What’s up people?
So, another week down, and another week to go. First off, Happy Birthday to the birthday girl. I hope she enjoys the completion of yet another year of her life. It’s exciting stuff. But I already wish I was going back in time, I’m getting old people. I mean, I have to come of full legal age in a month’s time! That’s just scary!
But I had pique again last week, so that was exciting. My comp had to get it out, because it was in a place on my big toe that I couldn’t see very well to do the operation myself. But yeah, it’s basically just a big, living zit. It’s pretty fun to take out. But there’s not going to be very much pique anymore, because the rainy season is starting up… and speaking of the rainy season, did I mention I hate rain? It fetching poured this Saturday and Sunday, I was soaked from just above my knees down, cause my jacket doesn’t quite cover all of me. But the stupid torrents of rain kept all but one of our investigators getting to church, so this week was just horrible because of that. But last week we had 5 more baptisms, with 2 families that are amazing, and a little old grandma too. But yeah, we’re in charge of all the new convert lessons and everything… anything that has to do with church, we the missionaries are in charge around here…
But yeah, Elder Aidukaitus of the Seventy is coming this week to take a ‘tour’ of the mission to see how we’re all doing, so that’ll be exciting. The ZLs have a council meeting with him tomorrow, so that’ll be a cool like 1-on-1 session with him. But yeah, that’s all that’s really going on this week.
Love ya,
Elder Dennis
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
May 18, 2009
Hey there,
Sorry about last week, we didn’t get a chance to use internet cause we had a really busy P-Day... First off, we had council meeting with Pte Wade as ZLs on Monday so our P-Day got bumped to Tuesday, and then on Tuesday we went to San Lorenzo to play soccer with all of the other ZLs, because we didn’t want to be alone and everyone else had a normal P-Day, and had to spend like a total of 2.5 hours on the buses to get there and back, and that just ate up all of our day. So we figured we’d just talked to you the day before, so we figured it wasn’t a big deal to not get to write y’all. Anyways, this week went pretty good, we had 8 baptisms, with the wedding of Elvio and Eulalia, so that was exciting. And then this week we have 2 more families that are just awesome who are tying the knot and taking a bath haha. So yeah, we’re still working hard.
But this past week was the first week of cold, and wow, I forgot how cold Paraguay can get! It got down to about 50 F and I thought I was going to freeze to death on Friday night. And I’m being serious! I’m literally just going to shrivel up and die in a little frozen ball when I show up in NY in the middle of the winter next year... So I had to bust out all of the sweaters I accumulated last year: the two v-necks that you sent me and one that I bought here before I got the package of the v-necks haha... things I haven’t seen in a loooooong time. It was such a good feeling! Mentioning that, if you want to include in my birthday package another sweater or two that you can find in my room, I know I have like 2 or 3 good ones... a brown, a grey, and an orange one, that are all kind of turtle neck, those would work great down here.
But you can tell Aunt Audrey thanks for thinking about me, but I’m sure that book of 500 colleges is just way to big and expensive to send all the way down here... because it’d be cool to look at one, but I wouldn’t want to have to haul that thing around between areas and stuff like that.
In answer to your question: It’s not too bad trying to shrug off the ‘trunky’ feelings that come from talking with the family, but it was a little tougher this time because my comp E. Ramirez goes home in July, so he’s getting all ready already. But I’m thinking that the next call is going to be a little tough... I’ll only have like 6 weeks til I get home... so yeah, that’ll be pretty trunky. Anyways, talking about getting home. I was thinking about it, and if you guys want to come down to pick me up, that’s fine. Like yeah, it’ll lose kind of the umph of getting home and seeing the family, but like you said, I think it’ll probably be a lot easier to just stay in Paraguay than to try and come back a little later on, financially and mentally. Plus you guys could just bring down like extra empty suitcases to help me make it home with all of the junk that I’m acquiring right now and not have to leave it all behind hahaha. So it’s up to you guys with what you want to do. I’ll just go along with whatever plans you come up with.
But yeah, those broadcast conferences from Salt Lake are pretty cool. I got to see one last year, and they had people who were associated with this area of the world as well. So it’s interesting to hear that they’re doing that for state-side stakes as well.
But as a missionary, my relationship with Christ... umm... I’d say it’s grown in the fact that I’m not working and worrying about myself. I’m working with his brothers and sisters, and helping them find the joy of taking advantage of his sacrifice that he made for us, and by doing so, I’ve been able to feel the true joy of Christ by feeling what he must feel when he sees each and every one of us come closer to him, and the sadness that comes when he sees us reject him. So I think mostly I’ve just come closer to really know and understand our Savior and what the purpose this life holds for us.
The constant companionship of the Holy Ghost (it feels so weird to say ghost and not spirit) is a must in this line of work. I’ve really come to know that the ‘constant companionship’ that is always talked about isn’t like a constant feel good vibe that I remember getting when I was at EFY or whatever, but more like an enhanced conscionce (I really don’t know how to spell that, I hope you get what I’m saying) of thoughts that I have or decisions I make of what streets to take or what I need to say or things like that. I think it might be different as a missionary, because we grow so used to the compansionship that we usually don’t even know that it’s there, but yeah.
I think when I get home, I’ll just have to keep doing just the ‘basics’ of the gospel that you always hear in Primary, with slight variation: Study my scriptures daily, pray with real intent, and participate in church and church activities every week. Usually you hear: read, pray, and go to church. That’s good and all, but there is SUCH a big difference between going through the motions and actually doing. Not just reading, but STUDYING. Not just praying, but CONVERSING with the Lord. Not just going to church, but PARTICIPATING. It’s stuff so basic that we just ignore it, but it really is the foundation to everything.
Love you lots,
Elder Dennis
Sorry about last week, we didn’t get a chance to use internet cause we had a really busy P-Day... First off, we had council meeting with Pte Wade as ZLs on Monday so our P-Day got bumped to Tuesday, and then on Tuesday we went to San Lorenzo to play soccer with all of the other ZLs, because we didn’t want to be alone and everyone else had a normal P-Day, and had to spend like a total of 2.5 hours on the buses to get there and back, and that just ate up all of our day. So we figured we’d just talked to you the day before, so we figured it wasn’t a big deal to not get to write y’all. Anyways, this week went pretty good, we had 8 baptisms, with the wedding of Elvio and Eulalia, so that was exciting. And then this week we have 2 more families that are just awesome who are tying the knot and taking a bath haha. So yeah, we’re still working hard.
But this past week was the first week of cold, and wow, I forgot how cold Paraguay can get! It got down to about 50 F and I thought I was going to freeze to death on Friday night. And I’m being serious! I’m literally just going to shrivel up and die in a little frozen ball when I show up in NY in the middle of the winter next year... So I had to bust out all of the sweaters I accumulated last year: the two v-necks that you sent me and one that I bought here before I got the package of the v-necks haha... things I haven’t seen in a loooooong time. It was such a good feeling! Mentioning that, if you want to include in my birthday package another sweater or two that you can find in my room, I know I have like 2 or 3 good ones... a brown, a grey, and an orange one, that are all kind of turtle neck, those would work great down here.
But you can tell Aunt Audrey thanks for thinking about me, but I’m sure that book of 500 colleges is just way to big and expensive to send all the way down here... because it’d be cool to look at one, but I wouldn’t want to have to haul that thing around between areas and stuff like that.
In answer to your question: It’s not too bad trying to shrug off the ‘trunky’ feelings that come from talking with the family, but it was a little tougher this time because my comp E. Ramirez goes home in July, so he’s getting all ready already. But I’m thinking that the next call is going to be a little tough... I’ll only have like 6 weeks til I get home... so yeah, that’ll be pretty trunky. Anyways, talking about getting home. I was thinking about it, and if you guys want to come down to pick me up, that’s fine. Like yeah, it’ll lose kind of the umph of getting home and seeing the family, but like you said, I think it’ll probably be a lot easier to just stay in Paraguay than to try and come back a little later on, financially and mentally. Plus you guys could just bring down like extra empty suitcases to help me make it home with all of the junk that I’m acquiring right now and not have to leave it all behind hahaha. So it’s up to you guys with what you want to do. I’ll just go along with whatever plans you come up with.
