Doin How We Do

Hope all is going well with you all. This last week has absolutely just flown by. We still have not moved just waiting for the office to call us to tell us what we gotta do. This last week we had interviews in Asunción with President Callan. Really a great and awesome guy. We are so blessed to have him as our president here in the Paraguay, Asunción mission. We are getting all prepared for the visit from our area authority who is Elder Arnold. The main focus has been becoming more organized and being more time officiant. What perfect stuff for me huh? In all honesty i think evan would probably be the best at all of that down here. While there we got to get some new blankets and a heater for our new house which is really nice and after we all went out for lunch with the district. (there are 8 elders in mine) We went to the super fancy place to eat pizza down here which is of course PIZZA HUT!!!!! k what i dont get is how pizza hut in the US is terrible and the buffet that we got to eat was amazing!!! they put corn on most of their pizzas here kinda weird but its not too bad.

So this weeks email is gonna be more of an informative of ¨Paraguay along with how the work is going. First informative:

so what we normally eat here for everyday meal varies but is the same. In our house me and my companion normally would cook biscuits which alot of the time we bring to members or investigators and they LOVE them. and every morning i cook an egg with a ton of tomatoes onions and peppers and then some toast. when me and my companion cook we normally cook rice or noodles with some Alfredo sauce for the noodles or just veggies for the rice. at our lunch appointments the norms consist of noodles/rice always with a tomato sauce, meat, onions, garlic, then bread, tortillas which are not like mexican tortillas they deep fry them with cheese inside and stuff really yummy. at every meal with members we eat a veggie called madioca. it is a rook here that is similar to the potato but not really. some people say its in the US but i don't recognize it at all. some elders hate it and others love it. me i love it. its a filler and its really healthy so double score!! k so you know how the Lord always brings miracles to our lives. well I LOVE RICE!!!! i know you all thought those words would never come out of my mouth/fingers but i do. normally i can eat it just plain but if its got something else i chow it down. nuts how the mission changes ya.

the weather here is fun. the thing that i think they get for natural disasters are just big floods. when it rains in pours. like as if its hail but its rain. i cant describe it ill try to do a short video and send it but it turns all of the streets into rivers which makes walking an adventure.

politics here is very interesting its corrupt and most people know it but nothing really changes. the president is a catholic bishop i think and nobody really likes him.

my lang is getting a lot better. i have 5 vocab words everyday that are normally weird but fun words that you dont use all the time. im actually speaking more guarani here. its not much at all but i can say a few things. the most common way of speaking guarani is called ¨jopara¨ which is a mixture of spanish and guarani.

and yes my farmers tan is better everyday yay.

k so this last week the best things that have happened have been with a couple alcibes and ramona. alcibes has progressed a ton and hes getting ready for his baptism sadly because it rained last sunday and not even most of the members come to church when it rains he didnt come. but we are helping him and ramona to get married. they have a little boy junior who is 2 and we just gotta help them along but they are progressing amazingly well.

we are also teaching a kid named gustavo who is 16 works all the time and doesnt go to school anymore. he lives with his aunt and his gma because his mom is working in argentina. he has been progressing like a mad man its amazing. he has a baptismal date for the 23rd and he knows the gospel is true and this is the true church of god here on the earth. what is even more amazing is that he used to smoke a bunch. now done. now we have to work on not drinking. when we were teaching one of his friends was with us who is a heavy smoker and was drinking vodka during the lesson. he offered some to gustavo and he said no. HOW AMAZING IS THE LORD!!! he has helped gustavo stop smoking and now in the process to stop drinking. amazing!!!!!

this truly is a great and marvelous work. it is so amazing to see people take the gospel and put it into their lives. it has not only blessed my life but its blessing all of those we teach. this last week my testimony or the restoration grew tremendously (spell check). one of the promises that a i believe Elder Samuelson gave this last general conference is that if you testify your testimony will grow. when i was talking about the first vision i felt a feeling that i cannot describe but it was amazing. i KNOW that joseph smith is a prophet of god and he with the help of the lord restored the gospel of jesus christ on the earth again. this truly is his work and his glory.

my best wishes and love go to you all.

Elder Wilson


Pictures
1. So you ask, what is the purpose for these big rocks?
2. To be broken into smaller sharper rocks to make these roads.
3. Which eventually does this to your shoes after 4 months or so.
4. Ostrich (spell check) Abistrus (spanish)
5. I dont know if I've sent this before but its a drawing of my last district. guess which one is me.

Almost A Month

Wow has time flew by. Next week I will be in paraguay for a month and on the mission for two!!!!! so crazy.

First i would like to say how much i truly love my family. The starting of last week was tough. I started reading all of the letters and advice my family has given me. (I have yet to throw out one letter and i doubt that i will) they are truly wonderful. so loving so caring and always with me. i love them so much and am so grateful for them in my life.

So like times before my father has asked me some questions of here in paraguay so i will use those for my emial this week like i did a few weeks ago, but first story time.

The roads here in paraguay are one of three: Asphalt (bad spelling sorry), dirt, or stones. with only the big roads here in San Isidro being asphalt and most being stones we find ourselves walking on sidewalks most of the time not to ruin our shoes. We were walking on a sidewalk and for all of the holes in the sidewalks they just put a piece of wood or nothing on them. Me being myself was walking and didn't recognize one and my leg fell in and yes it was my right leg. really funny moment both me and Elder Piriz got a good laugh.

Temple:
Unfortunately i have only seen pictures of the temple. It is in the North Mission so we can only go twice a year but i think we are going this month which is awesome! I was reading an email from my mom and dad regarding the temple and truly it is the house of the Lord and a little piece of heaven here on earth. GO TO THE TEMPLE IT IS A HUGE BLESSING!!!!!

Teaching:
Teaching in the MTC and teaching here are two completely different things. I found myself going back to step one. So i went through all of the lessons again and looked over my note on how to teach. Every lesson now I am getting more and more time to teach. Most of the time when we teach it is outside of someones home. The houses are normally really hot so most of the time we are outside. Which shows how i got the awesome tan line shown in the picture!!!!

Elder Piriz:
Well my companion/trainer/dad is a great guy. There is alot of stuff that I am learning from him and I´m teaching him some things too which is good. He has been out for 17 months and is working hard. He is the district leader. Sadly he is for Guarani (soccer team here) as seen in a picture i am for Olympia. Anyone who is for Cerro is not a nice person. don't i just love sport rivalries!! He also LOVES mayo. we honestly eat it with everything. i didn't at first but now im eating more which is kinda gross cuz he eats alot. it reminds me of ev and how he makes his mayo sandwiches. classic. love him. me and him get along really well. he jokes around and teases me and i do the same to him. we have yet to get angry with each other and i find that in being because we both looking for the good and not the bad. not focusing on the dot but the whole picture.

District:
Our zone has three districts and in our district we have the zoneleaders us, another companionship of Elders and one of Sisters. how awesome are the sisters they got 60 lessons this last week!!!! wow. but we all get along very well and we had splits with the zone leaders last week which was awesome. i learned somethings that i want to improve on and how other missionaries work.

Schedule:
Wake up at 630 get ready are out by 1030. 30 for lang study. normally eat around 12 and we are in certain areas for a few hours then we move to another area cuz our area is huge! so we walk alot which is really good.

easter:
holidays aren't that big here sad but true.

i know this church is true. i know that the lord is always there for us and will always guide us. we just need to trust in him. i love this gospel.

sincerely

Elder Wilson