¿Mba’e chapa?
SO, you have a lot of questions, so I guess I’ll just get to it, in order of appearance.
Well, here, I’m not really sure, but you have about a 50/50 chance of staying with your kid. So I’m really not sure whats going to happen, however there are like 17 Elders leaving this change, all of whom are zone or district leaders, so there is going to be a ton of people going up. And there are 3 of us who have the same amount of time in the mission out in this district, all of whom are qualified in my opinion to go up to district leader, so we know E. Reid is staying because E. Tinco is leaving, and so its possible that E. Hermosilla or I or the both of us could leave to go up someplace else. I don’t know, I guess what I’m trying to say is that we’ll probably see a lot of changes and a huge re-organization of the mission this change, so anythings game.
But it was a great week with getting Eddy baptized, but unfortunately he couldn’t get off work on Sunday, so we still have to confirm him and ordain him to the priesthood, but that’ll just have to wait til this Sunday. It was awesome though, Elder Spencer sang and I played the guitar to a song that’s called ‘His Love.’ I’m not sure who its by. But out here the heat continues, but it is a little bit cooler out here than it is in Asuncion, mostly because there’s less humidity I think. But yeah, we’re enjoying the work out here in Saltos, though this past weekend, my greenie was what we call tore up inside, he had the runs SO BAD. I felt so bad for the kid. We spent all of Saturday in the house, but I managed to pull people together to do a division and run out at night and visit a couple people to get plans set up to get them to church the next day. We’re not sure what it was that caused it, but that poor kid went like almost 30 times in 24 hours. I felt so bad, cause my system can take whatever for the most part, but it just destroyed him. Oh, and I’m happy to inform you that the color of our walls is still the same… I guess they like that color here or something. However, in the move my camera battery charger was lost, so I’m unable to send you photos cause my camera is dead now… I’m looking really hard for a charger, because I’ve seen them around town before, but I’m having some troubles. But I’ve torn apart our new apartment, and my charger is nowhere to be found, so I need to get a new one. But I haven’t made it over to the mall yet, and I’m pretty sure I should be able to find one over there. If not, I might have to beg you to send one down to me. It’s the type G sony charger for a head’s up.
But yeah, Asuncion is pretty big I guess… but its not that big I don’t think, its just that when you like want to cover every square inch of the city with a pair of missionaries and all they can do is walk, the areas have to be kind of smaller. So you never get areas, or hardly ever, that cover the whole city of say, Saratoga. That would be carved up into 2 or 3 areas, just because of the distance involved. And the sister missionaries, of which are many gringos, serve in the main city areas, where its safer and closer to the office. But man, sister missionaries are just amazing, they tear it up from what I hear. But I’ve never been in a zone with sisters, so I’ve never had close contact. But yeah, things go on down here in paradise. Oh yeah, I got all your photos from the bowl game, looked amazing out there! Anyways, hope you have a good week, tell Cole to keep zipping along on those ski runs so he’s all ready for me when I get back.
Love,
Elder Dennis
Monday, January 26, 2009
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Jan 20, 2009
NOTE: Sorry, the internet in town went out last night right before I got this sent off to you guys, so I got it saved, and hopefully you got the pictures alright, I sent those off about a minute before the internet stopped working. Love ya lots, E. Dennis.
Hola,
Well now that you’ve sufficiently made me trunky by describing in detail your adventurous cold weather sports and my little brother, I don’t even know what to say. Oh, and yeah, like 2 weeks ago I got a letter from Shane describing it all to me, so I was so stoked! I’m gonna be getting him some saweet stuff for sure before I take off. He’s one heck of a friend, that’s for sure, I miss that kid. The heat continues, though we’ve been getting a ton of rain this past week. So that’s just making it a humid heat, which is even worse. But this week was pretty sweet, because we had District Conference, or what you would know as Stake Conference. Out where we are though there are only 3 little branches, so its not big enough to be a stake, so it’s a district. Districts of the church are directly under the direction of the mission president, so President Wade and his family all came out for it, so that was pretty fun. They stayed in Saltos because its this nice touristy town with lots of shopping, so we got to show Sister Wade and her two sons that still live at home all the good places to shop and show them where their hotel is and all that fun stuff. Also, in Asuncion, Sister Wade goes and inspects all the houses to make sure they’re up to stuff for her little sons here in the mission. So good news, we moved this morning… hahaha. Bad news, no pics of the new place yet. We had actually found it earlier this week, so timing just worked out perfectly. Its small, but a TON nicer than that other place.