But yeah, those broadcast conferences from Salt Lake are pretty cool. I got to see one last year, and they had people who were associated with this area of the world as well. So it’s interesting to hear that they’re doing that for state-side stakes as well.
But as a missionary, my relationship with Christ... umm... I’d say it’s grown in the fact that I’m not working and worrying about myself. I’m working with his brothers and sisters, and helping them find the joy of taking advantage of his sacrifice that he made for us, and by doing so, I’ve been able to feel the true joy of Christ by feeling what he must feel when he sees each and every one of us come closer to him, and the sadness that comes when he sees us reject him. So I think mostly I’ve just come closer to really know and understand our Savior and what the purpose this life holds for us.
The constant companionship of the Holy Ghost (it feels so weird to say ghost and not spirit) is a must in this line of work. I’ve really come to know that the ‘constant companionship’ that is always talked about isn’t like a constant feel good vibe that I remember getting when I was at EFY or whatever, but more like an enhanced conscionce (I really don’t know how to spell that, I hope you get what I’m saying) of thoughts that I have or decisions I make of what streets to take or what I need to say or things like that. I think it might be different as a missionary, because we grow so used to the compansionship that we usually don’t even know that it’s there, but yeah.
I think when I get home, I’ll just have to keep doing just the ‘basics’ of the gospel that you always hear in Primary, with slight variation: Study my scriptures daily, pray with real intent, and participate in church and church activities every week. Usually you hear: read, pray, and go to church. That’s good and all, but there is SUCH a big difference between going through the motions and actually doing. Not just reading, but STUDYING. Not just praying, but CONVERSING with the Lord. Not just going to church, but PARTICIPATING. It’s stuff so basic that we just ignore it, but it really is the foundation to everything.
Love you lots,
Elder Dennis
Monday, May 4, 2009
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
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
Monday, April 27, 2009
April 27, 2009
Alright people, so I’m super excited for changes, but yeah, I still don’t have them. But anyways, this week was pretty good, we had 9 baptisms: Gustavo, Teresita, Laura, Teresita, and Catalina and her kids, Damian, Ezequiel, Lourdes, and Edgar. So that was fun, especially because on Wednesday we had the baptisms of everyone but Gustavo, with Elder Nolan and Elder Sanchez, who are in the other half of Zeballos Cue, who had 5 baptisms all of the same family. So it was awesome to see 13 people all dressed in white! Check out the picture to see how beautiful it was...
But you’ll never guess what I ate last night! I ate some jacaré... or alligator! or crocidile, I’m not really sure which it was haha. But it was like really good! I enjoyed it a ton. Then today I went with Elder Sanchez to check out this place that we heard served tacos, and Sanchez being Mexican was all for it. They were alright, but they defnitely lacked that distinctive mexican punch of flavor and spice. I am definitely not the same picky eater you sent away, I can asure you of that haha.
Anyways, it sounds like you guys are getting geared up for summer from what Dad says, so have fun with that. I’m loving the weather right now. It’s nice and warm at like 30 C, which is like mid 80s according to the converter on the cell phone, but its nice and cool at night, with just dry heat. So for me this is basically perfect. I’m just going to freeze when I show up at the house in February... But I’m glad you’re enjoying having Parkins there to be a new victim of your touristy needs to go to NYC hahaha. I hope Haley takes advantage of the time to relax and work and prepare to try to go to school again. I’m totally going on a road trip of the states when I get back though, Haley’s little cross country endeavor totally reminded me of that. Shane’s already committed to go.
But I’m guess I’m glad to hear that Paraguay isn’t the only place false doctrine is preached haha, but yeah, just keep chuggin along. I’ve found its easiest if the missionaries or someone who knows the doctrine... okay okay, just the missionaries, speak last, and we kind of twist words to thank the people for giving their talks and teaching us about this principle and then we ‘bear our testimonies’ while really teaching what that principle really consists of. It works pretty well, and the people still feel good about themselves. But I’m so glad Cole is reading and all that stuff, it’s so sad to see how few the people here are educated enough to read. We are truly blessed to live in the states where you really don’t run into that too much. So yeah, just keep up the good work there, and try and get all of the munchkins to appreciate learning, it’s such a blessing to have such great opportunities.
Love ya lots,
Elder Dennis
But you’ll never guess what I ate last night! I ate some jacaré... or alligator! or crocidile, I’m not really sure which it was haha. But it was like really good! I enjoyed it a ton. Then today I went with Elder Sanchez to check out this place that we heard served tacos, and Sanchez being Mexican was all for it. They were alright, but they defnitely lacked that distinctive mexican punch of flavor and spice. I am definitely not the same picky eater you sent away, I can asure you of that haha.
Anyways, it sounds like you guys are getting geared up for summer from what Dad says, so have fun with that. I’m loving the weather right now. It’s nice and warm at like 30 C, which is like mid 80s according to the converter on the cell phone, but its nice and cool at night, with just dry heat. So for me this is basically perfect. I’m just going to freeze when I show up at the house in February... But I’m glad you’re enjoying having Parkins there to be a new victim of your touristy needs to go to NYC hahaha. I hope Haley takes advantage of the time to relax and work and prepare to try to go to school again. I’m totally going on a road trip of the states when I get back though, Haley’s little cross country endeavor totally reminded me of that. Shane’s already committed to go.
But I’m guess I’m glad to hear that Paraguay isn’t the only place false doctrine is preached haha, but yeah, just keep chuggin along. I’ve found its easiest if the missionaries or someone who knows the doctrine... okay okay, just the missionaries, speak last, and we kind of twist words to thank the people for giving their talks and teaching us about this principle and then we ‘bear our testimonies’ while really teaching what that principle really consists of. It works pretty well, and the people still feel good about themselves. But I’m so glad Cole is reading and all that stuff, it’s so sad to see how few the people here are educated enough to read. We are truly blessed to live in the states where you really don’t run into that too much. So yeah, just keep up the good work there, and try and get all of the munchkins to appreciate learning, it’s such a blessing to have such great opportunities.
Love ya lots,
Elder Dennis
Monday, April 20, 2009
April 20, 2009
Okay, I’m pretty sure my OCD will never compare with yours. But I liked the Lego organization idea, I’m definitely going to have to do that with my kids. But I’ve been getting the same impressiones as you in lines of the genealogy research. I feel like we need to get a move on it, and I’m just so fascinated by anything historical that it’s fun for me. I’m actually reading the Bible Dictionary entry by entry because it’s all historical and explains a thousand things that only have to do with the Bible, and aren’t actually contained in it. And it’s about as close to archeologically exploring the middle east as I can get from a third world country in South America.
But anyways, our week went pretty excellent. We had two baptisms: Alicia and Ramona. Alicia is the cousin of Marina, and Ramona the sister of Mirna and Lucía, who have all been baptized in the past month or so. So that was exciting. Then yeah, we just worked like crazy, and we found like the most awesome family ever, another golden one like Juan and Angelica. Elvio and Eulalia are another young couple of 22 and 20 years of age, respectively. They have a little baby girl of 2 months, and we met Eulalia in the house of another investigator we have, Teresita, who’s planning to get baptized on Wednesday. Anyways, we taught her a little bit with Teresita, and she liked it a lot, but we couldn’t find their house down in the farthest edge of our area, where there’s a lot of the new shanties that the people build up here. But on Saturday we forced the semi, not-good-at-all Paraguayan directions out of Teresita, and we went searching. We found a sweet old rope bridge that was falling apart, so I crossed it for fun (sorry, didn’t have my camera, I’m gonna do it again though...) and they saw us from a distance and came over to show us where their house is. Anyways, they’re awesome, and went to church (we had 27 at church by the way... I really want to hit the 30). After church it was funny though, Elvio came up and was like, ‘Hey, before we take off I just want to make sure you’re going to pass by my house this week.’ And I was like ‘Of course we’re going to pass by’ and he was like ‘Ok, I just want to make sure.’ So yeah, even though the church here is just crazy dirty kids running around and crying and teachers that don’t teach the doctrine and just tell people what they can and can’t do (never right) and you just pray the speakers don’t talk too much false doctrine, it’s amazing how the spirit still touches the hearts of those who go.
