Hola,
Well I am not exactly sure what happened last week with my letter. I wrote it and I thought that I had attached it. Oh well. I hope that this one makes it this week.
It sounds like everyone had a good time in Arizona without me. I am not nearly as jealous about the café rio, the guac, the salsa, and all the other tasty stuff that you all ate as I would be because I have finally found cilantro. One of the sisters in the branch went searching for me and now she has it growing in her garden. I will be chomping down on some tasty items in just a short while.
I have officially done all there is to do as a branch president. I have now done temple interviews. One of our sisters will be going through the temple to receive her endowment and I am pretty stoked for her. We are making empanadas so that those that want to go can go. If any of you would like to buy empanadas it will be 8 pesos or 2.30 dollars for a dozen and they will arrive in about 3 months all nice and moldy. We will see how it goes this week and that will decide the next three weeks.
Sunday we had a decent turn out at church for not having the combi to pick people up. The majority walked to church. I was happy to see my two assigned speakers come through the doors. One of the sisters made a promise with Heavenly Father that she would walk to church every week for some amount of time that she decided. I tried to have another sister drive her home but she refused to go home in a car.
Our Saturday lunch appointment gave us this fruit for dessert. I don´t remember what it is called but is really fun to eat. It has a texture like that of the kiwi. I was completely surprised to find a white inside when I cut into it. It was extremely juicy but lacked flavor. The cool thing about it was the skin because you can´t scrape into it with your spoon so it is safe eating from the time you cut it in half.
My toe had some sort of blister on it so I took care of it and took a picture. It may be a bunion forming but I don´t know because I just don´t know what a bunion is or isn´t? I also have no clue as to how you spell that word. I hope you enjoy the photo of my big toe.
I did divisions with Elder Stone the 7´2” giant. We went out in the morning because our power was out. While we were out there we took some pictures of the sky. We thought the day would be a nice one....we were wrong. It rained really hard around 3 pm in the afternoon. The rain was flying sideways because of how strong the wind was. I took a picture of a raindrop for all of you.
We had interviews yesterday and I can tell you all that I will still be in the mission. We are trying really hard right now to find a family to baptize in April. President del Castillo wants us to watch the Lamb of God with a family and then put a baptismal date right after watching it. So that is what our strategy is but we still need a family to try it out on.
I hope that everything continues to go well back home. I hope that our economy gets a little stronger so I can stop hearing about it from everyone down here. Man do they like to talk about the states and our problems and yet their problems never cross their minds. Congratulations to Kennedy for her baptism and to Danny for graduating. I love you all. Chau
Elder Hunsaker
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Tossing Cookies and Avoiding Spiders
Querida familia,
Bueno, I am just going to go ahead and start this one out with the bad news. This last Sunday my comp started tossing his cookies and let’s just say that wasn’t all. We made a nice quick trip downtown to buy some products that Hna. Del Castillo told us to buy. Then we got home and my comp just chilled in his bed until he had to visit his bucket or the bathroom. By the time church rolled around, he had stopped with the constant need of a bucket but still was in need of a bathroom. We went to church he was just fine. As priesthood started I made my very first visit to the bathroom and as priesthood ended I made my third. So we moved on to Sunday School and I moved into the bathroom for a few more visits. The bad thing about having problems during church in Clorinda is that I am in charge of a lot with my greeny by my side. Luckily the teachers of the classes showed up to our very small church meeting, 12 people in total. My speakers for sacrament meeting didn’t show up and only one of them advised me in advance. I decided to prepare a quick musical number and lengthen out my already prepared talk. Right before sacrament meeting I wrapped my arms around my porcelain buddy and left my lunch there. This could not have been a better day. I conducted the meeting, played the piano, did a musical number, gave a talk, and finished with a nice closing prayer. *Large breathy exhale* After our fun time at church the adventure continued in the pench. Now I was the one taking the medicine that we had bought for my comp. I was the one layed out on my bed. I was the one moaning in agony. I was the one making excessive amounts of bathroom visits. I was the one finishing the unfinished gatorade. Now I have no recollection of the past week. Maybe it had something to do with the prescribed medicine. Haha. What a wonderful life we live!
