Week 37 in Paraguay Change 6 Week 5

So things are starting to get very busy here as we approach my first change in the office next week. The work load has gone up because of changes coming and it is the end of the month so there is a work load of its own there. We just had the big training meeting last week and I was in Pedro Juan for four days, so it has been very demanding, but its P-day now so everything is good. Pedro Juan was so awesome, I got another P-day to pretty much just walk around Pedro Juan and see all that wonderful area all over again. Then I had an opportunity to work with Elder McCarty for 3 days in the zone leaders area. Elder McCarty was the Mission Secretary before Elder Peterson so we heard a lot of experiences to share about office life. He also had Elder Williamson as a companion, so we went back and forth telling some good stories about that time we were both able to experience in the mission. It was really nice to just get out and put myself to work for the last couple of days. We had quite the adventure trying to get back into Asunción. We had everything all set up so that as we were traveling everyone would have a companion at all times, but the bus lines were being really difficult. Elder McCarty and I were in Pedro Juan and Elder Wilkinson, another office elder that went on the division with me, was in Yby Yau, about 2 hours closer to Asunción than Pedro Juan. So the plan was we would leave from Pedro Juan, once the bus got to Yby Yau Elder McCarty was going to get off and stay with Elder Hopoate who is in Yby Yau and Elder Wilkinson would get on with me. It was a super easy simple swap in Yby Yau, or at least we thought. We got onto the bus and I called one of the host guys over and told asked him if he could just advise us when we were getting close to Yby Yua, he told me it would be hard because he had to drive once they got to Yby Yua, so I asked if the guy driving now could and he said he would be asleep, it was frustrating because it the middle of the night and you can't see anything so you don't know where you are and they have always helped us so we could get off when we needed to. So Elder McCarty just started to explain the whole situation, that he was getting off and someone else was getting on, then the guy just started telling us about how that wasn't allowed; how Elder McCarty needed to buy another ticket and you can't share tickets, so the guy just walks off to get him a ticket to buy, he comes back and Elder McCarty has to pay and then he doesn't want to help us anymore so we just ask him what time we should be arriving in Yby Yua, he tells us 11:45 to Midnight, so we set our alarm to 11:30 and both fall asleep. The alarm goes off and we find out the bus had just passed Yby Yua 5 minutes ago and the other Elders had missed the bus because of the bad information. Elder McCarty goes downstairs on the bus and starts trying to figure out something with the guy and the next thing I know he comes up and tells me I have to just go and wait in Asunción for Elder Wilkinson because they won't turn around, but they were going to send someone to drive Elder McCarty back to Yby Yua, about 10-15 minutes behind us. So I go the rest of the way alone and arrive in Asunción at 4 in the morning. Meanwhile, Elder McCarty just gets off the bus at 11:35-11:40 to wait for the guy that is supposed to bring him back to Yby Yua. At 12:30-1:00 the other bus goes by Yby Yua to and Elder Wilkinson gets on, so its almost 1 in the morning and 4 of us are alone. So Elder Hopoate is just waiting at the terminal in Yby Yua for Elder McCarty to arrive, turns out they never sent anyone and he had to get a ride back to Yby Yau from some random guy that just stopped to help him out. I was on this really nice bus and Elder Wilkinson had to get on a really cheaper bus, so I had to sit in the terminal from 4AM to after 6AM alone just waiting for his bus to arrive because it stopped so much and I didn't have a phone or any money. Everyone got back together safe and sound, but it was quite the adventure.