Oh why hello there everyone back home,
This week was another magical week in South America. This week also marks the semana santa here. Yay! That pretty much means nothing to us as missionaries except for that it´ll be harder to contact people cause they´ll all be either travelling or mourning and stuff. We also will get lots of chipa (the paraguayan bread stuff) which is sort of exciting I suppose. Also something else cool this week: tomorrow, by national mandate, is "clean up your jungle areas" day to try and kill all the homes of the mosquitos. They pass a disease called dengue and as of now, it´s killing around 30 people a day in one of the main Asunción hospitals, so that means it´s probably killing more than that. Crazy right? Those darn mosquitos! So tomorrow might be a lot of machete using for us missionaries, but that´s always a good time.
This week was sorta normal. I saw my first turtle here just crossing a road so that was kind of exciting. I carried it for a little bit but then got bored of it. Now it´s just wandering around Posta Leiva somewhere. The weather here doesn´t really know what it wants to do. It´s really hot some days and then really cold some. I like the cold days more cause I don´t have to have a sombrero. Also, this Sunday we had a baptism of that girl that finally got permission to be baptized which was just great! We went to visit her Sunday evening and talked to her sister who said "now the next person you guys are going to baptize is me!" And then we said "how about the first of May?" Then she said "that sounds good to me". So now we shall baptize her 18 year old sister hopefully. She travels a lot so we´ll see how everything works out. But, it was a pretty cool little happening.
Also, Elder Claypool (we live with him) got his new little trainee straight from the MTC this week. He´s from St. George and really likes to play frisbee. He challenged us to a game of frisbee today, so the four elders that stayed in the zone challenged the 4 new elders. Long story short, we won cause we´re bosses.
But, other than that I think it´s all been said. I´ll be doing a lot of chipa eating and contacting lots of mourning people, so it should be quite fun. My third change with Elder Sperry is now in full swing and going magically. It´s less hot which is always a plus! Stay happy up there in the good ole U. S. of A. Chau!
Elder Morris
