all i can say is wow.
these past 5 days have been crazy! okay so Im in the area Juan de Salazar and its right outside of the city of Luque! its about an hour from the mission home and it takes about a half an hour bus ride to come into the city to where we can go to the grocery store and email!
okay let me just describe paraguay. super blue sky, super green trees everywhere, mango trees actually! and red dirt everywhere! its so red! and its soooo hot its 100 degrees all the time and you sweat and sweat some more! it never stops! haha
okay here is the sum up of my week so far...
we left the mission home on wednesday, me and my companion hermana tomco! we are like soul sisters haha we totally have the same style and listen to the same music and im so thankful to have her as my trainer! shes from springville and her dads from seatlle and her mom used to work at snowbird too! haha
anyways pablina, our landlord came and picked us up, shes baptist and has been housing the missionaries in our area for 14 years haha we live in this tiny white house and the elders live pretty close which is awesome and our ward building is about 5 minutes away! our area is huge though, it would take about 2 hours to walk to the other side of it. oh and like no one has cars here, you either walk or ride the bus which drives super fast! haha they start driving before your even on the bus!
our first night we went and met the ayala family! they had been meeting with the past hermanas and they got baptized on saturday! so we were super busy planning a bpatism for angèl norma and alejandro. they are the cutest family ever! i will send you pictures from the baptism!
the people in our ward are super nice! they have helped us so much in getting to know the area and the people in our ward and investigators. (oh yeah by the way, both me and my trainer and new to this area so we know nothing but have been getting help from elder hunsaker, because hes been here about 4 months now)
its been kind of overwhelming trying to keep up with the spanish but i know i just have to be patient with myself. they totally like mumble their words here and sometimes speak in guarani when they feel like it so its harder to understand. also the education is really poor and a lot of people dont know how to read and they also speak grammatically incorrect so im going to come back speaking a spanish that i dont know who would understand haha
the people here are so kind though, they just will be sitting in their front yards drinking matte and they let us come sit down and share a lesson with them, the problem though is that they are lazy and so its hard to get them to commit to something, especially a religion that requires putting forth some effort but they are so humble.
there houses have dirt floors and concrete walls and they dont have windows or doors. we clap outside the front gates, thats the way of like knocking at the door. and we have lunch with the members and they feed us a lot of meat and rice and pasta cooked in oil, its all super fatty and they want to feed us a lot because they feel like they will be blessed for serving the missionaries! also hermana lopez in our ward does our laundry, we pay her a little bit each time she does it so we could do it ourselves but she needs the extra money so she always wants to do it.
another highlight of the week was i got to speak in church on sunday haha i hope they understood me!
also i just need to describe how third world it is here.... we have to burn our trash out back behind our house, the plumbing system is so poor you cant flush toiletpaper down the toilets so you have to throw the toilet paper away but they dont have trashcans so they throw it in the corners of the bathroom stalls, air conditioning doesnt exist haha and you cant shower with the light on or else the shower knobs will electricute you haha
its so different but yet so the same! Last night everyone was out in their front yards eating dinner with their families and playing soccer together and it reminded me of home!
okay ill have more to tell you about next week! its kind of just been busy hectic crazy change in a good way! haha
i love you all and hope your doing good! until next week!
love
hermana meese
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