Week of January 21

Sorry, but this week i don't really have too much to say. Last monday we were in concepcion which is four hours away, and tuesday we traveled back. The week went fairly normally with nothing too exciting, but we did find a couple of cool investigators. Today we played more soccer, then we are going to go buy some groceries, and the relax a little bit. Anyway, nothing much other that that is going on. if you have questions ask, as that helps me to have something to talk about. anyway love you guys and have a good week

Elder Treviño

Week of Jan 14

Whoowhee. This last week has been pretty long, and full of interesting things, so hopefully i will remember them all and i can tell you guys.

On monday, nothing really happened, we played soccer, and had a ton of fun with that, and then was finally able to print out some photos and do some other things that i have been meaning to do.

Tuesday, my companion ELder Nielson and I taught a zone training meeting in a town called Yby Yau, i will tell you how to say it when i get home. anyway, its a 2 hour bus ride away, so a good chunk of our time was taken up with that, but the training went well. Then we went back to our area and we had to be a in a cybercafe for quite a while doing some more administrative things for the zone, and that basically killed the day.

Wednesday we were able to work and we got a lot done, but then we got a phone call from the President asking if we wanted to do our interviews with him then, instead of the next day. SO we said yeah and we went and did our interviews. Mine went really well, and there wasn't really a lot that we discussed, but we touched on the fact that my time is winding down, and now is my time to shine and really be an influence for the other missionaries in my zone, and just work to my full potential.

Thursday, was interesting. we were able to work all day, and it went pretty well, but for some reason i was having some weird muscle pain in my core area, the front mainly, but the sides and back as well. annoying but i just dealt with it. That night my comp had a fever of 102, which was fun, so i gave him a blessing and we went to sleep.

Then friday morning, we both woke up fine, and we got on a bus to go to Horqueta, which if you guys remember was my starting area. We went there to do some interchanges, as well as some baptismal interviews. When i got of the bus, we had to walk about 10 block to get to the elder´s house, and i could not walk because of some crazy intense pain that was similar to the day before, but i took some tylenol, and the pain subsided for a bit, and i kept going on. Anyway, being back in Horqueta was really awesome, because i thought that i was never going to be able to visit because of the distance, but i got the opportunity. Many of the members remembered me quite well, which also surprised me, cause i feel that they would just forget about us cause there are so many that they know, but that seems to be wrong.

anyway, the day was sweet, and not too hot. My comp though was still sick and stayed in the house all day with another elder.

Saturday morning, we got up at 3:30am to catch a bus going back to Pedro Juan, which is about 3 hours away, but it took about 4, and then when we were about 10 miles out of the city, the bus broke down. not fun, but they got it fixed in about 30 min, and then we kept going. That night the district(like the stake) had a talent show, and we the missionaries did a skit about the day of a missionary, and it was pretty funny, and we actually won a prize, which was cool.

Yesterday was sunday, and other than church, nothing special happened.

Then today, we went to the gym in the morning, came back and showered then hopped on another bus headed for concepcion, which is a bout 4 hours away, and we are here doing some division, and going to their district meeting out here. then tomorrow we will head back again.

the week has been full of a lot of things, but it's not that fun when i can't really work in my own area, which is really what i want to do,but i will do what i can and hope that the Lord will take care of the rest.

Love you guys and have a good week!

Week of January 7

So this week wasn't very eventful, but had some good moments as well. On Monday night after I wrote you guys, we went to an Adidas outlet store because we were in Asunción and we had to wait until 11 at night for our bus ride back to Pedro Juan Caballero. i bought a new backpack cause mine was broke, and i found a sweet whirt (??) that i bought as well. Then we went to the bus terminal so we could wait for about 4 hours. While there we talked with some other missionaries from our mission who were also waiting for a bus. Remember Elder Hill, the old neighbor of Aunt Aimee? He was there and we talked for a good bit. after that, we went to a small restaurant there in the terminal to eat some empanadas, and we talked to a lady who was really cool, who had worked in Germany, and who knew some of the missionaries from Paraguay that are also serving here. We got her directions and sent the reference to the office so they could then send it to the the missionaries.

The bus ride back was long, and the bus´ air conditioning was crazy cold, but we made it through. we got back Tuesday morning at about 5 and we went and slept for a bit until we needed to go to district meeting. the rest of Tuesday was shot cause we had some more administrative things to do, and after that, it was time to return back to the apartment.

Wednesday was a blur, and Thursday, and Friday as well. Saturday my comp was really sick and we had to stay in for a bit. Chivivi guazu se llama. I will tell you about it later. Then Sunday was fairly uneventful, and today we played soccer with half of the zone which was fun, but now I'm very tired. We found a gym that we go to in the mornings. It is cheap and very ghetto. We found a rotting rat about 8 inches big, plus its tail. It was awesome. Anyway now I'm getting ripped.

I will finally send some pics today.

love you guys and have a good week!

Week of December 3

So this week was quite an amazing week. We worked a ton and had a ton of success as well. We had a surprise, or rather, an unexpected baptism this week. She is the mom of a Youth that is going on his mission this week, and she got baptised his last Sunday, which was a great way for him to start off his mission. She always had small doubts that just impeded her, but in the end we helped her out. I had visited her before and she is a great lady, but she just lacked a little push.

On Thursday, my companion and I left and did visits with President Madariaga in our area, and he visited Carmen with us(the mom that got baptised) and he helped a ton. He also came to the baptism yesterday, then stayed for church and gave a talk and all that jazz.

