I`ve got some great news today, but I don`t have tons of time so to tell everything I`m just going to answer mom`s list of questions.
So how hard of a week working did you have sending your companion home? Well, let`s just say that he has pretty much already been home for all of last week. We have not been having really any success at all, pretty much all week we spent packing, giving things away, saying goodbye to members and all the people he wanted to see.
Who is your new companion? Did you stay in your area or get moved somewhere else? Do you have your new mission president yet? I`m going to answer all three of these at once. I usually wouldn`t know what my change is yet because we get our changes the Tuesday before change day, but I got a special change. President Wade personally called me to see how I felt about it, and of course I told him I would do it. The new mission president comes in on the 1st of July, and I am going to get to know him really well. I just got called to be the mission`s next secretary, so it looks like I am going to be moving to the office and I`ll be the very first secretary to the new mission President.
I don`t have much time to explain things, but I am going to be in San Lorenzo for one more week because they are closing up our area and giving the whole area, like it was when I got here, to the other two missionaries, Elder Job and Elder Ventura. I`m staying for a week after Elder Williamson goes home to show them the other half of the area and then it is off to the mission office when the new mission president gets here. Sorry, I can`t write too much, we are in a cyber by a hospital because a lady from another zone called us to give someone a blessing and we have to go in at four, but it looks like I will have two P-days next week, because the office elders have P-days on Friday, so you`ll get double next week.
P.S. Paraguay, campeón del Mundo!
Translation---Paraguay, champion of the World
Monday, June 21, 2010
Monday, June 14, 2010
Week 30 in Parguay Change 5 Week 5
So another fast week already in Paraguay, I can`t believe how fast the time is moving by. I was just thinking this morning looking at Elder Williamson`s countdown that I have already been in San Lorenzo now for 11 weeks this week, it still kind of seems like I just got here. Anyway, so things are kind of crazy here right now with the World Cup starting last week and all. I don`t know if you guys knew that it started or not, but the World Cup here is pretty much the world for the people down here. Every advertisement and promotions and everything having to do with business in general here is revolving around the World Cup. It has got me pretty into it, too. I borrowed a little pamphlet from a member here to make a bracket last P-day like they do in the states with March Madness and I gave it to the members here to fill out. We have all been having a lot of fun speculating what is going to happen. Pretty much everyone says its Brazil and Spain in the final, so we`ll see what happens. Paraguay plays their first game today, against Italy, the defending champions. We`ll see how it goes, we`re all getting ready to watch it, all the missionaries got permission to watch the game in both missions here and all the zones are getting together to watch it in our building. Paraguay has a pretty good team and Italy lost a lot of players from the last cup, so we`ll see what happens, we are hurting a little from what happened to Salvador Cabañas, but I think we still got a chance to win, or at least tie.
The work has been pretty slow lately, we had a couple people ready for church this last week and when we went to check on them on Saturday the one had a miscarriage and was sick in bed. She didn`t even know she was pregnant. The other ones told us they were going to Chechos (a dance club here in San Lorenzo) Saturday night and then to church in the morning. We asked them what time they were going to get home to sleep and they told us they were planning to stay at Chechos until six in the morning, then to the church at eight. Needless to say, we didn`t see any of them in the church on Sunday. Our convert that we gave the priesthood came though, so we had three of our four converts in church, even though we didn`t have any investigators.
More than that, not really much has been going on lately, I had chivivi (the runs in Guaraní) last week for a while and I`m still kind of recovering from that, but I`m feeling a lot better now. I love you all and I`ll be working hard this week to send Elder Willy off (home) with some hard working memories, love Elder Adamson V
The work has been pretty slow lately, we had a couple people ready for church this last week and when we went to check on them on Saturday the one had a miscarriage and was sick in bed. She didn`t even know she was pregnant. The other ones told us they were going to Chechos (a dance club here in San Lorenzo) Saturday night and then to church in the morning. We asked them what time they were going to get home to sleep and they told us they were planning to stay at Chechos until six in the morning, then to the church at eight. Needless to say, we didn`t see any of them in the church on Sunday. Our convert that we gave the priesthood came though, so we had three of our four converts in church, even though we didn`t have any investigators.
