Email: Week#46 in Paraguay

Hi!

Things are going super well. I am excited to see what will happen for transfers next week. I already have 2 months in the area and it is gone by super fast! But Happy New Years to everyone! It is super awesome to finally hit the year mark in the mission! I am now counting down the days left in my mission! So they celebrate new years the same way they do Christmas. They really just have a big dinner with a ton of meat. We didn't celebrate it with any family this time, though, just in casa.

I am going to get my package on Thursday because my Zone Leader picked it up from the office and I am going to do a division with him then. And my skin is always way better when it gets really humid because of all the sweat so my arms and legs are always super soaked haha.

So something funny that happened this week was that one night we woke up in the morning with a dog outside our house. And it is impossible for a dog to get inside so we were super confused. IN the morning, my companion let the dog out and then later we found out it was from our owners that live in front of us. So he feels super bad because he lost the owners dog haha.

But last night was a super awesome night! We put a baptismal date on Pedro for the 24th of this month! Hereally is super awesome. I really hope that I stay this month to be able to be there for his baptism. We really have gotten to be such good friends with him, he really hopes that neither of us leave the area.

Also, we found this suuuper awesome guy named Nikador. He was sitting down so we contacted him and he told us some key things. He said his goal for this new year was to start going to a church, but he hates the catholic church and is looking for another one. He really was like a golden investigator for us! He was a really awesome person to find. He actually was reading the stuff we left for him to read!

So something crazy about the mission now, is that we don't use numbers anymore. It is a really big change. We basically don't tell anyone like how many lessons we had in the week or anything. Now we just say like how we visited and what we did that week.

Anyway, that is all!

Rohayhu! Elder Crandall