Good week. I'm super tired, but hard work is great.

love you guys,

Elder Treviño

Week of November 25

And now it's December! how fast time flies.

Anyway, I don't have much time. The week was good and we had a sweet zone conference with Elder Zaballos of the First Quorum of the Seventy. He is a super sweet guy, and even cooler cause he is a Seventy. Anyway the conference was great. It has been blistering hot this week, and there have been some crazy rainstorms as well, but the work moves on with out fail.

I will share a part of my letter with president, but it's in Spanish, so ask Dad to translate it.

Amanda's Note: I translated this as best I could because I'm too lazy to email Dad for the translation.

Yesterday we had an experience with the influence of the spirit. We were walking towards an appointment and contacting some people along the way. When we kept walking, we saw a couple who were sitting in their yard, about 20 feet from the edge. "Contact them," I thought, and my companion had the same thought. When we were going home, the strong feeling came again and this time I followed it. We went and talked to them and they let us in. We shared a good discussion with them about the Restoration, and they seemed to be very interested. I testified in a way I had never done before, and I'm sure they felt the Spirit. They are very good people, and I know that the Lord led us to them. I hope to make progress, but if they don't, it's okay, because I know I gave them the opportunity to hear the gospel.

Ayer justamente tuvimos una experiencia con la influencia del espíritu. Estabamos caminando hacía una visita y contactabamos algunas personas en el camino. Al seguir caminando, vimos una pareja que estaban sentada en su patio, unos 20 metros hacía el fondo. Yo pensé contactarles, pero mi sompañero seguió de largo le seguía también. Al pasar yo la casa, fuertamente me vino la impresión de hablarles, y esta vez, lo seguí. Fuimos y hablamos, y ellos nos dejaron pasar. Compartimos un buen rato con ellos a cerca de la restauración, y me parecía que tenían mucha interés en lo que compartimos. Yo les testifiqué de una manera que nunca había hecho antes, y estoy seguro que ellos sintieron del Espíritu. Son muy buena gente, y sé que El Señor nos guiaba a ellos. Espero que progresen, pero sí no, estoy bien con mi mismo, por que sé que les dí la oportunidad de escuchar el evangelio.

Anyway, love you guys, have a good week, and sorry I wasn't able to write too much. The church is true and God loves you.

Elder Treviño

Week of November 18

So the week went pretty well, and nothing really exciting happy during the week, except the baptism of Sabrina. Which I already sent the photos. Also, there were not any changes with me and my comp, so hopefully we should be spending Christmas here. But there are always the possibilities of having a unexpected special transfer. I hope not. But the other elders in the other side of the ward boundaries were taken out, and sister missionaries have now replaced them. The ward absolutely loves them and is giving them a lot of attention, which is fine. Anyway, I hope Thanksgiving was just fanflippingtastic and that you enjoyed the time as family. I will be there for the next one. Have a good week!

Elder Trevino

Week of November 12

(Somehow I missed this email when it came in. Sorry for the out-of-order posting.)

So this week was pretty awesome in many ways.

Monday we were up in Asunción as I commented last week, and we ate really good food. The night was pretty tranquilo. On Tuesday, I taught district meeting and the day was really good and we finalized some teaching things for our investigator Hugo. Wednesday was pretty uneventful. But on Thursday, we did the Baptismal interview with Hugo, and it went super well, and he passed. Then, later on Thursday, my comp and I were able to go to the Temple, to see the sealing of one of my comps converts from last year. It was really sweet, because now we can only go once a year, as far as a scheduled time, so I got to sneak a visit in. The temple is the coolest place ever. The sealing session was also really awesome. It was weird because I did not know the people, but it was still a good spiritual experience, and very motivating for me to want to be sealed as well. There really is no other option.

Friday was interesting, because we went to go a interview for some elders in my district, and the people weren't there, so we had to go back on Saturday. But Saturday was absolutely sweet. We don't have a lunch appointment on Saturday, so I decided to do Thanksgiving early. Oh. My. Goodness. I almost died, because the food was so good. It reminded me of how good the food from the states is. The cookies that you send me turned out really well, and all the food in general as well. We ate all the food, and it was a lot, but that's how thanksgiving is supposed to be. I will send photos.

We had the Marriage and Baptism of Hugo Flor, and his now wife, Andrea Pereira. It was a bit stressful getting everything ready, but in the end everything went really well. Hugo asked me to baptise him, and I did of course. It was great and flawless. my comp and I bought a cake as well, and it was really really really good, and not expensive. I will be sending photos. But really I'm really happy that everything went well with the baptism. Hugo and Andrea were very happy, and you will see that reflect in their photos. Hugo was a very golden investigator.

Remember how I said that a guy that tried to commit suicide found us? Well, we haven't been able to find him again. Well he found us, he gave us his address and nothing else. So we went to find him, and we couldn't locate his house so we started asking around, and we found is next door neighbor who was Andrea. We talked to her a little bit, left a pamphlet and set up a return appointment. When we went back, she said that her husband had read the pamphlet, who is Hugo. His Andrea was baptized when she was 10 and had been inactive, but she remembered much about the teachings and had been explaining to Hugo. Anyway, to make the story short, God lead us to Hugo through mysterious means, but that's how he works, and now Hugo got baptized.

Also this next week, Sabrina, who I believe I mentioned a while back, will be getting baptized as well. But sad news is that there are transfers this week and is pretty probable that I will be going. So I got a picture with her, and hopefully I will stay here, but I will find out tonight, and you guys will find out next week.

Anyway, that's the week in a nut shell. love you guys, have a good week.

Love,

Elder Trevino