More than that, not really much has been going on lately, I had chivivi (the runs in Guaraní) last week for a while and I`m still kind of recovering from that, but I`m feeling a lot better now. I love you all and I`ll be working hard this week to send Elder Willy off (home) with some hard working memories, love Elder Adamson V
Monday, June 7, 2010
Week 29 in Paraguay Change 5 Week 4
Hey Family! So first things first, my forehead is pretty much completely healed, in only a little more than a week. You can still tell it is there if you look hard, but you definitely have to look a little hard, but I am amazed at how fast it healed. I just put Aloe on it everyday for about three days, and then switched to neosporin and its completely gone.
My companion`s foot is doing really well, he just took a few days to recover because of how deep it was. Yesterday he got sick though and was throwing up at night and rested a little bit this morning, but it looks like he will be doing all right. He has been getting really trunky though lately, he does only have two weeks left until he goes home, the two companionships in the house has only made it worse too. The senior comp in the other companionship is a friend of his he made earlier in the mission out in Concepcion, a city out in Zone Lejos, which if you remember just means far away, and he is going home in two more changes, so the two of them together just make them both really think about home. Elder Williamson has been really good once we are out working, but once we get into the house he is just off the walls, slap boxing, wrestling, dismantling my bed, whatever he can whenever we are in the house. It makes for a fun time, but sometimes, as you can imagine, it gets a little crazy in the house.
Anyway, for my letter today I actually wrote down all the things I have been thinking about that I have wanted to write to you and so I`m going to see how much I can write with the little time that I have left.
First of all, I haven`t ever said anything about the buses here. Out in Pedro Juan there weren`t any buses, but here they are everywhere, probably half of the cars on the road are buses and we have to take them to get places all the time. The buses here are a lot like the NY subway in the states, but even more full of people. Especially in the morning and at night when people are going in and out of the city you`ll see a bunch of buses that literally have people hanging out of the bus, holding onto the hand rails to hold all the people in, and it's their job here, they work for the buses. They are pretty much there just to make sure people pay, but sometimes it seems like they`re there to hold people in too.
Another thing I`ve never told you, noone in our ward knows how to play piano, except one person, and she is a counselor in the YW Presidency and can only come to our ward on fast sundays, so guess who plays the piano on Sunday here, that's right, I do. I`ve got pretty good at just sight reading one hand, I still haven`t started playing with two hands yet, but maybe I`ll get there.
This week went by super fast and again, we aren`t having too much success with investigators, but we are having a little success somewhere else. We had 6 less actives in church this Sunday, two of which have 8 year olds that need to be baptized, so they won`t count as converts for us, but they will count as baptisms for the ward and maybe reactivate some families. One of the families is this lady that didn`t want to talk to us and go to chuch because she was living with her mom that hates the Mormon chuch. She already had another house but couldn`t move in because of all the brush that was in the lawn, it was a mess. So we got all the Elders in the ward together to do a service project for her and got her moved in. She seemed like at first she had just used us to get her moved in, so on Saturday we were walking by her house and Willy was on the phone so I thought I would just quick go over and talk to her. Turns out she had gone to the church last week and just didn`t go in because she was wearing jeans and saw everyone in dresses, so she just went home. We told her it was alright and that no one would say anything and to just come. So she came to church yesterday and really suprised my companion. Someone was trying to tell us that her son is 9 years old, not 8, so we may get a baptism out of it too.
Anyway, that is the good news today, I love you all and I am working hard for all of you, I hope Dad will recover soon from his ruptured calf muscle and I will keep him in my prayers, tell him to make sure to take it easy and let it heal, I love you all again, Elder Adamson V
My companion`s foot is doing really well, he just took a few days to recover because of how deep it was. Yesterday he got sick though and was throwing up at night and rested a little bit this morning, but it looks like he will be doing all right. He has been getting really trunky though lately, he does only have two weeks left until he goes home, the two companionships in the house has only made it worse too. The senior comp in the other companionship is a friend of his he made earlier in the mission out in Concepcion, a city out in Zone Lejos, which if you remember just means far away, and he is going home in two more changes, so the two of them together just make them both really think about home. Elder Williamson has been really good once we are out working, but once we get into the house he is just off the walls, slap boxing, wrestling, dismantling my bed, whatever he can whenever we are in the house. It makes for a fun time, but sometimes, as you can imagine, it gets a little crazy in the house.
