My first week in Isla Bogado!

Hola Hola everyone!
This week has just flown by with changes and meeting so many new people and getting to know the area! plus they took the elders out of our area and so now we have two! Plus we had to move houses this week and we moved into the elders house which meant a ton of cleaning haha but thankfully this house has air conditioning in the bedroom, blessings!
So first my companionl, hermana cowger! she has 10 months on the mission and shes from Melba Idaho and she is so sweet! we had some fun bonding experiences this week because she got lice from one of the families that we visit, the little kids always want to touch her hair because its really long and really blonde and everyone loves it! haha so we had fun putting the lice treatment in each others hair, I had to do it too because you know, we are together 24 7 haha
anyways Isla Bogado, its a lot nicer than my other area! people have like real houses, like big enough we can go in and sit down and have a lesson and some of the members have cars too! this area is like a lot more jungly i guess haha I dont know how to explain it but its a lot more humid and theres a lot more trees and everyone around here has flower nurseries and sells flowers! i love it!
my first night there we went over to the familia benitezs house because it was the dad, modestos birthday and we had a birthday dinner with the bishop and his family and another family their too. modesto just got baptized the sunday before i got there and now their whole family are members of the church and getting ready to go be sealed in the temple!
The ward here is awesome too! its bigger than my old ward and all the members are super willing to help with the missionary work. Hermana Perez is the young womens president and we live about two blocks away from her but she is the most loving lady ive ever met and right now shes making skirts for the young women in our ward so they have a skirt to wear to church. also her and her husband drive their truck to church and put about 20 people in the back of it each sunday so they can get to church too, I think our ward attendance has been going up since they started doing this haha
but anyways, Im so excited to be here! me and hermana cowger are ready to work hard! we have these 3 sisters that are so ready to get baptized, we are going to be working a lot with them! their 15 12 and 10 and they live with their dad because their mom abandoned them, but hna perez came with us to a lesson with them last night and she told them shes going to be their mama because shes the mama for all the young women and they just teared up and it broke my heart!
im so thankful for the church, we have such a support system behind us with our leaders and our ward, this truly is the lords kingdom in the earth. I will probably have more stories for you all next week! love you all so much! rohayhu!

con mucho amor
hermana meese

Sometimes we have really hard weeks.

Hola Familia!
So this week.. was very hard. and very very hot. some members told us that this is the hottest summer theyve had in paraguay in 80 years! ha! and also I learned this week that asuncion is rated the hottest city in the entire world! yep thats where I am! and you know what happens when its this hot? nobody has water... its a problem.
honestly that has been the problem of this week. we have had water in our house 4 out of the 7 days this week but thats better than the asentimientos where like all the lean to kinda houses are havent had any for like a week! so nobody was very happy this week and no one really wanted to talk to us but we kept on working right through it! there was a lot of walking during siesta which is the hottest part of the day which is like 2 in the afternoon until 5 and siesta is naptime, and everyone has naps here, like people come home from work to sleep and you dont want to wake up people during naptime, that just makes them mad haha we are just praying for some rain to bring everyone back to life! its true though that we have to go through hard weeks so that we can experience the good weeks too!
we did have some awesome moments though! Elder hunsaker our zone leader was doing divisions with an elder thats brazilian and during their division they went and visited the family of Creosa, our brazilian family weve been working with and we havent been able to talk to the dad at all because he doesnt want to listen but elder sousa from brazil, sat and talked to the dad for about an hour in portuguese and shared his testimony about how the church has changed his family and then yesterday elder hunsaker got a portuguese book of mormon from elder sousa that he wrote his testimony in so now we are going to go take that to him and try and have a lesson!
also speaking of elder hunsaker, hes going home this week! and im sending presents with him for you family! with him going home we had quite a few parties with the ward members and got some super good food and got to celebrate with the elders and them!
anyways. we have transfers this week!!! and im sadly leaving my little juan de salazar! hermana lutz is staying and going to be training, but im going to Isla Bugado with my new companion Hermana Cowger! Hermana Lutz knows her and says she super nice and im pretty sure shes from Idaho!
so that was pretty much my week! sorry there was not a ton to it! but I will have a ton to tell you next week about my new area! love you all so much! have a good week!

love hermana meese

Immigration Office

Soooo today has been a very long day! i have been sitting in the immigration office in asuncion for the past 3 and a half hours! but i can officially live in this country for the rest of my mission!
because of this i dont have a ton of time so im going to sum up my  week with some highlights...
last monday night we have a family home evening at hermana limpias house and we watched the restoration because she has a tv and it just turned into a full party when all of the kids in the neighborhood decided to show up and watch it with us! haha we had like 20 kids in her bedroom which is also the living room and kitchen haha
Tuesday we were walking along and we saw this paraguayan boy in a utah state shirt! and we were like what??? we talked to him and it turns out that his sister married a boy that served his mission in paraguay and she now lives in logan utah but she was their visiting her family! we were talking to her in spanish but she was talking all about utah and we got a little home sick! but it was fun to hear about the snow and all of that!
Thursday President McMullin came to our zone and we had interviews and I got my second christmas package! I gave one of the reeses cups you sent me to this little boy thats a member in our ward and he spit it out! he thought it tasted gross! haha but we just see things differently, here peoples favorite candy are Halls cough drops! no joke! they sell them everywhere! haha
The craziest part of the week was we were in a lesson with this 16 year old girl and we heard someone light their trashpile behind us at the next house over and it was big! and so about the time we were halfway through sharing the first vision, we turned around and the neighors house was on fire!! we were just like oh my gosh that did not just happen! they got it put out pretty quick though with buckets of water! all i can say is.... this only would happen in paraguay...
and you know your a paraguayan missionary when your asking yourself, do i drink the dirty water or get dehydrated? both are gonna make us sick.... haha dont worry we´re fine! but we really have asked ourselves this question this week.
sorry that this is all i have time for today! i promise to share more next week and i will send pictures too! love you guys! also shout out to dad! happy birthday on wednesday!!!!! love you guys! talk to you next week!