Then at night, we had a cool family
home evening with the Familia Avalos. They are a legit family. Every time we are at their house, I feel like
I’m home in the States. Their family is like a good, normal family, and their
house is pretty nice. They even ask us
to wash our hands before we eat. Crazy! So we had planned on showing them the “Family
is Forever” video. But, we couldn’t get
it. Then we were gonna show “Testaments,”
but they wanted to be outside so no TV.
So, we winged an activity about Lehi’s dream. But Elder Beus and I both thought and
imagined it different ways, so it was awkward.
But it went well. They understood
and we had a good lesson and then good food as she made sopa and pizza. Pretty
solid night. Hopefully we can get the dad baptized. He is such a good guy that
the members joke that becoming a member of our church would corrupt him. He
gave us 2 of his work shirts. So I can
now pretend I work for ANDE (the electric company), pretty legit actually.
Then on Wednesday I hit my year mark
in country. How crazy is that! It doesn’t feel like I’ve been here a year or
that in like 10 months I’m home. So weird.
We didn’t do anything special for it, but still a landmark of the
mission.
Then we had quite the day on
Thursday. It was a zone conference and so that always basically kills your day.
But at least this one didn’t make me want to kill myself. It helped that before we went there we went to
McDonalds and ate with Elders Wolfgramm and McClelland. They have a sweet big
mac deal right now where it costs 7500 Guarnai (approximately $1.69 U.S.). So
I got that 10 piece nuggets and an Oreo McFlurry. Also while we waited for them to show up, the
TV had Pokemon on, so naturally I watched. Ha ha.
Yes I am 22 years old, but again who says that is grown up? Ha ha.
Then the zone conference went well.
We learned some stuff. And then…a
bit of an adventure. So I tried taking a
bus back to our house or rather a route I never take, but a member told me works.
Well, apparently 2 buses of the same number pass by there but end up in
different areas. So instead of getting
dropped off on our doorstep, we got dropped off 4 kilometers away with a box of
Book of Mormons, our winter blankets, and our backpacks, and on top of that we
were in our suits and it’s still in the Paraguayan summer. Not a fun walk back. Very hot! But we made it.
On Saturday we did service for a
member family, and it was good to get my hands dirty again. Although I’m older and wiser now, so when the
blisters started I switched to raking instead of using the machete to cut. The others weren’t as lucky. But then it
started to rain, so that died. But not
before she gave us banana bread and lemonade. So good.
Then on Sunday we had a less active
lady come to church with us. She was the town drunk just a couple weeks ago. We have been teaching her. When we showed up
at her house, she was ready to go. Not
only was she ready to go, but she was listening to hymns. Crazy. So that was really exciting. Then after that, we did a visit with the
Hermano Martinez. Like always, it took
hours - but it was worth it as she could turn into a cool lady to visit. We also gave her a blessing for her surgery,
so that’s always a really good feeling. I also ate two milk-based dessert
things this week with the Familia Zorrilla.
The first one was milk, white corn kernels and sugar. The second was rice with milk. Both were pretty good actually. And I ate a lot better this week and did
harder workouts so hopefully that will make a difference, and I’ll look good by
the time hot tub season rolls around and I’m home.
Love you guys. Take care and have a
good week.
Elder Frost
Elder Frost
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