Tormenta...

This week was pretty insane, a lot of good things happened for sure.

Tuesday we went and had district council which was really good but afterwards we found this new restaurant that we've never known about that has the best food. I ate a whole pizza that was ridiculously good and after that ordered some piñacoladas which almost killed me they were so good. We came home and it was pretty sad, my favorite pair of pants that I've been wearing out here just decided to give out on me and the knees ripped through. So for a whole day I was walking around with some homemade ripped jeans, can't complain.

After that we had a whole day with President and Hermana Faundez that was honestly super sweet. They came down, we had our interviews and then we went to every companionship in the zone so that President could do interviews. We had some fire lunch and just a really good time getting to know them better. Definitely felt like vacation with my grandparents but what can I say sometimes you gotta vacation with the grandparents. Learned a lot and not just about the mission which is nice to get to know them on a different level. 

After that we got smacked around by a couple tormentas or storms that were ridiculously big. A bunch of Paraguayan people were saying that it was one of the biggest storms they had seen in their lives. And we were just walking home from a members house when it started. Crazy wind and rain trees falling over in front of us. The whole city lost power and we straight walked home by the light of the lightning. Crazy lightning straight looked like we were in a concert or something. So nowhere had power but we woke up the next day with 2 baptisms. One in a city called Paraguarí so we went down there and helped them with their baptism and it was super sweet. But then a member called them saying that "our roof fell down" so naturally we went to go help. Because literally everyone's houses were in pieces after this storm. So we went with the image that we were gonna get there and the roof was literally going to be caved in. We got there and it was a perfectly normal house actually a kinda really nice fancy house for Paraguayan standards. 

Knocked on the door the members opened up and were like thank goodness you're here our roof fell down. And we were all like "what?? Your roof is still where it should be" then they explain that because of the storm and the super strong winds it blew the dust from their ceiling to everywhere. So all the dust from the ceiling yeah fell down but all they had to do was sweep and mop and good to go. But we were there already so we helped clean their house and they bought us some super good lunch which was really nice. But low key I was dissapointed that we didn't find a house with their roof caved in. But definitely a good thing for them that their roof didn't actually "fall down."

After that we had to catch a bus back to Itá because our buddy that we have been teaching named Renzo was gonna get baptized. We got to the church and there was still no power or anything. But I asked some people to pull their motos around and turn their lights on, so we could have the meeting outside. We sang hymns and had the messages outside and then with the flashlights of phones we went into the church and had the baptism. Definitely an experience that I'll never forget and Renzo will also never forget. Pretty touching. His testimony he's a 13 year old kid but absolutely loves the gospel and said that it doesn't matter if his mom can't drive him to church he'll walk if he has to on Sundays. Luckily his mom is super supportive and will take him to church we are hopping that here soon she will get baptized as well. 

It was a great week can't wait for more. Love you guys!

Easton 

SOOO good




Baptism meeting outside by the light of the motos



Day with President 






P-day on the way to the waterfall



Everyone kept calling me the dad, so I just sent it for this picture




RIP my favorite pants 
The best pinacoladas



Bought a hot water thermos for our mate 


Best way to clean the floors



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