But I also got to talk to Elder Spencer this week, and he says Eddy is doing amazing, and that he’s already excited to get to go to the temple in January... so I have no doubt that he’s a stud and going to get there. Spencer was just talking about how even though he’s around some bad influences a little bit at work, how he just has a good head on his shoulders and just knows what’s going on. So that was good to hear how my best friend convert is doing right now. Supposedly he’s half-way through writing a letter for me, so I’m looking forward to getting that in a little bit haha (I write my main converts a letter every couple months to check up on them and all that jazz).
But yeah, yesterday my comp gave his good-bye talk, and this is his last week of work in the mission field. Pray that he doesn’t make me too trunky... I’m resisting alright for now, but I dreamed of hockey last night (probably because the nights are starting to get chilly) and wow, it was not good hahaha. I really want to work at the ice rink again, not even kidding. I miss the smell of crisp ice and sharpening skates and playing competitive, sweat drippin, blood spittin games. Okay I’m gonna stop now. I thought about coaching a little house team or something when I get home, that’d be fun.
Love,
Elder Dennis
But anyways, our week went pretty excellent. We had two baptisms: Alicia and Ramona. Alicia is the cousin of Marina, and Ramona the sister of Mirna and Lucía, who have all been baptized in the past month or so. So that was exciting. Then yeah, we just worked like crazy, and we found like the most awesome family ever, another golden one like Juan and Angelica. Elvio and Eulalia are another young couple of 22 and 20 years of age, respectively. They have a little baby girl of 2 months, and we met Eulalia in the house of another investigator we have, Teresita, who’s planning to get baptized on Wednesday. Anyways, we taught her a little bit with Teresita, and she liked it a lot, but we couldn’t find their house down in the farthest edge of our area, where there’s a lot of the new shanties that the people build up here. But on Saturday we forced the semi, not-good-at-all Paraguayan directions out of Teresita, and we went searching. We found a sweet old rope bridge that was falling apart, so I crossed it for fun (sorry, didn’t have my camera, I’m gonna do it again though...) and they saw us from a distance and came over to show us where their house is. Anyways, they’re awesome, and went to church (we had 27 at church by the way... I really want to hit the 30). After church it was funny though, Elvio came up and was like, ‘Hey, before we take off I just want to make sure you’re going to pass by my house this week.’ And I was like ‘Of course we’re going to pass by’ and he was like ‘Ok, I just want to make sure.’ So yeah, even though the church here is just crazy dirty kids running around and crying and teachers that don’t teach the doctrine and just tell people what they can and can’t do (never right) and you just pray the speakers don’t talk too much false doctrine, it’s amazing how the spirit still touches the hearts of those who go.
But I also got to talk to Elder Spencer this week, and he says Eddy is doing amazing, and that he’s already excited to get to go to the temple in January... so I have no doubt that he’s a stud and going to get there. Spencer was just talking about how even though he’s around some bad influences a little bit at work, how he just has a good head on his shoulders and just knows what’s going on. So that was good to hear how my best friend convert is doing right now. Supposedly he’s half-way through writing a letter for me, so I’m looking forward to getting that in a little bit haha (I write my main converts a letter every couple months to check up on them and all that jazz).
But yeah, yesterday my comp gave his good-bye talk, and this is his last week of work in the mission field. Pray that he doesn’t make me too trunky... I’m resisting alright for now, but I dreamed of hockey last night (probably because the nights are starting to get chilly) and wow, it was not good hahaha. I really want to work at the ice rink again, not even kidding. I miss the smell of crisp ice and sharpening skates and playing competitive, sweat drippin, blood spittin games. Okay I’m gonna stop now. I thought about coaching a little house team or something when I get home, that’d be fun.
Love,
Elder Dennis
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
April 14, 2009
What up thug?
So, yeah, I’m still here. I got your package on Tuesday, and I am still in heaven, with straight up Skittles and Starbursts, and that’s all I need. Tell Aunt Audrey thank you very much, her package was an awesome surprise. I share with the little kiddies every once in awhile, when I’m not feeling too selfish haha. But whoever sent the chocolate, I forget in which package it was, it didn’t quite survive the trip hahaha. It was all just molded to the plastic wrapper, and I couldn’t even begin to guess in what form it was when it entered the package. But I’m glad you guys were able to make it down to the old folks in PA. But man, I gotta say, Cole is soooo white hahaha. I don’t know if its that I’ve been living among latin tanned skin for a year (tomorrow, the 15th, hehe) or what, but man, get that kid out in the sun haha.
But as for the Latin culture, they don’t have ‘Easter,’ they have the Holy Week, or the Semana Santa. They focus on the more religious side of things, in just about everything. So like, Palm Sunday is a big thing, and then on Wednesday they all stop working about mid day for the rest of the week. Thursday is the Last Supper, which is the real Passover, and then its Good Friday, or Holy Friday, when Christ died, and it’s basically impossible to find anyone. That day was deader than Christmas, not even kidding. Then Saturday is basically normal, and then Sunday is the Passover of the Resurrection, which is the only day we celebrate, as Easter. Look up Easter in the Bible Dictionary and you’ll learn why we call it Easter. So yeah, this week was dead for us, and it was a learning experience for me because before this year, I barely knew that Palm Sunday existed, and so I learned a lot more about what happened the final week of the Savior’s life.
But this week we got to go to the temple on Tuesday, and that was just awesome! It was like this personal guided tour by the mission president through some of the ordinances and answering questions, I found it most enjoyable. But the blue pants that you sent REALLY don’t fit… the waist is so small that I’d guess that they wouldn’t even fit Cole… But the grey ones fit just fine, so it’s all good. But I like Dad’s multiple corporations… it’s pretty cool. Doesn’t he have three now: One for the building, the Smiles, and now the Lake Ave? I’m impressed. I hope this new venture works out good so that you can stay ahead of this little economic problem. Down here, we’ve noticed that the dollar is starting to drop again, so… yeah, I’m trying to think of an occupation I can choose that will get me ahead of the curve as well. I might just work with Dad after all; I could make it through undergrad if I have to haha.
Oh, but no, the cleaning lady was like a 3 week stint… it didn’t quite work out and looking back, I’m not sure it would have been allowed even :D but I didn’t know better back then. So yeah, I’m still not mastering that skill, though my organization, while I’ve always had Mom’s (fetch I can’t think of the word, it’s like ADD but with like you have to do something like organize or like flip the light switch 4 times before bed, etc or you go crazy) anyways, it has improved a ton since the start of my mission. But I still have my clothes all over the place… its just organized now: lumps of dirty clothes and lumps of clean clothes and lumps of maybe needs washed but could probably be used another time or two before clothes. Organization at it’s finest, I swear.
As for the phone call though, I’m not sure why they got charged so much, but I’m pretty sure they couldn’t get their calling card to work or something. Things will probably be organized next week or the week after to get you guys planning for the call in May. Wow, to think that it’s coming up on a year since last mother’s day is just absolutely crazy! But yeah, things are going good back in Saltos, they’re both still active and Eddy is just crazy helping out the missionaries. He’s going on a mission for sure, he’s probably my strongest convert for sure, he’s such an amazing kid.
Anyways, I hope things keep going good for you back home. Love ya lots,
Elder Dennis
So, yeah, I’m still here. I got your package on Tuesday, and I am still in heaven, with straight up Skittles and Starbursts, and that’s all I need. Tell Aunt Audrey thank you very much, her package was an awesome surprise. I share with the little kiddies every once in awhile, when I’m not feeling too selfish haha. But whoever sent the chocolate, I forget in which package it was, it didn’t quite survive the trip hahaha. It was all just molded to the plastic wrapper, and I couldn’t even begin to guess in what form it was when it entered the package. But I’m glad you guys were able to make it down to the old folks in PA. But man, I gotta say, Cole is soooo white hahaha. I don’t know if its that I’ve been living among latin tanned skin for a year (tomorrow, the 15th, hehe) or what, but man, get that kid out in the sun haha.
But as for the Latin culture, they don’t have ‘Easter,’ they have the Holy Week, or the Semana Santa. They focus on the more religious side of things, in just about everything. So like, Palm Sunday is a big thing, and then on Wednesday they all stop working about mid day for the rest of the week. Thursday is the Last Supper, which is the real Passover, and then its Good Friday, or Holy Friday, when Christ died, and it’s basically impossible to find anyone. That day was deader than Christmas, not even kidding. Then Saturday is basically normal, and then Sunday is the Passover of the Resurrection, which is the only day we celebrate, as Easter. Look up Easter in the Bible Dictionary and you’ll learn why we call it Easter. So yeah, this week was dead for us, and it was a learning experience for me because before this year, I barely knew that Palm Sunday existed, and so I learned a lot more about what happened the final week of the Savior’s life.
