Jan 25, 2010

Well it sounds like the cruise stunk like old fish. Not a pleasing odor.

Anyways, I’m here in a tropical death trap. Actually, its not too bad lately, it actually got really cold here last week as a storm passed through with a chilly cold front, so yesterday it started to get just the humid, stiffling heat again. It was just about perfect for 2 or 3 days, nice and hot during the day in the sun, but nice and cool in the shade and at night. Suffice it to say, I am not looking forward to cold weather here in three weeks. But I’m still working extremely hard down here, trying to live to the max the little time I have left. Two years is a short time compared to the great missionaries of the Book of Mormon and the Bible, but it is definitely plenty, because its just long enough to be like okay, this was fun, but short enough to say I hope it doesn’t go by too fast when you first start out (as my kid says almost everyday). I’ll just quote my trainer Elder Nilsen: “It goes by fast, but two years is a looooong time.” It does go by incredibly fast though, I can hardly believe that its already been almost two full years since I’ve seen everyone back home.

Alright, first weekend home. Have you worked in time there on Friday for me to get released yet? That's definitely priority level number one. I’m thinking after getting me we should go out to Bob Evans for breakfast, or iHop or something of the like. Then we can start the drive home, stop at Olive Garden for lunch, and then we can just hang out at the house and order pizza for dinner. Then we can go snowboarding in the morning, and get a Panera soup bread bowl on the way home. And then the baptism at night. And somewhere in there we should go swimming at the indoor pool hahaha. Those are just some suggestions...

Anyway, Pedro Juan is good, me and Elder Reid are getting pretty trunky with only three weeks left... I bet you can’t tell from my letter, can ya? But its okay, its P-Day. The new apartment is awesome though, I like it alot, I almost wish I got to stay there for more than just three weeks. Almost is the key word. But that's saying a lot for a Parguayan place. In relation to the church, its south west. Like there’s a main road that comes out from the Shopping China intersection and goes west. Its like two blocks north of that, like three blocks south and five blocks west of the church, on the corner of the street. Anyways, I’m working hard, and trying to help out everyone and just focus on the people. Anyways, tell dad I sorta started working on my talk for when I get home. Oh, and I don’t know about playing the guitar for Cole’s baptism... I’m not a very good singer while playing the guitar. Maybe it’d be different with the melody accompaniment on the piano though. I could probably just sing if Haley plays the piano. The two main songs I’m thinking of are “Lead Kindly Light” and “Abide With Me.” So yeah, let me know what we should do.

Love ya lots,

Elder (for three weeks more) Dennis