Week 69 - Villarica - World's largest rodent, Barbed wire clothesline, More cooking lessons, Sample Schedule

 

Ivan's new neighbor, world's largest rodent, carpinchos (huge guinea pig)

LDS Chapel in Paso Yobai

This week was a rough one, just about everyone who we put appointments with wasn´t there when we went back, but 3 men of the few people who were there all went to church, so that made it all worth it, and they all seemed to have felt something special there, and that is just what they need. That is really how it is. Out of all the thousands of people I have talked to and will talk to, some people are just ready for the truth and the blessings. 

On our way out of one of our visits I got a scrape from someone´s barbed wired clothesline, that just shows how lucky I am, since almost every house in Paraguay has a barbed wire clothesline, and just now after a year or so one got me. One of my companions would hit almost every one of them.

 It´s rainy today, last week it warmed up for a couple of days, it was really nice, I actually  wore a short sleeved shirt for a couple days.

From 8 to 9am we have personal study, 9 to 11 companion study, 11 to 12 language study. During the first 12 weeks of someones time in the mission this is the schedule, normally there´s a little less companion study and sometimes less language study. 

My companion is the second youngest in his family. if I remember right his parents used to be inactive, but now they´re active. He just hadn't heated up leftovers before, this week I taught him how to cook noodles, and how to fry sausage, he´s becoming a real cook.

Luckily, Elder Reyes, one of the other missionaries in the ward knows how to play the piano. 

The first thing I would do if I was in Paraguay and someone told me to make money off of 20 bucks, I would buy some bananas and jump on the colectivo and sell them.

 My project of the day is fixing the fan that we have, because we´re really going to need it in a week or so.

 I actually weighed myself in a Pharmacy, just before writing, and the scale says I weigh 73.3 kilograms (160 pounds). You can figure out if I gained weight, and if you think the scale was reliable (its very possible it wasn't).  Paraguayans are skinnier than Americans. I've only seen one super fat person in all my time here, (instead of every time I go into town in the states).

The harp music here sounds very good.

-Elder Bowles