But this week we got to go to the temple on Tuesday, and that was just awesome! It was like this personal guided tour by the mission president through some of the ordinances and answering questions, I found it most enjoyable. But the blue pants that you sent REALLY don’t fit… the waist is so small that I’d guess that they wouldn’t even fit Cole… But the grey ones fit just fine, so it’s all good. But I like Dad’s multiple corporations… it’s pretty cool. Doesn’t he have three now: One for the building, the Smiles, and now the Lake Ave? I’m impressed. I hope this new venture works out good so that you can stay ahead of this little economic problem. Down here, we’ve noticed that the dollar is starting to drop again, so… yeah, I’m trying to think of an occupation I can choose that will get me ahead of the curve as well. I might just work with Dad after all; I could make it through undergrad if I have to haha.
Oh, but no, the cleaning lady was like a 3 week stint… it didn’t quite work out and looking back, I’m not sure it would have been allowed even :D but I didn’t know better back then. So yeah, I’m still not mastering that skill, though my organization, while I’ve always had Mom’s (fetch I can’t think of the word, it’s like ADD but with like you have to do something like organize or like flip the light switch 4 times before bed, etc or you go crazy) anyways, it has improved a ton since the start of my mission. But I still have my clothes all over the place… its just organized now: lumps of dirty clothes and lumps of clean clothes and lumps of maybe needs washed but could probably be used another time or two before clothes. Organization at it’s finest, I swear.
As for the phone call though, I’m not sure why they got charged so much, but I’m pretty sure they couldn’t get their calling card to work or something. Things will probably be organized next week or the week after to get you guys planning for the call in May. Wow, to think that it’s coming up on a year since last mother’s day is just absolutely crazy! But yeah, things are going good back in Saltos, they’re both still active and Eddy is just crazy helping out the missionaries. He’s going on a mission for sure, he’s probably my strongest convert for sure, he’s such an amazing kid.
Anyways, I hope things keep going good for you back home. Love ya lots,
Elder Dennis
Monday, April 6, 2009
April 6, 2009
Hello folks,
So how’s it going? This week was just absolutely crazy for me, we had like no time to work whatsoever! On Tuesday we had a leadership meeting called Consilio which is just the ZLs in the house of Pte. Wade, but it went until like 4 in the afternoon, and we didn’t get back out into the field until 6, so that was only like 3 hours to work. Then on Wednesday it was the same thing, we had Zone Conference. So we get out again at like 4, but we had to buy stuff in the Distribution Center that’s next door to the temple and main chapel of the mission where we have the zone conferences. So then we get back to the area just in time to have the baptisms of Francisca and Victorina. It was so funny though! Okay, so Victorina is the mom, and Francisca is her 8 year old daughter. So Victorina gets baptized first, and Francisca sees it and starts freaking out cause she’s scared of water, but her mom like shoves her down into the font with me and she’s all screaming and thinking she’s gonna die hahaha. And then her mom is like ready to just shove her under screaming and all! But we took a few minutes and I calmed her down with the help of Elder Nolan who was there, and got it done hahaha. It was so funny, her mom was all like wanting to swim in the water and her daughter was freaking out, and her mom was like splashing her with water like, hey its nothing while we were trying to calm her down and it was NOT helping hahaha. So that’s the funny story of the week.
But then in Thursday we basically got to work, even though we had a liderazgo, which is a weekly leadership meeting we hold with the DLs in the zone, but thats tranquilo. But then on Friday we used up all the morning with the weekly planning, and then by 5 we were in the church to set up for the weddings of Hugo and Sofia and Dionicio and Lucia, which almost didn’t happen because they almost didn’t show up in time, but they managed to show up half an hour late and just as the judge was about to have to leave. Trust me, mormon standard time and paraguayan standard time should never have come together... its a thousand times worse than back home. It was pretty cool though, Hugo and Dionicio are brothers, and we’ve been working with the two families separately for quite some time now, like we baptized the daughters, Natalia and Karina, of Dionicio and Lucia awhile ago because they were taking so long. So it was cool to see them pull together to support each other and want to do it together. Afterwards we had their baptisms and we didn’t get done until pretty late. Then we had General Conference on Saturday and Sunday, and because we had to go to the stake center to watch it we didn’t get to work like, at all, because only the stake centers have the big satellite receivers here. But it was absolutely awesome, especially the priesthood session. Sorry mom, you always miss out.
But yeah, you guys should feel so blessed to get to watch the speakers giving their talks in your native tongue, because in all of the other languages, its just dubbed, and wow it is not the same. We, fortunately, got to watch the transmissions in English in the high council room in the comfy... not as nice as the states but still... chairs at the big table. And it was really cool at night during the Priesthood session, Pres. Wade and the temple president showed up, because they were able to watch the other sessions at their homes, so it was cool to take notes with two of the great Moroni like leaders of this dispensation. But a little bit of what I was hearing got me kind of worried. Is the economic situation back home really as bad as the talks were making it sound? It seemed like every single person mentioned it, and I don’t know, here in Paraguay that situation has and probably always will be bad, so we don’t feel the drop in the economy that much. Plus the dollar is staying stable down here at least, and that’s basically the only indication that I have of how it is up there, cause we hear absolutely zero about what’s going on.
But yeah, that was my third of four General Conferences... and next Monday I hit one year in Paraguay, officially, and 14 months in the mission. I’m officially on the downhill, and it’s sad I must admit. Time is really just flying now, I can’t believe that time can move as fast as it is now. I remember when I was a kid, back in Willoughby, when those summers, the best summers of my life, just passed like decades. I miss being a kid. I wish I were the same age as Cole, and we could just play with Legos all day long. I’m looking forward to it when I get home and have a couple months to kill... by the way, I have no clue what I want to do yet, and every passing day just makes me more confused. I don’t even know where I want to go to school. I don’t know if you’d be able to pick me up some school catalogs of whatever of like the U, BYU, BYU-I, maybe like Arizona or something, I don’t know, whatever other inspiration you get for me. Focus on like architecture or archealogy/history, and I don’t know, business stuff like computers or accounting or something, I have no clue. I know its a little early feeling right now, but I figure by the time you can pick up some stuff and send it off to me it’ll be a couple months down the road. Oh, by the way, I got a call from the mailman of the mission today, one of my best buddies, telling me I got your package and a package from Aunt Audrey, so I’m stoked to pick those up tomorrow.
Love you lots,
Elder Dennis
So how’s it going? This week was just absolutely crazy for me, we had like no time to work whatsoever! On Tuesday we had a leadership meeting called Consilio which is just the ZLs in the house of Pte. Wade, but it went until like 4 in the afternoon, and we didn’t get back out into the field until 6, so that was only like 3 hours to work. Then on Wednesday it was the same thing, we had Zone Conference. So we get out again at like 4, but we had to buy stuff in the Distribution Center that’s next door to the temple and main chapel of the mission where we have the zone conferences. So then we get back to the area just in time to have the baptisms of Francisca and Victorina. It was so funny though! Okay, so Victorina is the mom, and Francisca is her 8 year old daughter. So Victorina gets baptized first, and Francisca sees it and starts freaking out cause she’s scared of water, but her mom like shoves her down into the font with me and she’s all screaming and thinking she’s gonna die hahaha. And then her mom is like ready to just shove her under screaming and all! But we took a few minutes and I calmed her down with the help of Elder Nolan who was there, and got it done hahaha. It was so funny, her mom was all like wanting to swim in the water and her daughter was freaking out, and her mom was like splashing her with water like, hey its nothing while we were trying to calm her down and it was NOT helping hahaha. So that’s the funny story of the week.
