ABBA, REM, and Queen!!! I am in Heaven :)

Hey Fam!!!
Well its been a really strange week thats for sure. Some ups and downs and a couple bumps in the road but everything is great now. I am super super excited to go to the temple tomorrow!! We will leave tonight for asuncion at 1AM!! ya it totally sucks cause sleeping on the bus is horrible but they have tvs and we can watch movies on the bus so we are gonna have them put on the joseph smith movie all about his life and the restoration!! haha its gonna be so good! haha its a good opportunity to spark peoples interest and find new people. We should get to asuncion at like 6-7 am and i have no idea what we are gonna be doing while we are not at the temple. Usually the session is at 9AM i guess and i think we have interviews with the president too. I really hope we do cause i am excited to talk to him again and tell him how everything has been going!! Anyways the pedometer is working great and its fun to see how much we really walk in the day, obviously our bodies can feel it but its fun to know the amount! its usually on average of about 12-15 miles every single day, sometimes less just depending where all our investigators are that day. It has been really rainy and gloomy the last few days, well it actually started thursday and really hasnt stopped until last night. There is like a pattern here and about every fourth day it starts over. The rain comes in slowly and then will storm really hard for like a day and then after that it blows away and everything is super soaked and muddy and then dries out with the blazing sun! it makes it even worse because everything is wet so its SUPER HUMID!! thats really the thing that makes it hot here is the humidity! Its constant and never ending. As for food and groceries and all that i am eating like any other missionary would! haha alot of cereal in the morning, TONS of fruit, and then i have been eating alot of top ramen and hot dogs. The cereal is limited to frosted flakes or fruit loops, but the milk is really good here!! LUCKILY!! the fruit is super cheap too, we live above a ¨despensa¨ which is basically like a mini market place with a little of everything. They are EVERYWHERE here but its nice cause we can just go down when in whatever we are wearing and buy stuff from him. I eat tons of bananas, they are SO much better here! I can buy like 20 bananas for like maybe 1 dollar if that! So breakfast is always good, i have been eating alot of eggs and bacon too cause that is really cheap at the super market we live by. Anyways i totally have had some crazy dreams this week, one of them i was back home and we were all at kelseys house and dad and kelly announced that he went in with richens!!! haha it was crazy! thats all i can remember though, then i had a couple dreams about kelsey at aunt stephs house, but i am saving those for her to read in her letters that she gets from me. We had a homeless boy contact us this week who is about 16 and his parents died and he doesnt have any documents or anything. We tried to help him the best we could... it was funny cause even here we are just called out by ¨hey los mormones!!¨ or the mormons! haha but we never saw him again after that. Oh ya if you could print all my emails and just keep them somewhere for when i get him it would be a nice addition to my journal! ha Thanks! I was thinking what i will do is when i get back i will print out my whole entire blog at like costco and make it a book that people can read!! This part is for kelsey... i got a letter this week from mallory jones! it was really uplifting and helpful so tell her thanks for me! it was totally unexpected thats for sure and i really wasnt sure who it was from at first. haha so all the motorcycles here consist of SUPER SUPER LOUD exhaust, they actually make them here to sound like a gun shot when you rev the engine alot. its super annoying and stupid but everyone thinks it is so cool?!?! they even put pegs on the motos like you would a bike in the states. makes no sense to me cause i never ever see anyone riding on them. So a real delicacy here is a little rice/milk cup. They cook the milk with tons of sugar and then add rice... then cool it and after eat it together! ya i usually throw up a little in my mouth cause the two things just do not combined at all! But all latin america i guess loves it! They say oh its SO RICO!!!!