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For the Grandparents

Hello grandparents!

It´s good to know that there will be a lot of peaches being jarred and canned. And, just so you know, our air conditioning bill was 0 dollars. So we beat you. :D Our water bill was 4 dollars so we´re doing good down here. Nice and cheap. Where did you get the peaches from? Peaches are really expensive here. Now that I think about it, I don´t think I´ve actually seen a peach down here. Just peach flavored things. Crazy! They have lots of pineapple and things like that. Grapes are super expensive here. Mangoes grow like weeds. As far as Christmas stuff, you can send whatever you want. I like things like Teryaki flavored beef jerkey, Butterfingers, M&M´s with peanut butter in them, and things like that. :D I´d also like a card from you two in the package. I like reading things. I love you, grandparents, and I´m super happy that you email me. Your emails are fun to read, and they make me happy. Thank you for your support! I love you both!

Love,

Elder Morris

Eusebio Ayala

Sup yall

September has almost come to an end. That means the smell of Gen Con is in the air! Woo! That means that next week we get to take a bus with our members down to Caacupe to watch it! It´s going to be awesome. We even get to watch it in English :D Then, the week after that is District Conference in Caacupe so we get to take another fun trip with the members. Two conferences in a row makes it hard to confirm people though, so our next baptism is on the 15th of October. It´s going to be sweet.

Spring has officially arrived here in good ole Paraguay which pretty much means summer has arrived. It´s all hot and icky and such, and tonight I´ll be putting away the winter blanket cause it roasts me at night. The hour is supposed to change here pretty soon I think, but being as we´re in Paraguay nobody has any idea whatsoever as to when that would be. I´ll just hope my cell phone changes at night for me. :D

This week was pretty normal which is always good. Today we watched a tire blow out on a bus. We also walked really really really far to some river that a member said was super cool. It was not cool. It was just far. I found a frog today that was smaller than my thumbnail :D! Chúlina! That means cute in Paraguayan. Also, this week I did a division with one of my zone leaders in Caacupe which was pretty fun. He was also my zone leader/ we lived in the same house in Posta Leiva so we had a really good time on the division. We had a lunch appointment, and one of the ladies that also came was a devil worshiper which was weird. She leaves her body so other spirits can enter and talk to their families. Whoah. That´s an interesting baptismal doubt. She wasn´t very friendly either.

It´s changes again this Wednesday, but we still don´t know what´s going to happen, so I´ll be sure to update you guys next week if something cool or crazy happens. I´m predicting that I´ll stay here in Eusebio Ayala, but we´ll see what happens with Elder Palacios.

But anywho, everything is going just dandy here in Eusebio. We´re working hard and we´ve got lots of people preparing for a baptism on the 15th so we´re all just pleased as punch. I survived the winter and now we´ll see how the second year of hot death treats me. :D I hope you´re all excited for some Gen Con awesomeness this weekend. I´m stoked! I love you all and hope you have a good week!

Love,

Elder Morris

Eusebio Ayala

Hello to all!

The cold decided to come back with a vengeance today. It´s also rained for the first time in about 5 weeks or so. I like it when it´s a little bit colder like how it is right now, but I´m not a big fan of the rain. Crazy Paraguayan weather!

Today was the final Pday of two of my former companions. I got to play some ultimate frisbee with one of them for the final time in Paraguay. One of them is my trainer which is pretty crazy. I was with him a long time ago. Whew how the time flies.

Church was pretty good this past week. We keep renting that van thing to go and pick everyone up and they are just pleased as punch to get a ride. We keep having investigators in church too, which is always a bonus. We´ve got some baptisms in the works and they could happen this week if all goes well. I´m thinking positive!

My interesting news for the week follows así: That man that we found last week that was an inactive member has more ties than we knew. Norma (our investigator) is pregnant, and it just so happens that this inactive member is the father. Dang it. That was a curve ball that I wasn´t really expecting. Norma wanted to get married to him, but he´s already got a wife in Ciudad del Este that he married in the church, and a family with her. Dang it. She got mad at him now, and doesn´t want to be with him anymore, so hopefully all the problems are over. All you members out there, be good examples please. It´s really hard to help the church grow when members are doing really foolish things. We´re going to get past it and keep working, but whew.