Well now that that legacy is over. We have had a fairly decent week. We met a really nice family yesterday and we taught them about the plan of salvation. We took care of business as usual and found a massive spider web in our front yard yesterday with a size large spider on it. We took a minute or two to watch it snatch up a fly and then suck the blood. The spider wrapped the fly in its webbing. It was almost like watching Discovery channel but this time I was Bear Grylls from “Man Vs. Wild”. My comp is still in the stage of being amazed by everything he sees. It is really fun to be around him.
Our area will be getting a lot bigger when they open up a bunch of new viviendas. The government says that they are about to give the homes to the people. I know quite a few people that are waiting for one and have been waiting for quite some time. Maybe I will be able to see some people in these viviendas. Maybe I will be able to be the first one to clap ‘em up. I might just a have a whole lot of firsts in this new part. Yeah for firsts!
Tomorrow we have our zone conference and will be making the routine trip to the Formosa Capital. Elder Lyndsey will be going home tomorrow and taking the pills with him. I will make sure to send you the info or if I haven’t already - good. We have a baptismal date for the 28th of this month. We will see how it goes. I love you all and hope that all continues to go well.
Hasta Luego,
Elder Hunsaker
Bueno, I am just going to go ahead and start this one out with the bad news. This last Sunday my comp started tossing his cookies and let’s just say that wasn’t all. We made a nice quick trip downtown to buy some products that Hna. Del Castillo told us to buy. Then we got home and my comp just chilled in his bed until he had to visit his bucket or the bathroom. By the time church rolled around, he had stopped with the constant need of a bucket but still was in need of a bathroom. We went to church he was just fine. As priesthood started I made my very first visit to the bathroom and as priesthood ended I made my third. So we moved on to Sunday School and I moved into the bathroom for a few more visits. The bad thing about having problems during church in Clorinda is that I am in charge of a lot with my greeny by my side. Luckily the teachers of the classes showed up to our very small church meeting, 12 people in total. My speakers for sacrament meeting didn’t show up and only one of them advised me in advance. I decided to prepare a quick musical number and lengthen out my already prepared talk. Right before sacrament meeting I wrapped my arms around my porcelain buddy and left my lunch there. This could not have been a better day. I conducted the meeting, played the piano, did a musical number, gave a talk, and finished with a nice closing prayer. *Large breathy exhale* After our fun time at church the adventure continued in the pench. Now I was the one taking the medicine that we had bought for my comp. I was the one layed out on my bed. I was the one moaning in agony. I was the one making excessive amounts of bathroom visits. I was the one finishing the unfinished gatorade. Now I have no recollection of the past week. Maybe it had something to do with the prescribed medicine. Haha. What a wonderful life we live!
Well now that that legacy is over. We have had a fairly decent week. We met a really nice family yesterday and we taught them about the plan of salvation. We took care of business as usual and found a massive spider web in our front yard yesterday with a size large spider on it. We took a minute or two to watch it snatch up a fly and then suck the blood. The spider wrapped the fly in its webbing. It was almost like watching Discovery channel but this time I was Bear Grylls from “Man Vs. Wild”. My comp is still in the stage of being amazed by everything he sees. It is really fun to be around him.
Our area will be getting a lot bigger when they open up a bunch of new viviendas. The government says that they are about to give the homes to the people. I know quite a few people that are waiting for one and have been waiting for quite some time. Maybe I will be able to see some people in these viviendas. Maybe I will be able to be the first one to clap ‘em up. I might just a have a whole lot of firsts in this new part. Yeah for firsts!
Tomorrow we have our zone conference and will be making the routine trip to the Formosa Capital. Elder Lyndsey will be going home tomorrow and taking the pills with him. I will make sure to send you the info or if I haven’t already - good. We have a baptismal date for the 28th of this month. We will see how it goes. I love you all and hope that all continues to go well.
