We`re having a lot of fun getting lost here in Paraguay!

Dear Family,

A lot has happened since my last letter.  I don`t know exactly where to start... so I`ll start at the beginning.  First I`ll start in Caàguazu (because yes I did get transferred - How did you know...).  We met a really great family of 9 people.  We talked to the dad and he wants to get baptized with all his family and be a strong member of the church.  He`s a little gordito and has the same glasses as Dad (Exactly the same).  For a second he reminded me of Dad.  Then we met another interesting fellow who lived in Miami, and "professed" to speak English, but when he spoke all I heard was a bunch of: blah blah blah Swear word Blah blah MAN blah blah spectacular blah blah blah.  So we talked with him in Spanish instead... (I think he had the most practice with the swear words, because they were the clearest...)

Tuesday we went to the temple in Asuncion.  Is incredible to go to the temple!  The temple in Asuncion is like a fortress against sin.  It stands out from everything in Asuncion! (Mostly because its clean...)  We went in in the morning.  President Callen has ben working with the temple presidency to make a schedule for the missionaries for when they enter the temple.  The schedule is great cuz we had an opportunity to do everything in the temple, including bautizmos, (I baptized Elder Beramendi about 20 times...) and there were a few of us who worked in the font a little longer and so we didn`t have a chance to do the sealings.  After everything we went in with president Callen and Hermana Callen And the Temple Presidency And did sealings (All them and 5 of us). It was amazing. I really like the temple here.

Then when we were boarding the bus to come home the police officer at the door of the bus saw a bunch of missionaries and decided to ask us all for our papers...  I was fine because I keep my papers in my bible so that I`ll always have them with me, because I always have my scriptures with me.  But Elder Beramendi had left his at our house in Caaguazu...  So we had a slight problem.  We decided to work with what we had...  His temple recommend... I don`t know how exactly but somehow, and with a blessing of God, he passed elder Beramendi right through without a problem. We were grateful for that!

We were all cool after that until Monday when the assistants called, then Hermana Callan told Elder Beramendi that he was going to be training, and that he should probably clean the house.  Well to say the least that was a surprise.  With that I packed everything up and left for Republicano Asuncion.

I met my new companion at the terminal, Elder Clark.  He’s from Kansas and really big.  He makes me look really small...  After talking for a little bit, and with the secretaries we found out that we would be whitewashing Republicano. (White washing is when they pull out both of the previous elders and put in 2 completely new ones.) That was another surprise to say the least.

So we got in a taxi gave the driver a paper the said how to get to our house, because we had no idea whatsoever how to get there are where in the world it is.  (We`re still not exactly sure how to get home all the time...) We showed up and met Hermana Manchuca at the door. She lives underneath us and invited us over for lunch in about the first 20 words she spoke. (For an elder this is a very good start to any relationship...)  Then after that we went out with her and her son.  They spent the whole day with us and showed us around the area a little bit.  They are Fantastic! (We ate with them again today.

We also went out and worked with a member who had returned from his mission in Argentina the day before.  He still hadn’t been released, so he still could use his plack and everything!  That was great, there are some really great members here.  Here we also have a really nice chapel.

So basically, we’re having a lot of fun getting lost here in Paraguay.

Elder James McShinsky