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