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