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| The landscape close to Ca´aguazú. |
But the members are great here! I have already met
several (we have about 60 in church every week). The Branch President is
very funny. His name is President De Wet. He is a blue-eyed South
African. I like talking to him in English to listen to his accent, which
he also has in Spanish. He also has a dog who nips at the missionaries
legs, so I can also check that off the things I have experienced. It
appears that the lady who washed the missionaries clothes took advantage
of them, so I had to talk to her and tell her basically how things had
to be or we would find someone else. So...today we are going to be
working hard to find another place to wash them. I'm sure it will turn
out fine.
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| "Elder Portillo and Elder Leishman, who live with us. Yeah, Elder Leishman is a Colts fan! He´s from Brigham City." |
I do have to explain that "we" now means four of us.
We live with the Zone Leaders, Elder Portillo (who was one of my
district leaders in Amambay) and Elder Leishman (who was actually living
in my room--he just moved over too when he moved up to be ZL). I am no
longer a Zone Leader, now a Distrit Leader. When Elder Knudsen called
me, he said he knew I wanted to train and assured me I will have that
opportunity in one transfer. That's one of the advantages of being
friends with the assistant. My companion is Elder Pacheco from Arequipa,
Peru. He is definitely my quietest companion, but this is only his
fourth transfer. He is very smart (studied banking...but wants to change
to study mechanical engineering!), and works hard. I am excited to be a
district leader. I am going to focus a lot on commitments (chapter 11
in Preach My Gospel). Honestly, I am a little nervous. It is a new
adventure. I don't feel like I was demoted at all. I have learned that
different assignments are just different opportunities to serve and
learn.
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| Elder Pacheco, the new companion |
I am still getting to know the people and the area,
which is huge! It actually extends to the limit with the new mission
boundary with Ciudad del Este. So I am only one ward (and about 100
miles) away from my first area. I really love it here. I helped
encourage Gustavo, who was baptized a week before, to come to church and
get baptized. He is missing half of his skull from a car accident, but
he seems to be doing fine! He says the gift of the Holy Ghost helps him
with his anxiety a lot. I am sure will meet a lot of new people. Like
CDE, we always have more people to teach than time in the day. I have
missed that.
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| Elder Morgan's new house |
We also have the Arnold family in our District. They
are the senior couple of the mission (his brother is a Seventy). This week
we helped Elder Arnold drive around trying to update the ward list with
who still lives here to help this district become a stake. That is
mostly what they do all day. We also helped them with a chapel open
house. Pretty easy. We just dressed in white and talked about baptism in
front of the font. The other missionaries had other assignments in the
tours. And, though I moved, I did get to teach English this week. Lots
of new experiences!
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| My new shoes compared with my year old shoes. |
Got my package! Loved everything. The candles said
they were for my cake...was there supposed to be a cake in the package
too? I may just use them on the brownies. Everyone is excited for those.
They all loved the mint M&M's. Praying on the knees wasn't anything
too profound. Just an important way to improve our prayers, backed up
by a few scriptures (Daniel and Enos, and others). Time is flying! Love
you all. Keep on doing great things and remembering our eternal goals.
-Elder Wesley Morgan
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