Email: Week#45 in Paraguay

It was a really good Christmas. We had dinner with the family Vera. Pretty much everyone here celebrates Christmas by eating a toooon of meat. We ate a ton, pretty much everyone says the same thing. They eat super late too, like at midnight or 11.

I also called about my package, and it arrived there, I bet it got there awhile ago, they just werent able to go to the post office for a bit. So I am excited!!

On Christmas day, we went over to the stake center and gathered together as a zone, like I told you already. We sung hymns to everyone in the hospital and then had a super nice dinner and SKYPED!!! That was super awesome, it just went by waaaaay too fast...

So this Monday we had a SUPER awesome baptism. It was a couple that were just so awesome that got baptized. My companion and I each baptized one, so that was really awesome!

So we found this really cool guy on Tuesday named Ovidio. He has a Book of Mormon from 2003, but he is really interested and is a really cool guy.Then, we also got to visit Inocencia. She is a super old woman who lost her eye (so one is blue and other is brown) and we foudn that she got baptized a while ago, but doesnt remember a single thing!

On Wednesday, we visited Everisto Rios, he is like the nicest guy I have ever met. We always feel super happy. Everytime we visit him he starts crying and says he is so happy that we took the time with him to share the word of God. He got in an accident and so he cant walk very much... so opa su asistencia to church. Then, we went to share with Mari Fernandez. She is a less active that we have been working with a lot, but just cant get her to come to church! BUt we met her daughter and she has interest in getting baptized! Today we are going to visit her again and have a Family Home Evening and make pancakes!!!!!

Thursday is Christmas... which I told already :)

Friday, we did weekly planning and it was a hard day, we had to scrape around to get some lessons that day. Later, we did some mission coordination with our leader.

Saturday was super awesome, six lessons! We first started to contact and we found a less active (that like no one knew about...)! She is 17 and doesnt go only because she doesnt have any friends. Then, we got another few contacts and found Ruben and Marcos. They were super tranquil guys who were super receptive to the lesson and willing to be baptized if they knw this church was true. But the best lesson we had was the last one. We taught Pedro, out golden investigator (who went to church again!!!!) and taught him the importance of getting married. Now he is going to pray about whether and when to get married to get baptized! He is super awesome and wants to get baptized.

Well... hope you enjoyed my week! Talk to all later! Rohayyyyhu!

Elder Crandall