Week of nov algo a dec 4

So this week was pretty good.  We weked pretty hard and found 14 new investigators, and 2 families to teach.  Most of them are pretty sweet and are pretty accepting.  Elder Cab and i are doing better. He has some problems with being exactly obedient, but we were able to talk about it and we are doing better.  We cook tacos a lot, and they are freaking delicious.

week of Nov 13 or something like that.

So this past week was pretty awesome if i do say so myself.  Monday was pday, and we made tacos for lunch and salsa and stuff and it was deleicious.  Then we worked and stuff and not much more happened until we got on a bus to head in to Asunción.  The bus ride was kinda crappy but whatever.  When we got to the terminal, we took a taxi to the temple.  It was like 5 in the morning so we had to wait around until the temple opened around 6.  The temple was super awesome.  It was way good to go back after not having been since august.  Now i have to wait till like april to go again :(.   Anyway, after that we went to the mission office and had zone conference, which was way sweet and i feel like i learned a ton, and i was able to be part of a demonstration.  Then after that, i had a small interview with the Pres, cause i had some questions that i wanted to ask him, and basically he didnt answer them but instead talked about other things and basically said that he sees a LOT of potential in me and that he sees me in positions of leadership relatively early in my mission, but he prefaced that with the need of being ready at all times even if im not called upon to serve.  So we will see what happens.  Then after that Elder Cab and I went roaming around Asunción and went to a mall and out to eat and stuff cause we had 5 hours to kill before the bus left back to Horqueta.  The bus was better this time and we took a pic, that i am going to attach to this email.  Then on thursday we had a division with the zoneleaders that went really well, and the the week continued normally.  Want to know the best part?  We are going to have two baptisms this week!  The first on thursday, is Manuel Garay who is the cousin of Wilson who is on his mini mission(he just got his mission call to Tiajuana Mexico!) Manuel is turning 9 on thursday and thats why he wants to be baptized on thursday.  So that will be sweet.  And the next is Liz Bareiro, who is 22 or something like that, and she is going to be baptized on saturday.  She is way smart and understands a ton of stuff so she will be a good addition to the branch.  Basically that is it for this week. Oh, and i got a haircut too.

Until next time

-Elder Treviño.  

ps. Eat me a turkey.

week of nov 6

whoowie, this week was a little crazy but i dont have much time to write about it so we will see.

I have a new companion who is named elder Cab.  He is from mexico, and more specifically Merida, so i told him the Nefi was a temple president there so that was cool.  Now i get to learn mexican spanish instead of Paraguayan spanish so thats cool too.  But he only speaks spanish so now i need to teach him english too.  Did you know that its a rule for foreign elders who dont speak english to learn it.

Me and elder lane took a 8 hour bus ride friday night at 10 into asunción that was pretty crappy cause the bus driver his every single bump in the road.  and there are a lot of bumps here.  Then i went to immigrations to sign into the country, and while i was doing that. elder lane left with his new companion to his new area, with the cell phone and the keys to our house.  It was a mess but we got it taken care of.  So now im back and kicking it with elder Cab.

As far as sending the stuff and how you do it is up to you i dont really know what will get through and what wont so you guys can decide.

I was going to send some pics but the computers here are sucking it up  so i will send them later.

thanks for you support, ciao

Another week in paraguay

So this week has been pretty crazy, i will let you guys read whats up in the picture i will send in a bit.  Not too much is going on on my end over here now as things kinda calmed down..  The interviews with the mission president went good, which you will read a bit about in the picture.

I got the shampoo package this week, and we already ate the trail mix.  That did not last long.  And you did get me my razors, thank you.

I had to withdraw some money from my account this week so please monitor how that is doing, and please let me know that you verified it,  it should be for about 60ish dollars or something around there.

There is a gas station here that opened up just a little while ago that has a "fast food" place that is nicer than like all the restaurants here.  its kindof funny to see because many of the gas stations in the states are kinda dumpy, and the the gas stations here are nicer than all the other places.

This is the last week of the transfer, and as such, it will mark the end of my training.  As you will read in my letter, i was senior comp for three days this week, and i feel that if i am called upon to be a senior comp, i could do it.  It would be hard, but hard things make us stronger.

Im going to miss Elder Lane.  We got along really well and had a ton of funny moments.  Maybe we will get to be together for another change, who knows. i will let you guys know what goes down next pday.

