Email: Week#43 in Paraguay

Hi,

Everything is going good. Today we had a game with all the missionaries that we played together at the church. Then, we went out to KFC that was just recently opened!

It is super crazy to think that Christmas is coming up, it doesnt seem like it. Some people put up Christmas lights on their houses, but not that many. Here in Paraguay, they just have a huge dinner super late. They gift presents on January 6, which is the day of the 3 kings..

So this week we lost some time looking for a ciber during the holiday. I didnt know it would be that bad, but everything was closed! For that holiday a lot of people walk to another city for like 12 hours straight! It is crazy.

this week was a super good week. We had the Zone Conference this week and it was pretty cool. I learned some stuff from the President. After, I had splits with the Zone Leaders, and that was fun. One of my Zone Leaders is Elder Day from Gilbert, so closeby. We have been working a lot lately with Christian, Pedro, Victor, and Gregorio. We have been trying to get them all to come to church, we went and passed by Pedro and VIctors house Sunday morning, but they both made excuses to not come. Then, when sacrament meeting was almost over, Pedro came in with his family! It was super awesome because he really seemed like he didnt want to come when we had asked him. 

Christian is an investigator, whose spouse is a less active, Gloria. She is diagnosed with cancer and so she doesnt go to church much now because she feels bad a lot. This Wednesday she is going to find out how serious it is. If it goes bad, she said she is going to give up on life, so if you can please pray for her because she really needs help and is an awesome person. We have been teaching her two kids who are super excited to hear us now.

Pedro is the one who went to church, and he is the boyfriend of a less active too. We get along super well. He wants to learn and loves hearing from us. He needs to get married to get baptized, is all, but his mominlaw (who he lives with) is totally against him and his daughter getting married, so it is kinda complicated, we arent sure what to do.

Victor is some crazy guy we found the first day. We had an awesome lesson with him, but then could never find him again, so we left him. We just found him yesterday and it was awesome. He couldnt come yesterday to church because he had a lot of tooth pain and didnt sleep at all the night before. He is super smart and even knows a lot of English, so during the lessons he always says a bunch of phrases and words in English haha.

Gregorio was a guy we just barely found, but he is cool. He realizes that he needs to go to church and be rebaptized the correct way. I dont know much about him, but he seems like a perfect investigator. He couldnt come because he was in the hospital with his sobrino.

THat is basically it, but life is all good, crazy to almost hit a year! And I will send some pictures depending on if the other missionaries that ook them will send them :P

Elder Crandall :)