Mon 10/8/2012 11:42 AM
Ipona
Well, hello there family. So, how is every body doing? goood
goood... it’s crazy with the new missionary age change, huh? Everyone was like
freaking out and jealous that they didn’t do that early. This one Elder today is freaking out because his girlfriend
just about put her papers in. Oh boy. I think it’s a great change. There will
be a lot more missionaries now. I think sending us to Argentina was a
preparation for that because they are trying to make the Provo MTC less full.
So conference. I can’t believe I thought
there would be no problems. I forgot that I am in Paraguay. Ha ha. But it was
still great, but here is how the weekend went.
We missed the first hour of conference because we heard the
wrong start time. The time change was yesterday, so it started at 12 on
Saturday and 1 on Sunday. We didn’t know about the time change and thought it
was at 1 both days. Anyway, the English transmitter was broken in our building,
so I watched the first two sessions in Spanish. I could understand it but it
just wasn’t the same. Hearing their voices makes such a difference, but it was
funny because sometimes the translators would get choked up and start crying
while they translated. So you hear this person crying while President Eyring is
just fine. It was funny. But for priesthood meeting we went to the San Lorenzo
chaple because the English worked there. Boy, it was so good in English. At
that chapel, guess what?! I saw Elder Dickson and Elder McSwain! My MTC
buddies! I was so happy to see them! They came and gave me big hugs and were
like, "We thought we would never see you again" So it was way nice to
catch up with them. Oh and in San Lorenzo I got this thing called lamito.
All I can compare it to is a burrito, but the best burrito ever. Oh my, oh my. So
Sunday morning, my companion was stressed because of the baptism. But it went
great. The Sunday morning session is the one all the Paraguayans watch. They
don’t really come to the other ones. So we had a good turn-out for that. Cristian
came! It was great and some less actives we have been working with showed up. The
baptism went amazing! I have never felt so much joy on my mission. Juliana was
so, so happy! She was a little sad though because her daughters didn’t come. After
we confirmed her a member of the church, when she shook my hand she just smiled
at me and started laughing. She’s great. She was my very first visit here in Paraguay,
and to see her go from rock bottom to the top is such a good feeling. She is so
happy now. Her testimony she shared was wonderful. Then for the last session we
realized we can watch conference online via internet in the secretary office. So
I got to see the last session in English. It was great. I love conference so
much! I learned a lot!
So our lesson with President was almost a disaster. But he
and his wife came out to our area. (In their nice, nice, new 4Runner that we
did a little off-roading in.) I loved that. But we get to Cristian’s house and
he isn’t there. He was watching the soccer game. We are like, “Crap”... and it
was 8:45. but then he showed up. Honestly, we taught a normal lesson but the
spirit was so much more stronger. It was amazing. President is so cool. He is
way cool guy. I love him. They are great.
So mom asked about my food schedule last week. This is how
it goes: I eat breakfast, everyday I have cereal, usually golden grahams or
strawberry frosted flakes that I eat that with sliced banana and sometimes
yogurt instead of milk. Then we have lunch at 12. Lunch is the big meal here. They
don’t really eat dinner. It’s all about lunch. So we have lunch with a member
and always stuff ourselves. Then the rest of the day.. I snack a little bit,
usually eat an apple. I don’t know... breakfast and lunch are the only for sure
meals we eat.
So the other night, Elder Wheatley and I get home and I’m
like, “Something is biting my leg.” He says the same. Then we realized we had a
bunch of ants in our pants! So we run inside, take off our pants, and are
getting them all off and stomping them on the ground. There were so many! They kept
biting me! We actually had ANTS in our PANTS! Funny, huh? This week, we also
discovered a papaya tree in our yard. I don’t think I have ever had it before,
so I’m excited for it to get ripe. We also found out on October 27th Elder Bednar
is coming to speak to the North and South mission - 400 missionaries. He’ll probably
to chew us out because our missions aren’t doing so well. But I’m so
excited!
Well.... all is well. Today I saw a guy playing Call of Duty online and it made me think
of our Xbox. How is it doing? In good shape? Someone should go kiss it for me.
hahaha. Ya, I just went blank... oh yeah! I saw a dog with human eyes this
week. It was just staring at me during a lesson, kind of creepy. I felt like
someone was hiding inside it watching me. One more funny story. This member,
the other day, asked us if we had been in a certain area on a certain day. We
were like, “Uhhh, how did you know?” She said because she saw my footprint and
she knew it was mine because it was huge. Haha. Then after that, I noticed my
footprints everywhere, they are quite unique.
Elder Rigby
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