Email: Week#11 in Paraguay

Hi,

Things are pretty awesome as normally. We were able to visit a lot of people last week. There is a fireside where a 70 will come and speak, so we are visiting all the families trying to get them to come out to it this Thursday. Also, this week is the last full week before changes. The changes are on the 7th of May. It is pretty assured that my companion will leave, but we never know for sure. He has 4.5 months in Piquete Cue and another 4.5 months in the area right next to it. He also has 7.5 months in another area super close. He served his whole mission in the same stake! So he is pretty tired of this area and wants a change, so he has asked the President about it a few times.

We don't have ipads or anything like that or facebook in Paraguay. Neither do we use the websites, because like no one has computers or anything like that anyway. With Guarani, I am just learning a little bit, it is hard because it is nothing like Spanish, but I am focusing on just the Spanish now. But I learn Guarani everyonce in a while.

So something awesome that happened this week was that we went to the temple on Tuesday! We went out as a zone and then we also had a testimony meeting as a zone. It was super awesome because both President and Hermana McMullin after told me that they thought my SPanish was really good. But the temple was super awesome, and I really enjoyed it as always. Then, we went off inviting everyone out to the fireside this week. To enter the fireside, every member has to bring with them an inactive for investigator. So we had to work to make sure everyone would go and invite someone. Something cool that happened this week was that we got a new reference to teach a family. They are super inactive, but they have a child who needs to be baptized, so the ward gave us that reference, so we are going to visit them this Wednesday to see and meet them. Ah, so also this Sunday Dionicio (the guy who we baptized a while ago) recieved the priesthood! It was really cool, we had taught him about it a few days before, so it was super awesome. Also, I was talking with someone in the ward and when I told him that I only have 2 months in Paraguay, he was super surprised! He thought I had a lot more time haha, so a lot of people thought that because I can speak and understand a lot better than most gringos. I still have my troubles because the Paraguayans speech is harder to understand than most. Yesterday, we saw a movie with a family for a family home evening night with them. We watched the best two years. It is a missionary movie and it is super funny. I really liked it.

I just  say time has gone pretty fast! I am now finishing 4 months now that May is about to start. It is crazy to me that I already have two changes out here in Paraguay! Well that is all, chao for now!

Love,

Elder Crandall