Hasta Luego,
Elder Hunsaker
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Maria and Antonio Britez Baptism
3- 4-09
Well it's been awhile,
So my companion performed his first baptism three days into the mission. I tried to get him to do the confirmation but he wussed out. Luckily I hadn't added his name to the baptismal record. The baptism turned out really well. We had a lot of people there with mostly just the family of Antonio Britez because they are almost all members. After the baptism, we were invited to the asado that they were going to have. So my Elder Pruess has his first baptism and asado in the same day, how lucky. He stuffed his face and then Elder Stone and I stuffed our faces with cake and steak. We took the pictures to make Elder Robertson jealous. Haha.
The night of transfers we were at the house of the Sister Quintana having an FHE. We were playing a really funny game. The goal of the game is to eat as much of the alfajor (cookie filled with dulce de leche) as possible. However, you have to roll 5 on the die and then put on a bunch of ridiculous clothing articles (Hat, gloves, tie, scarf, etc...). Elder Robertson ate quite a bit of the alfajor with the fork and the knife that you have to use. We had just finished when the zl's called with the transfers info.
While I was in the mission office I took a couple of pictures. I took one in front of the office. Before our dinner with president, the trainers were waiting in the back part of the mission home where they have the province maps. I decided to take some photos of myself and my first area. I thought I'd take some of all the provinces so that you can all understand things better. After I found my comp I took the traditional greenie trainer photo. It looks somewhat similar to the picture I took with Elder Patterson.
I have the branch council tonight because I couldn't have it last week with all of the changes. We will be talking about future elders and planning more meetings. I hope that everyone shows up. Sunday was a nice and calm day. We had a really nice testimony meeting and there were 34 people in church. We are still searching for a chapel in our area. The task is not an easy one. Our area just doesn't have large homes or anything like it. I know that things will get a whole lot better and easier if we can just get a chapel close by the members.
I love you all and hope for the best. Talk to you soon. My comp has a few photos of us cleaning the baptismal font. I tell about that story next week.
That's all folks!
Anciano Hunsaker
Well it's been awhile,
So my companion performed his first baptism three days into the mission. I tried to get him to do the confirmation but he wussed out. Luckily I hadn't added his name to the baptismal record. The baptism turned out really well. We had a lot of people there with mostly just the family of Antonio Britez because they are almost all members. After the baptism, we were invited to the asado that they were going to have. So my Elder Pruess has his first baptism and asado in the same day, how lucky. He stuffed his face and then Elder Stone and I stuffed our faces with cake and steak. We took the pictures to make Elder Robertson jealous. Haha.
The night of transfers we were at the house of the Sister Quintana having an FHE. We were playing a really funny game. The goal of the game is to eat as much of the alfajor (cookie filled with dulce de leche) as possible. However, you have to roll 5 on the die and then put on a bunch of ridiculous clothing articles (Hat, gloves, tie, scarf, etc...). Elder Robertson ate quite a bit of the alfajor with the fork and the knife that you have to use. We had just finished when the zl's called with the transfers info.
While I was in the mission office I took a couple of pictures. I took one in front of the office. Before our dinner with president, the trainers were waiting in the back part of the mission home where they have the province maps. I decided to take some photos of myself and my first area. I thought I'd take some of all the provinces so that you can all understand things better. After I found my comp I took the traditional greenie trainer photo. It looks somewhat similar to the picture I took with Elder Patterson.
I have the branch council tonight because I couldn't have it last week with all of the changes. We will be talking about future elders and planning more meetings. I hope that everyone shows up. Sunday was a nice and calm day. We had a really nice testimony meeting and there were 34 people in church. We are still searching for a chapel in our area. The task is not an easy one. Our area just doesn't have large homes or anything like it. I know that things will get a whole lot better and easier if we can just get a chapel close by the members.