Alright, now I’m just gonna hit into your questions, and that should take quite awhile. First off, you should be getting pictures if this, but on Friday, Sambrina and Ever got married, which was really exciting and they were all dressed up nice, and it was just a ton of fun. We don’t really have any new strong investigators, but we did find this inactive member, who supposedly was the first member baptized here in Saltos, and we’re working to get her reactivated and to baptize her two children, so I guess that counts. We also have a couple other people, but we’ll see how much they progress. They’re good people, but they don’t always get it. We have one kid with some real promise though, his name is Sergio, and he’s like 20ish and seems truly interested. We’re visiting him a lot with Eddy, who knew him a little bit before. Oh yeah, Eddy is a stud! He’s gone and visited people with us just about everyday of last week… and on Thursday he went out with us for the whole day! He’s so excited for his baptism too, this Thursday, and in a year from now he’s already planning to go on a mission.
Elder Spencer is doing pretty good, he’s slowly but surely getting adapted to the new environment. It’s a hard change, that I know, but he’s having a lot of problem with the foods… he was a quite picky eater before the mission like me, and unlike me, the foods of Paraguay don’t rub so well with him. But his Spanish is coming along, and he’s a great kid, always animated and ready to do whatever. Elder Peterson went to a place called Ypacarai (U-pack-a-rye-E), and I talked to him just the other night on the phone, he seems to be doing really good over there. It’s the promised land in the mission… the people just line up to get baptized over there. Elder Reid is still with Elder Tinco, who will be going home in February. He’s our district leader and from Peru. He’s very trunky. And Elder Reid is ready to go up, I say he trains next change as well. So its me and Elder Spencer in Salto del Guaira, Elder Tinco and Elder Reid in the next area over, La Paloma, and Elder Hermosilla, senior comp from Chile who will be going home next Feb with us, and Elder Gibson, who is in his 2nd change, and 2nd area. We belong to the Zone Lejos… which means ‘Far’… it includes our three areas, and then two other cities, Pedro Juan Caballero, where our zone leaders are, and Concepcion. They’re all really far apart, but make up the areas outside of Asuncion… so we’re Zona Lejos. There’s about 20 of us in the zone. There’s like, 10 zones in the mission or something like that, 9 of which are in Asuncion and the surrounding communities. So yeah, that’s the low down… any more questions on how the mission works?
Love yas,
Elder Dennis
Hola,
Well now that you’ve sufficiently made me trunky by describing in detail your adventurous cold weather sports and my little brother, I don’t even know what to say. Oh, and yeah, like 2 weeks ago I got a letter from Shane describing it all to me, so I was so stoked! I’m gonna be getting him some saweet stuff for sure before I take off. He’s one heck of a friend, that’s for sure, I miss that kid. The heat continues, though we’ve been getting a ton of rain this past week. So that’s just making it a humid heat, which is even worse. But this week was pretty sweet, because we had District Conference, or what you would know as Stake Conference. Out where we are though there are only 3 little branches, so its not big enough to be a stake, so it’s a district. Districts of the church are directly under the direction of the mission president, so President Wade and his family all came out for it, so that was pretty fun. They stayed in Saltos because its this nice touristy town with lots of shopping, so we got to show Sister Wade and her two sons that still live at home all the good places to shop and show them where their hotel is and all that fun stuff. Also, in Asuncion, Sister Wade goes and inspects all the houses to make sure they’re up to stuff for her little sons here in the mission. So good news, we moved this morning… hahaha. Bad news, no pics of the new place yet. We had actually found it earlier this week, so timing just worked out perfectly. Its small, but a TON nicer than that other place.
