June 24, 2008

Hola mi familia y mis amigos,

Toda está bien aquí en Paraguay, y esta semana pasada fue bien no mas. Primero, nosotros tuvimos un bautismo, de Valeria Centurión, la hija del líder de la obra misional aquí en Salado. Tuvimos una torta y todo para ella. Fuimos a bautizar su hermana tambien, pero ella estaba enferma, entonces, vamos a bautizarle esta semana. Tambien, tenemos una niña de 9 años que vamos a bautizar también este jueves. Los dos se llaman Norma.

Ok, I´ll stop using Spanish, and let you try and figure out what I said there. But man, with the baptism last week, we showed up about an hour and a half early for the baptism, and the font was filled but was completely dirty. So we had to empty it out, and the make it go faster, we were also emptying it by hand with buckets, so we were getting all soaked and sweaty, and then we finally got it drained, and they were both there and ready to go, but the stupid water was taking soooooooo slooooowwww. So we ended up just having to put it off for the next morning, and then the one sister, Norma, got sick, so we only got to baptize Valeria, but this week we’re going to baptize her, along with a little girl who’s family is all members. So we’re excited to have those. This week we also held a Talent show night and stressed the use of our talents to share the gospel, but hardly anyone showed up and only we did stuff. I played the guitar while we sang “Praise to the Man,” a verse in Spanish, Guaraní and English. That was pretty fun. Afterwards we just played a game with everyone.

Its still pretty cold here, but its warming up a bit. I think we cold just be getting used to it as well, but yeah, you don’t need to worry about sending anything more, I’m staying warm just fine. But I also got all my cards and letters today, but no package, but no worries, the zone leaders (two of my best friends) are saying they’re going to throw some sort of party or something with cake and whatnot, so don’t worry. It should be a pretty good day, because we have to baptisms lined up for the night before. But coming from the cards, what’s the turtles name? Is it still up in the air? AND! Totally not fair, the itouch is the exact same thing as an iphone, minus the phone! Not that it matters to me for the next two years, but still, way jealous down here. Oh oh oh! And does dad have a motorcycle yet?! And if not, what’s the hold up?! Haha I’m a fan of the Honda bikes myself.

Other than that, todo tranquilo. No tengo muchas problemas aquí, menos el compañero. Él es loco no mas, pero no le maté todavía. Tengo animado porque esta semana proxima, vamos a recibir nuestras camisetas de fútbol de la zona, y estas van a ser calidad. Yo compré una pelota la semana pasada, y estoy practicando. Fútbol es muy divertido, me lo encanta, pero necesito camisetas (jerseys). Están borato, solamente necesito comprarlo no mas. Pero, no tengo mucho mas…

Les amo muchísimo,

Elder Dennis (Day - niece)

P.s. Sorry I didn’t write yesterday, our P-Day got switched up because of a leaders meeting that took place yesterday.