Paso de Oro

Yoooooooooo what is UP guyssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.

     We are here in Paso de Oro and it-s CRAZY here. It-s waaaaaaay different than my 2 older areas. My other 2 areas were on the outskirts of the area but this area is a little further away. There-s such a little amount of things in our area that we don-t even live in it. And get this, our CHURCH isn-t even in our area. We share a church with a nearby area called Kennedy. We also share the house with the Elders there, so it-s pretty cool. Just imagine a forest. Now imagine about 40ish active members of the church and that-s Paso de Oro. It-s awesome.
     My comp-s name is Elder Santana and he-s super cool. He-s from San Pablo Brazil and he-s awesome. He always has a ton of energy and is always super happy. He just finished his training, so in mission language I-m technically his drunk uncle, or tio boracho. He-s had 3 baptisms and we got a baptism coming up this next Saturday so I-m pretty excited.
     We had to come all the way to this big city called San Lorenzo to get on a computer, and as most computers in Paraguay, it-s not too good haha. So I have no way to put my SD card in put photos, so sorrrrrrrrrry about that again, but next week I will for sure send some sweet picks of the jungle.
     I-m still learning the area a lot so I don-t really know the people we-re teaching or the members here, so I don-t have too much to say about that, but I-ve met a few members and they-re all awesome. We-re teaching one young man who-s 13 I think and he has a baptism date for the 25th of May so I-m really excited. We-re also teaching this other 11 year old girl who wants to be baptized, but she lives with her older sister and doesn-t have contact with her parents. But OF COURSE we need a signature of both parents to baptize her, so we-re working on that. But all is swell.
     I-m SUPER excited to be here. It-s way different than my other areas and my companion is awesome. We-re gonna need to go to the Paraguayan river to baptize because there-s so many people. Hope you all have a great week!!

Elder Erichsen

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