Other than that, there is not much that is going on.  I wish you guys luck in whatever you guys are doing. Are there time changes this week for you guys?  if there is then i will be four hours ahead of you guys.  We were only two hours. then during conference we had time changes here in Paraguay, then now you will move back another hour.

Alright thats it for now. ciao

 

 

Oct 24

Whats up fam?  SO another week has gone by here in the Paraguay and not much is going on.  Just work work work.  I have interviews with the mission Pres. tomorrow so that should be interesting and good and uplifting and all that stuff. i will tell you how that goes next week.  To fulfill your request of me writing you guys more im going to try to do something awesome, that my companion recomended.  Basically, i just write a letter but i just take a good picture of it and send it to you so you can read it that way, you just need to zoom in good.

Not much is going on.  life is decently boring and busy at the sametime.  If you have any questions go ahead and ask them.

So Antonio Lopez, one of my converts is doing waaay awesome, and he should be able to get the aaronic priesthood either this week or next.  

Other than that there really is not much going on. so i will attach the pic and call it good.

a pic just for you (Oct 17)

so this is a pic of me and my companion Elder Lane. This pic is fresh from this morning

Oct 17

This is probably going to be my main email today so you can share it with others if you wish

You really dont need to send the letters through dearelder, but  i suppose that if you want to you can.  My prostate problem is not event that much of a problem.  Its just kinda weird, and so i got it checked out, but it only gave me problems for like 2 hours than it went away. 

You can send me that vitamin stuff if you want it.  I really like getting packages here so i guess thats and excuse for you to send them to me.  

As far as the shoes are concerned, go ahead and get the 10.5 4Es, i feel that that is probably going to be the best option to go with.  Now when you ship it you need to be careful. Please use a box for the shoes. On the price declaration(i guess its on the form for international shipments?) make sure that you DO NOT declare them more that $99.  If the actual price is under $99 go ahead and do that, but if not, just say its like 80 or something. My companion used to be in charge of the mail here for the mission, and he said that if you get a tracking number, it has a higher chance of getting here.  One other tip, is to put a picture of Jesus, or a picture of Mary on the box, as there is less of a chance of tampering.

Alright, its spanish test time for ya.  Tengo algunas cosas que quiero pedir.  but its really just one.  So during my study in the morning i like to be doing something else small to keep my hands busy or something like that.  So i was thinking, why not get a hand gripper thing?  On amazon there is a company called Captain of Crush or something like that, that has some high quality gripers.  You should get me the trainer level, or the level 1.  If you cant find it have tori look for it.  Think of it as a christmas present.

The weather this past week was way awesome.  It was overcast and drizzly the whole week so it was a bit refreshing from the super hotness that it has been.

So i guess that i will answer some of your questions.

Health is doing fine, im not having anyproblems so its all good.  I just had that little hiccup two weeks ago and thats pretty much it.

We have been teaching a lot of flaky people.  We havent been able to find solid people to teach in a while, and therefore we havent had any baptisms.  The kid that went to conference just dissapeared off of the face of the earth.  We havent heard anything about him since after conference... so yeah that kinda sucks.

Elder lane is still my companion, and will be probably till this transfer is over which is nov 7 or something like that.  We get a long just fine, and i will probably send you a pic today.  We are basically the same person, except that he is a bit taller.  We have the same interests and the some love of food, and just some other smaller things.

Thats pretty much it for today.  I hope you guys are doing well and it sound like you are.  Time is just flying by down here.  Have you heard anything aabout the E.P.P.?  Its a biggish deal down here.  You guys should look it up.  Anyway, talk to you later.

-Elder Treviño

here is a fun pic

i think there was like 12 bites or something like that.  yeah fun stuff.

Another week aqui en la Paraguay (Oct 10)

So its getting hot here.  like way hot.  It got to 38 degrees centegrade here which is close to 100, plus the humidity. Yeah its hot.

Things are going really well for the most part.  Our area kinda died as far as investigators go, but we have been able to work alot with less actives and recent converts so thats good.  Its really hot here, by the way , a´kue´tereí is how you say hace muchisimo calor in guarani.  just so you know.