Alright, now I’m just gonna hit into your questions, and that should take quite awhile. First off, you should be getting pictures if this, but on Friday, Sambrina and Ever got married, which was really exciting and they were all dressed up nice, and it was just a ton of fun. We don’t really have any new strong investigators, but we did find this inactive member, who supposedly was the first member baptized here in Saltos, and we’re working to get her reactivated and to baptize her two children, so I guess that counts. We also have a couple other people, but we’ll see how much they progress. They’re good people, but they don’t always get it. We have one kid with some real promise though, his name is Sergio, and he’s like 20ish and seems truly interested. We’re visiting him a lot with Eddy, who knew him a little bit before. Oh yeah, Eddy is a stud! He’s gone and visited people with us just about everyday of last week… and on Thursday he went out with us for the whole day! He’s so excited for his baptism too, this Thursday, and in a year from now he’s already planning to go on a mission.
Elder Spencer is doing pretty good, he’s slowly but surely getting adapted to the new environment. It’s a hard change, that I know, but he’s having a lot of problem with the foods… he was a quite picky eater before the mission like me, and unlike me, the foods of Paraguay don’t rub so well with him. But his Spanish is coming along, and he’s a great kid, always animated and ready to do whatever. Elder Peterson went to a place called Ypacarai (U-pack-a-rye-E), and I talked to him just the other night on the phone, he seems to be doing really good over there. It’s the promised land in the mission… the people just line up to get baptized over there. Elder Reid is still with Elder Tinco, who will be going home in February. He’s our district leader and from Peru. He’s very trunky. And Elder Reid is ready to go up, I say he trains next change as well. So its me and Elder Spencer in Salto del Guaira, Elder Tinco and Elder Reid in the next area over, La Paloma, and Elder Hermosilla, senior comp from Chile who will be going home next Feb with us, and Elder Gibson, who is in his 2nd change, and 2nd area. We belong to the Zone Lejos… which means ‘Far’… it includes our three areas, and then two other cities, Pedro Juan Caballero, where our zone leaders are, and Concepcion. They’re all really far apart, but make up the areas outside of Asuncion… so we’re Zona Lejos. There’s about 20 of us in the zone. There’s like, 10 zones in the mission or something like that, 9 of which are in Asuncion and the surrounding communities. So yeah, that’s the low down… any more questions on how the mission works?
Love yas,
Elder Dennis
Jan 19, 2009
No letter today :(
Looks like he didn't have time to shoot off a letter this week - he did send an email with 4 photo attachments, though - check out his web album for pics of Ever & Sambrina's wedding day and Sambrina's baptism. What a great week!
Looks like he didn't have time to shoot off a letter this week - he did send an email with 4 photo attachments, though - check out his web album for pics of Ever & Sambrina's wedding day and Sambrina's baptism. What a great week!
Monday, January 12, 2009
Jan 12, 2009
Tracie here - this one may need some explanation: I have made contact with Elder Spencer's mom through the missionary moms email group that I belong too - so she and I have been exchanging emails, and I told her about Joshua's blog and Picasa web album - now you'll know what he's talking about ....
Hola,
So another week, another month on my mission. Only one more month, and I’ll be halfway through! That's so exciting. But man, its just a freaking oven down here, and it just keeps getting hotter and hotter! But things are going pretty good down here, so yeah. Anyways, we’re super excited, because this week we’re going to have the baptism and marriage of Ever and Sambrina, and yeah, that's how we met Sambrina, cause she’s the girlfriend of much time of Ever. And Ever was inactive and yeah. So we’re getting all of that fixed and planned right now, and then next week we’re stoked to baptize Eddy, and that should be some saweet fotos because he wants to do it in the river.
But things are going pretty good. I’m not gonna lie though, its kind of creepy to know that families are talking to one another. I found out from my comp at first that all of his sisters were looking at my pictures and reading my blog... so that was weird. But of course I knew it had to have been you to contact first haha. But whatevs, I’ll just wipe the sweat off my forehead and keep moving on. Cause that's like all we do all day long. Did I mention it was hot down here yet? Man, I am like brown, not even kidding. I might still look white compared to the other people, but you are most definitely going to see a negro getting off of the plane in a year and not even realize its me. Oh, I also shaved my head today.. .sorry, no pictures yet. But my hair definitely shows that its thinning so I’m starting to think that it was a bad idea. And I’m praying that those pants fit, because mine are getting either too tight or really beat up. But we got Eddy all dressed up and he went out with us for the day after church... I don’t think he’s ready to be baptized yet... NOT! Dude, this kid is a stud for sure, definitely going on a mission. Its like all he talks about when he’s with us. The funniest thing in the world though was yesterday when we taught him the law of chastity. Anyways, so we explain what it is and he’s all like,
‘What?! You mean I can’t...! That's crazy!.... okay okay, I can do that, its alright. Nothing at all?! Okay okay, whatever, I’m down with that. My girlfriend might want to, but no, nope, I’ll just be like no way girl. .... .... But I don’t want to get married young!!! Sigh okay, okay, I’m good.’
