Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Mon Feb 14, 2011 -- Posta Leiva
Oh hey there everyone!
Just another swell week in swell Posta Leiva! It´s been pretty exciting I suppose, and filled with lots of rain which means that it´s cloudy a lot which is quite nice. We had zone conference on thursday which was pretty magical. It was a lot better than the last one cause I could actually understand what people were saying. We did some sweet service this week in the asentimiento. We moved a fence post about 8 inches so the neighbor lady could have 8 inches more of ghetto land. It´s kind of cool how people that live in houses made of trash can argue about less than a foot of weeds! Yeah! And on the way back from the service, we watched a dog get hit by a car. The dog is okay so don´t you worry! The other elders that lived with us had a baptism yesterday which was pretty cool. The new elder got to baptize one of them and you shoulda seen his dunking. Right to the bottom I tell ya! I didn´t think she was coming back up. :O Then after, in South American fashion, they had a sweet party in the church cause it was a birthday! They even had a bouncy house thing. And they had crappy hot chocolate and things called Jet Jet! They are kinda like packing peanuts sprinkled with sand. Mmmm! Yeah! We´re having a baptism this thursday so I´m pretty excited for that one!
In other news, Inocencio said he wanted to "resign his investigatorship". He was scared of baptism so now we´re still working with him, but we´ll see how everything goes. We did find some other cool people this week. One of them is a die-hard catholic lady, but she´s really interested so hopefully all goes well!
Other than that, I think it was pretty quiet down here. Only two more sundays left in this change! Crazy! It´s good to know that there is a rabid fox running around back home. But yeah, happy Valentine´s day everyone! I celebrated by going to a chinese restaurant in Asunción. I didn´t actually eat anything cause I had some crappy food last night that did me something awful. But the food looked good. I love you all! Stay safe and happy and all that jazz!
Love,
Elder Morris
Just another swell week in swell Posta Leiva! It´s been pretty exciting I suppose, and filled with lots of rain which means that it´s cloudy a lot which is quite nice. We had zone conference on thursday which was pretty magical. It was a lot better than the last one cause I could actually understand what people were saying. We did some sweet service this week in the asentimiento. We moved a fence post about 8 inches so the neighbor lady could have 8 inches more of ghetto land. It´s kind of cool how people that live in houses made of trash can argue about less than a foot of weeds! Yeah! And on the way back from the service, we watched a dog get hit by a car. The dog is okay so don´t you worry! The other elders that lived with us had a baptism yesterday which was pretty cool. The new elder got to baptize one of them and you shoulda seen his dunking. Right to the bottom I tell ya! I didn´t think she was coming back up. :O Then after, in South American fashion, they had a sweet party in the church cause it was a birthday! They even had a bouncy house thing. And they had crappy hot chocolate and things called Jet Jet! They are kinda like packing peanuts sprinkled with sand. Mmmm! Yeah! We´re having a baptism this thursday so I´m pretty excited for that one!
In other news, Inocencio said he wanted to "resign his investigatorship". He was scared of baptism so now we´re still working with him, but we´ll see how everything goes. We did find some other cool people this week. One of them is a die-hard catholic lady, but she´s really interested so hopefully all goes well!
Other than that, I think it was pretty quiet down here. Only two more sundays left in this change! Crazy! It´s good to know that there is a rabid fox running around back home. But yeah, happy Valentine´s day everyone! I celebrated by going to a chinese restaurant in Asunción. I didn´t actually eat anything cause I had some crappy food last night that did me something awful. But the food looked good. I love you all! Stay safe and happy and all that jazz!