So story time.  I had a fun little experience this week.  So a couple of times since i have been in Paraguay i have had trouble going to the bathroom, as in urinating, so first thought is that i have kidney stones that are forming or algo asi.  So this has happend like three times with the most recent being on thursday.  So after this i called Hermana Lucas who is the mission nurse, and she told me to go have a CBC (complete blood check or something like that) and a Urinalysis.  So i went to a lab here and had that done, then emailed the results to her and she forwarded them to the Area doctor for the church.  Basically nothing is wrong with me excpet that i have been having minor prostate inflammation. So basically im really getting old.  Im going bald, complaining about heat, now i have prostate problems.  Whats next?  Bingo on wednesday nights?  geez.  Really im alright though, just need to avoid sitting for long periods of time on hard surfaces, like church chairs, and drink plenty of fluids.  So there is your fun story for the week.

Tengan una linda semana familia.  Adios.

Another week in the Paraguay (Oct 3)

So conference was pretty amazing this time around, and i probably got more out of this conference that any other conference before.  Taking notes helps in that i think. I was indeed able to watch all the sessions of conference.  On saturday we took a bus to the stake center in Concepción, which is about an hour away,  then we had to walk for about 30 minutes to make it to the actual building, so that was fun.  Then we left at like 10 at night when the priesthood session was over.  Then on sunday the church had rented a charter bus for us to take, which was sweet cause then we didnt have to walk.  But yeah conference was really sweet.

Its starting to get really hot now.  On thursday and fri, it was about 98 with 80% humidity, so yeah, those were really sweaty days.

We found an investigator who is 14 and he went to conference on sunday all day with us, and pretty much wants to get baptized, so in two weeks we will hopefully have a baptismal service.

Not much is going on down here, just work work work work, sleep, then work work work. and then sleep.  And that is pretty much it.

We might go to the museum of horqueta today, which is just a one room building and has some stuff in there.  I might just take a nap instead.

anyay thats pretty much it for this week. Peace.

whats up fam? (Sept 26)

alright here we go

So i got a a package and a small envelope thing this week, which meens it took about a month for it to get here right?  So yeah.  Thanks for the mac, im probably going to make it today, so im super excited for it.  I dont know if that small envelope that dad sent counts as that other package or not, but i only got the one.  Im pretty sure that they were not tampered with which is good.

So my first Change is over!  Whoooooo!  only 15 more to go!!!  Im not going to lie its been the fastest time period for me in my life which is rediculous.  

Like i said last week, Antonio Lopez is doing awesome, we keep visiting him to check up and he is doing better and better each time.  You can really tell the difference in his spirit. 

There is not really much to write about.  Nothing exciting has been happening.

anyway thats about it for this week, ciao

Love ya guys

-Elder Treviño

another week. (Sept 19)

so i dont have time to write much because the comp was bein stupid and i had to mess around with it for a bit.

im doing good, Antonio Lopez, the guy i baptizes is doing awesome now

till next week bye

Tony's Mailing Information

While serving in Paraguay you may send letters through the church "pouch mail". Send your letter to:

 Elder Antonio David Trevino

Paraguay Asuncion North Mission

POB 30150

Salt Lake City UT 84130-0150


Pouch mail instructions: To prevent possible fines, only postcards and letters that are single sheet, folding into three panels, and taped at the top only (no envelopes) may be sent through the pouch. Packages may not be sent through the pouch.


*You can also use DearElder.com, which Tony prefers*


Mailing packages to the mission: the following address may be used to end packages to the mission office:

Elder Antonio David Trevino

Paraguay Asuncion North Mission

Casilla de Correo 1871

Asuncion 1831

Parguay

Phone: 595 21-280-930

If you ship a package with a private courier, you will need the mission office telephone number indicated above. 

Sept 12 - Almost a month in this crazy country

On the 16th i will have been in paraguay for a month already, time is just absolutely flying by.  i found a scale and i guess i have already lost 15 or so lbs which is cool.  this week has been a little crazy.  there are two companionships here in horqueta, but this week the mission pres decided to do some special changes to get ready for the next group of missionaries.  In the next group there are going to be 32 newbies which is a lot, so a lot of new areas are being opened and there have been a lot of weird changes, and one of the elders from the other horqueta area got reassigned to Itagua.  so now we have a trio for the next 3 weeks with me Elder Lane and ELder Kilner.  Elder kilner is a pretty awesome guy, so i will need to get a picture for you guys some other time.

I cant really tell you much about my mission pres cuase i have only seen him 3 times, but he looks like a mad scientist.  This week has really been kinda boring.  Nothing really crazy but today im going to make a pullup bar in our house somehow so we will how that will go.

i have been trying some more food here from street vendors and there is some good stuff, i love the asaditos, which dad can tell you about i would think.

