Email: Week#53 in Paraguay

Hi,

Happy 14 months to me today! Like I said, time is just going fast.

So this week was pretty interesting from all the changes and such. For some reason, my comps camera is broken so I can't really send out alot of the pictures we took... but I will get them to you sometime.

So because Elder Vielman was going to his house we partied it up a bit and he burned a little dummy he made of trash and a pair of clothes. That was pretty cool, and we almost also burned the house because the air conditioning almost lit up! Haha... good times.

We also got a new guy in Huguito. He is Elder Burger, who is a German that moved to Paraguay like 6 or 7 years ago. He is pretty cool.

So some crazy stories I got to tell that happened this week. So one was when we were leaving the supermarket at night and suddenly all the lights shut off and it was completely PITCH BLACK! It was crazy because you could see absolutely nothing and people started screaming. Luckily, it was only for a few seconds, so nothing that bad, but it made my heart jump.

Also, we were at the other Elders house in Limpio and they have a house on the second story and we were going to leave so they threw the keys down the stairs to us to unock the very front door, but the keys fell and slipped under the door! So I looked under the door to see that a girl grabbed the keys!! So I had no idea what to do, so I told my comp to run up fast to the balcony to tell them but he didn't get there in time. So we ran over to the owners side of the building and had him open the front door and there we no keys there! So my companion decided to run and look for them. We went forward and asked the people in the corner who gave us some help. We went to the next block and asked someone else there and told us to turn where we found them! Everyone was super surprised that we had found them. It was super awesome to be a detective that day... and people say videogames don't help with anything. It was because I played them that gave me the idea to ask everyone if they had seen that person. Haha, but it really was awesome. It is just like in our lives where we need a guide, because if not we can get lost and not know what to do, but luckily we can have the Holy Ghost with us :).

We also had Stake Conference this weekend which was super awesome! We had a ton of less active members there... which was awesome I just want them to start coming to church regularly too! We basically were working this whole week to invite people to come to church.

Now, we are working with Michele Cañete to have her baptism this weekend, so we are hooooping a ton that it will happen, but it may be pushed off for later... again. Also, we are trynig to put a date on Nery and Cristina who I am pretty sure I told you about them before... but they are cool, just need to go to church is all!

But I guess that is all. Things are going great!

Love, 

Elder Crandall