I love you all and hope for the best. Talk to you soon. My comp has a few photos of us cleaning the baptismal font. I tell about that story next week.
That's all folks!
Anciano Hunsaker
Thursday, February 26, 2009
New Companion, Elder Pruess
25 February 2009 SHORT EMAIL
I believe that I will be doing a little bit of emailing tomorrow so this will be quick. Transfers came and now I am training. At this very moment I am in Resistencia, Chaco. I am just waiting for the dinner with Pres. del Castillo and my nuevito(newby). Elder Robertson is here in Resistencia with a latino comp. I don't know what I will do if they give me a gringo. I will have to do everything in the branch. I will write tomorrow when my comp writes. Love you all. Chau.
Hola, 2-26-09
Well, it all started Tuesday night with the transfer information. The zone leaders called and told my comp that he would not be here for our baptism of the Britez family this weekend. He was then devastated. He wasn't too happy about that one. I was told that I was going to be training. I was afraid when they told me that I would be training. I didn't want to deal with that and the branch especially if it was a gringo.
I went with Elder Robertson to Resistencia at 10:45am. We arrived in Resistencia at 3:30pm. He went to his new area and I went to the office to wait for the dinner appointment with Pres. Del Castillo. We had a training meeting at 7pm and then we ate at 8pm. We met our greenies at 9pm and we made our way to the assistants’ pensión at 10:30pm. We finally fell asleep at about 11:30pm or 12am. We then had to wake up at 4:30am and get to the terminal to catch the 5:30 colectivo to Formosa. We finally arrived in Clorinda at about 10:20am. My comp is exhausted from his lengthy trip. He hasn't showered since Monday morning. Oh boy do I remember those days. Right after dropping his bags at the pension, we had our district meeting to attend. He will hopefully receive a shower in about 2 hours!
My companion is Elder Pruess from South Ogden, UT. He doesn't exactly speak castellano. He will need to learn quickly because he will be directing some of the meetings at church. He worked in construction with his dad before he came to the mission. He hasn't entered into any studies yet. He is a really good elder. Hopefully it doesn't take too much time for him to adapt to the language. We'll try teaching tonight. WOO HOO!
My comp was pleasantly surprised to find out that we have a baptism this weekend. Antonio and Sonya Britez are a young couple that was taught once by the elders in the other branch but they live in our area. We started teaching them and finished the teaching process. It was a nice gift for us because they all ready had a baptismal date when we started teaching them. They had assisted the other branch with Antonio´s sister. It is a good thing that we have this family because the Duarte family moved from our branch boundaries last week.
I will be sure to send pictures of my trip next week when I write. I love you all and hope for the best for each of you. Hasta la próxima. Until next time. Chau.
Elder Hunsaker
P.S. We ate chicken cordón bleu for dinner. Mmmm. We had ice cream too. Sister Del Castillo was the cook and she did a great job.
I believe that I will be doing a little bit of emailing tomorrow so this will be quick. Transfers came and now I am training. At this very moment I am in Resistencia, Chaco. I am just waiting for the dinner with Pres. del Castillo and my nuevito(newby). Elder Robertson is here in Resistencia with a latino comp. I don't know what I will do if they give me a gringo. I will have to do everything in the branch. I will write tomorrow when my comp writes. Love you all. Chau.
Hola, 2-26-09
Well, it all started Tuesday night with the transfer information. The zone leaders called and told my comp that he would not be here for our baptism of the Britez family this weekend. He was then devastated. He wasn't too happy about that one. I was told that I was going to be training. I was afraid when they told me that I would be training. I didn't want to deal with that and the branch especially if it was a gringo.