Story time then im going to bounce

So me, Elder Lane and Elder Kilner were out contacting to fill some time and we get to a house with a metal fence around it, we clapped out side the gate (they dont knock here) and waited for a bit.  We saw in the window two people talking, probably arguing about who was going to answer.  Then two old ladies came out, one was carrying a pot and a plate of food and came to the gate, while the other was getting on a moto(scooter/motorcycle).  The lady that came to the gate said that whe was leaving and that this was not her house, right as she walked out, the other old lady was riding the moto right out of the gate as we were trying to ask her a question. And then they just took off, one was running and the other was on a moto in opposite directions.  This all happened in the space of about 30 seconds.  Right as the lady on the moto rode out i just started laughing, and walking away, while the other two were laughing while wondering what just happened.  So far it has been one of the funniest contacts that i have had.

anyway, that all folks, see ya next week.

Sept 5 - ParaParaParaguay

Yeah so this place is sweet, this week was a super crazy week though.  Last monday night we took a bus to  Santaní which is like 5 hours away, and we slept in a chapel there.  Then on tuesday we had zone conference with Elder Arnold who is the South America South Area President.  That man is pretty powerful and the conference was great.  Then we took a bus back to Horqueta later that day and we got back around9ish or so.  Then on wednesday we found out we had to move houses so we spent a lot of the day doing contracts and paperwork and a bunch of stuff to get ready to move.  Then on thursday we spent moving nearly the entire day moving, the only member in the area who has a car helped us move, and thank goodness it was a truck too.  and then the rest of the week was just normal missionary work as usual.  The other guy we baptized is a guapo and we are helping him learn a ton, and then the One i baptized´s mom is nearly dead, she is 86 or something, so he has been worrying and been busy with her so we havent had a whole lot of time to talk with him.

Things here are pretty good,  time is going by way fast and im learning a ton.  Tell everyone that i say hi and that im doing fine.  im going to get some pictures sent finally so you can see what is going on.  and mom to answer your question about health,  what i meant by that is that the conditions down here arent exactly the greatest, as im in a nearly 3rd world country, so health is not exactly the biggest concern of mine at this point.  But to answer you question, as far as i know i am healthy.  I dont know when i get mail, it comes whenever we get sent more supplies or whenever since we are pretty far away, so there is no way for you to time the packages.  And Paraguay doesnt really have a mail system......so yeah, i dont really know whats up with that. anyway, till next time

ciao- Elder Treviño

August 29 - another week in the Paraguay

Story time.  Because im a new missionary, we have a lot of study time in the morning. So at 8 we have personal study, then we have two hours of comp study, then we have another hour of language study.  then its time for lunch.  We are lucky and have 4-5ish lunch appointments with ward members in our area, and if not we just cook lunch.  So generally we dont even start working till 1ish, then from there we just go to lessons with our investigators or just tract or just do whatever we have scheduled, then return home around 9 and then we prep for the next day and sleep time.  I have never slept so good in my life! im just drained at the end of each day and just pass out within a minute or two.  As far as our investigators go we really only have 2 progressing investigators and just a bunch of people that we need to follow up with and a bunch that we have only taught once.  We had two baptisms on saturday, with the confirmations on sunday.  I wil try to send the picture for  you guys, but dont hate me if you dont get it.  i baptised one of them and the branch president baptised the other.  but here is the sad news, later last night we went over to the guy that i baptised´s house and we were 99% sure he was pretty freaking drunk, which means that he lied to us to get baptized.  so now we just got to keep an eye on him and see what happens.  thats pretty much all the stories from this week.  Its hot again, probably close to 90 plus the humidity and its only going to get warmer.

My comps name is Elder Lane, he is from cali and has a twin brother in argentina, we get along just fine.  The food is pretty good.  its definitely not going to be a problem for me to eat stuff so i should be good.  I am living in a flat in Horqueta which is like 8 hours north of Asunción.  we have running water, and a water heater that is on our shower head, which gets the water pretty hot.  We have a laundry lady that does our clothes, so no washing machines.  Am i staying healthy? its hard to say, but i will just say yes so you dont worry.

Anyway thats pretty much it.  Tonight i get to ride a bus all night to get to a town called Santaní, which is where he are having our zone conference, so thats pretty cool.  And Guaraní is really weird and everybody speaks it.  so yeah thats it for now.  Peace- Elder Treviño

Aug 22

so my pday will always be on monday unless i get assigned to work at the office later in my mission, just so you know.

we got our luggage the next day so that wasn´t to long of a wait but i had been in the same clothes for four days at that point, so i was smelly and my facial hair was definitely not up to mission code.

