One other thing from this week is I
learned how much of a pain it is to wait on buses. Anytime we come to Luque or
the city closest to us we end up waiting at least 30 minutes for a bus and then
it’s on a terrible dirt road and packed.
Soooo much fun.
Also I got sick this week. So it’s officially fall, almost winter. Almost one year ago, I got sick for the first
time -- Easter Sunday. Not fun. I’m
hoping this year goes by a lot better. Ideally
less than 2 trips to the hospital ha ha.
So far it's just a head cold, but so it begins. Also I found out that, yup, I am allergic to
something. Some plant in Paraguay does in fact cause me to have hives. So that sucked, but I got medicine from the
nurse and all seems to be better now. Hopefully,
it stays that way.
Also, I got the chance to do karaoke
again this week. I’ve missed it. We did it as part of a ward activity. Elder Jimenez
has a program that acts like an actual karaoke machine. It was pretty cool to
sing with words and the bouncing ball, and it judged you and gave you points. I was the worst of the night. But I was sick, and I was far away from the
computer so it couldn’t hear me well. Ha ha.
It was really fun. This program
even had songs in English, so naturally everyone wanted me to sing. But they wanted me to sing songs that I have
never even heard of before and tried to justify it as, oh well, it’s
karaoke. Nope, not gonna happen. They did get me to sing a Backstreet Boys
song though. And then we all sang some
Spanish stuff. Luckily one of the songs
was by Camila, a favorite of Elder Anderson’s, so I knew it a little bit.
There was also a ton of cake, so
that was a plus. I ate a lot. But not as
much as I wanted to ha ha. I am trying
to lose some weight. Luckily, the insane amount of walking we do here is doing
work, and I feel better even if I don’t look it yet.
For example, on Thursday we went to
Nueva Asuncion, the little colony like thing we’ve got. Well, we missed the bus going out there, so
we decided to walk it. Over an hour later we arrived. And that’s not even far
in this area. Everything is at least 40 minutes from our house. It’s crazy!
Being in the jungle is definitely different. We had a good day out there though. Basically, I showed Elder Alvizures all the
things that I was shown the week before, but we got to know it a lot better and
visited some good people. It was also
less of a swamp this week, but I’m sure it will be back. We did catch the last
bus out of there though, as the gang of thieves is running around. A member told us a story about some elders
years ago who got robbed all the way down to the skin. And they had to walk the hourish home in the
nude. Yup, not for me. Ha ha.
We also had an interesting
experience this week as we got our electric bill. It is not included in our rent, like it has
been in my other areas. Well, our
landlord gives us the bill and says, “I gave this to the other elders but I
guess they didn’t pay cuz they are going to shut off your power Friday.” Well, it hadn’t been paid in 3 months, so
that was fun. Luckily, the office took
care of it.
Also, we had rain this week. Another
sign that it is fall almost winter. I
still hate the rain. I also found out that our house leaks through the windows,
so that was interesting waking up to rain on the floor. Luckily, no holes in the roof like in the
other houses. So all’s good still with
the house. Also lucky for us, this area is really great in giving us references
so that’s been good, since without them we’d be seriously lost. So we spent
most of the week contacting references. So give your elders people to visit ha ha.
Also I got to meet 2 of the first
people baptized in the area, and they’ve been members basically since the
beginning of the church in Paraguay. They
even built the church building. It was way
cool to hear their stories.
Also, we finally began to get the
hang of all the little paths in our area, and it makes it a lot shorter but I’m
allergic to some weeds ha ha. So it’s a
good and bad thing. But our area is really pretty. If you like the jungle, ha ha.
One of the references we had this
week was a guy named Jose that the elders used to teach before a guy threatened
to kill them and they got changed into another area, ha ha. He is super legit and easily jumped to the
top of the prospective baptisms list. I’m really excited to be working with him,
and it should be a good thing.
Also, I met a man without a leg who
still plays soccer. He has 2 fake legs
-- 1 for normal use, and 1 for playing soccer.
Now that’s dedication. I’m gonna
miss the soccer madness of South America, ha ha.
Also I saw part of the masters golf
tournament at a guy’s house. Who knew golf
was popular in South America? Also, I wanna play again. Boakes temp -- let’s
get er done. Also, I played credit card
Monopoly in Portugeuse while waiting for lunch. It’s so different. Latins don’t know how to play either. Ha ha.
But all-in-all, it was a good week. Hope yours was just as good.
Love you guys. Take care.
Elder Frost
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