Jan 4, 2010

Hey there family,

Yet another week ticked off the list… which leaves only 6 more til I show up there in the states. It doesn’t really feel like the mission is coming to a close yet, but living with Elder Reid is awesome, we both realized this past week that its now crunch time to pick up souvenirs from Paraguay before heading home. I have a good amount because I’ve been picking things up here and there through out the mission, but he has to buy everything all in one go. But I have a question, did something happen to my card to get it blocked or something, because I know that I didn’t spend all that money, but whenever I try to take out more it says that funds are not available, so somethings up. So let me know what happened to that.

But the package still isn’t here... so here’s fingers crossed to that it shows up this Saturday. But changes will be a little different this time around, because for whatever reason the new greenies won’t be showing up until Thursday, so changes will be a day late. But no news yet as to how I’ll be dying, but I’m 100% positive that I’ll stay here in the area, I’m just not sure if I’ll be with Elder Adamson until the end or not. We worked really hard this past week, and it felt really good. We’re just trying to boost the whole ward to be excited to go to church, and when we’re not doing that we’re just out in the streets talking to people to try and find the people who are ready to accept the restored gospel.

New years was pretty awesome, we set off a bunch of fireworks and climbed up on the church roof to watch them at midnight. I took some pictures, but the computers here suck and won’t read any cameras or anything, so I’m not gonna be able to send any home. I can’t believe that its 2010 already! I remember when 2000 rolled around and everyone was freaking out for the whole y2k bug. Crazy to think that that was ten years ago! That and it means that the end of my mission is coming, which is something that I never though would come...

I’m glad that your first class went well in primary with the boys and girls, I’m sure you’ll do great with them. As far as a gift for a 12 year old, I would suggest one of those books about the prophets when they were young or something like that, I really liked those books when I was that age.

You found my area, the picture of the yellow building, the ADUANA, is cady-corner to a gas station to the south west. And next to the gas station is my church building! Thats the best I can do though, but yeah, all those pictures from Google Earth that you sent me are from my area.

Thanks for your constant support and love, I love all of you so much. Two years is a long time to be away from family, but its not too much longer til we’ll see each other again. So I’ll keep working hard... that's the best way to make time go faster hahaha!

Love ya,

Elder Dennis