The first two days we were in Asunción, and that city is crazy status.  depending on where you are in the city you get people trying to sell stuff and weaving but mainly peds do that. and now its story time, i will try to get you guys up to date.

the first night we stayed at the office elders apartment cause it serves as the night houde for transferring elders as well, and that was a pretty nice flat compared to a lot of other places here.  On wednesday we went to the only hill  in the city called lombare and tooks pics and stuff up there.  speaking of pics i will try to send some if i have enough time. then after that we went back to the mission office and met our new companions and got our assignments and areas and stuff.

my comps name is elder lane, and we are assigned to the Horqueta A area in the concepción zone.  Horqueta is 8 hours away from Asunción so we had to take a bus out here right after we had a little orientation.  that was a seriously long bus ride.  we got to horqueta around 11 at night and i unpacked then went to bed.

The next morning we had to wake up early because we then needed to do a companion exchange.  One of the investigators in horqueta needed a baptismal interview and we needed to have a zone leader come do the interview be cause my comp is also a district leader.  So we went to concepción which is an hour and a half bus ride there.  we then exchanged and i went with elder tensmeyer for the day. during the day i also split from elder tensmeyer because of baptismal interviews and went with elder johnson.  so my first day i was with three different companions, and i wasnt even in my area.  

on friday i finally had my first day in my area, and it was rainy and cold, probably about 40-50 degrees plus however humid it is, so its pretty stinking cold.  and its windy to, and it has been ever since.  on sat we found a sweet investigator, and a sweet investigator yesterday too.

In church yesteday, the branch pres had me stand up and introduce my self so that was kinda cool, but other than that thats all i got for ya.

August 16 - im hererererererererererererer

¿que pasa?  so im here and this place is totally sweet.  im jealous of myself.  im at the mission home and they are just having us email saying that we have arrived.  so yeah im here, and now i understand why the traffic is crazy, people are just walking in the street and selling stuff and its just crazy.  Remember how i said we had one of our flights cancelled? because of that our luggage didnt come too. im not worried buts its funny. like everything that could go wrong did.  our flight was cancelled, i dint sleep on the way to brazil, the airport in brazil was zombie apocalypse-like empty.  none of our seats were reserved on the flight to asunción so there were only seven that got on at first, then thae other three got lucky.  lets just say the lord was looking out for us.  anyway i need to go, till pday adios

elder trevino

August 13 - short stuff

so i got packed today and that was super weird but im pretty much done with packing, i got my carry on to ten, and one of my bags is at 48, and the other i didnt bother to check cause its going to go over.  not much else happened today, just chilled and packed up my next 22months of my life.  anyway, i dont know why i wrote most of my email yesterday in spanish and the other half in english but its whatever.  soo many people are stressing out about leaving but im just chilling.  i kinda think something is wrong with me in that regard but its all good.  anyway, talk to you monday.

August 12

no sé porque el subjeto del correo electronico es lo que es, pero.......

 

so i didnt really have pday today because we had an in field orientation, but i will have pday tomorrow.  i dont know if i will get to email tomorrow but i will see if i can.

 

I dont have any of the letters you sent me so i will try to answer the best that i can the questions that i remember and no tengo mucho tiempo, entonces este email podría ser corto, y no sé porque estoy escribiendo en español. 

 

I foundout some news about my flights.  my flight from brazil to paraguay only allows a 10lb carry on.  10 pounds.  solomente diez.  so that kinda sucks, so one of my suitcases is definitely going over.

 

Yo encontré matt griner finalmente, y rob dijo hola tambien.  Ambos estan bien y estan teniendo un tiempo bien.

 

i dont need anything else before i leave so i should be good.  If there is anything that i dont need i will send it with bro barker to you guys, but i will probably keep most of my stuff or give away the toys to others in my building or something.

 

gracias por todos, y si hay algunas cosas que aperecen, yo trato de informar uds.  adios, hasta nuestras conversación de el teléfono. 

 

élder antonio treviño

August 5

another week at the mtc, not really much to update on, same old stuff day to day.

One of my teachers is getting married so their last day was yesterday, and our other teacher is getting married too but is leaving next week.  We (our district) got our travel plans yesterday so no we official get to leave even though dad sent me the travel stuff in my email last week. I went to the dermotologist today and one of the receptionists gave us m&ms.  its really weird being outside of the mtc for that kind of stuff.