But then in Thursday we basically got to work, even though we had a liderazgo, which is a weekly leadership meeting we hold with the DLs in the zone, but thats tranquilo. But then on Friday we used up all the morning with the weekly planning, and then by 5 we were in the church to set up for the weddings of Hugo and Sofia and Dionicio and Lucia, which almost didn’t happen because they almost didn’t show up in time, but they managed to show up half an hour late and just as the judge was about to have to leave. Trust me, mormon standard time and paraguayan standard time should never have come together... its a thousand times worse than back home. It was pretty cool though, Hugo and Dionicio are brothers, and we’ve been working with the two families separately for quite some time now, like we baptized the daughters, Natalia and Karina, of Dionicio and Lucia awhile ago because they were taking so long. So it was cool to see them pull together to support each other and want to do it together. Afterwards we had their baptisms and we didn’t get done until pretty late. Then we had General Conference on Saturday and Sunday, and because we had to go to the stake center to watch it we didn’t get to work like, at all, because only the stake centers have the big satellite receivers here. But it was absolutely awesome, especially the priesthood session. Sorry mom, you always miss out.
But yeah, you guys should feel so blessed to get to watch the speakers giving their talks in your native tongue, because in all of the other languages, its just dubbed, and wow it is not the same. We, fortunately, got to watch the transmissions in English in the high council room in the comfy... not as nice as the states but still... chairs at the big table. And it was really cool at night during the Priesthood session, Pres. Wade and the temple president showed up, because they were able to watch the other sessions at their homes, so it was cool to take notes with two of the great Moroni like leaders of this dispensation. But a little bit of what I was hearing got me kind of worried. Is the economic situation back home really as bad as the talks were making it sound? It seemed like every single person mentioned it, and I don’t know, here in Paraguay that situation has and probably always will be bad, so we don’t feel the drop in the economy that much. Plus the dollar is staying stable down here at least, and that’s basically the only indication that I have of how it is up there, cause we hear absolutely zero about what’s going on.
But yeah, that was my third of four General Conferences... and next Monday I hit one year in Paraguay, officially, and 14 months in the mission. I’m officially on the downhill, and it’s sad I must admit. Time is really just flying now, I can’t believe that time can move as fast as it is now. I remember when I was a kid, back in Willoughby, when those summers, the best summers of my life, just passed like decades. I miss being a kid. I wish I were the same age as Cole, and we could just play with Legos all day long. I’m looking forward to it when I get home and have a couple months to kill... by the way, I have no clue what I want to do yet, and every passing day just makes me more confused. I don’t even know where I want to go to school. I don’t know if you’d be able to pick me up some school catalogs of whatever of like the U, BYU, BYU-I, maybe like Arizona or something, I don’t know, whatever other inspiration you get for me. Focus on like architecture or archealogy/history, and I don’t know, business stuff like computers or accounting or something, I have no clue. I know its a little early feeling right now, but I figure by the time you can pick up some stuff and send it off to me it’ll be a couple months down the road. Oh, by the way, I got a call from the mailman of the mission today, one of my best buddies, telling me I got your package and a package from Aunt Audrey, so I’m stoked to pick those up tomorrow.
Love you lots,
Elder Dennis
Monday, March 30, 2009
Mar 30, 2009
Hey there everybody,
So this week went pretty legit, if I do say so myself. We only had 2 of the 4 baptisms we were planning on, of Liz and Gricelda, but yeah, we’re happy. We’re just working hard like crazy, and the work really paid off this Sunday when the weekly ‘exam’ came: we had 28 people in church, with 5 men and 3 families. So yah, a lot of the families are starting to turn around, and we’re just being blessed with so much success right now, its truly amazing. That 28 in church marks my new record high of church attendance since back in my Salado days when I managed to bring in 16 for a couple of Sundays in a row. But as you stated that spring is in the air, as well I can say, autumn is in the air. Its still hot, but you can feel the cold starting to come. Like last April when I showed up in Paraguay, my first day here I was freezing, even coming from cold Utah. So April is really the start of the cold, but it won’t be until about mid May that it really stays.
Okay, so about the area. First off, none of the actual ‘city’ is in the North Mission. So like, thinking of Columbus, its like the mission has the area above the 270. So my area is actually very tiny, and its a little suburb thats actually pretty urban for Paraguay, with the normal working class people. Its on the Paraguay River, which loops down around the city, and yah, its cool. There’s a ton of people who live there. But its like a part of Asuncion, sort of like a Whitehall to Columbus. The area the Wade’s live in is like the nicest part of Asuncion, with mansions and nice cars and its like stateside houses, just on little stone streets. There are schools everywhere, and most of the kids go to school everyday, but its a very crappy system and most don’t pay attention to the teacher or learn anything. They only go for like 4 hours a day, and there is a huge problem of schools getting filled up and parents not being able to find an available school for some of their children.
But yah, I’ll be here until at least June 10th, because I have to stay in the area because my comp will be leaving. I guess I’m okay with that, but me, I get bored in the same place for too long. Living with military brats for parents didn’t help, and now getting to move every 4 months definitely isn’t helping me for later in life, but you know, I put up with staying put. But yah, the house is really nice, we just need to clean more... :) But as for more native companions, actually its not that likely that I’ll have a latin anymore, because there’s very few of them in leadership positions, and those that are are leaving this change and the next. So more than likely I’ll be training a new zone leader next change, because almost half of the zone leaders are going home. Its a very young mission now, most of the big leaders are going home this change or next, and there’s only 4 of us who are zone leaders (out of 20) who don’t go home in June. So there’s going to be some big changes these next couple transfers. But because I went up so early in my mission, there’s a big possibility that I’ll go down to train or something before I leave, but that all depends on what the mission is like 9-10 months down the road. But yah, that’s the mission right now. If anything is unclear, just hit me up. Oh, and are you still Google Earthing my areas? I still want to see your guesses when I get home haha.
Love ya,
Tuja Dennis
Hesukrísto
Tupao
Marangatukuéra
Arapahapegua
So this week went pretty legit, if I do say so myself. We only had 2 of the 4 baptisms we were planning on, of Liz and Gricelda, but yeah, we’re happy. We’re just working hard like crazy, and the work really paid off this Sunday when the weekly ‘exam’ came: we had 28 people in church, with 5 men and 3 families. So yah, a lot of the families are starting to turn around, and we’re just being blessed with so much success right now, its truly amazing. That 28 in church marks my new record high of church attendance since back in my Salado days when I managed to bring in 16 for a couple of Sundays in a row. But as you stated that spring is in the air, as well I can say, autumn is in the air. Its still hot, but you can feel the cold starting to come. Like last April when I showed up in Paraguay, my first day here I was freezing, even coming from cold Utah. So April is really the start of the cold, but it won’t be until about mid May that it really stays.
Okay, so about the area. First off, none of the actual ‘city’ is in the North Mission. So like, thinking of Columbus, its like the mission has the area above the 270. So my area is actually very tiny, and its a little suburb thats actually pretty urban for Paraguay, with the normal working class people. Its on the Paraguay River, which loops down around the city, and yah, its cool. There’s a ton of people who live there. But its like a part of Asuncion, sort of like a Whitehall to Columbus. The area the Wade’s live in is like the nicest part of Asuncion, with mansions and nice cars and its like stateside houses, just on little stone streets. There are schools everywhere, and most of the kids go to school everyday, but its a very crappy system and most don’t pay attention to the teacher or learn anything. They only go for like 4 hours a day, and there is a huge problem of schools getting filled up and parents not being able to find an available school for some of their children.
But yah, I’ll be here until at least June 10th, because I have to stay in the area because my comp will be leaving. I guess I’m okay with that, but me, I get bored in the same place for too long. Living with military brats for parents didn’t help, and now getting to move every 4 months definitely isn’t helping me for later in life, but you know, I put up with staying put. But yah, the house is really nice, we just need to clean more... :) But as for more native companions, actually its not that likely that I’ll have a latin anymore, because there’s very few of them in leadership positions, and those that are are leaving this change and the next. So more than likely I’ll be training a new zone leader next change, because almost half of the zone leaders are going home. Its a very young mission now, most of the big leaders are going home this change or next, and there’s only 4 of us who are zone leaders (out of 20) who don’t go home in June. So there’s going to be some big changes these next couple transfers. But because I went up so early in my mission, there’s a big possibility that I’ll go down to train or something before I leave, but that all depends on what the mission is like 9-10 months down the road. But yah, that’s the mission right now. If anything is unclear, just hit me up. Oh, and are you still Google Earthing my areas? I still want to see your guesses when I get home haha.