Hahaha, it was the funniest conversation ever, just to listen to him kind of talking to himself. But he’s so cool that when he found out it was like, alright, now that I know, not going to be a problem.
But yeah, that's about it, nothing else really new around here. We’re just working hard the best way we know how. Love ya lots.
Elder Dennis
PS Send some of that cold my way...
Hola,
So another week, another month on my mission. Only one more month, and I’ll be halfway through! That's so exciting. But man, its just a freaking oven down here, and it just keeps getting hotter and hotter! But things are going pretty good down here, so yeah. Anyways, we’re super excited, because this week we’re going to have the baptism and marriage of Ever and Sambrina, and yeah, that's how we met Sambrina, cause she’s the girlfriend of much time of Ever. And Ever was inactive and yeah. So we’re getting all of that fixed and planned right now, and then next week we’re stoked to baptize Eddy, and that should be some saweet fotos because he wants to do it in the river.
But things are going pretty good. I’m not gonna lie though, its kind of creepy to know that families are talking to one another. I found out from my comp at first that all of his sisters were looking at my pictures and reading my blog... so that was weird. But of course I knew it had to have been you to contact first haha. But whatevs, I’ll just wipe the sweat off my forehead and keep moving on. Cause that's like all we do all day long. Did I mention it was hot down here yet? Man, I am like brown, not even kidding. I might still look white compared to the other people, but you are most definitely going to see a negro getting off of the plane in a year and not even realize its me. Oh, I also shaved my head today.. .sorry, no pictures yet. But my hair definitely shows that its thinning so I’m starting to think that it was a bad idea. And I’m praying that those pants fit, because mine are getting either too tight or really beat up. But we got Eddy all dressed up and he went out with us for the day after church... I don’t think he’s ready to be baptized yet... NOT! Dude, this kid is a stud for sure, definitely going on a mission. Its like all he talks about when he’s with us. The funniest thing in the world though was yesterday when we taught him the law of chastity. Anyways, so we explain what it is and he’s all like,
‘What?! You mean I can’t...! That's crazy!.... okay okay, I can do that, its alright. Nothing at all?! Okay okay, whatever, I’m down with that. My girlfriend might want to, but no, nope, I’ll just be like no way girl. .... .... But I don’t want to get married young!!! Sigh okay, okay, I’m good.’
Hahaha, it was the funniest conversation ever, just to listen to him kind of talking to himself. But he’s so cool that when he found out it was like, alright, now that I know, not going to be a problem.
But yeah, that's about it, nothing else really new around here. We’re just working hard the best way we know how. Love ya lots.
Elder Dennis
PS Send some of that cold my way...
Monday, January 5, 2009
Jan 5, 2009
Hey there,
I’m so stoked to hear that the Utes crushed Bama, I totally wish I could’ve been there. I absolutely loved the photo of Dad though going crazy like I know he would’ve been. But that totally made me remember that you might try and squeeze in like an OSU or Ute shirt or hat or tshirt or something to help me represent down here. You can probably find something in my room haha. But as far as the pants go… I’m not really sure, I’m really nervous, because I might need a bigger waist. I’m pretty sure the jeans I brought down here are 30x30, and they fit fine still. But they might be 31x30s, I can’t really run back to the house to look at them right now. But as far as packages go, I didn’t get anything this week from Grma, but we’re going into Asuncion tomorrow night for Zone Conference on Wednesday, so there might be something waiting for me when I get there. We had a sweet New Years though, we got together as the 6 missionaries out here in la Paloma and we grilled up some steaks and sausages and built a fire and played with firecrackers until midnight, at which time we all promptly fell asleep. It was way past our normal bedtime.
