Email: Week#82 in Paraguay

Hi,

Things are super good. Well so for changes, I stayed here and I got a NEW companion. His name is Elder Calderon. He is Peruvian but he is from Oregon. He moved there 8 years ago. Well, the other cool change is that I am now the Zone Leader. So basically, I am in charge of all of the missionaries in Concepcion.

I heard about a huge rain storm coming into Phoenix and Mesa. That must have been crazy. But the crazy thing is that that storm is how it usually rains in Paraguay... it is always that crazy. It enters into a lot of peoples houses.

So this week has been crazy. I have been working a ton now that I am the zone leader. I have been recieving a lot of phone calls recently to do stuff. It is cool, though. So today we had our zone activity. It was a lot of fun. We planned to play ultimate frisbee and it actually worked out pretty good.

So last Tuesday, Elder Turley said goodbye to all the members. They were all surprised because he didn't stay for very long.

On Wednesday I did some divisions while we waited for our companions to arrive from the capital (as it is a 6 hour bus ride!). We had a super neat lesson with a less active. He told us that he was going to leave his job, and now he wants to go back to church and eventually a mission! I was so happy, but he honestly is super cool. He is an 18 year old. So we will work with him.

So last Saturday was super fun. We spent a while cleaning the house with the mission presidents wife. She wanted to show me how to clean the houses well enough so I could do it and show my zone how to do it. So that sounds like a lotta fun! Haha not. 

On Sunday we had our District Conference (like Stake Conference) and it was neat to see everyone there. It was actually a super good conference about the sabbath day. I really liked it. The best part was that we gotta walk one hour to get there!

Well, we met this cool guy that wants to get baptized and go to our church, but it turns out that he is going out to travel for work and be gone for 2-3 months... but hopefully he gets back before I finish my mission. Anyway, after that lesson, we went to visit the branch president and he gave us dinner! It is cool because that is pretty rare here, but we just got lucky!

Well, enjoy these fotos

Elder Crandall

So this is my house and my new companion