Other than that, I don´t think anything too crazy happened this week. I love you all, and I hope you have a good week. Everything is going well here in Eusebio Ayala. The chipa is good. I love you all :D

Love,

Elder Morris

Eusebio Ayala

Hello friends and family.

Last week was a good week because we had a baptism! Yay baptisms! We already have some investigators getting ready for a baptism on the 24th of September so I´m excited to keep working with them. I think the highlight of the week was on Sunday when a drunk man came to church. Pepito Caballero! We actually met him on Friday when he was walking past. He stopped, played a little on his guitar, and sang to us. Then he asked us for money and good things like that. He made it into my journal and I moved on. But theeeen he showed up to church. He behaved himself well during sacrament meeting, but during the class afterwards he started getting a little too excited. He ended up singing and denouncing booze and smoking forever. He said we could help him with that, but we can never take his guitar away haha. Good times. But, to his credit, he came to church and wants to change his life, so we´ll try our hardest to help him with that. Good ole Pepito.

Today we went to Caacupe and played some soccer with the other elders which was pretty fun. Other than that, it was a normal P day here in Barrero.

All the newspapers here were full of 9 11 stuff saying that America was going to get bombed again and things like that, but that´s to be expected because I suppose. And Paraguay is a very paranoid country. That was as far as that went. I´m assuming nothing happened up there.

Another cool thing is that last night when we were walking, we found a guy that has been living here for 4 months that is a member of the church. He comes from some city in the south mission so I don´t know any of the elders or anything, but he was the secretary there in his branch and wants to start coming to church here. That´s good cause right now we don´t have any priesthood holders older than 13. So that´s pretty exciting cause more people are coming to church. We also found out this week that one of our investigators has a sister that is an inactive member. This inactive member has just barely started coming back to church again and found out that we were teaching her sister and now they are all sorts of excited. Woo!

Other than that, it´s business as normal here in Paraguay. It´s hot in the day and cold at night, but we´re making it through. Woo. I saw a couple of instances this week that proves that God watches over His church. It´s pretty cool to be able to see that stuff, and to see the little miracles that happen. I hope you all have a great week and everything goes well. I love you all!

Love,

Elder Morris

Eusebio Ayala

Why hello everyone!

We´re in September now! That´s just crazy! Now it´s going to start getting super duper hot here. Dang it. Last night I was melting to death, so it´s a good preview of good nights to come for sure. In exciting news, we´re going to have a baptism this Saturday of a girl named Melisa. Yay baptisms! That´ll be pretty fun. We get to go to a different city called Piribebuy because we don´t have a font or anything like that in Eusebio. It´ll be good though, and I´m stoked.

The conference with Elder Arnold in Santaní was awesome. He´s not super good at Spanish, but most of the time he just spoke English because he was dropping spiritual bombs. Only English would do in an occasion like that! I feel bad for all the Latins that don´t understand English because they missed like half of the conference. But, that´s okay. Maybe it´ll motivate them to learn. It was sweet though.

Also this week, I had my closest "almost accident" here in Paraguay. We were shopping for all of our groceries and stuff for the week when my digestive system decided to act up. A lot. I told my comp that we had to go. Now. And of course, nobody ever believes me that it´s super duper duper duper urgent, so he took his sweet time. When he paid, I took off running, and he was sorta keeping up shouting directions to the house, because I still don´t know my way around the town very well. I realized I wasn´t going to make it to the house, so I ran through the closest open door which happened to be a dance school or something and I found a bathroom behind the first door I tried :D Yay! So I made it through the crisis. Just barely. And nobody from the school knows that I used their bathroom. Yeah! That was the most exciting thing that happened this week I think. It was pretty cool. I hope it doesn´t happen again.

Other than that, like I said it´s starting to get hot again. I´m going to have to buy another sombrero here in Eusebio. I look like such a stud in a straw hat. It´s better than burning to death though, so that´s okay.

I love you all, and I hope you have a great week. The church is true!

Love,

Elder Morris