So quick update on my companion.  So he went to the neurologist on wednesday and got a prescription, then got an mri yesterday (i got to go to that too) and is talking to the doctor here at the mtc right now(im on a comp exchange so i dont know).  But basically the medicine can take 2 weeks to start to work so the docs want to keep him here.  So they extended his mtc stay by two weeks.  so he was super bummed cause we are all sick of it here and are just ready to leave.  he talked to our district president though and the district pres said that if it were up to him he would just send him with us at the normal departure date.  so it all depends on how he reacts to the new medicines he got.

Adios!
Elder Tony Trevino

July 29 - Hola

sup family! how is everything going? Just another week here in the MTC, so update on my comp, he was sick all last week right? well he has migraine problems like tori used to and i gues since he has been in here they have only been getting worse and worse.  So this morning we went to the health clinic and they are going to have him looked at by a neurologist at timponogos or something on wednesday, so get to go out and see the reall world for a little.  he is freaking out that his mission call is going to get change cause of the migraines so im trying to get him to calm down so thats kinda fun.  I go my appointment scheduled with Dr. france davis for next friday so that is bueno.  If there is anything else i need, i will either send you the prescriptions or have them call them in or something so that way you can get them to me before i leave this country. 

I leave in TWO weeks, im SOOOOOOOO excited to get out of this place man.  But yeah i dont believe you.  I think i will have some of the pics devoloped that i have thend just send them home before i leave so that way you know who im talking about.

 

My spanish is rocking for only 6 1/2 weeks of being here which is bien.

 

 i was not able to talk to matt or find him for that matter so i will have to look for him.  But guess what?  Remember Zach Landers?  So i saw him and was talking to him and HE IS GOING TO THE SAME MISSION as me.  So thats kinda sweet, more friendly faces.

July 22

I need the pictures of the new house please! you guys are slacking.  Its too bad the house didnt pass inspection but its good that they are small things.  and tell mom and dad to stop being butts and get along.  just cause im not there to keep the family from being nice to each other does not mean you can fight. so get along.

 

weight loss os kinda non existant at this point,  I have lost 2 pounds overall but my chest and my tris are monstrously huge im doing loads of pushups and dips and variations of them, and eating soooooooo much meat during meal time and protein in general. i eat 8 hard boiled eggs every morning, plus whatever else they are serving like bacon and sausage,  im not getting fatter which is good, and in paraguay they eat tons of beef so im set.  My calves are getting so defined and looking so beastly is awesome.  My comp thinks im vain cause i check out my calves almost daily and just look at them in the mirror.  I probably am.  Im going to lose so much weight when i get down to paraguay, and im going to try and keep as much muscle as possible.

 

Yeah my district got the hacky sacks, and we are getting so muchbetter aat it is rediculous.  and the letter that mom sent was way corny.

 

Tell dad and mom to stop being butts and put a stupid fence in.  You CANNOT get rid of the dogs, and whatever i say goes.  It does not cost that much, so tell them to do it.

 

this week has been good.this week was so fast it is ridiculous.  only three more weeks on monday.  im so excited to leave but at the same time i feel like im not ready.  but yeah nothing much is going on over here.  just class and study and class and study with some gym and mealtime thrown in somewhere.

 

brother barker is a third counselor in my branch presidency  cause they are going from 600 to 1100 spanish speaking missionaries in the next couple of months.

 

rob loves getting the random goodies so keep it up.  thats pretty much it for me.  my comp has been sick all week and is finally getting better.  but other than that  its good.

 

buh duh da doo dat do bah doo bu dat

bustin out the jams cause i cant listen to beats while chilling en la CCM.  esta bien

 

What up Fam? another week down, and i have officially been in the mtc for a month now!  Hopefully its down hill from here.  I forgot to bring my letters with me to answer some of the questions but oh well lets see what i can remember.

 

THANK you for the watch!  It is definitely a sweet timepiece.  The only problem is that is was way too big and that it will prob get stolen down in the paraguay oh well its still sweeet.  I gave it to one of my branch prez counselors and he is going to take it to get some links taken off so that it will fit better so that is sweeet.

