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Met Mary Magdalene. She Was Drunk...

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How's it going everyone? This week was pretty great. First and foremost I got my new comp. His name is Elder Stillwell. He's from Illinois and is an extremely hard worker and loves to get out and not stop working until the night is here. So you can imagine we get along really well. His twin brother is serving in Reno so if any of you know an Elder Stillwell, I'm comps with his brother. We focused a lot this week on inactive members. We have a ward list that has all of the members on record and their addresses so we went out and found some of them. The thing is addresses in Paraguay are not what you think. Sometimes it's just a single street and they could live anywhere on this street for as long as it is. Sometimes it just says San Ignacio so we love that and basically we will never find those people. Others have two streets and the person lives somewhere near the intersection of these two streets. So basically what it turns into is us walking around asking everyone we ...

La Semana de Divisiones (The Week of Splits)

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How's it going everyone? This week was awesome and wild not much sleep was had haha.  On Tuesday I traveled to Pilar a city on the very western border of Paraguay right on the Rio Paraguay. There we met up with Elder Perrier and Elder Pavon two Paraguayans. On Wednesday we woke up and got to work. I went out with Elder Perrier which was really cool. His mom is a translator for English so he speaks basically perfect English and is also a super intelligent person. So it was super fun to dive deep into some topics of doctrine as well as science and other things. I missed having these kinds of conversations because my Spanish is not good enough to have super deep conversations.  The two of us had a lot of success and met a lot of interested people. We also met a lot of interesting people. Like this super drunk guy in the street who was shirtless came up to us and wanted to hang out. He led us to a corner store and ran inside and started yelling "mis mejores amigos estan afuera...