I went with Elder Robertson to Resistencia at 10:45am. We arrived in Resistencia at 3:30pm. He went to his new area and I went to the office to wait for the dinner appointment with Pres. Del Castillo. We had a training meeting at 7pm and then we ate at 8pm. We met our greenies at 9pm and we made our way to the assistants’ pensión at 10:30pm. We finally fell asleep at about 11:30pm or 12am. We then had to wake up at 4:30am and get to the terminal to catch the 5:30 colectivo to Formosa. We finally arrived in Clorinda at about 10:20am. My comp is exhausted from his lengthy trip. He hasn't showered since Monday morning. Oh boy do I remember those days. Right after dropping his bags at the pension, we had our district meeting to attend. He will hopefully receive a shower in about 2 hours!
My companion is Elder Pruess from South Ogden, UT. He doesn't exactly speak castellano. He will need to learn quickly because he will be directing some of the meetings at church. He worked in construction with his dad before he came to the mission. He hasn't entered into any studies yet. He is a really good elder. Hopefully it doesn't take too much time for him to adapt to the language. We'll try teaching tonight. WOO HOO!
My comp was pleasantly surprised to find out that we have a baptism this weekend. Antonio and Sonya Britez are a young couple that was taught once by the elders in the other branch but they live in our area. We started teaching them and finished the teaching process. It was a nice gift for us because they all ready had a baptismal date when we started teaching them. They had assisted the other branch with Antonio´s sister. It is a good thing that we have this family because the Duarte family moved from our branch boundaries last week.
I will be sure to send pictures of my trip next week when I write. I love you all and hope for the best for each of you. Hasta la próxima. Until next time. Chau.
Elder Hunsaker
P.S. We ate chicken cordón bleu for dinner. Mmmm. We had ice cream too. Sister Del Castillo was the cook and she did a great job.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
2-18-09
Hola Buenas Tardes, 2-18-09
It is a wonderful sunny day here in Clorinda, Formosa. The rain has stopped finally and my white shirts don't have a mildewish smell to them anymore. You just can't dry clothing very well with 100% humidity. My pants are now back to their original and different colors and not just mud brown. I have never seen my shoes in such a terribly muddy condition. I took the sunset picture right next to our pensión. The road was covered in water so it looked really pretty.
This past week, my comp and I worked and worked and worked. We found 32 new investigators. Out of the thirty, we are teaching a brother of a member and his family. They already have a baptismal date for the 28th of February because they had been going to church in the other branch. The missionaries there put that date with them even though they live in our area. We are now teaching them and they are awesome. Antonio and Sonya Britez are the coolest. Antonio got in a motorcycle accident a little while back. He got in the wreck because of alcohol. So he promised his wife he wouldn't drink anymore. Talk about being prepared for the gospel. They are a really wonderful couple. It is really good that we have them because one of my two Melchizedek Priesthood holders and his family are moving into the other branch this week. We will miss the Duarte family and their reliability.
Sunday was an interesting day. We have 25 people in church and I was in a district meeting for the first two hours of church. Our ex-Jehovah´s Witness investigator Juan Bautista (John Baptist) came and enjoyed himself. He will definitely be receiving his baptismal date. He knows he isn't doing the right thing living with a woman and not being married to her. They have been together for 13 years. She is Catholic and told us that she is idolatrous. Juan has shown her through the Bible all the things she needs to change. He is really fun to teach because he knows so much. He still calls Jehovah - God but we'll get there soon enough. He just needs to know that Joseph Smith was a Prophet and that the Book of Mormon is true.
Tonight I will be having our branch council. I have now acquired binders with manuals, calendars, and all sorts of stuff for my leaders. We will soon be planning machines!!! I hope that they can keep up. They are going to be learning a lot about planning things in advance. No more last minute garbage. By the time we are finished, they will know what they are going to eat on April 12th 2020, well, maybe not that far ahead. I hope this takes flight.
Today we played some paddle ball. We got all nice and sweaty and then got back into our proselyting clothes. I might as well have played in my proselyting clothes with how wet they were after I put them back on. Check out my crazy nasty farmers tan. SICK!
My comp hasn't abused any animals this week. Wait I think I lied. Elder Robertson did destroy a few hundred spiders or so. However, I don't know if that counts as animal abuse if nobody likes them.
