"I don't think you quite understand, Mom. Haha."

Hey Mom!

I don't think you quite understand Mom haha. When it rains here, it RAINS. And people's houses struggle, let alone their clothes lol. Most people walk to church and a lot of people don't have a car so, that's why. Also I wear the boots every day to everything. The only time I wear the dress shoes is to church and during zone conferences. My goal is to be able to wear the dress shoes after the mission haha.

Not a ton has happened this week. We mostly contacted less active members and are trying to reactivate them as well as baptize their families who aren't already members. There's a lot of them! Everyone is starting to put up Christmas trees and decorations, so that's exciting. It's also super funny because a lot of people here play Christmas music on their speakers and they play a lot of music in English, and they have no idea what it's saying haha.

The Spanish is definitely coming along. It's still really hard to understand people because their accent is so thick, but when I'm talking to American missionaries or President Hansen or anything, it's pretty easy haha.

I have a companionship exchange with Elder Sapp tomorrow again haha. I'm going to Sajonia(their area) so that'll be exciting. He just got a new companion (Elder Walker) and he's our district leader and he's awesome. Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures of people this week though. I totally forgot to take a bunch of pictures this week, so sorry about that haha.

I guess that's all I have to say. I know it's super early in the States right now. I believe we're 4 hours ahead because of Daylight Savings? But I might be wrong. I'm writing this at 11:17 if that helps.

THANKS SO MUCH MOM, LOVE YOU.

ELDER ERICHSEN

Hey guys!

This week was pretty uneventful, haha. It rained a lot, and people don't really like to leave their houses or have lessons when it's raining lol. But it wasn't super hot, so that's good.

Yeah, honestly I don't really know what to write about lol. Last night it was about 8:45 and we were walking back to the house to end our day, but a little bit before, this family of like 5 or 6 were sitting and said hi and invited us to sit with them and chat. Now, this isn't super unusual for missionaries to go sit down with random strangers and talk, but these people were a little different haha. Like 4 of them were drinking a ton and were definitely drunk, so we had a very interesting conversation to say the least haha. You know that picture I sent a while back of the tererè? That's a thing that spits out water into a cup. These people literally put wine in that hahahahahaha. It was so funny. We set up an appointment next Thursday and we're totally gonna baptize them.

Christmas time is coming and, woot woot, they celebrate it here in Paraguay! I'm starting to see more and more Christmas trees and lights every day and it's awesome. I'm also starting to hear a lot of Christmas music. It's funny because a lot of people will be chilling in front of their house listening to music from a speaker and the music is in English so they have no idea what it's saying. It's super goofy hahaha. I try to translate it, but wow that's hard lol. I swear people here have no idea how to speak slow hahaha. They'll say something to me super fast in Spanish and I'll say ¨"Say that again more slowly, please¨ and they'll say the same thing just as fast or faster lol.

But yeah, sorry for the boring letter ;/. I'll try better next week lol. Thanks so much for all of your emails. I love reading them and replying. Have a good week ;).

oops I totally forgot to take like any pictures this week, sawwrryyy.

Vid 1 This is from like 2 weeks ago but this is how nights are when it's raining. A ton of thunder and lightning. Also we're eating lomito in this video and it's like this weird breakfast burrito. It's bomb.

Pic 1 A member made this for us for lunch and I can confidently say that it was the weirdest mixture of food I've ever had. It was a hot dog with 2 patties of some kind of meat, a weird fried egg, and rice with tuna on top lol. It was surprisingly really good though haha.