Todo tranquilo.
I love you guys a bunch i hope you all know that. I bet you are all having a blast getting ready for summer. It is really cold today haha and it rained again yesterday so...
i thought i would tell you a little bit more about the food. THey use so much oil here in there foods. Everyweek i pretty much eat the same stuff. Noodles, spagetti, pasta, rice etc but it is cooked in oil. I would say about every week i consume about 1 ltr of cooking oil or more. Yuck wakala que asko!
BLACK FRIDAY ahhaha this week paraguay had black friday. There are signs all over the place and they are in english. Here it lasts 4 days though kinda cool.
So this week we were on our way to a visit and desided to contact this house with a lady sweeping outside. Well she totally denied us haha :( but this guy pulled up in a truck right next to us and yelled at us ," AMeríca number one, come to my house my friends! Come to my house and we talk!" haha it was awesome. IT was this older guy in a army shirt, with an american flag towel on the windshield and a NY straw hat on. He was more white-ish a little sunburned and had a nice handlebar mustache. He is definately paraguayan he just looks like a redneck haha. We followed him to his house and then had a good long talk/lesson. He lived in NY,NY for 11 years and talked to the missionaries there so has a book of mormon. He just got back 8 months ago but all his stuff arrived a month ago. SO im sure he just got his book of mormon back then.
He is in love with america though, a true patriot. He had us drink water out of his america arby´s glass haha. He wants to go to church though and we had a great restoration discussion with him. Im excited to get back to him this week. Funny Stuff.
Ok, this week we had some great lessons with people. We find some great people every week, i am really stoked. Talking to a lot of people really makes a big difference. Mom can you ask the missionaries in our ward what there mission standard for contacts is every week please?
Well, i have been reading alot from El Libro de Mormón this week and its been really sweet. I am hoping to finish it this next change in spanish. I wish i had done it earlier in my mission but i was busy reading the book of mormon in english and pmg and Jesus the Christ. But i finally picked it up and i cant put it down. The reason why i cant put it down, is cuz it´s true. It is straight up inspired scripture. THis time as i have been reading i have had different feelings. Ex, i really wish i could meet Nephi. He is such an uncommon man. He really is a hero. I wish i could be there when they found the Liahona. I wish i could have known what it was like to have to leave everything you had behind .. at home ( i kind of know that one.) I wish i could listen to kind benjamin or run away with alma. It is an amazing story filled with action, faith, passion, courage, sadness, happiness. It is a story of a loving Heavenly Father who speaks to his his children. It is a story of a caring Savior who never forgets His brothers. I know it is true and i will never deny it. I love The Book of Mormon. I didnt think id be writing about that today but hey... yup so go read it, because i feel good when i read and i want you to too. WHOOHOO.
I love you all have a good week. I love you too jolly rancher bag, nerds box, gobstoppers, sprees, and ritz cracker cheese snacks.
Oh yeah i love you too brooke cam caden and zach. Mom and Dad you too.
PEACE,
Elder Carpenter
