Whats happnin everyone? It sounds like you are all having a great time at home. Congrats Dad on your new calling... you will do great. I'm glad to hear you can get some time off hopefully. Mom, I love you and you are doing a great job with everything ... dance, family, missionary mom stuff, being a missionary. Brooke you are awesome. I am proud of you. Here is my advice graduate early and work. Then go in the fall ... why do I say this? Because you are too little and plus your not gunna get married anytime soon as a17 year old... so just take a chill on life and slow down gurl!! hahaha. And I dont want you to be two semesters ahead of me hahaha. Cameron, you are the man! Eagle scout baby ... EARN IT! That will be so sick! Also good job on the 4.0 way to represent. Your a good investment dude so keep up the good work. Get 4.0s all through high school. I promise you that is the way to go. I wish I tried harder. Im tanquilo though cuz I am working hard now and changing my habits. You will understand one day. Caden I hear your play was legit! I wish I could have seen it. I know you are a funny guy so keep it up. I also hear you are a genius. There´s a lot in store for you bud, I know there is. Zach I saw your train!!! You looked so awesome. How was polar express day? You are such a cool little guy.
Ok so Christmas ... I want to skype so plan on that. I would rather do it on the 26th cuz you will all have opened your presents and stuff. I think we will do it around 4ish pm paraguay time. We will email you before around 330 Par TIme to let you know so please be ready. We will be in an internet cafe. I am excited and looking forward to it.
Paraguay info time...
Christmas is celebrated here. Some homes have lights but very few. They have little tiny fake trees, we dont have one. It doesnt feel like Christmas haha. I think it has something with it being 110 degrees. It is so weird. They also Celebrate on the 8th the Virgin day. All the catholics worship Mary so we have a hard time with that. Lots of our contacts we hear " well we are catholic and we have our Mary and we have our Jesus so leave us alone." It is kind of a bummer. They worship a giant statue of Mary. I know that Salvation comes through the Savior. If you want to learn more about this you may visit mormon.org.
Guarani ... Hye kuay mishimi. I know a little bit haha.
Mom to answer your question...I dont get to sleep during the siesta haha.
Well this week in Limpio has been quite great. We are teaching this joven named Fran. He is super legit he goes to church with his girl friend and is neighbors to another joven in our ward who always goes on splits with us. We have been teaching him for a week now and our last visit he told us he knew the chuch was true that José Smith was a prophet and that the book of mormon is true. He already knew alot about José before we taught him cuz he watched the Joseph Smith movie with his GF. He is so tight he also said he wants to get baptised for himself not for his girlfriend. His parents are taking the lessons also but it is impossible to find them during the week so it will be hard, but we might be able to baptize fran first and then he might be able to baptize his parents.
I am so excited for him he seriously is a guapo. Guapo here means a stud and doesnt mean handsome like it does everywhere else haha.
Also Carlos moved :( it was really weird so we got to say bye to them but i think he is going to get in contact with the elders in his new home. I was really bummed.
We had a trio for a week and a half. It was with Elder S. from the area over. His comp left on a special change and he stayed with us until yesterday. It was not very fun. The Elder made it hard on us in some of our lessons and didnt really want to work in his area. But we got through it and I learned a lot from the experience. He is a good Elder.. just it was hard in a trio.
Elder Felix is one of our Zone Leaders. He is super legit. He left this morning though it was really sad. He didnt want to leave. Thats how i want to be. His last day on his mission didnt seem like his last, it seemed like any other day. He is an awesome example to me. That is how I want to be, just like him.
I need to go. I am going to get my hair cut by a gay guy... fun stuff.
I love you all so much. You are always in my prayers.
Stay sweet and Merry Christmas,
Elder Carpenter