Anyway, for my letter today I actually wrote down all the things I have been thinking about that I have wanted to write to you and so I`m going to see how much I can write with the little time that I have left.
First of all, I haven`t ever said anything about the buses here. Out in Pedro Juan there weren`t any buses, but here they are everywhere, probably half of the cars on the road are buses and we have to take them to get places all the time. The buses here are a lot like the NY subway in the states, but even more full of people. Especially in the morning and at night when people are going in and out of the city you`ll see a bunch of buses that literally have people hanging out of the bus, holding onto the hand rails to hold all the people in, and it's their job here, they work for the buses. They are pretty much there just to make sure people pay, but sometimes it seems like they`re there to hold people in too.
Another thing I`ve never told you, noone in our ward knows how to play piano, except one person, and she is a counselor in the YW Presidency and can only come to our ward on fast sundays, so guess who plays the piano on Sunday here, that's right, I do. I`ve got pretty good at just sight reading one hand, I still haven`t started playing with two hands yet, but maybe I`ll get there.
This week went by super fast and again, we aren`t having too much success with investigators, but we are having a little success somewhere else. We had 6 less actives in church this Sunday, two of which have 8 year olds that need to be baptized, so they won`t count as converts for us, but they will count as baptisms for the ward and maybe reactivate some families. One of the families is this lady that didn`t want to talk to us and go to chuch because she was living with her mom that hates the Mormon chuch. She already had another house but couldn`t move in because of all the brush that was in the lawn, it was a mess. So we got all the Elders in the ward together to do a service project for her and got her moved in. She seemed like at first she had just used us to get her moved in, so on Saturday we were walking by her house and Willy was on the phone so I thought I would just quick go over and talk to her. Turns out she had gone to the church last week and just didn`t go in because she was wearing jeans and saw everyone in dresses, so she just went home. We told her it was alright and that no one would say anything and to just come. So she came to church yesterday and really suprised my companion. Someone was trying to tell us that her son is 9 years old, not 8, so we may get a baptism out of it too.
Anyway, that is the good news today, I love you all and I am working hard for all of you, I hope Dad will recover soon from his ruptured calf muscle and I will keep him in my prayers, tell him to make sure to take it easy and let it heal, I love you all again, Elder Adamson V
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
My Burnt Head
I just had zone conference today and the Hermana Wade told me that you sent her an email asking about my head pretty worried, so she gave me permission to write you to send you pictures so you aren`t as worried. Love you, Don`t worry, love you again, Elder Adamson V
Monday, May 31, 2010
Week 28 in Paraguay Change 5 Week 3 Burnt Head
Hey Family! I completely forgot today is Memorial Day, I really hope things clear up for you up there and you can have an awesome time for the holiday. Sounds like things have been pretty busy back home with Bert's family and Joe's family coming and going, keep having fun and don`t make things to hectic...
Anyway, things are still going good here in San Lorenzo, we had a little bit of a slower week, but I think we are going to bounce back well and get back rolling so we can get Elder Willy some more baptisms before he goes home. I can hardly believe how fast the time is going, we are already halfway through the change, but we don`t have very many progressing investigators, we have hit a little bit of a slow point. Anyway, so what happened is this week on Tuesday I started feeling a little sick, but we worked the whole day and then I went to bed, woke up in the morning and the first thing I did was throw up, then I called the Hermana Wade (President Wade`s wife) and then went right back to bed, we left on time and everything still that day, went to a service project, had one lesson, ate lunch, and my companion told me I didn`t look good and we went back home. Then Thursday and Friday we worked all day and then Friday night we did a little division and I was with our ward mission leader and we were at the church to end the division, we went upstairs to his office, because he is also the stake secretary and I had to use the bathroom, and outside all the bathrooms are these water filter things that heat and cool the water to drink, so it has two little levers, exactly like what we had in our home in New York. Here it is just hooked up to the buildings water like a sink would be, but the water has little levers just like what we had in New York. The hot water here is set to 80 degrees Celsius (176 degrees F) so the people can drink their Mate, the stuff that Gary always talked about in Argentina. Anyway, I was thirsty and there weren`t any cups so I stuck my head down to drink and my forehead hit the hot side, and anyway, to make a long story short, I burnt my head pretty bad. I have a patch of pretty much just raw flesh about an inch wide and two inches long on one side of my forehead. That happened Friday night, right about nine at night, and then Saturday morning my companion had to go into Asuncion to get an ingrown toenail removed and it turned out that Hermana Wade had to come to our church in the morning, to drop off President so she called us and offered to give us a ride. President sees me and he gives me a hug and then just looks at my head and asks me,
"What happened?". I told him I burnt my head with hot water. He looked at me kind of confused and just asked, "How did you get water all the way up there?".
