Well this week was a very interesting week...not gonna lie. Well it was Wednesday and about 8:30 in the morning and I was just reading a lil bit and stuff. Then I heard the phone ring and my comp comes into the room and has a weird look on his face and says to me, "The assistants want to talk to you." I was like...mmk...so I started to talk to them and they said, "Are you ready? You're going to Concepcion because there was a special change." At that point I was like, "WHAT!!!!!!" Because that is really, really far away, like the farthest you can go, and it is one of the dream areas in the mission. Then he told me that I had to be in the office in Asuncion in 3 hours, with all my stuff packed and everything.... and I had to say bye to all my converts and people. So I ran as fast as I could and packed, or like threw everything in a suitcase and in boxes and stuff. I was stressing out. Then we ran to all my people's houses. First we went to Lorena's house, one of my converts. They were all sad and it was hard to say bye to them. But they gave me their Indian tribal ceremonial necklace which has 3 monkey teeth on it. It was sad.
I couldn't visit all the people I wanted to which was not cool. But then I went to Asuncion and waited in the office for my bus, which left at 5:00pm. So at 4:30 the office Elders dropped me off at the terminal and I had to travel 6 or 7 hours all by myself. That was a really weird feeling. The bus ride was so long, and the whole time lightning was striking and it was pouring. We were driving through the Chaco, where there are lions and all kinds of crazy animals, but since it was night I didn't see anything. But finally I got to the end and my comp (he's American and has 3 months more than me) and me walked about 5 blocks with all my bags in the rain and in the mud. It was a really long travel. I got in the house at 11:45 at night, which is part of
the church. It's in the property of the church. There are so many mosquitoes out here and it is the hottest part in Paraguay, so we sleep in the cultural hall in the church. We just move our beds in the church everyday with air conditioning and stuff. So that is nice. But this area is a cool area. There is the biggest Virgin Mary here. She is about 50 feet tall. I'm going to take a picture in front of her. But everyone here speaks a lot of Guarani, so I am going to have to learn it. GROSSEST FOOD!!! Well this area is really different. On Saturday we had a lunch appointment with this member and they brought out the plates of food and I thought I was going to throw up. They fed us cow stomach and some other part that had a weird hair thing on it. And the worst part................mmk, this part at the end of the intestines that's like a tube, and we ate that part. But they assured us that they cleaned it really, really good. I thought that I was going to die. But I got almost all of it down. Once they saw that I was suffering they took the plate away and said I didn't have to eat it and said, "Elder, you won." Well there's this place in our area and it is the poorest place that I have ever seen in my life. All it is is this huge Indian tribe and they live in like nothing. We are teaching people there and we have to have someone translate for us because they don't speak Spanish at all. But it is right by a river. Sunday we had to go and get people for church. But for the last couple days it has been raining. Like pouring day and night. So we were walking and the water was up to our knees and we had to walk through that to get to church. Love you all so much. Chan
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