Yay it´s another pday! I´m not sure where to start really, but whatevs. To dad, you did find our church house thing, and it´s a covered walkway between the two buildings. And I can´t tell you the address to our house as I´m sure it doesn´t really have one...But if you go on the dirt road that is right by our church house, it´s a long ways along that dirt road. But yeah that´s pretty sweet how you can see what´s going on. And yes, the city of La Paloma is really small, but the outlying area is huge with few houses far between so it´s pretty awful going out there, and it´s all walking. Woo!
Interesting things of this week: so my comp still had stitches in his toe cause of his toenail, so I continued to work with someone from Asuncion who took the bus ride with me. That elder went back to the city when Elder Goodwin (from idaho) felt he could walk and the local nurse lady said he could. Me and my new comp worked for a day and then went to the doctor to check up on his toe. I think this was on Wednesday. The doctor called Elder Goodwin a bad patient and forbade him from walking anymore cause the dust here can carry some nasty infections, so we were pretty much stuck in our house for 2 days. I read. A lot. And then, since I´m new and the Pres. doesn´t want me to have a bad first experience, he sent me and Elder Goodwin to Saltos, which is furth east. You can actually see Brasil from the city, so that´s kinda cool. But I went on splits with the Elders there, and that was pretty exciting. Saltos is actually pretty rich as far as Paraguay goes, and they have cool stores there. We stayed there for like 3 days or so, but we´re now back in La Paloma and the stitches are out and now we´re good to work!
Another sweet story. Maybe mom won´t appreciate this, but it´s a good first week story. In saltos there is a store called shopping china, and it has all sorts of american (weird right?) goodies. One such goody is mentos! They are actually really cheap there, so I bought a lot last pday and was eating them. Monday night I was chewing on one, and actually broke my tooth in half. It´s the one cavity I´ve ever had in my entire life and it refuses to stop giving me grief. So anywho the next day I went to the local dentist to see what could be done with my half tooth, and I got work done for 80 mil guaranies. Which is......less than 20 dollars! How cool is that???? I got an entire tooth repaired and such for like dirt cheap. And so far, I haven´t died or anything so I think it´s all good! But that was pretty exciting.
So far it´s been pretty calm here. I did find out that La Paloma is quite the mafia hotspot for drugs and such. And the mafia is very intertwined with the local Politics, and our Branch President is really political. And nobody likes him at all, and people are like afraid of him. Sooo I think that our Branch President is involved with the mafia, so that´s kinda cool. And when Elder Goodwin and I were in Saltos for church, our pres. here in Paloma cancelled church next week for the elections...I´m not sure what he´s trying to do, but we´ll keep on working and such. Hopefully, if it works, there will be pictures with this email, so you can do what you want with them. In two years I´ll explain the confusing ones I guess. I don´t have much more time, so I think that´s all for this week. La Paloma is really nice and really hot and really dirt roady. I already have exciting stories to tell, but I don´t wanna type them, so wait till Christmas I suppose and I shall call and tell.
Anywho, that´s it I think. I love you all! Keep on praying and being cool people.
Love,
Elder Morris
And the pictures are being dumb. One day it´ll work.