 

Im going to go get a haircut today so thats is cool.  I really dont have that much to talk about so lets see what i can come up with in the 15 min that i have left.  Keep up the good work on the house. I dont know what is up with some of the ties, just badly  made or something, but no i have not washed them, i know whats up with that stuff so dont worry about that, but i do like the ties that you picked out, they are all sweet.

 

Mom or tori you should go to missionmoms.org or something like that and learn mas about my mission.  Im going to be out in the middle of nowhere i suppose, like jungle and farmland status, and very rarely in the city.  I hear our mission prez is way chil compared to the south mission prez which is exciting to me for some reason.  I hear that its kinda random on how much guarani you learn,  some missionaries learn a lot and pretty much only speak that and others know very little.  Some even use spanish but conjugate in the guarani forms which seems like it would be sweet.

 

MTC life is kinda whatever at this point, i dont entirely hate the place and i dont really love it either, just trying to make it through.  I guess the First pres just passed a new in field training like 2 weeks ago and it will be implemented by the time im there.  I guess it involves another hour of language in you daily studies and being taught by you trainer more to help you learn as fast as possile.  And one that is a rumor is that after 6 months, that they have you  be a trainer so thats you learn faster and the new missionaries too so it cuts down the time between being just alright to being awesome.    im kinda afraid that i wont learn as much spanish but i will know boatloads of guarani. esta bien

 

At the mtc the pilot program we are on is fully implemented on august 1 and my district is doing alot to help train the new teachers and stuff, se we get a ton of 1 on1 time with a teacher and we can just talk and plan and do lots of stuff  so thats cool too.

 

tell matt good luck

 

im outta time, peace

 

Elder Tony Treviño

Weeks are dropping like...

Mosquitos hitting a bug light!  Maybe not but they are still going fast.  Mom, i know you are worried about rob and stuff but that doesnt mean you need to ask me the same question like 6 times.  Yes he has his dads mailing address.  And yes i have finally got to talk to him again.  We sit next to each other at devotionals now so that is bueno.  He like all the goofy little stuff that you send him in the mail.

Anyway, this week has gone by super fast.   Me and my comp have been improving tons in our language and in our discussions, we are finally getting on the same page as far as continuing the lessons go.  Two of the elders in our district left on thursday morning at 3 am, which is probably the time that i am going to leave at too.  I guess that i get to call you when im in the airport so im gonna need one of your guys cell number cause i forgot them.

Yesterday was one of the funniest days of my life, our district was just having so much fun it was soo awesome.  And we were alll super productive in our studies too so it wasnt like we were wasting time or anything.

 

Tell Aimee that i didnt get a chance to talk to aaron, as he left on this past tuesday.  I heard that he was doing a lot better though so thats good. Im sure i will see him down there any way.

 

Almost 4 weeks down!  The time here is sooooooo weird.   Most of the time during the day the time goes suuuper slow, but then the weeks go by like crazy fast.  All i know is that im working in the lords time, and he know how it goes, all i got to do is the work.   My español is improving a lot and like i said before, i know more know than i did with 3 years of spanish from school.  Yo sé que esta iglesia es la iglesia de Dios y Jesucristo y que mediante de la expiación podemos recibir la vida eterna y vivimos con nuestros familias para siempre.  Adios

Another week another...

Idk what would fit in there.  Im going to just answer some of the questions mom sent me and kinda reply to some of the mail i have gotten.  So here we go. 

 

On last friday we had Elder bednar come and speak to us, and 6 of the twelve were there too, it was pretty tight.

 

I cant chew any of that gum you sent me, as chewing gum is against the rules.

 

Today was the last day i got to go to the temple until august. I dont get to go to timp.

 

There are ten elders in my district.  6 going to Paraguay and 4 going to the Dominican Republic.2 of them leave to go to the dr mtc next thursday.

 

What do you want to know about the elders?  There really isnt that much that i could tell you so i will just give you a quick rundown.

 

Matt Jensen-Played football at byu for his freshman year, and knows the egberts

Elder Richards- dont know much other than he likes to sing.

 

Hayden Denton-  From provo, i played football with him, Tell matt griner that he is in my district.

Reed Fruehan- From alpine, went to Maezer academy, he is lazy but funny

 

Kirbirt Carter-Nickname is kirby but we have to call him elder, he is from chicago and looks like barack obama except 20 years younger,  He is the district leader.

Derek Young-  From washington state, was the state high school tennis champ.  This kid is way too funny for his own good.

 

Landon Bryce- From arizona,  super funny and sleep walks.  He is on the top bunk lol

Logan Sherman-  Super nerd that knows alot, me and him debate stuff.

