Email: Week#86 in Paraguay

Hi,

So on Monday, we had a cool family home evening with a family. We first had them draw with their eyes closed, which they obviously couldn't do well and related it to that we need to see and need a light to do things, which is the same spiritually with Christ. It went super well, it was really neat.

Tuesday, we had the Conference. It actually went pretty good, we were able to teach well! After, we went out to do visits with the branch. I left off with the Branch President and we were able to do a few visits. We also saw Ignacio and Maria with them. It was a pretty good day.

Thursday, we did the service just like last Friday. It was fun, it just has been SO HOT lately. I don't know if I have ever sweat as much as I have these last few days. It is so crazy.

Well, Saturday we visited Ignacio and Maria with the Coronel family and they got along super well. Maria wants to start coming because she befriended Sister Coronel, which is cool... the only thing is that they didn't come because Ignacio had a committment already, but the Hermana Coronel is like already good friends and they are going to come visit each other in the week to drink terere (common bonding thing in Paraguay). So lets see how that goes in the future. It may be a bit hard because they need to get married too, which they don't want yet...

Elder Crandall

Email: Week#85 in Paraguay

Hi, 

This week was pretty fun. I have gotten to be super exhausted. I have realized how much work being a zone leader is... just getting a lot of phone calls and stuff. So this Tuesday, we have a zone conference and I get to speak! SO that will be lots of fun.

So on Wednesday I went on a division with Elder Orihuela and then on Thursday I went out to Horqueta. Horqueta is a small town about 45 minutes away. I took a bus at 11 at night and finally got to bed at 12.30! I was so tired the next day. But the cool thing was that I got to hang out with my old companion, Elder Mendoza! It was a super fun division and we had lots of success.

The next day I got home super dead. Well... I didn't get much rest because in the morning we had a service for the Branch President. It was cool, but SUPER exhausting. We were all dead. He wanted us to fill his yard with new dirt, so we had to wheelbarrel it all pretty far and spread it out. It was hard because we had to bring the dirt for a bit of a distance. We worked all morning for like 4 hours and then we were dead. But luckily his yard is huge so we can come back this next week to continue... so I just crashed when we got home :)

We had a super awesome lesson too this week. It was actually yesterday. We visited Ignacio and Maria. It turned out that they really liked our visit and asked a TON of questions about how we are and the church and wanted to meet some of our members. So now, I am going to visit them on Tuesday with the Branch President. I am excited for them. They told us that they would come next Sunday so hopefully!

Love,

Elder Crandall

Email: Week#84 in Paraguay

Hi,

Things are going good, it still is raining a lot.

Today was a super crazy week. Monday, I went off to the concilio de zona and it was a fun ride like I told you.

Tuesday we had the district meeting as usual. I was super tired still. It was neat because we met with a less active, who has a son named carlos that wants to start acoming back to church and all and one day serve a mission, he couldn't go this Sunday for the rain. that is one thing I miss, that over there, no one has problems like this in the rain. Everyone gets soaked, sick,and super muddy, so they don't go.

Wednesday I had a division with Elder Henriquez, from chile. it was neat because we found a lot of cool people and contacted a ton. we met this one guy who lived in italy for 14 years. 

Thursday was an interesting day. I now have a new companion, but that I am in a trio now. His name is Elder Gomez. He is from brasil, but speaks perfect english because of playing video games and watching movies haha. he is super cool. I just need to get used to teaching like this in 3, it is a lot different. but today we found this super cool guy that wants to know if the book of mormon is true and promised us to come to church, he has really good desires to know the truth, he totally will progress later on.

On Friday, we met this super old lady who is like 85. She is living on her own since her husband died 10 years ago, but she doesn't have any kids. All we could think about in the contact is that how one day she can get sealed to her husband. We got super motivated to help her since then. She seems super nice.

Saturday was meant to be a super good day, but it rained... :( so when that happens no one accepts us, and that is what happened. We walked around a lot this day. But all that matters is that I know I made God happy by trying. Atleast in the night we saw an invesigator who came to church.

Sunday was neat because even though it rained our attendance didnt drop that much. We had roques younger brother come! So that was cool. He is only 8 years old, though. So it will take a bit to teach him all. We hope that maybe next month he can get baptized.

Love,

 Elder Crandall

Email: Week#83 in Paraguay

Hi,

I am writing super early today because I had to travel to Asuncion for
a leadership meeting in the city, so I traveled 6 hours to get here.
Now, I am going to write while I wait. I just put as the Zone Leader recently.

General Conference was super awesome, I really enjoyed it. I liked the
first talk that Dieter F. Uchtdorf gave, but that was pretty cool.

So this week was cool because I met an investigator, he brought out
his book of mormon from four years ago, and it was signed by David
Halliday! I thought that that was kinda cool. We found Pablo in the
street and he accepted a baptismal date for the 31st. We will see if
he starts coming to church, he said he did 4 years ago. it was just a
cool guy we contacted.

It honestly has been raining so much, we have been getting just super
soaked, it has been terrible. water keeps getting into our house and
it stinks because it is hard to clean. but we have been leaving to
work anyway, and the streets are just flooded and we get ankle deep a
lot!

this week just has been neat because we have been finding a lot of
neat people, we just need to get them to go to church!

Well, I can let you know more next time, but until then!

Love, 
Elder Crandall