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