Love ya,
Tuja Dennis
Hesukrísto
Tupao
Marangatukuéra
Arapahapegua
Monday, March 23, 2009
Mar 23, 2009
How’s it going?
I’m pretty tired…we’re working hard. And we just played a game of futbol with another zone, and the air conditioning in this cyber isn’t working, so I’m not very comfortable at the moment. It’s still busting 90s out here, and I’m still dying. I just want it to be cold again, but that won’t be here until like June, but I’ll still be here in Zeballos then, cause I’m privileged to have the opportunity to kill Elder Perez this change, because we’re sticking together and he’ll be going home in April. But that means that I’ll be sticking here for another change after this at least.
But we’re still working hard and exploding our area. We had 3 more baptisms this week of Marina, Mirna and Graciela, who are all pretty awesome. So yeah, we’re excited. We should have like 3 or 4 baptisms next week too, but all of kids, because their parents can’t get baptized because they’re living in sin (i.e. not married) and the men drink and smoke and don’t want to get married on the off chance that a hot young girl comes along and wants to get with them… Paraguay is a messed up place people, I’m tellin ya.
But I’m glad that Cole is able to enjoy probably the most amazing invention ever made (aka Legos). I totally remember building that ice rink and then using it as a secret base with a slide away door on the right side that leads to HQ for my G.I. Joes. I think that part got destroyed though in combat if I remember correctly (Snake Eye’s forces were pretty tough man, those G.I.s really had to fight for their lives). I hope things are going good at home, tell everyone I say hey.
Love ya lots,
Elder Dennis
I’m pretty tired…we’re working hard. And we just played a game of futbol with another zone, and the air conditioning in this cyber isn’t working, so I’m not very comfortable at the moment. It’s still busting 90s out here, and I’m still dying. I just want it to be cold again, but that won’t be here until like June, but I’ll still be here in Zeballos then, cause I’m privileged to have the opportunity to kill Elder Perez this change, because we’re sticking together and he’ll be going home in April. But that means that I’ll be sticking here for another change after this at least.
But we’re still working hard and exploding our area. We had 3 more baptisms this week of Marina, Mirna and Graciela, who are all pretty awesome. So yeah, we’re excited. We should have like 3 or 4 baptisms next week too, but all of kids, because their parents can’t get baptized because they’re living in sin (i.e. not married) and the men drink and smoke and don’t want to get married on the off chance that a hot young girl comes along and wants to get with them… Paraguay is a messed up place people, I’m tellin ya.
But I’m glad that Cole is able to enjoy probably the most amazing invention ever made (aka Legos). I totally remember building that ice rink and then using it as a secret base with a slide away door on the right side that leads to HQ for my G.I. Joes. I think that part got destroyed though in combat if I remember correctly (Snake Eye’s forces were pretty tough man, those G.I.s really had to fight for their lives). I hope things are going good at home, tell everyone I say hey.
Love ya lots,
Elder Dennis
Monday, March 16, 2009
Mar 16, 2009
What’s up my peeps?
So this was a good week. But we still don’t know the changes, as always… But it was still an awesome week. We had the marriage and baptism of Juan and Angelica, who are simply golden, and then of Zunilda and Lidia, who are also awesome people. But by far the coolest thing about the week was on Saturday. We got the call on Friday night at 10.30 that we had to be in the office in suits by 8.00 the next morning, so we did as we were told, and we show up and they caravan all of the zone leaders down to the south mission, where we got to listen to 3 area seventy, Elders Gonzalez, from Uruguay, Da Silva, from Paraguay, who just got called as a mission president in Montevideo, Uruguay, and Diaz, from Argentina. So that was exciting. Then President Wade took us the ZLs out to eat lunch at this super nice restaurant called Paulista, which was super delicious. So that was a good day.
But I got the camera charger, and it works great, thanks a ton! You’re truly a life saver. I can honestly say though that I’ve never had a single problem with any of my packages. Those priority boxes that you use are awesome. Most people don’t use those, but yeah, there are a lot of kids that are having trouble getting packages right now… some are still waiting on packages from Christmas. Haha, but I’m glad Cole finally got that birthday thing. I totally made that at like, Christmas time to send it out to him on time, and then I totally forgot to send it off hahaha. But that’s so crazy that Brenda is engaged! Wow, that proves that I’m getting old… before we know it it’ll be Haley that’s engaged. I don’t know what we’ll do then, all I know is that I swear we’re only like 10 or 11 years old still… we’re not old enough to be getting married! That’s just crazy talk.
Anyways, Dad, thanks for the bracket! It means that I wasn’t one of the disobedient missionaries who went and downloaded it themselves haha I didn’t have to break any rules. But I don’t really have anything interesting to say. I was looking forward to filling ya’ll in on the changes, but nope. So basically, I love you lots, hope you’re doing good, and keeping up the good fight.
Elder Dennis
So this was a good week. But we still don’t know the changes, as always… But it was still an awesome week. We had the marriage and baptism of Juan and Angelica, who are simply golden, and then of Zunilda and Lidia, who are also awesome people. But by far the coolest thing about the week was on Saturday. We got the call on Friday night at 10.30 that we had to be in the office in suits by 8.00 the next morning, so we did as we were told, and we show up and they caravan all of the zone leaders down to the south mission, where we got to listen to 3 area seventy, Elders Gonzalez, from Uruguay, Da Silva, from Paraguay, who just got called as a mission president in Montevideo, Uruguay, and Diaz, from Argentina. So that was exciting. Then President Wade took us the ZLs out to eat lunch at this super nice restaurant called Paulista, which was super delicious. So that was a good day.
But I got the camera charger, and it works great, thanks a ton! You’re truly a life saver. I can honestly say though that I’ve never had a single problem with any of my packages. Those priority boxes that you use are awesome. Most people don’t use those, but yeah, there are a lot of kids that are having trouble getting packages right now… some are still waiting on packages from Christmas. Haha, but I’m glad Cole finally got that birthday thing. I totally made that at like, Christmas time to send it out to him on time, and then I totally forgot to send it off hahaha. But that’s so crazy that Brenda is engaged! Wow, that proves that I’m getting old… before we know it it’ll be Haley that’s engaged. I don’t know what we’ll do then, all I know is that I swear we’re only like 10 or 11 years old still… we’re not old enough to be getting married! That’s just crazy talk.
Anyways, Dad, thanks for the bracket! It means that I wasn’t one of the disobedient missionaries who went and downloaded it themselves haha I didn’t have to break any rules. But I don’t really have anything interesting to say. I was looking forward to filling ya’ll in on the changes, but nope. So basically, I love you lots, hope you’re doing good, and keeping up the good fight.
Elder Dennis
Monday, March 9, 2009
Mar 9, 2009
Hey there folks, how’s life?
So this week went pretty good, but it was still hot. Yesterday it rained though, so today there wasn’t that much humidity, and so I’m doing alright. This week we had one baptism, of Raquel, so that was cool. She’s really smart, and she’s pretty solid. I also baptized a young kid named Alejandro at the same time for some other Elders, because they didn’t want to have to get in the water and change and all that stuff if I was already going to be doing that. But I’m sorry, I don’t have any photos this time, because the computers we’re using don’t except usb connections, cause we’re in Paraguay... But all is going well for the plans for baptisms this week, we have Jaun and Angelica and her sister Lidia, and then a lady named Ramona and her daughter Liz who are all getting ready for their baptisms. We’re praying hard that they all make it. There’s also a lady named Zunilda, but we’re pretty sure she’s lying to us about not having a boyfriend that lives with her, so its still up in the air if she’s going to make it to the water this week. As for Eddy, I got to talk to him over the phone once cause I called up Elder Spencer to see how things were going and he was there helping them do visits, but thats about it, I’m going to be writing him a letter though to send out this week. Apparently he’s just a stud though and just giving references like crazy and helping translate portuguese in the lessons.
We also had zone conference this week, so that was pretty cool too. It was actually an amazing conference, one of the best I’ve been to so far in my mission. Its a little bit different though being there as a zone leader, because we have to help out by doing demonstrations and introducing new topics or ideas in the mission and stuff like that. I also played a special musical number with two other Elders from my zone, Elders Rebilas and Maddux of a song which I’m not sure what its called in English, but in spanish its ‘Accompáñame.’ I played guitar while Elder Rebilas sang and Elder Maddux played the flute. It turned out alright I guess, but definitely wasn’t anything special, so it was in reality just a musical number.
