Eusebio Ayala

Oh hey everyone!

Hakuetereí. It´s really hot down here now. Every time we talk about the heat with people they just tell us to wait until spring is over. I must have forgotten how hot it really got last year. I´m not very excited to start another summer, but we´ll make it through! We did buy another fan today because our old one gave up the ghost a week ago. We actually had to jump start it like a prop plane before which was always an adventure. But, now we have an intense "chrome" one. Gasp! The man tried to sell it to me for 140 mil, but I played the sad innocent card and got it for 125. Gosh I´m good. New York street vendors are nothing for me now. We also bought a little Christmas tree today so we´ll put it up really soon! Yay!

It´s almost Christmas which is just nuts! November just zoomed on past. I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving back home! I enjoyed a nice bowl of frosted flakes and some rolls. Hetereí che tembi´u. I also bought some delicious chocolate bon bon´s and ate them all that night. Elder Milne left his bon bon´s on the bus from Caacupe so he didn´t get anything fun. I shared my bon bon´s at least.

It was recent convert Ricardo´s birthday on Sunday! He blessed the sacrament for the first time like a stud and it was just awesome. He also finished the Book of Mormon for the first time in just over a month. He´s quite the reading machine. He just turned 18, so now he´s all stoked to keep preparing for a mission in a year! He´s just way too cool.

I had a division this week in Caacupe which was pretty fun. December 8th is the Day of the Virgin here in Paraguay, and the center of all the parties and worships and whatnot is Caacupe. There were already a lot of people there and there will just be sooo many more as we get closer. It´ll be interesting to see how it is now that I´m actually closer to the "city of the virgin". Last year I was 8 hours away in La Paloma. Anywho, the division was good and Elder Milne did a swell job in Barrero so everyone is just happy. We also talked to a real Mayan about the end of the world in 2012 with their calendar and whatnot. He says that the people making the calendar just died, and nobody else knew how to make it so they just stopped. So he says that´s all that happened. So there you have it! From a Mayan, the end is not 2012 :D

Also, the power went out yesterday for a really long time which is always an adventure. When I went to the bathroom with my flashlight, I spotlighted a big ole cockroach that was carrying away one of our matches from the kitchen! I dunno what he was going to do with a match, but now he´s dead. I got em good!

As far as missionary work goes, things are improving here. We had some investigators in church, and one of them is getting baptized on the 10th of December if everything goes well. Her name is Cynthia, and she´s been living with some dude but just kicked him out of the house cause he´s a punk and she wants to get baptized. I´m pretty stoked. We also have a cool guy named Luis that we´re working with, but he describes himself as "doubting Thomas" in hard to convince. He just has to read and whatnot, and all of it will fall into place. He came to church so we´ll see what happens now!

Other than that, everything is just normal and great. We´re just doing swell down here in the lovely heat of Paraguay. I love you all and I hope you have a good week. Remember to pray and read your scriptures! :D

Love,
Elder Morris