Nov 9, 2009

Hey there,

I always have such a hard time trying to figure out what salutation to use… I think its the hardest part of my letter hahaha. This week the primary had the special program in Sacrament meeting as well, and oh man, I wish you guys could just see this stuff. It’s so horrible its hilarious. Just try to imagine what it could possibly be like down here... they don’t even have someone who can play the piano to attempt to keep the kids on key... yeah, it’s pretty bad. I’m glad Cole did good this year though, that little guy is a stud, he’s going to be the best of us Dennis kids.

I wish I could go visit the temple whenever I wanted. The once every six months is definitely not often enough for me. I love seeing pictures of the Boston temple now. I’ve only ever seen it once in person, but I love that temple just because it was the first time I got to visit a temple other than to do baptisms. The temple truly is just the whole vision and meaning of why we’re here doing what we do, just to give these people that eternal family. Its something that hardly anyone truly understands down here, the importance and significance that the temple truly can have on their lives. Just knowing that I’ll be with the little man for forever is awe inspiring to me. Oh yeah, being with the rest of you will be cool too... hahaha just kidding, I love all of yins.

Speaking of counting down days though, tomorrow starts the hundred day countdown til yours truly will get to step foot on American soil again hahaha. Don’t worry though, I’m not counting, I was just informed today by one of the guys in my group. But today was pretty awesome, we had a Council Meeting with President Wade and then we went as the ZLs to visit the Museum of South American Soccer Association. I sent you a photo of the outside. Things are still going pretty tough here in Yvera, but I love my companion, and we’re doing our best to try and get things going, but the blessings for our efforts are taking a little while to get here haha. But todays meeting helped me out a little bit with some ideas as to what we can do to pick things up a bit. It’s weird though, I realized today that I’m the oldest ZL in the mission. In fact, at the end of this change I’ll have the same amount of time as a ZL as I did as a non ZL. Wow. The mission is flying by!

But as far as a Christmas package... how about an iPhone? When I get home? hahaha. Honestly I don’t have any requests, I don’t even really need a package... if its anything other than food it’ll just be more weight in my suitcases or will just be left here in Paraguay a month later. And before you get excited, don’t buy me garments or anything to have for me when I get home. Mine are all in pretty good shape still, and I think I’m going to want to get a different kind when I get home. Haha I can just see you getting antsy and we’d end up with a bunch of extra stuff on our hands.

But hey, I love you all, thanks for all of the support!

Love,

Elder Dennis