Email: Week#7 in Paraguay

Hi,

So this week was the end of my first transfer. I still stayed with my companion in the same area because he is my trainer for the first 12 weeks of the mission. So at minimum, I will stay in Piquete Cue.  So a pretty big surprise for me is that someone I live with, Elder Fernandez, has to head home to operate on his knee because it is really bad now. So he is gone, so Elder Crane, his companion, will also leave. So now it is just Elder Correa and I in the home and now we are taking over there area, now I have a huge area to work in! I am going to take in all his inactives and investigators.

So good news though! We are going to have three baptisms next Saturday (because this saturday is general conference). We are moving the two baptisms from earlier to after conference to make it more convenient for us and them. And so we have an investigator, Dionicio, who for a year did not want to get baptized, now told us he wants to do it soon! So we will be for sure teaching him this week and the one to come to prepare him. Also, we had two new investigators who came out to the church and were interested about it. So the next day, we went over to there home to teach them. They were both really receptive to take in the message and to take on commitments! We have good hopes for them to come.

Hmm... so it also rained a lot on Friday so we weren't able to do too much that day, but it was pouring and the thunder is suuuper loud. I woke up like 3-4 times just because of the noise.

But I saw Jack today and was able to talk to him! So he had to head down to the office to do something, then almost all the missionaries went to Pizza Hut because there is an all-you-can-eat for about $5! So it was super packed with missionaries! It was crazy. But it was neat to see him there! I was surprised to see him because he lives in an area about 7 hours away.

And I told my companion that you guys tried tortilla de papa and he was happy haha, it was funny. So I also can't find my camera cable, so I will look for it later and try to send my pictures out. But that is all, love all you guys!

Elder Crandall