out he didn’t believe in God but is starting his family so wants that hope for his new child and wife. His name is Raul Martinez and he has accepted baptism but didn’t come to church yesterday. We think we know why some of them didn’t come though. Saturday night was the classic, or the game that happens 2 times a year between Olympia and Cerro-2 futbol teams. It’s like the Super bowl but times ten. We didn’t get one contact or one lesson that day and the city was barren. We eventually sat down and waited and listened because when someone scores the town blows up with fireworks and screams. It was insane. Olympia won and afterwards the streets flooded with people everywhere, screaming, honking and running. Every body has a team and families are split. At church the majority were Olympia cause the Cerros were too embarrassed to come ha! Yesterday was the last day of carnival. Carnival is during the month of February on the weekends and basically take eagle fun days multiply it by 20. We don’t live in central which is were all the main stuff happen but get the drift of it. We probably got hit with 20 water balloons this month. There is dancing and its really dirty. The missionaries in Centro had to leave the area but it dominates Eagle fun days everywhere. It was crazy! This week during my personal study I studied the order of the Book of Mormon. It is so interesting. All is good here. My companion and I didn’t get a baptism for the month of February and we are supposed to so the zone leaders called us, but this next month we are going to get 5 when we get them to church! I’m excited. Q: A: everybody has a phone, but a lot of people don’t answer well, they just text. A:There is no such thing as carpet in Paraguay. I have not walked on a floor bare footed for 2 months now! A: My companion and I are going to try some new meals this week but its hard to be healthy here it really is. Dad’s right mom the Lord is blessing our fats and sugars to be the whole wheat, apples, and rock hard grape nuts and yummy peas and carrots I use to eat. Joke but we are trying A: I forgot the rest of the questions. Sorry. I love you family. Read the scriptures and talk to you in a week. I have a good picture I’ll send next week. Love Elder Shaw
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