So first off they celebrate Easter a bit differently. As I said last week, they celebrate it during the week, but put the most emphasis on Friday, Good Friday is what it is called there. They don't do anything for Sunday. So this week, we just eat Chipa, chipa, and more chipa during the week... so I had a lot haha. We always have lunch appointments, and sometimes we don't eat dinner till around 9 at night. That is how it always is in South American countries.
People never say I am tall because I think they are used to Americans being super tall, but yeah, I am taller than just about everybody haha. Americans are just a lot taller than the people in South America. In the CCM, we took a picture with everyone and we lined up shortest to tallest. It was all Americans in the front haha. So when we have baptisms, they day of, we usually just say, ok you can do this or this. We usually just switch off, though. I heard that there are some missionaries who will fight over who gets to baptize who...
Hmm... so for an update. We left Elder Fernandez at the mission office last Monday. But, we found out the next day that his surgery was pushed off a week because they brought in some bad parts for the surgery. So now he is super bored waiting in the office for a week until his surgery tomorrow. But now that he was gone, we were able to work a lot more last week.
We haven't been able to visit Mari Paredes yet, she has been gone the last couple times we went to her house. And we also visited Miño family for Jessica again, and we are having a bit difficulty getting her totally ready, but we are trying to get it done. Also, we have the 2 new investigators that came over to church randomly one day, and we have taught them once, but we still need to get working. Ah, something pretty funny, we went over to a lunch appointment on Saturday, and this family knows that I want to go into the computer field later, so they asked me to help them with their computer problem, so I spent sometime with it (it is super easy, but with people that know nothing about computers here haha). So now another member also asked me on Sunday to help them too haha.
So we had a really fun activity on Friday to celebrate the week. So this day, there are no buses and almost all the stores are closed. So we originally planned to go the river in the morning to watch the sunrise and then hang out in the church all day, BUT it rained... A LOT. The rain was so bad and the thunder was the loudest I have ever heard it. Correa told me that it was the worst storm he has ever seen in his time at Paraguay. So we had to wait until around 11am to wait for the rain to stop. But we all joined together at the church and we hung out together as a ward, since no one had work or school or anything. It was pretty fun, we had one member, who is a chef, make a super nice meal. We also cleaned the church too, but it was super fun to hang out with them all this day. So most of the other missionaries just stayed at home and did nothing for this day, because it is kinda hard to work on a day like this (like easter).
Yeah, then Sunday was also pretty good. We had a HUGE attendance today because it was Ward Conference. We had 111 people, which is way higher than usual average of 70. We visited a lot of people yesterday. We first had lunch where after we got some more references to teach of less actives, then we visited the Del Puerto family to get some visits set up with their family members to teach because they seem super awesome. We also are going to have a karaoke soon, so we were also telling everyone about that, so that should be super fun haha. Then, we visited the Cano family and talked with them for a bit and then went to the Gonsalez family and shared some Chipa with them and talked to them a bit. After, we went on home and rested. It was a super awesome week, but I can´t wait for this one to come. So there is a big chance that my companion leaves in the next change in two weeks, because he has 9 months in the same spot and another 4 months which is all in the same stake. So most likely my comp and I have 2 weeks left to do some good here. Well, that seems to be all, we have good things planned to get working this week!
Love, Elder Crandall
Love, Elder Crandall
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