Area number 5. im going to a city in Northern Paraguay called Salto del Guaira. Yes, you heard me. -Northern- Paraguay. Well... almost. But its like a 14 hour bus ride away. Makes Carlos Antonio Lopez sound like a nice sunday drive. Its known as the area most like america. They have mcdonalds. with mcflurries. so i will be spending lots of money on ice cream and getting really fat.
My new companion is Elder Hutchison. Hes from Portland, oregon. Hes cool. He played Lacrosse and i have talked with him a couple times. I even went on divisions with him 3 weeks ago. The dream of the 90s is alive in Portland. Im super stoked hes relatively new in the mission, so were both going to be very new haha. Im so excited to get up there.
Elder Averett is going home tomorrow. He finished the 2 years, and is going back to idaho. I will miss him a lot. I really enjoyed being his companion. I really did.
Theyre making Tacuari ward an hermana area, so thats different.
Well, heres an experience for ya, if you want it.
I was doing divisions with the elders in Centro in Posadas. And we went contacting all night. Its an area that is very closed, with not a lot of members. They do not get into a lot of houses. We walked up to a house, and i saw a family sitting around a dinner table... and i did not want to talk to them. So i looked beside the giant window, and there was a staircase up to the upper leveel of the building. And there was a door bell.... so i rung it. And a 20 year old kid came down. We just said ``hey were representatives of Jesus Christ. Can we talk with you?`` and he said ``yeah, come in`` haha what? since when does that happen?? so we went.
it turned out to be this 20 year old couple. The guy was kind of clueless, but the girl was AWESOME. She sid that she was kind of Evangelical, but not really. She had gone to a lot of churches, and didnt really feel right at any one of them, so she stopped going. She had a ton of questions about what we believed, and all that and was very proactive about finding out our beliefs. it was AWESOME.
Then we started talking about the Book of Mormon, and she was astounded. it was great. We invited them to church then they said ``acutally were moving to Buenos Aires tomorrow.`` and so that kind of killed my mood. But then she asked how she could hear more about the church. I said there was a website. She asked me to write down the website. I did. And then we left.
Well... I hope she finds the missionaries in Buenos Aires... Go, my little seed. Go!
And thats it. It is not such a big coincidence that we found them the DAY before they move to Buenos Aires, and she has been looking for the right church. Well it was really cool to be apart of and it made me happy.
Elder Christensen
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