Love,
Elder Morris
Monday, February 7, 2011
Mon Feb 7, 2011 -- Posta Leiva
Hello again family and friends,
Another week has passed in good old Paraguay. It was kind of rainy this week so nothing tooooo exciting happened. We had interviews with Presidente Madariaga this week which was nice. Our house kind of flooded too because of the rain and whatnot. That was kind of fun. One of the drainage pipes on our upstairs patio thing was clogged with stuff so the water wasn´t draining fast enough. But, we solved the problem and it made for magical photos I guess. Also, we did some sweet service this week. We got to cut jungle stuff with machetes which was pretty fun. Elder Macias (new guy) was cutting down a branch from a tree and broke his machete in half. The half that went flying almost hit me but I dodged it like the Matrix! And for Pday today we went into San Lorenzo and I found a sweeeeet backpack. So I bought it :D It´s pretty legit. One day you´ll all see it. A lot of the days were much less hot this week, and that made showering without a heater kind of awful. I really hope I´m not here in Posta Leiva when winter comes. Elder Macias got his first real Pday today because for the past few he´s been running errands with his Zone Leader/trainer, but today his Zone Leader/trainer had to go to Asunción for Jedi Council with Presdidente Madariaga. So Macias got to come with us! He saw his first parrot in Paraguay today and was most pleased. Then the parrot pooped. Woo!
Our cool investigator Inocencio had an emergency and had to go to Asunción instead of church on Sunday :( But he´s really stoked to get baptized he says so that´ll happen in February hopefully. He´s legit. And old. Other than that, the missionary work is going smoothly and whatnot. It´s really annoying being in a country with two national languages cause everyone on the street yells at us in Guarani and I dunno what they´re saying. It´s probably better that way. But yeah, that´s all I have for this week. We´re already halfway done with this change. It´s pretty crazy how fast time flies on the mission. I´m having a good time and it´s pretty sweet to hear that Matt gets to use some of that French he learned in school! I love you all! Be safe and be happy! :D
Love,
Elder Morris
Another week has passed in good old Paraguay. It was kind of rainy this week so nothing tooooo exciting happened. We had interviews with Presidente Madariaga this week which was nice. Our house kind of flooded too because of the rain and whatnot. That was kind of fun. One of the drainage pipes on our upstairs patio thing was clogged with stuff so the water wasn´t draining fast enough. But, we solved the problem and it made for magical photos I guess. Also, we did some sweet service this week. We got to cut jungle stuff with machetes which was pretty fun. Elder Macias (new guy) was cutting down a branch from a tree and broke his machete in half. The half that went flying almost hit me but I dodged it like the Matrix! And for Pday today we went into San Lorenzo and I found a sweeeeet backpack. So I bought it :D It´s pretty legit. One day you´ll all see it. A lot of the days were much less hot this week, and that made showering without a heater kind of awful. I really hope I´m not here in Posta Leiva when winter comes. Elder Macias got his first real Pday today because for the past few he´s been running errands with his Zone Leader/trainer, but today his Zone Leader/trainer had to go to Asunción for Jedi Council with Presdidente Madariaga. So Macias got to come with us! He saw his first parrot in Paraguay today and was most pleased. Then the parrot pooped. Woo!
Our cool investigator Inocencio had an emergency and had to go to Asunción instead of church on Sunday :( But he´s really stoked to get baptized he says so that´ll happen in February hopefully. He´s legit. And old. Other than that, the missionary work is going smoothly and whatnot. It´s really annoying being in a country with two national languages cause everyone on the street yells at us in Guarani and I dunno what they´re saying. It´s probably better that way. But yeah, that´s all I have for this week. We´re already halfway done with this change. It´s pretty crazy how fast time flies on the mission. I´m having a good time and it´s pretty sweet to hear that Matt gets to use some of that French he learned in school! I love you all! Be safe and be happy! :D
Love,
Elder Morris
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Pictures from Posta Leiva
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| "out in an asentimiento" |
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| how to avoid skin cancer |
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| warehouse that was burned killing wasps |
January 31, 2011 -- Posta Leiva
Oh hey there everyone back home,
Everything is going well in good ole Posta Leiva B. The biggest news that I have this week is that some warehouse right behind our house burned down a little bit. It´s technically still standing and whatnot but the inside is all burnt and charred and it´s pretty sweet. Our dueño (the dude that we pay to live in our house) and his wife decided that they wanted to kill some wasps in there, and in Paraguay the obvious way to kill them is with fire! So yeah, somehow they ended up burning everything inside and it was not good, and in the end they had to cut the power to our house for 2 days. But, we don´t have AC or hot water anyway so it was just dark for a while. :D But yeah, power has since returned and it´s all good. In other great news, Fanta has come out with their new Piña flavor! Yeah! It´s pretty great.
