Week 55 in Paraguay Change 9 Week 6

First I have to start by apologizing because this is probably going to be a very short email. This whole week has probably been the least I have worked outside of the office since I got to the office. It seems like every single day there was something going on to keep us in the office, including today. All day we have been doing office work, and because of that this letter probably won’t be very long. I’ve been up since 4:30am this morning because all the Nivacle Indians came from Filidelfia in the Chaco to go to the temple. We had to direct them all to interviews and get name tags for all of them so we knew why they were there. There were over 100 of them and only about 10 spoke Spanish, the rest all spoke Nivacle, this different Indian language, not even close to Guaraní. It was a lot of work trying to get them all to the right places. The story about the Nivacle Indians is actually really interesting. I don’t know if you were watching BYU TV in between conferences sessions or not, because they did a whole documentary on the Nivacle Indians. We were watching it on the internet so it had to have been a documentary broadcasted to everyone. The first missionaries that when out there baptized the Cacique, or the chief of the Indians and he had all of the them get baptized, so it is a little Mormon nation of Indians, literally every Nivacle Indian out there is a member. The church even built a city out there and called it Abundancia, or Bountiful in Spanish, for them to all to live. They live more than 8 hours away from the temple, so about 2 times a year they do these big temple trips to have them all come and be sealed together and things like that. nyway, that pretty much consumed my day, as well as the fact that President started this huge project of sending a personal letter to every potential future missionary in the Districts, 1300 letters, and we have been folding them and stuffing them because they have to be done by Monday. Every other free second I have I’m working on my training program for the whoever the new secretary is going to be. On top of that next week is change week (I don’t know what happened, but the weeks on your letters are one off, I think probably last change we moved so the change was only 5 weeks, so this change was actually 7) so we have been working like crazy to get everything done for that, and on top of that change week falls on the biggest Paraguayan holiday, December 8, the day of the virgin of Ca’acupe, so nothing will be open and there will be no buses on the day changes are supposed to be, so we have to change all the plans because of that; and on top of that, it is the beginning of the month so we have to get everything ready for Presidents Personal Priesthood Interviews with the stake Presidents and turn in all the numbers and reports for last month. So needless to say there is a lot to do. Well, that is about all I have time for, sorry for the short letter, but I will write a nice long one next week, I love you all soooooooooooooooooooooo much, Elder Adamson V

P.S. Thank you so much for the eggnog recipe! I’m so excited for Christmas!