Email: Week#31 in Paraguay

Hi!

It was a super good birthday. We started off in the morning when Elder Harris made us some chocolate pancakes! They were like super good, especially because it has been so long since I have eaten it. It is crazy that i am 20 now, I know... haha. I only got the 2 letters that you guys sent, but I haven't been able to go to the mail place in some time now, but it was super awesome to read those letters.

I went on a bus to my old area, really. But, it was like super cool to be able to do that. They knew I was coming because I called them before to make sure that they would be there. 

So this week was a pretty cool week. We had a pretty nice meeting on Sunday, and then after we went off to visit a few people. One of the lessons was to drop cane on one of our recent converts because we found out he was living with his wife, so we taught him the law of chastity that he can't do that no more! We are working with him to get a goal to divorce his other wife and save money to get married again. After, we went out to visit Leonardo, a young guy who we found. He is super cool, and we were able to have a really awesome lesson with him about praying to know if the lesson we teach is true. He is really an awesome guy and we think he really could progress.

On Monday, we had a zone activity. We work in the office, but we still got to hang out at lunch. It was super fun to get to know the zone and hang out with them for a bit. One of the hermanas found out that my birthday was coming up, so she made the whole zone sing happy birthday to me... haha. It was neat.

Then, later in the week I did a division with Elder Valenzuela. We went over to visit the family Bueno to have a noche de hogar with them, but it turned out they were kinda busy so we just taught a little lesson on prayer. After, we went to visit the Meza family and taught an investigator at their house. She is the girlfriend of their son, so  we think she can progress pretty well in the gospel, but the elders there are afraid that she will only baptize for her boyfriend, no mas.

Thursday, we had a super cool day. We first visited Marcelo, and then after teaching him, he went to teach some lessons with us!! It was super crazy, because that usually never happens. We were able to visit the Vasquez family and also we talked with Erik, who is a futuro misionero, si o si. It was a super aewsome day, and Marcelo is definitely going to get baptized when he turns 18 and give himself permission to get baptized in January... I hope to be there for that!

And so... my birthday was pretty awesome. It was a fun day to wake up and have everyone say it. But we started off, as I said earlier with an awesome breakfast. Then, we got to the office and Hna Fuller, the nurse got us a big lunch. We ate some beans and rice, but basically a mexican meal. It was awesome, but we also had some cake! It was a super awesome day. Some people called me and sung happy birthday to me haha. 

Love, Elder Crandall.