That is all that has happened since last week. I hope that everyone is doing well.
Love you all.
Adios.
Elder Hunsaker
It is a wonderful sunny day here in Clorinda, Formosa. The rain has stopped finally and my white shirts don't have a mildewish smell to them anymore. You just can't dry clothing very well with 100% humidity. My pants are now back to their original and different colors and not just mud brown. I have never seen my shoes in such a terribly muddy condition. I took the sunset picture right next to our pensión. The road was covered in water so it looked really pretty.
This past week, my comp and I worked and worked and worked. We found 32 new investigators. Out of the thirty, we are teaching a brother of a member and his family. They already have a baptismal date for the 28th of February because they had been going to church in the other branch. The missionaries there put that date with them even though they live in our area. We are now teaching them and they are awesome. Antonio and Sonya Britez are the coolest. Antonio got in a motorcycle accident a little while back. He got in the wreck because of alcohol. So he promised his wife he wouldn't drink anymore. Talk about being prepared for the gospel. They are a really wonderful couple. It is really good that we have them because one of my two Melchizedek Priesthood holders and his family are moving into the other branch this week. We will miss the Duarte family and their reliability.
Sunday was an interesting day. We have 25 people in church and I was in a district meeting for the first two hours of church. Our ex-Jehovah´s Witness investigator Juan Bautista (John Baptist) came and enjoyed himself. He will definitely be receiving his baptismal date. He knows he isn't doing the right thing living with a woman and not being married to her. They have been together for 13 years. She is Catholic and told us that she is idolatrous. Juan has shown her through the Bible all the things she needs to change. He is really fun to teach because he knows so much. He still calls Jehovah - God but we'll get there soon enough. He just needs to know that Joseph Smith was a Prophet and that the Book of Mormon is true.
Tonight I will be having our branch council. I have now acquired binders with manuals, calendars, and all sorts of stuff for my leaders. We will soon be planning machines!!! I hope that they can keep up. They are going to be learning a lot about planning things in advance. No more last minute garbage. By the time we are finished, they will know what they are going to eat on April 12th 2020, well, maybe not that far ahead. I hope this takes flight.
Today we played some paddle ball. We got all nice and sweaty and then got back into our proselyting clothes. I might as well have played in my proselyting clothes with how wet they were after I put them back on. Check out my crazy nasty farmers tan. SICK!
My comp hasn't abused any animals this week. Wait I think I lied. Elder Robertson did destroy a few hundred spiders or so. However, I don't know if that counts as animal abuse if nobody likes them.
That is all that has happened since last week. I hope that everyone is doing well.
Love you all.
Adios.
Elder Hunsaker
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Baptism of Gabriela
Hello a todos, 2-11-09
The weather here has been the same for the last couple of weeks. It just rains and keeps raining. Because of the rain our power went off for about 10 hours. It went out at about 10pm and came back on at about 8am. It was extremely hard to get to sleep with the thick hot air. My comp tried sleeping on the ground and then just ended up writing in his journal for most of the night. Some how I was able to sleep most of the night.
Our district has a temple date planned for all of the branches. They will be going to the temple in Asunción which is about 30-50 minutes away from here. I would like to go but I can't. I have a sister who wants to go and receive her endowments. Everyone that wants to go needs to pay 20 pesos. No one has money so we will be making empanadas and selling them to raise money for the temple trip. This is the closest that I have been to a temple in the last year. Maybe one day the missionaries from here will be able to go to the temple in Paraguay.
Last Saturday we had the baptism of Gabriela. It went over really well. She was really nervous about going under the water. The baptismal service went nice and smooth. We did a special musical number for the service and it was awesome. I played an arrangement of “Come Thou Fount” and E´ Robertson, E´ Redford, and E´ Stone sang using the words from the hymn, Joseph Smith's First Prayer.
