One Year...

This week was one of the better ones no doubt. 

It started out kinda slow. We went to Acahay a city kinda far away to have a district council there and we had a great time. Learned a lot and spent some time with the missionaries but on the way back we couldn't find a bus. We were waiting and waiting and after 3 hours it finally came. We had plans to do divisions with some other elders but because the bus came super late it kinda shot our plans. Plus we got a call from the office saying that we needed to go to another area in order to look for a new apartment for the elders there because their apartment right now is pretty sucky. So we we got to this city and went on the search. We found absolutely nothing we literally walked the entire town talked to every single person we saw and there is nothing to rent. So House Hunters Paraguay is pretty boring not gonna lie. We found one house but it's a massive house with a huge yard and we need more of a small place with low maintenance, but that doesn't seem to exist.

After that we had to go to Asunción for a conference. Which is always fun to see a lot of other missionaries plus learn some stuff from President. We had a good time and ate some really good food. We went to a restaurant and they served us real mashed potatoes which I haven't had in over a year which is absolutely ridiculous. But they were so good. After that we came on home and it was like Friday by that time. And because of all the stuff we had had to do it was like the first full day where we could work in our area. So we hit the grind which is always so nice. We met a bunch of new people and taught a lot of other people. We finished the day going to an inactive members house to see how they are. And they were in the middle of draining their pool but they didn't have a pump they were just doing it by hand with buckets. So we jumped in and started helping. Which was awesome because we really got to know this family and help them out. They invited us back the following night to eat some asado (BBQ basically). So we couldn't turn that down. 

This same day I  completed a year on my mission and there was no better way I could've spent it. Also this week was Elder Vazquez's birthday so we celebrated with the asado. We are having such a good time together. There is only one week left in this transfer but I feel like it has straight flown by. I guess when you're really having a good time time goes quick. Him and I get along really well and work really well together, I hope he stays here for the next transfer because we have a lot of people progressing and pretty soon could be baptized and it would be sweet to be able to do that with him. 

I love this work and I'm having a great time doing it. I love Itá and the people here. I love all you guys and miss you too.

Elder Schofield 

The family we helped the the pool and the asado they fed us. 



Dinner on my one year mark

Super cool member family
We gave this guy a Book of Mormon and he started reading it as soon as we walked away. 



Member Family
There are seven myths in Paraguay. This mural depicts one of them.  People constantly call me by the boys names because I fit the description. 
We hiked a hill.  The view was awesome. Paraguay is super flat, so you could see forever. 

Last P-day

Cleaning out the pool


On the bus














Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Rosa and Orion...

Image
What’s up!! This week was amazing, we were able to get some real work done. We had a couple of lessons where we could bring some members along. We found some other inactive members who we are helping come back to church and along with that baptize their kids. I’m super thankful for the members here in the ward, they are awesome and always able to help us when we need it.     One day we met a lady and invited her to church, but she told us she didn't want to go because she didn’t have any friends in the church. So we told her that before Sunday came we would stop by her house with a member so that she could get to know her and then have a friend in church. And we knew just the lady to call … Rosa. A recent convert that I had such the blessing to be apart of her conversion process. So we went to Rosa’s house and told her that we had a friend that she needed to meet. She said, “just a minute hermanito (little brother) let me put my walking shoes on” and we walked on over to the l...
Read more

Temple...

Image
How's it going everyone?? This week went by ridiculously fast so here's some stuff that happened. On Monday we were able to change our P-day to Monday because we had divisions with other elders on Saturday. But it was super fun we had P-day with the whole zone. We played Paddle for like 3 hours, went to eat lunch all together in a mall and then came back to the church were we played chair soccer for another 3 hours. It was sweet to be have P-day all together and hangout with a bunch of missionaries.  On Tuesday we went out and worked and found some cool people that said that they really wanted to go to church with us. So we sat down and taught some good lessons. We taught the restoration and why it's so important. I honestly really love teaching especially when the people are interested. It's a lot of fun and really rewarding and satisfying. On Wednesday we were working and doing some stuff and then all of the sudden President showed up. So we started talking to...
Read more

Snakes, Dogs, and Red Dirt

Image
How's it going everyone. Day one I was warned about the snakes, these snakes are much more dangerous than the snakes you are thinking about right now. These snakes are teenage girls that give you the "look" everywhere you go. It's super funny we will be walking on the street and all of the sudden three girls will run up and talk with us as we walk for miles. It's hilarious, I love it.  A couple weird things that happened this week: a couple of drunk people interrupted our lessons which is sweet. I tried deep fried cow stomach, which honestly tasted and felt like a deep fried booger (sorry that's the only way I know how to describe it). Women breastfeed in the middle of lessons so that's something. I waited for a bus for 3.5 hours because the bus system here is wack. I ate like a pumpkin porridge thing which was pretty good. My comp is Elder Chomorro a Paraguayo who doesn't speak much english which is crazy. I feel like I haven't been able to have a...
Read more