Email: Week#41 in Paraguay

Hi!

We didn't really celebrate Thanksgiving at all haha, but it is all good.  I have a year and 2 weeks left and opa la mision.  They also haven't said anything about skyping yet, but they usually do like 1 or 2 weeks before we can do it. I need to decide what day would be better, I think it would be cool to do it on Christmas day.

The area I am in now is called Anahi (Ann - i - e). It is in a really big town called Capiata. It is starting to get super hot here now! The summer is beginning. The weather here is super crazy now. The storms in Paraguay are not normal. Like it will be the biggest rain storm you have ever seen in your life and then 1 hour later there are no clouds in the sky. That is how it is all the time, it is really weird. My area is really small too! I can walk from one end to the other in 15 minutes! Most areas take at least an hour.

We had a really successful week. We found some really awesome people in the area to start teaching. We started contacting a lot because we didn't have anyone, but got some luck... or really the spirit really helped us to find people. We have some neat contacts and were able to get a lot of lessons this week. The best thing that happened was that we put a fecha on Derlis for January 10th.! He is a super smart and awesome kid. He knows a ton already and we like barely even have to teach him. He is busy with commitments some Sundays but this Sunday we will try to lock him down early!

Paraguayans are really funny sometimes because once they see you they usher you to come in and sit down but they have never shared with missionaries or ever heard of our church before. So one time we were walking down the street and this woman said hello really friendly and said come in, come in! So it is kinda cool but funny that a lot of people do that. We have had that happen a few times.

Yesterday was really neat because the sisters had a baptism and it turned out super well. I really enjoyed it. And we also have changes coming up and I am preeetty sure that we will be staying together, but who knows...

I guess that is it. I totally cannot remember what happened this week and neither my companion haha. But today was a pretty fun Pday. We went to this random museum that we found and then went to McDonalds and later found this crazy huge Catholic church.

But yeah and here are some pics..

 

Love,

Elder Crandall :)