1- Cheryl and Daisy at the Duarte farm with a large bag of grapefruit, oranges, and Persian limes. It is all wonderful.
2-
Elder Piriz from Uruguay, Cesar Cohene our ward missionary, Elder
McNulty from Las Vegas, and some old missionary they found in Paraguay.
Great serving with these good brethren.
3- In the fishing
department at Shopping China in Pedro Juan Caballero - right at the
border with Brasil. A pretty amazing store with wonderful but expensive
stuff.
4- Hermana Martinez from Paraguay, Hermana Scott from
Utah, and Hermana Cranney all riding with us in a moto-carrito. A
motorcycle with a wagon on the back.
5- Burger King and QuattroD 0- Burgers and ice cream - at Shopping China.
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Hello to all:
We hope and pray that you are all well, and that your families are doing fine.
We
have had a good week. Much of the same stuff - week after week - but
we enjoy the work and are so very concerned about the good people here
in Horqueta and in Tacuati. We have only a short time left to try and
find, train, and prepare strong leaders for the groups and branches. We
are really enjoying our classes that we teach - Temple Preparacion,
Priesthood Prep, and leadership principles. We are hoping and praying
that some of these good folks will step up and accept new and greater
responsibilities We teach classes in Horqueta every other week, and in
Tacuati the alternating Sundays. So much to do…so hard to get people to
commit to live up to their covenants.
We had a very strange
storm here on Saturday night. We have not had any rain at all for many
weeks. It is hot, dry, dusty, miserable, etc. The forecast called for
some rain on Saturday afternoon so we were not surprised when it clouded
up a bit. But then the heavens opened up and the winds came. It was
what they call a “tormenta” here…. a really big storm. It rained so
very hard that many of the streets here in Horqueta turned into rivers.
We literally could not see any asphalt as the road was full of fast
running water. We had to pick up people for a meeting in Concepcion
and we all got wet. We headed to Concepcion and about 5 km outsite of
town the rain stopped. Not a drop of rain fell in Concepcion - only 25
miles away. Now everything is muddy and slowly drying out.
We
went out to President Duartes farm this week to pick up some bags of
fertilizer (manure) and some good soil for our garden. We had two bags
of each and thankfully his helper on the farm loaded the bags for us.
While we were there, Daisy Duarte took us around with a bag and we
picked fresh grapefruit, sweet oranges, and Persian limes. We got a
huge bag full and we are still enjoying the fruit. The Duartes treat us
so well.
Yesterday was a very good fast Sunday. We started
our meetings at 8:00 am with Priesthood and RS. In Priesthood we
consecrated oil, as no one in the branch had any and thus could not give
blessings. We had 4 of the brethren consecrate their own oil. It went
really well. We talked about the temple during Sunday School because
we have a trip planned in June, and then we had Fast and Testimony
meeting. It was very nice, with many of the testimonies borne in
Guarani - but I am starting to understand a bit more of this very fast
and expressive language. Hermana Cranney bore her testimony - with much
of it in Spanish!
We had lunch with the Sister Missionaries
and then had our Priesthood Prep class at 2:00, Temple Prep Class at
4:00, visits with the Cristaldos at 6:00, and Home Evening with the
Martinez and the missionaries at 7:00. We dropped the Sisters off at
about 9:15 pm and crashed at home. But it feels good to be busy.
Well, we love you all and appreciate so much your support. Take care and thanks for all you do.
Love, Jerry and Cheryl.
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