I do have a funny story for everyone. Two nights ago my comp made chocolate chip pancakes for us to eat. We weren't able to finish them so we tossed the remains outside for the neighborhood dogs. Happy Valentines day to everyone. Valentines day isn't celebrated here like it is in the states. I love you all. Talk to you next week.
Elder Hunsaker
The weather here has been the same for the last couple of weeks. It just rains and keeps raining. Because of the rain our power went off for about 10 hours. It went out at about 10pm and came back on at about 8am. It was extremely hard to get to sleep with the thick hot air. My comp tried sleeping on the ground and then just ended up writing in his journal for most of the night. Some how I was able to sleep most of the night.
Our district has a temple date planned for all of the branches. They will be going to the temple in Asunción which is about 30-50 minutes away from here. I would like to go but I can't. I have a sister who wants to go and receive her endowments. Everyone that wants to go needs to pay 20 pesos. No one has money so we will be making empanadas and selling them to raise money for the temple trip. This is the closest that I have been to a temple in the last year. Maybe one day the missionaries from here will be able to go to the temple in Paraguay.
Last Saturday we had the baptism of Gabriela. It went over really well. She was really nervous about going under the water. The baptismal service went nice and smooth. We did a special musical number for the service and it was awesome. I played an arrangement of “Come Thou Fount” and E´ Robertson, E´ Redford, and E´ Stone sang using the words from the hymn, Joseph Smith's First Prayer.
I do have a funny story for everyone. Two nights ago my comp made chocolate chip pancakes for us to eat. We weren't able to finish them so we tossed the remains outside for the neighborhood dogs. Happy Valentines day to everyone. Valentines day isn't celebrated here like it is in the states. I love you all. Talk to you next week.
Elder Hunsaker
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
2-4-09
Well, hello,
This last week has flown by and I am here in the cyber again. We had zone conference this past Thursday and it was really good. We got to eat the tasty lomitos arabe. It is kinda like a pita filled with steak ,chicken,sauce and tasty stuff. I got two packages from the Musgrove family with some good snacks and some mac and cheese. I got some pictures from them that made me a little trunky.
On Sunday, we were able to spilt up our classes a little bit better. The young women were all together in their classroom. We handed out all of the progress books to the girls. I am really excited to have things a little bit more organized. My Sunday School teacher came and taught her gospel doctrine class. I taught the principles class. We had 37 people in the sacrament meeting and it was a really good testimony meeting. Six of our investigators came to church.Gabriela will be having her interview this Thursday. We will see what happens this Saturday.
This past Saturday I directed a baptismal service for the Primavera branch that is situated in a Toba colony about an hour away from Clorinda. The Elders in Laguna Blanca were the missionaries that taught the kids. I went out there with Elder Contreras to do the interviews. It was really fun to meet these people. They are some of the native tribes around here. They speak Toba and almost don´t understand Spanish. I tried to learn a little bit but they couldn´t understand Spanish nor English. After the baptisms, we had to find a way home. Elder Contreras put all of his tack into flagging down a remis on the highway.
Speaking of languages, I am trying to learn a little bit of Guaraní. Lots of people speak this language because we are so close the Paraguay. Mom, you need to ask Brandon Hall if he ever heard of the ward Porto Elsa or Porto Pablina. I can´t remember the exact name of the ward in Paraguay but I have some members that came from that ward.
Last night I was doing divisions with Elder Salmond (ZL) and we were out in the middle of nowhere when a huge storm came through and left us soaking wet. We ran 7 blocks to get to a member´s house but we didn´t run fast enough. As we were running lots of the people there started laughing at the funny gringos running for dear life. One little girl screamed at us that it was going to rain and that we were basically gonners. We finally reached the member´s house and we were able to teach the boyfriend of the member while we sat there waiting for the rain to stop.
Today we played a game that is like Risk but it is called T.E.G. I won once and my comp won the second time. It was fun but it took a lot of time to play. I don´t know if we will be repeating it next Wednesday. I hope that all is well back home. I love you all and I´ll be on next week like always. Chau
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