Week 41 in Paraguay Change 7 Week 3

I can hardly even remember what happened this week it went by so fast. We had our big training meeting all week long. We had to coordinate a lot of elders and things this week, and that made it go by faster. This next week should be pretty normal, we haven't been able to have a normal week in the office in a long time, so it will be nice to have a little bit of time to just get caught up on projects and really get things organized in the office.
Big news though, I don't know if I already told all of you, but the office staff is changing and the new elders are coming in tomorrow. There is going to be a new fichero and a new financiero, a new records guy and a new money keeper, that means tomorrow I'm going to be getting a new companion. Elder Gage will still be here to train him, for the next 2 and a half weeks, but I'm going to miss him when he goes, he has definitely been a great companion. Definitely a favorite companion. My new companion's name is Elder Daily, he came with me to the mission field, so we will be hitting the year mark together. I don't really know him at all though, we were in different districts in the MTC, and I've only seen him in passing since the day we flew down together. So I'm going to have to wait another week to tell you a little more about him. I do know he is a convert to the churc, the first member in his family. Baptized a year before he came on his mission, and he baptized his mom before he left, but they are the only members in his family still. That is pretty neat. It reminds me of a part of the blessing Dad gave me before I left, how I would have companions that were new to the church and I would learn from their simple faith, but when I heard that I just assumed those companions would be Latin, but Elder Daily is 100% American.
I guess I'll get to those questions and I'll tell you a little more about the new office elders next week after they have been in a while.
How's the missionary work? How many people are you working with? Are they coming to church? The work lately has been really good, we still really don't have too many people we are working with, but the people we are working with are really cool and are progressing. We are teaching this family, the mom, two daughters and a son, the mom and one of the daughters are separated from their husbands, the other daughter is 19 and the son is 17, and they are some of the coolest investigators I have had thus far in my mission. They always read and they actually understand what they are reading, they could do a little better on the prayer part, but at least they don't lie. I have been thinking about this family a lot lately, just trying to think about how we can help them more, three of them went to church and they told us they liked all of it until the last hour, sacrament meeting, the most important part of church. My companion and I have been trying so hard with them, we are going back again tonight to get them all ready for church. We have got to figure something out so they have a good time in church, this training meeting has been a big help with that too though. One of the eight focuses in the new curriculum is Revelation through church attendance, hopefully we can apply some of those things tonight to get a good commitment with them so they can feel the Spirit during sacrament meeting tomorrow. I want so bad for them to get baptized, right now their baptismal date is set for the 10th of September, we are a little worried for them though because they haven't been too excited about church this week, and if they miss just one Sunday, Elder Gage will already be gone before they get baptized.
How's the office? What have you been doing? How is driving in the city? The office has been great, it has been really hectic this week though because of all the missionaries that were in the office, it always seems like the office is just busy based on the number of missionaries just standing around, and it always seems like every one of them want to talk to President for some reason or another. But really honestly it has been great, recently my latest project was to re-make the change board so they are all individual magnets, instead of just taping magnets to pictures of missionaries. It is all in and cut and all I have to do now is put it up on the board now, so I'll be finishing that project this week. I've been doing a lot of flight plans lately too, I had to do the last ones a little bit earlier so we could make sure missionaries going home close to Christmas had flights. Driving is crazy, I am really glad you never have to drive in this country, it is a whole new world, but I am pretty used to it now. I just hope it doesn't show through when I get back to the states, because it really isn't the best way to drive, but I don't think it will, once I actually have big streets again and people that aren't trying to constantly cut you off, I think I will drive just like I did before. It is really good though that I learned how to drive a stick before my mission, I can't imagine trying to learn how to drive a stick on these kinds of roads, and I would not be able to do my job without being able to drive, maybe me crashing the car back in New York was really just a tender mercy so I could learn how to drive a stick and be a more effective missionary as a mission secretary, probably not, but it makes me feel a little better about it anyway. I attached a picture I found on the computer of the old office car, the one we drive now is almost exactly the same, same color and everything, just a newer model. I'll try to remember to take a picture of the real Randog, that's what we call it, for next week.
Have lots of new missionaries? New people in the office? Has your new President got things the way he wants? There will be a lot of new missionaries coming soon, and new people in the office soon, and I think President will be getting a lot of things the way he wants really soon. He already has changed a whole lot of things, but really just in the office, if I were just a regular missionary in the field not much would have changed. The new President is super smart with computers and he doesn´t really like the system we have been using, so he started making this completely new system and is uploading it to all of our computers, now we kind of use both systems, but soon it´ll just be the one he made.
Anyway, no more time, I love you all so much, can't wait to write you again next week, hopefully with news of awesome people going to church, finding new people, and preparing for baptisms. Love you so much, Elder Adamson V