Hola familia! ¿Como Estan?
Things here in paraguay are great! It is an adventure every day! New Experiences, sights, and everything.. haha.Still lots of cows, dogs, flip flops, dirty feet, stinky garbage, and great people! I love the branch i am in, even though half the time i don´t know what people are saying to me.. Although it is getting a little bit better! Another thing i forgot to mention last week, is crazy drivers! And lots of motorcycles! I thgouht high school students were bad drivers, but on the other hand paraguay drivers are worse and crazy! Especially the people that drvie scooters and motorcycles! they be weevin in and out of cars! haha it is scary. And they don´t move out of the way when you have to walk on the side of the road.. ya.. Scary!
O yes, and happy Halloween!! Just another normal day here in Paraguay!
Okay so last monday after email, we went and ate at the market with all the other elders in the district. Everything I have eaten here has been good, and hasn´t been fatal to my stomach.. So that is good. Many empanadas and other good things. Then we bought our food for the week, and i got stuff to make Steak and Ramen!! haha With what we had in our apartment..O yes, and the oj they have here is way better than in the states! There´s these cookies too that we buy at the market and i am like addicted to them.. haha sooo goood!
Okay also monday i experienced my first paraguayan rain storm! HOly cow! and it was a big one! I have never seen it rain so hard in my life. and thunger and lightning like every second! haha. It was crazy! WE were sittin g under this roof and all these bugs were flying onto the wall, and then all these lizards came out, and started eating the bugs! Made me think of rhett trav and annie! :)
Alright tuesday, I made my steak and ramen, without a wok, and without broccoli. They don´t have broccoli. Comp said he has only seen it once, and it is r eally expensive. Tasted like ramen noodles with steak and carrots thrown into it.. haha. Not as good as yours mom and dad! Miss it, this week I have been craving some of your homemade meals! :)
So the temperatrue has cooled down a lot, because of the rain, which has made it a lot nicer to do our work.. But come december and enero we will be expecting hot hot hot.. 100 maybe.. We shall see. We are teaching a family, Fam chaparro, all are members but the mom. She is pregnant. WE invited her to be baptized, and she said yes. but after she has her baby.. So were excited..
WEdnesday! So for you trav, i have learned there are 2 big soccer teams here in paraguay! Olimpia, and Cerro Porteño! You like one or the other, best to not chose in my case.. They don´t like each other. When one team plays everyone goes to the food markets on the road, and eats and drinks beer and watches the game. Impossible to contact when the game is going, and everyone goes crazy if their team scores. TOday i had my first meal at a members home.. Rice and beans! It was good! And we drink soda with everything so that will be hard to work off in 2 years. But ya, tasted different, but was really good. O and we eat rolls or bread with everything too.. The old man, with the tarp wall, said he would get baptized! His first language is guarani. He learned spanish so, it is hard for him to understand me.. I will ask him a question and sometiomes he just stares.. haha BUt sometimes it is hard to sleep, and hear people as well, everyone blasts their music here! In their cars, at their homes! It is crazy!
Thursday we had our planning for the week. that is long, 3 hrs.. We went to the Branch Pres home and painted their little market shop. His wife gave us what they call ensalada de fruta.. Fruit salad, it is soo good! I will make when i get home.. Lots of fruit cut up and mixed together, it is like a drink kind of... That night we taught another part member family.. They are so nice, watched the special witnesses of christ with them.. Made us popcorn, and drank fanta.. haha.
Okay so there is this guy- His laugh sounds just like pappaps! Everytime he laughs it makes me grin,, cause it makes me think of pappap. It is also hard for everyone to say my name. SO lots of people call me Elder Van (Ban) is what it sounds like.
Friday was good. We taught this family, husband has been baptized, but is less active, and we invited the wife to be baptized and she said yes! Also recited the first vison too them durin gthe lesson. It was cool. Ya, new sights and adverntures in paraguay! haha
Friday, lots of teaching, more guarani! haha. Gotta learn my spanish first! That night, kind of funny, we taught a family, and they all wanted me to try to roll my double r´s.. I can´t they all thought it was soo funny.. it was fun. And saturday we had a lot of teaching and stuff... USed the pedometer thing.. Took 19642 steps on friday..
Yesterday, my highlight was teaching this family. SHared the scripture alma 37:6.. Small and simple things... Likened that to my spanish and how we can do anything in the strength of the lord! It was great, they were like you can learn! We got faith in you! SMall and simple, great things are come to pass.. I know that is true!
Okay, gotta run! thanks for the support love you all!!!!
Elder Van
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