Mar 4, 2008

Hello again,

Well I'm definitely not missing the cold, its not bad out here at all. The only times I use my coat are on Tuesdays and Sundays when we walk up to the temple, and sometimes not even then. Its a little brisk in the morning, but you only spend a minute or two outside when walking between buildings, and its not bad at all... although running to the gym in shorts and a tshirt definitely wakes you up.

Thanks for the package you sent, I was wondering what happened to that pair of bottoms, I was one short, on it felt like I was supposed to have another mesh top as well. Thanks for the candy... though only the Air Heads survived. I think when you bent the Nerds Rope in half to fit them in the package it popped a whole in the wrappings, cause that were definitely stale when I got them yesterday. And thanks for the memory card and battery, though for some reason the pictures are all like super tiny, its bigger to look at them in the thumbnail view menu than to look at them individually. But the videos of Cole doing his little dance are fine, and those are awesome. And yeah, I could've told you all that I would have hated a cruise, all people do is get drunk. I've known that for years.

Things are going well here, and the time is flying by. But the days are so incredibly long... each night I go to write in my journal and I have to get out my planner to remember what we did that day, and even then its hard to remember what happened in the morning. In class we're speaking in spanish all the time. If we absolutely have to speak in english, we're forced to go stand in the "Rincon de veguenza" or corner of shame. Its not really a shameful kind of thing, its just taking advantage of how lazy we are, so we try harder to get our point across in spanish before resorting to having to get out of our chairs.

I've taken a lot of pictures and a couple videos, but unfortunately I can't sent them to you all yet, hopefully I'll be able to do that once I'm in the field. And yeah, I'm assuming all of us Paraguayan missionaries will be heading down together, and possibly even part of the way with our district, the rest of which is going to Argentina. We don't get our flightplans and that stuff for another 4 weeks though, so I'm not sure the exact details of when we'll be leaving. Typically missionaries leave on Tuesdays super early in the morning... like have to get up at 4 am to get to the airport early... so it'll be a repeat of my trip out here. However, this flight they're saying will most likely be about 20 hours of flying time, so just a little bit longer to get there.

And for you who think I'll be getting fat down there... I'll probably come back a twig. Apparently another thing just about everyone gets besides PK is parasites. So I'll have a tapeworm keeping me skinny most likely. For that reason all of us going to Paraguay are trying to put on as much weight as possible while we're here in the MTC. I got up to 143, but after Fast Sunday I was back down to 140.

As for the choir, its really fun. Its way hardcore, but I'm enjoying it. And yes, that possibility is the entire reason my companion and I and some other elders from my district are doing it. If we get that oppurtunity it would be simply amazing. I'm not sure when we'd find out we're doing that though, so hopefully I'll have more info on that before conference. If you don't here anything, just record in just in case, because there's a good chance we will, because they usually have the Missionary Choir during the priesthood session as far as I can remember. You might wanna check out the BYU channel on the dish as well, because apparently they broadcast some of the devotionals from the MTC, and you might catch me singing on TV here. They devotionals are at 7pm Mountain time on Sundays and Tuesdays, but the choir only sings on Tuesday. I'm not sure if they're actually aired or not, but thats the word on the street.

Well I'm running out of time, and I can't think of much else to say. I was going to ask for something I think, but I can't remember what that was.Thanks for Elder Fiala's address. I hope things go well,

Elder Josué Dennis