Feb 16, 2009

Hello again,

So, I have half…I’ll be home on the 19th of February of 2010… Its still a long ways away, but tell Cole its only a couple of days… he asked how many more days til I get home in his email haha. But this week went pretty good, we had two more baptisms and man we blew up the numbers this week. This area is great, it has a ton of potential. Right now we have eleven people with baptismal dates, and we had just as many in church. The zone is doing pretty good too, so we’re excited that its progressing along. Some investigators that could really use some help though are first, Domingo. He just needs all the help he can get to stop smoking… but other than that, he’s an amazing guy. His wife is a member and is helping us out a ton. The other is a young woman, Maria Elena. She needs a lot of support, because she’s going through a kind of bad family situation right now as her parents are splitting up. She’s also awesome though. She should be getting baptized on Wednesday if all goes well. We also have 3 other baptisms, of Zully, Sara and Yesica this week, who are doing great as well. Their mother is also waiting for her baptism, but her husband is working in the Chaco, but he’s supposed to get home this week. Well I guess he’s not technically her husband, because they’re not married, but ya know, its Paraguay, so its okay haha. So we have to teach him or just get them married at least so that she can get baptized too, but she doesn’t want her children to wait. It’s the same case with the two girls we baptized this week.

Anyways, they do celebrate Valentine’s Day here, but Elder Perez and I didn’t even realize what day it was until like, 7.30 at night. But tell Elder Fiala that I wrote him, and I really hope that letter gets there, but if its not there in another like week or two, I’ll get another one sent off. Stupid Paraguayan mail system… But speaking of mail, I forgot to mention last week that I got your little Dear Elder letter the 4th of February. I also got your package this week, and I’m excited to say that all but the grey pants fit… the grey ones were just way too small in every direction. But the other ones fit perfectly. So I don’t know what the deal is, cause they’re the same exact size, but whatever. The UTAH shirt is also way sweet, it fits perfect. And the socks are a blessing from the gods. That’s all I got to say about that.

As for schooling for me when I return, I figure that yah, I probably will try to go to BYU as a visiting student for the summer, because I don’t think I can take another boring summer out in NY. But I might also try applying to other schools to just start in the summer quarter, like U of U or Arizona or where ever. Because even if I get in to BYU for school, I’m not sure I want to go there… I’m pretty sure that after my mission I never want to have to shave again. So…. yah. But I’m pretty sure it won’t be a problem if I need to do school applications here, but I think I’ll be getting home in time to just do those there at home. But if you want me to go to this visiting student program, you gotta send me information about it, cause I don’t even know what it is really. However, last night I found in the fridge in the house a little bottle of Root Beer extract from McCormick… its about half full, and I’m going to put some drops into some gassified water (very easy to find here) and try it out. I’m thinking if it works, it just might as well be manna from the gods.

Anyways, Love you all,

Elder Dennis