Hola family and such! Just to start off, emails are pretty much the way to go here. You can keep sending the dearelder things if you want, but get here like 3 weeks later and emailing is pro, so absolutely anyone that wants to email, do it cause I´ll get them every monday instead of 3 weeks late. We sent you letters during our first day festivities, but I knew I´d email so it´s not that good. But yeah here I am! The phone calls were pretty lame cause nothing was working and it made me sad, but that´s okay.
So good stories so far, the overall trip took over 30 hours of travelling so that sucked pretty bad. And then we got to Beunos Aires in Argentina and that was pretty nice so I thought it´d be okay here. And then we flew to Asunción...it´s quite ghetto but that´s okay. We spent the night in like a halfway house or something and that was nice with 16 missionaries stuck in this little house. I´d put a smiley face thing there but I dunno how to make a colon on a spanish keyboard... anywho, the next day we all got our trainers! Everyone except me that is. My trainer was stuck at his house because of an ingrown toe nail, so I sat alone. All the other new elders just laughed at me and they all went with their trainers to various nearby cities and whatnot. But the jokes on them, because I got to go with the missionaries who are about to go home, to a place called Paulitas which is some sweet Brazilian meat eating place. I didn´t have a companion so they had to bring me along! They said it´s the best food in Paraguay so that was pretty cool that I got it on my first day.
The next day we travelled to my area which was 7 1/2 hours away. Woo! That was pretty much the longest bus ride of my life. But finally we arrived to a place called La Paloma Del Espíritu Santo, or La Paloma for short, which is on the border of Brazil, almost exactly east of Asunción. It´s one of the farthest areas away from Asunción and I get to be trained here. Because it´s so far away from civilization and so close to Brazil, they speak Spanish, Brazilian, Guarani, and Castillano. I can´t even speak spanish so it´s rough trying to know what anyone is saying because it´s like whatever language they want to say. I´m learning a lot and i´ve already met some sweet families!
So far I´ve seen some sweet stuff. I saw like 100 pigs eating garbage out of this huge dump, I saw a pinapple plant, monkey, anteater, parrots, some cool man playing the harp, my first breastfeeding, my second breastfeeding, and last night I found a tarantula trying to get into my house. It´s quite the party here! I´d send pictures, but I totally forgot my cable for my camera, so I´ll be sending all of them next monday and then you guys can do whatever with them. My house is nice I guess. The floors are tile instead of dirt so that´s better than most here. My stomach has yet to fall victim to the water/food, but tonight is my first dinner cita with one of the members, so my money is on that meal.
So far, it´s been an interesting but very good experience here in La Paloma and Paraguay! Oh yeah, and today for Pday we went to Saltos which is even closer to Brazil so that was kinda cool. I took a picture of it cause you can see Brazil from the town! Woo! But that´s all I have time for for this week so ádios mi amigos. I´m alive, happy, and preaching the gospel, so keep praying for me, but don´t you worry! All is well!
Love,
Elder Morris
P.S. Remember emails are pro now. So send the other things if you want, but emails. Yeah!