Anyway, was by far not the smartest thing I have ever done, but it has been giving something to talk to people about lately. All the missionaries get a good laugh out of it, and I don`t think it is the end of it yet because this Wednesday I have zone conference and we have it with two other zones. It is actually the last zone conference I`ll have with President Wade, because the new President from Argentina is coming in next change. Anyway, that is pretty much the story of last week, was a little slow yesterday and Saturday because my companion can`t really walk because he got his ingrown toenail taken out. What happened is he tried taking it out himself a bunch of times and it just kept on getting worse and it was so deep the Doctor actually had to go into the skin a little to get the nail all the way out, and I got to watch the whole thing with a front row seat with orange juice. Anyway, so my companion couldn`t really work the last two days and we had some trouble getting divisions at the last minute, so I wasn`t even able to get full days in either, but hopefully he will be all set to work tomorrow and we can get things rolling again like they were. Anyway, I think that is about all I am going to have time for, I love you all and I am so thankful for all you are doing back home for me, love Elder Adamson V
Anyway, things are still going good here in San Lorenzo, we had a little bit of a slower week, but I think we are going to bounce back well and get back rolling so we can get Elder Willy some more baptisms before he goes home. I can hardly believe how fast the time is going, we are already halfway through the change, but we don`t have very many progressing investigators, we have hit a little bit of a slow point. Anyway, so what happened is this week on Tuesday I started feeling a little sick, but we worked the whole day and then I went to bed, woke up in the morning and the first thing I did was throw up, then I called the Hermana Wade (President Wade`s wife) and then went right back to bed, we left on time and everything still that day, went to a service project, had one lesson, ate lunch, and my companion told me I didn`t look good and we went back home. Then Thursday and Friday we worked all day and then Friday night we did a little division and I was with our ward mission leader and we were at the church to end the division, we went upstairs to his office, because he is also the stake secretary and I had to use the bathroom, and outside all the bathrooms are these water filter things that heat and cool the water to drink, so it has two little levers, exactly like what we had in our home in New York. Here it is just hooked up to the buildings water like a sink would be, but the water has little levers just like what we had in New York. The hot water here is set to 80 degrees Celsius (176 degrees F) so the people can drink their Mate, the stuff that Gary always talked about in Argentina. Anyway, I was thirsty and there weren`t any cups so I stuck my head down to drink and my forehead hit the hot side, and anyway, to make a long story short, I burnt my head pretty bad. I have a patch of pretty much just raw flesh about an inch wide and two inches long on one side of my forehead. That happened Friday night, right about nine at night, and then Saturday morning my companion had to go into Asuncion to get an ingrown toenail removed and it turned out that Hermana Wade had to come to our church in the morning, to drop off President so she called us and offered to give us a ride. President sees me and he gives me a hug and then just looks at my head and asks me,
"What happened?". I told him I burnt my head with hot water. He looked at me kind of confused and just asked, "How did you get water all the way up there?".
Anyway, was by far not the smartest thing I have ever done, but it has been giving something to talk to people about lately. All the missionaries get a good laugh out of it, and I don`t think it is the end of it yet because this Wednesday I have zone conference and we have it with two other zones. It is actually the last zone conference I`ll have with President Wade, because the new President from Argentina is coming in next change. Anyway, that is pretty much the story of last week, was a little slow yesterday and Saturday because my companion can`t really walk because he got his ingrown toenail taken out. What happened is he tried taking it out himself a bunch of times and it just kept on getting worse and it was so deep the Doctor actually had to go into the skin a little to get the nail all the way out, and I got to watch the whole thing with a front row seat with orange juice. Anyway, so my companion couldn`t really work the last two days and we had some trouble getting divisions at the last minute, so I wasn`t even able to get full days in either, but hopefully he will be all set to work tomorrow and we can get things rolling again like they were. Anyway, I think that is about all I am going to have time for, I love you all and I am so thankful for all you are doing back home for me, love Elder Adamson V
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