For some reason mail hasn't come for the past 3 weeks. I am feeling very disanimated right now, so you won´t get a super long email.
Monday
Our cell phone broke and there was only a half pday because of the Temple Trip (Finally). Not having a phone for 5 days makes everything harder. We left for Encarnacion at 6:30pm, a thirty minute walk to the main road that passes outside of Obligado and then an hour drive to Encarnacion. So the bus to Asuncion didn´t leave until 11:30pm and that means we had 2 and a half hours to mess around. We ate at Burger King and went to a park to take pictures and mess around. My companion is in love with Elder Richards. I´ll try not to say anything else negative, but he is now Elder Richard´s shadow whenever they are together and he doesn´t even seem to like me. Kinda immature and kinda a jerk, but that´s the last negative thing I´ll say now.
Tuesday
We arrived at Asuncion at 5am and got to the temple at 5:30, so we took pictures until the Temple workers showed up at 6. We were the first ones there so we did Baptisms until the 7 o´clock session. I did 50 confirmations and was baptized and did baptisms 25 times. After the session Elder Richards and Elder Yaringaño had to go to a doctors appointment and so we did more baptisms and stuff until our zone arrived and finished their session. I was in the water for 2 hours straight.
After we left the temple we ate with our zone and I got to talk to Elder Parker and some of the other people I knew. I ate a Lomito Arabe (Beef burrito thing), really good and it´s huge. Elder Soria says that Alejandro thinks we have abandoned him and isn´t going to church anymore and is still drinking and cries whenever he talks about us. I really wanted to send him a letter, but the mail hasn´t come. Elder Soria also said that only one person out of all the people we´ve found got baptized. Ugh. I really thought Ramon Perez would get baptized, but his girlfriend is Catholic and he doesn´t want to dump her (Like I said he should).
So we called the assistants on somebody else´s phone to get them to come fix our phone, they said they would come pick us up at the temple, but we waited for 3 hours and they never showed. So we had to use the distribution center´s phone to call them and they said to just go to the Terminal. We went to the terminal and met back up with Elder Richards who had a new chip for us. We waited for a bus and got back home at 2am. Fun Stressful Day¡
Wednesday
Taught a crazy German named Remi for the 3rd time. He was actually chill this time though. It kinda surprised me.
Thursday
Walked to and from Los Colonos (1hr both ways) and didn´t teach anyone, so we ate at Pizza Boom which is the first good paraguayan pizza place i´ve eaten at. I´ve been using personal money to get by. It has other stuff I want to try too, like calzones, hot dogs, hamburgers, empanadas, lomitos, etc. Our plan guasu only lasted 1hr and a half today.
Friday
My companion got sick and it rained a ton.
Saturday
Found a bus that goes to Los Colonos. It rained. Didn´t find a bus back. Taught only 1 lesson out of all the appointments we made.
Sunday
Only two hours of chuch because only 8 adults came and 12 kids, that includes us. It rained at night and it is super freezing now. We are not having success.
That´s all for now. Love ya¡
Elder Zachary James Singson
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