May 4, 2009

What up?

So yeah, Elder Perez is now in his house in Colombia, which is absolutely crazy, because when I showed up in Viñas Cue he still had 2 changes to go. And now he’s gone. So I guess even though it feels like the mission is my life and that it will never end, it indeed comes to an end. Which is a really weird feeling actually. But anyways, because I sent Perez home, I’m still here in Zeballos Cue, and my new comp is Elder Ramirez, from Nicaragua. There were 6 ZLs that went home, so a lot of new ZLs went up, but my comp was a zone leader before as well, and he’s prepping to go home this July. He only has this and the next changes left. But I’m praying that I’m out of here at the end of this change, because while my area is really tiny, it has a lot of success, but if I stay here next change, I’ll be killing Elder Ramirez as well, which means I’ll be here until September... and that’s a really long fetching time. But E’ Ramirez is a stud, we’re working hard and keeping up the success that E’ Perez and I were having.

I’m glad you got my mother’s day card, but goodness gracious, don’t you have enough respect for your son that you actually follow the directions he writes on it to not open it til Mother’s Day? I mean, it was only one week you had to wait. But yeah, so I guess I have to talk to you losers this Sunday, so I guess you can call xxxxxxxxx at 7 o’clock at night if you want to. I may or may not be there hahaha. I might be working too hard to put aside some time for you guys.

But it’s crazy to think that Elder Fiala is actually gearing up to go home. Taylor Cluff is probably on the downward 2 months as well. I’m just flying through the mission as well though, cause like, this is already my 10th change, out of 16. Which means that I only have 6 changes left after this. That’s like nothing, I’m should be getting ready to leave already or something haha. But everyone is doing good out here, we have 4 whole families with a baptismal date for not this week but the 2 weeks following, and they’re all pretty solid. There’s a lot of stuff to overcome, but I know that it’ll all get worked out just fine. But yeah, the help of the members is incredible here in this area, the new converts expecially, they all just keep inviting more and more friends, and then those people invite more friends, and it’s just this huge ripple effect like you said. But yeah, the wards and branches are just being re organized all the time, and I think that’s the main problem they have down here. It’s kind of hard to call home teachers when every week your have to revise it because more and more people are getting baptized, and just things like that. But at the moment, there’s no senior couples in the mission, but the senior couple that was here will be coming back: The Frutos family. He’s Paraguayan, and Pte Wade really needs his help with controlling all of the districts (like stakes but not big enough, all of which are controlled by the mission presidents of the area... there’s like 10 in Paraguay Norte) and translating Guaraní. So supposedly they’ll be back in like June, but they went back to the states to visit family and take a short break.

But yeah, things are going pretty good, you know, the same old places, just different faces. Love ya lots,

Elder Dennis