Falam Portugues?

Heeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyy everrryybbooddyyy!!!! Voces falam portugues? Está bem! Eu tambem nao. Mas vou seguir aprendendo kkkkkkkkkkk.
     So we had transfers and I'm back here with my boy Elder Rodrigues and we're just having a grand ol' time here in the Floresta. I remember my first week here I had to adjust quite a bit. In Villarrica the people are super nice, but here they're a little more frío. So Elder Rodrigues kinda had to go through that same adjustment. But I think he's doing pretty good now.
     I'm pretty glad that Elder Rodrigues is here with me. Last transfer my companion didn't drink any soda and only ate out once a week, but now we're back to eating out every day except Sunday and drinking soda for personal study in the morning, so life is good. I honestly have NO idea how I have not gained weight since I've been here. I checked my weight actually a few weeks ago, and I'm still sitting at the same 160 pounds of skin and bone that I left with. I'm honestly pretty scared for when my metabolism wears out. Like I could actually be OBESE if that happens. Hopefully I shouldn't have to worry for a while....
      Fun story: So we were walking around looking for this member....OH, also side note. The directions here for houses are TERRIBLE. You know how in the States every house SÍ O SÍ has a house number and street names and everything? Well here it's VERY rare to have a house number, and if it does it's wrong. You SOMETIMES get both street names, but usually not. So finding people is pretty challenging. Anyways, we were looking for this member and talking to people on the way trying to teach them the everlasting gospel of happiness and joy(I don't know why people reject us so often...who doesn't want happiness and joy?), and we were clapping at this house and nobody came out and this guy right next to the house comes out and is like, "I don't think anybody is there," so we go and talk to this guy and I could see that he was wearing GARMENTS so I was like "Hermano! You're a member! An endowed member! What the heck!"  and we visited him and he said he had moved from Ciudad del Este and how he hadn't gone to church in a while, but thought all was swell because he always reads his scriptures and prays. Ladies and gentlemen, if I had a dollar for every less active member who tells us this, I would be pretty rich. YOU NEED TO GO TO CHURCH EVERY WEEK TO RENEW YOUR COVENANTS. But we'll be visiting him again this week. I believe he has family members who aren't members, so we'll have to find out.
     But yeah, that's prreeeetyyy much everything for this week. Pretty tranquilopa. Just tryna find those VASOS ESCOGIDOS. Pray we find 1000 PEOPLE TO BAPTIZE THIS WEEK. HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A GREAT WEEEK! LOOVVAA YEEAAAAAALLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!

ELDER ERICHSEN

p1 - Day of transfers
p2 - I love Dominoes stuffed crust pizza
p3 - I also love asadito
p4 - Domingos are always kind of hard days, so we took a MOTIVATING picture.







Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Heaven help this kid's English, deteriorating right before my eyes. You'd think he was learning Spanish or something.

Image
Hey Mom! Hahaha I'm so happy my picture with the cat is popular. I thought it was super funny when we took it. We were teaching a menos activo member and he had these little cats jump up on us during the lesson. So we have 'interviews' with President every transfer to make sure everythings good, and we had ours this week and President told me that I'm almost for sure going somewhere this transfer. He didn't know where yet but just told me I was leaving. I personally think it would be super fun to go somewhere super far away like in Zone 9 or something. The farthest area away is called Campo Nueva and I kinda wanna go there haha. But I don't have a huge preference. Also MOM. On my last transfer I am FOR SURE gonna try to make everyone feel trunky!!! That's the funnest part of leaving!!  1. No she didn't. We had a really good lesson with her a few days ago with a few members and it was awesome. She's still trying to read and pray to...
Read more

The Prophet Was Right!

Image
What the heck happened guys??? Last week was super chill, but then all of a sudden BAM I feel like we're in an apocalypse or something. IN JUST ONE WEEK! WHAT THE HECK?      So I'd first like to state that the majority of people here in Paraguay hear about the news about something and that's the ONLY thing they talk about. So if something happens, pretty much EVERYONE tells us about it. Members, non members, everyone. So we'd been aware of the Corona Virus for quite some time. But really I didn't think it was a big deal haha. Then on tuesday night we get this message from our president saying, "Due to the Corona Virus, there will be no church meetings of any kind for 2 weeks. No sacrament meeting. No district councils. NADA." WHATTTT yYOU GOTTA BE KIDDING MEE?? HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO BE A MISSIONARY WITHOUT A CHURCH??? This week was crazy!      So if any of you are wondering how the people are doing here in Paraguay, everyone is pr...
Read more