Hello everyone in the states,
All is normal here in La Paloma. Nothing too exciting happened here this past week. The baptism got moved from last week to this week because the lady had to go to another city for important lawyer stuff or something. But, now it´s on thanksgiving! Woo! They don´t actually know what thanksgiving is here so it´s not that exciting for them. The teaching continues to go well, except we keep finding all these families that only speak portugese and now neither of us missionaries understand them, so we just kinda have to move along on our way haha. I just got back from Saltos again, which is always a magical adventure. I got burger king! Saltos is super fancy like that. They even take your tray for you after. We call that chuchi here. Church on Sunday was pretty nice. We got some less actives to finally come back to church so I hope they enjoyed themselves and whatnot. But, after church, it rained for like 5 hours so I got in some good BOM reading. And our power went out like always so we made some sweet ghetto candle holder things for candles!
We also found some sweet lizards that live in our house. And my comp beat a dog last night that was barking at our bedroom door. Poor doggy. People here don´t really like dogs much. Or cats. Or any animal. But, such is life pretty much everywhere outside of the USA I think. It´s exciting to know that Christmas packages are en route! For thanksgiving, I don´t think we are doing anything exciting or fun. I´ll probably have toast. I´ve started to like toast a lot here. The milk is awful though. It´s irradiated and such so it doesn´t get refrigerated and it tastes funny and all sorts of awfulness. In the spirit of Thanksgiving here are some things I´ve learned to be thankful for while I´ve been here...
1. Carpet
2. Shower heads that don´t electrocute/dump boiling or freezing water on you
3. Little bugs
4. No bugs
5. Toilet paper that isn´t streamer paper (it´s always a party at our house :D)
6. Not having to wear flipflops always
7. AC
8. Laundry services of sorts
9. Mosquitos (trust me, there are much much worse)
That´s just a precious little list of fun things. But, really it´s not so bad here. It gets hot, but then we just go find shade to walk in. And it´s fun to spend all day talking to people about awesome stuff, even though I can´t do much talking yet. Oh yeah, and food that I eat here is pretty much the same all the time. If we eat at a brasilero´s house it´s the beans/rice/meat. If we eat at a Paraguayan´s house its pasta/meat. Then we get juice which is nice. At our house when we eat there I eat toast with jam, and yogurt. Lots and lots of yogurt. It´s super runny here like those smoothie things I love, but instead of being 2 dollars for a teeny bottle thing it´s 1 dollar for a liter! Woo! I drink a lot of that good stuff. And we can´t drink the water in our house, so I drink lots of brazilian soda. Cause Paraguayans can´t make soda. So that´s what I eat pretty much. It´s a lovely existence really. You´d be proud of my budgetting skills. Seriously. But I think that´s all for this week. Next week I´ll tell you what I do every day or something exciting like that. I can´t give it all to you in one letter or you´ll stop writing me. But anywho, keep up the good work back on the homefront! I love you all!
Love,
Elder Morris
And for next week, I command that all my siblings write to me. Do it.
