Dylan arrived in Paraguay on Tuesday September 18, exactly two months after leaving Salt Lake City. Upon arrival he was greeted with a major wind storm that knocked out the power of the entire country. Power returned and he was assigned to Natalio a small farming community 190 miles from Asuncion. The Capital of Soy and on the boarder of Argentina. He has found Guarani to be the only language spoken, enjoy his comments.
First week in
Paraguay......AWESOME!!! Empidrada, the rocky roads, so much worse than people
describe haha. It's a good time though. There's tons of chickens here. I'm in a
town called Natalio, it's really far South/East. I can see Argentina from my front
porch. Everyone speaks Guarani haha. We've met some families that only speak
Guarani, which makes it really tough to teach them. In church yesterday, the
bishop stood up to talk and he talked for a while in spanish then said 'sorry
elders, I'm now going to speak in Guarani.' haha. After that the whole
sacrament meeting was in Guarani.
So there are a ton of members here. But most are inactive, apparently that's how all of Paraguay is. But the people who stay active are amazing. Everyone here is super nice. They're always trying to help me and are already trying to get me to speak Guarani. We have some pretty solid investigators too. We just can't baptize them either because they don't have church attendance, or they only have church attendance and they don't have the lessons. A lot of the investigators are young too so they have to get
permission from parents which is pretty tough. It's hard to teach people
sometimes because;they are working literally like all day, every day.
So my trainer is from Colorado. His name is Elder Omanson. He has 13 months in his
mission. He's way chill and a great help. I'm the 3rd person he's trained so
he's super good at it. It's cold in the morning here and then it gets pretty
hot and cools back down at night. Surprisingly though, there's less mosquitoes here than Argentina. There's loads of small flies and what not, but I haven't
seen any mosquitoes and I only have one bite. So yeah, the language is good.
Everyone thinks I'm Paraguayo haha. So yeah talk to you guys soon.
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