Email: Week#9 in Paraguay

Hello,

This was a pretty good week. We have not been able to go out and do as much as we good like because we have to do things for Elder Fernandez before his surgery, we found out last Tuesday that we would have to wait another week, so he is having his surgery tomorrow.

So about the baptism, we weren't able to visit Yessica or Mari Paredes, so we just had the baptism for Dionicio on Saturday, but it was pretty awesome. What was crazy was that yesterday, I was able to confirm him a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. So it was not only my first time doing it, but in Spanish too! So that was super fun haha.  But it was a really good thing to learn how to do. So now we are for sure going to visit Jessica and Hermana Mari this week to get the baptisms ready, because we definitely don't want to be wasting any more time.

Also, I was able to go on divisions again this week on Friday, so the Zone leader, Elder Vidal, went with Correa to do the baptismal interviews. So I went with his companion, Elder Ballard. We went out to visit a few families. So it is crazy here in Paraguay because like every person that sees me talks about how celestial my eyes are and that they must be fake. But like everyone compliments me on them haha. That happened a lot that day. With Elder Ballard, we shared with a few families the first lesson and a thought.

So I learned that for 'easter' here, they celebrate the whole week of Christ's life. I think it is called Pascual Week. So they make Chipa with their families to celebrate it, which really makes no sense because they make CHipa everyday haha. But we eat pretty good from the members. We have a lot of lunch appointments that we scheduled when we got in Piquete Cue with the Relief Society president. We eat almost everyday except for lunch with a member except mondays and tuesdays. On Mondays, it is Pday and we usually go out to eat. I am going to go to Pizza Hut again. And on Tuesdays we have our zone/district meeting, so we are out somewhere else and then we usually eat with all the missionaries together.

Yeah, we get to skype out on Mother's Day. It will be at least for an hour, probably longer if my companion is ok with it too.

The Argentina temple is super awesome. I really love it, but they have a small place you can walk up by stairs, no more, but that is where the spire with the angel moroni. Yeah, so not that much to report on this week, but we have big plans this week to get working! Ah, so this thursday I will have exactly 20 months left haha!

Love, 

Elder Crandall