This week was pretty cool on the missionary work side too! We met some old dude named Inocencio this week during one of our contacts and he invited us in and all that good stuff. We mentioned church once and he told us that it would be "very interesting" to go to our church and share the gospel with people. So before we even invited him to come, he told us that he´d like to come with us on Sunday. We thought that was kinda cool, but didn´t think he´d come because he was kinda old and seemed a little confused about what was going on. But.....he came! Good ole Inocencio came just the same! (I hope that doesn´t break copyright laws or something because now I´m on a blog :) ). So, we´ll go back and visit him some more and I think good things are going to happen. Everyone pray for Inocencio! Also this week, I ate fish for the second time in Paraguay. It wasn´t very good, but I hate fish anyway so maybe that was why it wasn´t good. We had to walk 50 minutes to get to it too which wasn´t fun. It was out in an asentimiento which is kinda like Paraguay´s version of a trailer park, but so much more ghetto. The houses are made out of garbage and tarps and stuff. I have a picture that I´ll send! But yeah, the fish didn´t kill me and it´s all good. I watched a goose mess up a cat there, so it was worth the walk I guess.
Today for P-day we went into Asunción and went to Mercado 4! It is some random market place that actually isn´t that cool, but I´ve been there at least and now I know what it´s like. It´s in the South mission and we had to get permission to go there and stuff, but that was about the only thing that made it cool. I didn´t get pickpocketed or mugged or anything so that´s good!
I think that´s about all of the exciting news that I have for the day, but it´s been a pretty exciting week for sure. Now it´s working time and time for a delicious Piña Fanta! I´m still safe and sound and happy and everything is going swell! I love you all! Stay happy and safe!
Love,
Elder Morris
Everything is going well in good ole Posta Leiva B. The biggest news that I have this week is that some warehouse right behind our house burned down a little bit. It´s technically still standing and whatnot but the inside is all burnt and charred and it´s pretty sweet. Our dueño (the dude that we pay to live in our house) and his wife decided that they wanted to kill some wasps in there, and in Paraguay the obvious way to kill them is with fire! So yeah, somehow they ended up burning everything inside and it was not good, and in the end they had to cut the power to our house for 2 days. But, we don´t have AC or hot water anyway so it was just dark for a while. :D But yeah, power has since returned and it´s all good. In other great news, Fanta has come out with their new Piña flavor! Yeah! It´s pretty great.
This week was pretty cool on the missionary work side too! We met some old dude named Inocencio this week during one of our contacts and he invited us in and all that good stuff. We mentioned church once and he told us that it would be "very interesting" to go to our church and share the gospel with people. So before we even invited him to come, he told us that he´d like to come with us on Sunday. We thought that was kinda cool, but didn´t think he´d come because he was kinda old and seemed a little confused about what was going on. But.....he came! Good ole Inocencio came just the same! (I hope that doesn´t break copyright laws or something because now I´m on a blog :) ). So, we´ll go back and visit him some more and I think good things are going to happen. Everyone pray for Inocencio! Also this week, I ate fish for the second time in Paraguay. It wasn´t very good, but I hate fish anyway so maybe that was why it wasn´t good. We had to walk 50 minutes to get to it too which wasn´t fun. It was out in an asentimiento which is kinda like Paraguay´s version of a trailer park, but so much more ghetto. The houses are made out of garbage and tarps and stuff. I have a picture that I´ll send! But yeah, the fish didn´t kill me and it´s all good. I watched a goose mess up a cat there, so it was worth the walk I guess.
Today for P-day we went into Asunción and went to Mercado 4! It is some random market place that actually isn´t that cool, but I´ve been there at least and now I know what it´s like. It´s in the South mission and we had to get permission to go there and stuff, but that was about the only thing that made it cool. I didn´t get pickpocketed or mugged or anything so that´s good!
I think that´s about all of the exciting news that I have for the day, but it´s been a pretty exciting week for sure. Now it´s working time and time for a delicious Piña Fanta! I´m still safe and sound and happy and everything is going swell! I love you all! Stay happy and safe!
Love,
Elder Morris
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