¨ which translates to basically super good and rich. They wouldnt know a rich tasting thing if it slapped them in the face! nothing here has flavor like the states... they dont really have cakes here. they just make bread and call them cookies or cake and everyone thinks it is super rich?!?! haha if they had like a chocolate chocolate cake from costco they would die on the spot i know it!!! oh ya another thing here is that ALL the dogs are crossbred with weiner dogs! So they are super fat long and cant do anything cause they will break their backs! its hilarious to see!! Oh ya one thing that would be great and super helpful when you send another package or someone else is going to send one could you send gatorade powder to make gatorade. Its SUPER expensive here! and if i had the powder i could just make it. Dad knows what it looks like. Thanks! but no rush on it at all! You have already sent me alot! I really hope that my packages are at the office when i get there tomorrow!!! So could you please ask becky if spencer got my letter? i sent it back in the mtc but i have never heard back from him. Thanks. Oh ya so people here all have TERRIBLE cataracts!!! and its because no one can afford to have them fixed... i have seen one opthalhmologist in asuncion but no one can afford it and insurance DOES NOT EXIST HERE!!! haha so after about 65 its worthless to try and teach them cause they cant read squat! haha Oh ya hows sister anderson doing? could you ask kelsey for me and ask her to visit her again with jimmy? thanks. So when i get back i am going to refurbish the scooter so please dont sell it!! i want it way bad and i am gonna make it all new! Its on my list of things to do when i get back... ya i have a list... i will just get the most random thoughts and i right them down when i get them. I dont focus on it just only when i get the thoughts. So dont worry i am not distracted about home. Another interesting thing here is that any place that sells more than like $200 dollars a day here in merchandise has a thing called a guardia in front of it or in it, or both. That is basically a security guard but they hold these HUGE 12 guage shotguns with tons of ammo and a hand gun too! all to protect a tiny little rinky dink basically oversized concession stand!!! hahaha So the other day my companion basically felt like he didnt have the spirit with hime anymore and felt bad about something and had no desire to go to the temple. I have no idea why but it was really a combination of that and him being trunky. He didnt wanna do anything and said he had a headache so he slept while we had comp study. So i study with the other elders. Finally at planning that night we talked and he said i feel like i dont and cant feel the spirit. I was not in the mood to his is pity story cause really there was nothing wrong with him cause he is fine now and nothing has changed!! i think he was more just trunky. But saturday when we were finishing planning in comp study cause he didnt want to that night he was still the same... so i asked him what he wanted to do and he said lets play a game. So we played like 5 games of dominoes and he was fine after that. Ya i know we were a little disobedient but it helped him and our teaching was back to normal and not his slothful quiet self he had been the last few days. Well as i said it just rained like crazy and when it does it makes me just wanna be in my pajamas inside watching movies!!! ugh i miss movies!! ha but saturday we had a little party after planning, it was SO SICK!! the neighbor had his car just blasting with music in spanish and then it changed and he had a cd with all oldies of the USA!! me and elder hall opened the window and just sat on the couch in peace!! finally something close to america, he played ABBA, REM, Queen another one bites the dust, Every breath you take, Girls just wanna have fun, and others!! i was in heaven!! hahaha were gonna pay him to do it every saturday night!! haha jk So we were at a members house and we walked in the room to sit down and he was watching soccer... well i had to watch for a sec to see who was playing, yea as you know it is my weakness!! haha but i saw RONALDO!!! ya from brazil... he is STILL PLAYING!! he is on a brazilian team called guarani... and guess who else is on the team with him dad? yea ROBERTO CARLOS!! ha how crazy is that? they are both fat and outta shape but still love the game!! haha you should check it out. So we had the 1st counselor in the bishopric accompany us to some lessons and when we got in his car it smelt just like all the cars that grandpa or anthony have worked on... that mechanicy smell!! it just reminded me of grandpa and anthony and jason so much!!! i get those kinds of flash backs all the time and remind me of things at home. We had a burracho or drunk contact this week and he started acting like a tribal man from madagascar, it was hilarious!!! he was going off in guarani like crazy and we were laughing so hard!! well thats been my week of events, we taught some really good lessons, we had some slow days and some GREAT days where we taught like 10 lessons!! yay us!! haha and we have a couple of baptismal dates for the 30th of this month so i hope they stay! the one guy we were supposed to baptize last week is more than likely gonna be on this date for sure. But i am not gonna get my hopes up like last time. But thanks for all of your support and your love! i love you all so much and i hope that everything is going good.! Benetton