Wow, another week down and another
closer to the end. I don’t have a ton to
say this week as Paraguay is refusing to let me go quietly and promptly made me
sicker than I have been since the beginning of my mission. We couldn’t even really leave the house from
Monday night til Saturday. It was
bad.
The start of the week was quite an
adventure though as Monday was the Virgin of Caacupes birthday. What this means
is basically the entire country shuts down.
Grocery stores, restaurants normal businesses, everything. All the catholic people do a trek of sorts to
Caacupe to worship the virgin there. It’s
nuts. It’s also quite a pain when you are
trying to have a normal day. In fact we
couldn’t find anything open or anything to do in Luque. So we got together with a couple other
missionaries and played some basketball.
It was fun but we are all terrible.
Apparently the ability to shoot a ball is one of the first things to
go. We started shooting threes but no
go. Then free throws. Not better.
Finally we just chose teams. It
was fun but quite sad to watch I’m sure.
After thoroughly wiping yourselves out, we decided to go eat.
The only place we could think to eat
that would be open was shopping Pinedo so off we went. It was pretty packed
since it literally was like the only place open. But we ate and it was good. I got a sandwich at Quiznos and fries. I
enjoyed it. I’m so ready for states food
all the time.
After we ate we sat and just hung
out for awhile and then we started wandering around the mall since there was nothing
better to do that day. We found some
cool shops and checked out the new additions they had done. And we had a funny moment as our group got
split up into two groups. And only one
group had cell phones. So we each
wandered around looking for the other for awhile. It got to the point where I stopped by the
grocery store and asked the checker lady if she had seen a group of gringos
like us. She said yes and everybody
laughed and pointed us in the right direction.
Eventually we found them did some last minute stuff before heading out.
We went back to Luque and managed to find an open cyber and that was about
it.
Our FHE got canceled which was
probably a good thing since we had some drama getting home. It turns out Elder
Singer had left the keys to our house at the basketball court so we were
screwed. We called the elders over there
and they found our keys but it’s was too late to go get them. So we had a problem. Our dueno (Note: a
“dueno” is translated as the “owner”) managed to create a makeshift key out
of an allen wrench. It was impressive
and also kinda sketchy to see just how easy someone could get into our house.
After that we played poker and
called it a night.
We had a zone meeting on Thursday
and I had to get our keys so we canceled district meeting and went and got our
keys. It was such a relief to have them
again.
Then like I said we were super sick
so we just alternated trips to the bathroom and tried to survive when the
electricity and therefore fans went out every so often.
On Thursday we managed to pull
ourselves together to go to the zone meeting where we talked a lot about
obedience. Then a surprise - a new way
of doing numbers starting in January. It’s a change I’ve been wanting my whole
mission, so it figures it would start right after I leave. Basically what happens is now we only report
the church attendance how many recent converts are still active and how many
people we are reactivating. It gives
more freedom to work how you want as long as you get the results for those
numbers. I love the idea. I think it’s
going to help a lot.
Then some recovery days before
priesthood conference on Saturday. It was good.
Nothing too fancy. There was a big
focus on missionary work. Then on Sunday
we had testimony meeting, since we didn’t the week before. They called the new bishopric as well. I bore my testimony as well since I figured
it would be my last time in Paraguay. It
went good and all the members congratulated me on going home. What part of 2 weeks is a long time didn’t
they get, ha ha. But I hope it does go
fast.
I’m ready to be home and see all of
you again. Love you and take care.
Elder Frost
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