But I liked the time change last Saturday night, I got to sleep an extra hour haha. Sucks to be you! But now we’re on the same time schedule here as Eastern time, so you can look up at the clock at 6.30 and be like ‘Oh, my little Elder Dennis is rolling out of bed right now.’ Exciting stuff right there. But another special thing with the time change: I only have one more time change left in my mission! Wow, that’s a scary thought. To think that one day this amazing adventure ends... right now we just look at it as the goal line, like yes! I made it! But really its quite sad to reach the end, to know that you have to take the plaque off and not be able to put it on again... I’m definitely not looking forward to that. The name on my plaque is starting to turn yellow by the way, does that happen to the Elders up there or is that just because we actually go to work down here? Hahaha Just kidding, I’m sure they work pretty hard every once in awhile. But I ordered a new plaque last week, so it should get here in a week or two, cause I don’t like the rag-tag look some of the Elders go for, I like to be all nice and clean and stuff.
I’m glad it sounds like you guys are having fun and stuff though, with sniff sniff, skiing and snowboarding. Oh man, do I miss that more than just about anything! That and my electric guitar. The accoustic is fun but I’m not gonna lie, it gets boring after awhile if thats all there is to play. I’m definitely feeling the lack of um... good music. But, it’ll be there again before I know it... this week I’m already hitting 13 months in the mission! Wow the time really does fly! As for a care package, some of those sauce packets for marinera (not sure if thats how its spelled, work with me here) sauce. Um, and some Skittles. And maybe if you could include another pair of those Dockers pants, I love my brown ones, size 30x30, but try and compare it to other pants and find one thats like, bigger haha of grey or black or whatever. Oh, and maybe like one of my bottles of Ibuprofin, its kind of hard to come by reliable medicine down here, and its like really expensive. Other than that, I’m good to go. But just remember, Skittles and starburts... not swedish fish. Haha.
Love you lots,
Elder Dennis
So this week went pretty good, but it was still hot. Yesterday it rained though, so today there wasn’t that much humidity, and so I’m doing alright. This week we had one baptism, of Raquel, so that was cool. She’s really smart, and she’s pretty solid. I also baptized a young kid named Alejandro at the same time for some other Elders, because they didn’t want to have to get in the water and change and all that stuff if I was already going to be doing that. But I’m sorry, I don’t have any photos this time, because the computers we’re using don’t except usb connections, cause we’re in Paraguay... But all is going well for the plans for baptisms this week, we have Jaun and Angelica and her sister Lidia, and then a lady named Ramona and her daughter Liz who are all getting ready for their baptisms. We’re praying hard that they all make it. There’s also a lady named Zunilda, but we’re pretty sure she’s lying to us about not having a boyfriend that lives with her, so its still up in the air if she’s going to make it to the water this week. As for Eddy, I got to talk to him over the phone once cause I called up Elder Spencer to see how things were going and he was there helping them do visits, but thats about it, I’m going to be writing him a letter though to send out this week. Apparently he’s just a stud though and just giving references like crazy and helping translate portuguese in the lessons.
We also had zone conference this week, so that was pretty cool too. It was actually an amazing conference, one of the best I’ve been to so far in my mission. Its a little bit different though being there as a zone leader, because we have to help out by doing demonstrations and introducing new topics or ideas in the mission and stuff like that. I also played a special musical number with two other Elders from my zone, Elders Rebilas and Maddux of a song which I’m not sure what its called in English, but in spanish its ‘Accompáñame.’ I played guitar while Elder Rebilas sang and Elder Maddux played the flute. It turned out alright I guess, but definitely wasn’t anything special, so it was in reality just a musical number.
But I liked the time change last Saturday night, I got to sleep an extra hour haha. Sucks to be you! But now we’re on the same time schedule here as Eastern time, so you can look up at the clock at 6.30 and be like ‘Oh, my little Elder Dennis is rolling out of bed right now.’ Exciting stuff right there. But another special thing with the time change: I only have one more time change left in my mission! Wow, that’s a scary thought. To think that one day this amazing adventure ends... right now we just look at it as the goal line, like yes! I made it! But really its quite sad to reach the end, to know that you have to take the plaque off and not be able to put it on again... I’m definitely not looking forward to that. The name on my plaque is starting to turn yellow by the way, does that happen to the Elders up there or is that just because we actually go to work down here? Hahaha Just kidding, I’m sure they work pretty hard every once in awhile. But I ordered a new plaque last week, so it should get here in a week or two, cause I don’t like the rag-tag look some of the Elders go for, I like to be all nice and clean and stuff.
I’m glad it sounds like you guys are having fun and stuff though, with sniff sniff, skiing and snowboarding. Oh man, do I miss that more than just about anything! That and my electric guitar. The accoustic is fun but I’m not gonna lie, it gets boring after awhile if thats all there is to play. I’m definitely feeling the lack of um... good music. But, it’ll be there again before I know it... this week I’m already hitting 13 months in the mission! Wow the time really does fly! As for a care package, some of those sauce packets for marinera (not sure if thats how its spelled, work with me here) sauce. Um, and some Skittles. And maybe if you could include another pair of those Dockers pants, I love my brown ones, size 30x30, but try and compare it to other pants and find one thats like, bigger haha of grey or black or whatever. Oh, and maybe like one of my bottles of Ibuprofin, its kind of hard to come by reliable medicine down here, and its like really expensive. Other than that, I’m good to go. But just remember, Skittles and starburts... not swedish fish. Haha.
Love you lots,
Elder Dennis
Monday, March 2, 2009
Mar 2, 2009
And the weeks keep moving on…
So yeah, I’m still here, and it’s still hotter than jalopeños frying in a pan. I don’t know, that’s what popped into my head. All I know is that it’s still hitting over a hundred everyday. And dad, its not dry Arizona heat, its New York humid heat… it sucks. Yesterday was like the worst day of my life, I was literally dying. This weekend something messed up my stomach. I didn’t have the runs but man it was not happy, so that definitely didn’t help. But our count of investigators just continues to grow. Right now we have 15 people, with 2 families with a baptismal date. This week I helped the Hermanas Smith and Arce out and baptized one of their men for them. It was cool, we had to go do the interview and then we were asking who he wanted to baptize him, talking about different men in the ward, but he wanted me to do it. So I kindly obliged. This week we don’t have too many baptisms, we’re planning on two, but then for the eleventh, we have a ton of people, with one family that’s just absolutely incredible. I think I mentioned them last time, Juan and Angelica. We found them through service and they’re about as golden as they come, so me and my comp are pretty stoked right now just because of them.
Um… I never got around to trying that root beer extract, I just never seem to have time, and I always forget. But seriously, I’m so busy as a zone leader, because we’re expected to get more numbers than everyone else (which we do cause we’re studs) to show the example, plus we don’t have like a single day that’s just like, normal. We always have meetings or interviews to do or we’re on divisions to boost the other elders, its insane! But I love it, I like keeping busy. Unfortunately my journal writing is kind of slacking now, because down time is absolutely zero. But I still try to hit it up 2-3 times a week when I can. This past week for example, I haven’t gotten to write yet about Friday, when at 7 in the morning we had a special meeting with Elders Jensen and Aidukaitis of the 70 with the ZLs of both missions in Paraguay, and then afterwards they met with everyone except zona lejos from our mission. That was just amazing, let me tell you. Blew my mind. Then I went on a division with Elder Agudelo from Colombia, who went on divisions with Elder Nilsen when Nilsen was his zone leader haha, so that’s a cool little reflection. And that night I had to perform the baptism of Virgilio for Hna Smith. So it was crazy. Definitely the craziest day I had last week.
Today we ate at Shangri-la though, which is like amazing all you can eat really fancy Chinese food with 12 of the elders from the zone, and we ate basically for free, because some man paid our billed for us. We went up to pay afterwards, and the cashier was like, He didn’t tell you? He paid your entire bill, except for drinks. So instead of dropping 45 mil I only paid 4 mil… that’s only .80 cents. We were all so surprised, and it was amazing. He paid like 100 dollars for all of us, and down here that’s over 500 mil… which is like, a LOT. We don’t think he was a member or anything either, just someone who came into contact with missionaries before and respected the sacrifice that we make to do what we do, and wanted to treat us. SO that was awesome.