Anyways, things are going pretty good out here, Edison finally got off work on Sundays, so he came to church for the first time yesterday, which was awesome. I sent a picture of him walking home from church and then of him helping us clean up our apartment haha. It was awesome, we were walking home though together and he was like, where are you eating today, and we usually just eat in the house, so he was like come on over to my house, and so we went and ate with his dad and brothers (no mom) and had some amazing barbeque! It was sweet. He’s a great guy, and he speaks decent English, so its fun to help him learn more. He’s like this little punk rocker though and talks about all these different bands that I like, and I also gave him a copy of the RM soundtrack cause he loves it and thinks its awesome that its church songs haha. He’s already ‘preparing’ to go on a mission too, so its so awesome. He just turned 19, so he has plenty of time.
Sambrina is also doing really good, next week we’re going to marry her and Ever and get her baptized, but Ever went to Brazil to get some medical treatments, and it was going to happen this week, but it doesn’t look like he’ll be home in time, so we pushed it back just a little bit. As far as my favorite families out here, its definitely those two and then this member family that has been baptized for just about a year, David and Rosa. You’ve seen pictures of their daughter, Angie, she’s so darn cute. But I mean, I love all of the families, but they’re the funnest to visit and hang out with for me, because they’re all younger, like 23. Actually, those four are all 23 now that I think about it. So that’s a cool coincidence haha.
Okay, you have no idea how hard it is to be in this area… its like one of the only places in Paraguay where you can get like any new fancy electronic you can think of, so any store we go into they just have Wiis and Playstation 3s everywhere, and its driving me crazy to not be able to play! Plus you can get old systems for dirt down here, and I might end up bringing some home just to have, because they’re getting harder and harder to find in the states, like super Nintendo and stuff. But yeah, such is life.
Loves yas,
Elder Dennis
I’m so stoked to hear that the Utes crushed Bama, I totally wish I could’ve been there. I absolutely loved the photo of Dad though going crazy like I know he would’ve been. But that totally made me remember that you might try and squeeze in like an OSU or Ute shirt or hat or tshirt or something to help me represent down here. You can probably find something in my room haha. But as far as the pants go… I’m not really sure, I’m really nervous, because I might need a bigger waist. I’m pretty sure the jeans I brought down here are 30x30, and they fit fine still. But they might be 31x30s, I can’t really run back to the house to look at them right now. But as far as packages go, I didn’t get anything this week from Grma, but we’re going into Asuncion tomorrow night for Zone Conference on Wednesday, so there might be something waiting for me when I get there. We had a sweet New Years though, we got together as the 6 missionaries out here in la Paloma and we grilled up some steaks and sausages and built a fire and played with firecrackers until midnight, at which time we all promptly fell asleep. It was way past our normal bedtime.
Anyways, things are going pretty good out here, Edison finally got off work on Sundays, so he came to church for the first time yesterday, which was awesome. I sent a picture of him walking home from church and then of him helping us clean up our apartment haha. It was awesome, we were walking home though together and he was like, where are you eating today, and we usually just eat in the house, so he was like come on over to my house, and so we went and ate with his dad and brothers (no mom) and had some amazing barbeque! It was sweet. He’s a great guy, and he speaks decent English, so its fun to help him learn more. He’s like this little punk rocker though and talks about all these different bands that I like, and I also gave him a copy of the RM soundtrack cause he loves it and thinks its awesome that its church songs haha. He’s already ‘preparing’ to go on a mission too, so its so awesome. He just turned 19, so he has plenty of time.
Sambrina is also doing really good, next week we’re going to marry her and Ever and get her baptized, but Ever went to Brazil to get some medical treatments, and it was going to happen this week, but it doesn’t look like he’ll be home in time, so we pushed it back just a little bit. As far as my favorite families out here, its definitely those two and then this member family that has been baptized for just about a year, David and Rosa. You’ve seen pictures of their daughter, Angie, she’s so darn cute. But I mean, I love all of the families, but they’re the funnest to visit and hang out with for me, because they’re all younger, like 23. Actually, those four are all 23 now that I think about it. So that’s a cool coincidence haha.
Okay, you have no idea how hard it is to be in this area… its like one of the only places in Paraguay where you can get like any new fancy electronic you can think of, so any store we go into they just have Wiis and Playstation 3s everywhere, and its driving me crazy to not be able to play! Plus you can get old systems for dirt down here, and I might end up bringing some home just to have, because they’re getting harder and harder to find in the states, like super Nintendo and stuff. But yeah, such is life.
Loves yas,
Elder Dennis
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