 

Mi cumpañero,  Preston Naegle-from bountiful, likes to ride dirt bikes and go water skiing.

 

Thats pretty much my district for you.  If you want to know more let me know.

 

Not much different happens now that we are on a consistent schedule.  Spanish is coming along well.  Our teacher got a new district and is now teaching them.  Our teacher now was supposed to be our teacher originally, but she was in the hospital for some reason.

The worst part about the mission so far is the sleep.  You go to bed at 10:30 and you wake up ten minutes later and say "there is NO WAY that its already 6:30!"  But it is, and it sucks.

my knee is fine, it just bruised up.

 

Thats it for this week.

 

Adios,  Elder Tony Trevino.

 

DearElder.com Request

Tony requests that everyone write him via DearElder.com. It makes it easier for him to reply. Plus it's FREE!

Instructions:

• Go to www.DearElder.com
• Click on the link Write A Letter
• Tony is currently in the Provo MTC, so in the drop-down menu select Provo MTC
• Then fill out the information
• Elder Antonio Trevino
• MTC Box #: 160
• Mission Code: PAR-ASUN 0816
• Estimated Departure Date: August 15, 2011

Week 2

Hey everybody!  the time is starting to fly by now and it is waaaaayyy better than it going slow.  I swear it was just sunday!  im starting to not remember whati have eaten for previous meals in the day, like on wednes day i was eating dinner, and was like "what the heck did i eay for lunch?"  Yesterday was awesome.  For some reason something just lick switched on and i felt like a was pregressing so much in my scripture study and my language study.

Thanks for writing on dear elder, it helps me out so i can reply within the 30 min that i have which is not a lot of time.  Soyeah when you send it to me through there i get a hard copy the next day. 

 

This probably seems super sporatic and it kinda is so forgive me.   I totally stalked the entrance for rob on wednesday and i gave him a big hug when he came  in. it was cool.  I also saw zac danielson but i didnt say hi.  I havent seen rob since wednesday so im trying to look for him.   I just got back from the temple and it waaaaaassssssss so good to go back after being so stressed with everything else.  All the new mission presidents are here, and so are a TON of the twelve and other general authorities.  We are having a special devotional today and impretty sure that the first pres will be there. 

 

I dont really have to much to say.  Random note, i got kicked on the right side of my left knee when i was playing soccer the other day, no esta bien.  I really dont have that much to write seeing as how i wrote you guys earlier

 

Hasta luego.

 

Elder Tony Trevino

First P-Day

Yo yo yo yoyo wahts up?  I dont have much timeso imgoing to to make it quick,but these keyboards suck bad.  I saw mike on thursday and that was sweet, wee talked for a bit and it was cool, he seems way more open and less awkward which was sweet. I also saw carey decker and some other people that i know, butim looking for others too.  Tell rob im looking for him The days have been horrendously long this past week, and every one says just to make it till sunday afternoon and it gets better.  The language learning is hard but im learning a lot.  Mi cumpanero is struggling though, and miost of the rest of the district sve for two others. who are cool.  My district leader is way awesome, he seems so intune with the spirit its nuts, and noneof us were suprised when he got the call.  Our district is part of a new pilot program for stuff so we get to do stome stuff a lot of others dont  which is cool. Like yesterday night we got to teach an "investigator"(really just some actor) and the SPOKE NO INGLES!!!!!! it sucked pretty bad.  But me and mi cumpanero were able to got through half of the first discussion.  Friday wasnt that bad but just stressful cuase we had to prepare for the lesson.   The food is good sometimes, but prerry bad some other times, kinda just depends on what it is, but you know me i will eat it anyway.  Im sitting in the laundry room writing this so its pretty hot and smelly.   I though i was going to have more to say but i dont really. Mycompanions name is Elder Naegle, said like ny E glee, so now you know.

Elder Antonio Treviño

Mission (Day 1)

Tony made it to the MTC safely today. We dropped him off at 1:30pm.

We took some pictures before he left:

 

Tony's Mission Address:

Elder Antonio David Trevino

MTC Mailbox #160

PAR-ASUN 0816

2005 N. 900 E.

Provo, Utah 84604-1793

Tony's MTC Information

MTC Address:

Elder Antonio David Trevino

MTC Mailbox #160

PAR-ASUN 0816

2005 N. 900 E.

Provo, Utah 84604-1793