Anyways, sorry if my letter is all over the place, I didn’t make an outline ahead of time like normal this week. Love ya lots,
Elder Dennis
So yeah, I’m still here, and it’s still hotter than jalopeños frying in a pan. I don’t know, that’s what popped into my head. All I know is that it’s still hitting over a hundred everyday. And dad, its not dry Arizona heat, its New York humid heat… it sucks. Yesterday was like the worst day of my life, I was literally dying. This weekend something messed up my stomach. I didn’t have the runs but man it was not happy, so that definitely didn’t help. But our count of investigators just continues to grow. Right now we have 15 people, with 2 families with a baptismal date. This week I helped the Hermanas Smith and Arce out and baptized one of their men for them. It was cool, we had to go do the interview and then we were asking who he wanted to baptize him, talking about different men in the ward, but he wanted me to do it. So I kindly obliged. This week we don’t have too many baptisms, we’re planning on two, but then for the eleventh, we have a ton of people, with one family that’s just absolutely incredible. I think I mentioned them last time, Juan and Angelica. We found them through service and they’re about as golden as they come, so me and my comp are pretty stoked right now just because of them.
Um… I never got around to trying that root beer extract, I just never seem to have time, and I always forget. But seriously, I’m so busy as a zone leader, because we’re expected to get more numbers than everyone else (which we do cause we’re studs) to show the example, plus we don’t have like a single day that’s just like, normal. We always have meetings or interviews to do or we’re on divisions to boost the other elders, its insane! But I love it, I like keeping busy. Unfortunately my journal writing is kind of slacking now, because down time is absolutely zero. But I still try to hit it up 2-3 times a week when I can. This past week for example, I haven’t gotten to write yet about Friday, when at 7 in the morning we had a special meeting with Elders Jensen and Aidukaitis of the 70 with the ZLs of both missions in Paraguay, and then afterwards they met with everyone except zona lejos from our mission. That was just amazing, let me tell you. Blew my mind. Then I went on a division with Elder Agudelo from Colombia, who went on divisions with Elder Nilsen when Nilsen was his zone leader haha, so that’s a cool little reflection. And that night I had to perform the baptism of Virgilio for Hna Smith. So it was crazy. Definitely the craziest day I had last week.
Today we ate at Shangri-la though, which is like amazing all you can eat really fancy Chinese food with 12 of the elders from the zone, and we ate basically for free, because some man paid our billed for us. We went up to pay afterwards, and the cashier was like, He didn’t tell you? He paid your entire bill, except for drinks. So instead of dropping 45 mil I only paid 4 mil… that’s only .80 cents. We were all so surprised, and it was amazing. He paid like 100 dollars for all of us, and down here that’s over 500 mil… which is like, a LOT. We don’t think he was a member or anything either, just someone who came into contact with missionaries before and respected the sacrifice that we make to do what we do, and wanted to treat us. SO that was awesome.
Anyways, sorry if my letter is all over the place, I didn’t make an outline ahead of time like normal this week. Love ya lots,
Elder Dennis
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Feb 23, 2009
Hey folks, how’s it goin?
Things just keep moving forward down here in what feels like the depths of h-e-double hockey sticks. This week almost every day has been over 100 degrees, and wow, it’s hot. But today it’s a little cooler, because its going to rain… actually I think its raining right now, but we’re inside so I’m not sure. Anyways, I’m sorry those photos didn’t make it through last week. This week I got to use my other camera for a little bit because I borrowed the charger of someone who has the same camera and got my battery charged up a little, so that was cool. So I have a ton of photos that I’m sending your way this week. But tell Grandma Karen Happy belated birthday for me, I feel bad I didn’t know it was her birthday.
Well this week we had 5 baptisms… so we were stoked for that. They were of Maria Elena and Ruth, and of Zully, Jessica, and Sara. But the most amazing part of this week is even though we had 5 baptisms, we’ve maintained the same amount of investigators and people in church from week to week. But it was truly amazing this week, because on Friday we met Juan and Angelica by helping them in a mini service of bringing these big pallets of wood to their house, and then we went back on Saturday but Juan’s mom was there so we just got talking and didn’t get to teach anything, but we invited them to go to church but he was going to take the wood and make his fence with it so it was just a small invitation, but then yesterday they just showed up on their own for church! It was awesome. We went back last night and put them with fecha, and it was probably one of the best lessons ever. They understood everything perfectly; it was like I was doing a practice with a pair of missionaries. And there was a HUGE blessing in a miracle that the Lord worked for us during that lesson. We’re in that part of our area every night, and the mosquitoes bite like CRAZY! And they were biting last night like normal, but when we showed up to their house, I don’t think I was bit once until we left again, and that just helped us teach so much better. I’m not gonna lie, it’s like super hard to teach a lessons when everyone is being bitten like crazy by mosquitoes and everyone is just restless and smacking away. So it was just a special day for me.
But as for my MTC district, Elder Reid is out in La Paloma still, and Elder Bullcreek is out in Pedro Juan Caballero as a district leader, so I got to see him this week because we had a huge consilio guazu… which is a leadership training meeting which is usually only for zone leaders (consilio), but it was a special invite of the district leaders as well, so it was consilio guasu, or grande, or big (Guarani, Spanish, English). So that was cool. That was on Thursday. But as for Elder Legler, I actually saw him for the first time since my first change during the changes when everyone is hooking up with their new comps. He’s still in his second area, as a senior comp, but I’m pretty sure he’s doing pretty well, that goofy kid.
Anyways, keep it real. Love,
Elder Dennis
Things just keep moving forward down here in what feels like the depths of h-e-double hockey sticks. This week almost every day has been over 100 degrees, and wow, it’s hot. But today it’s a little cooler, because its going to rain… actually I think its raining right now, but we’re inside so I’m not sure. Anyways, I’m sorry those photos didn’t make it through last week. This week I got to use my other camera for a little bit because I borrowed the charger of someone who has the same camera and got my battery charged up a little, so that was cool. So I have a ton of photos that I’m sending your way this week. But tell Grandma Karen Happy belated birthday for me, I feel bad I didn’t know it was her birthday.
Well this week we had 5 baptisms… so we were stoked for that. They were of Maria Elena and Ruth, and of Zully, Jessica, and Sara. But the most amazing part of this week is even though we had 5 baptisms, we’ve maintained the same amount of investigators and people in church from week to week. But it was truly amazing this week, because on Friday we met Juan and Angelica by helping them in a mini service of bringing these big pallets of wood to their house, and then we went back on Saturday but Juan’s mom was there so we just got talking and didn’t get to teach anything, but we invited them to go to church but he was going to take the wood and make his fence with it so it was just a small invitation, but then yesterday they just showed up on their own for church! It was awesome. We went back last night and put them with fecha, and it was probably one of the best lessons ever. They understood everything perfectly; it was like I was doing a practice with a pair of missionaries. And there was a HUGE blessing in a miracle that the Lord worked for us during that lesson. We’re in that part of our area every night, and the mosquitoes bite like CRAZY! And they were biting last night like normal, but when we showed up to their house, I don’t think I was bit once until we left again, and that just helped us teach so much better. I’m not gonna lie, it’s like super hard to teach a lessons when everyone is being bitten like crazy by mosquitoes and everyone is just restless and smacking away. So it was just a special day for me.
But as for my MTC district, Elder Reid is out in La Paloma still, and Elder Bullcreek is out in Pedro Juan Caballero as a district leader, so I got to see him this week because we had a huge consilio guazu… which is a leadership training meeting which is usually only for zone leaders (consilio), but it was a special invite of the district leaders as well, so it was consilio guasu, or grande, or big (Guarani, Spanish, English). So that was cool. That was on Thursday. But as for Elder Legler, I actually saw him for the first time since my first change during the changes when everyone is hooking up with their new comps. He’s still in his second area, as a senior comp, but I’m pretty sure he’s doing pretty well, that goofy kid.
Anyways, keep it real. Love,
Elder Dennis
Monday, February 16, 2009
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
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
Friday, February 13, 2009
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