Why hello everyone!
So this week has been alot of fun. Not only was it mothers day here but also it was the starting of the celebration of the bicentennial of paraguay!!! yaaaaaaaaa! unfortunately where we are we don’t get to see any of the big things. in the big cities HUGE parades and BIG performances all just a lot of fun for a great country.
So this last week i had a missionary classic story for missionaries who ride busses. we were going to another area to have a baptismal interview for which we had to take a bus. the busses here are either deserted or packed. this one was packed. there were no two seats next to each other for me and my companion to sit down so he sat with a guy and i went a few more seats back to talk to a kid around 15 or 16. just started chatting like normal stuff then got into the restoration. eventually ended up giving him a little pamphlet that we have and getting an address. the classic part was that my companion got of the bus and i hadn’t finished talking to the kid so i hurried to get his info and then jumped off the bus when it was moving. can you say awesome. yes. glad i didnt get hurt but i have to say that i am very grateful for my chinese firedrill skills that i have developed over the years. kudos to church ball with the med lake boys.
we also had a fun little activity for mothers day this last saturday. mothers day was this last sunday here. there was a bunch of songs of paraguay and poems for mothers. a story about the 2000 strippling worriors and how important the mothers were. we got to have a little fun thing. a puppet show!!!!! yes Elder Wilson and his companion Elder Piriz were the stars of a puppet show. we did a little first discussion and had a few little laughs it was wonderful.
oh and how many ways can you eat avacado (here known as awakate in guarani) so far here i have had two. one just mashed with sugar pretty yummy and then in a drink which was milk, sugar, some other thing, and awakate.
since many of those reading this know me very well. you know how much i love food and how much i dont only love eating it but also all of the other things around it. i cant really name the other things right now but you know what i mean. here we eat alot of empanadas. soooooo good. its whatever you can put inside of a little bread thingy which is really good. the picture will show. then there are the fun avacado things. the tortillas. oh and we eat alot of noodles with meat and rice with meat. yes i am eating rice its hard to believe but i am. and a thing called asado which is the bbq here which is amazing. not alot of seasoning but awesome. all which have made me lose 20 pounds!!!!!! my clothes are starting to look kinda funny so i have to go get them fixed cuz it doesn’t look to good.
a great thing about being a missionary is the constant spiritual experiences. we have them all the time and it is a wonderful thing to have. to grow spiritually is one of the greatest blessings of the mission. i have been asked to give a talk in zone conference which is a meeting of 50 plus missionaries and the president of our mission. the topic is attributes of christ. i have chosen to do charity. charity is the pure love of christ he has done so much for us and is our lord and savior he suffered for us that we may live with our heavenly father again. i love my savior so much. everyday though we must follow his example and be charitable to others. small acts can do big things. and it opens not only doors but hearts as well.
the church is true and i'm soooo happy to be here in paraguay.
love and miss you all
Elder Parker Wilson
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