Asuncion, Paraguay 16 Agosto 2016

Fotos:

1- The Buddist study center in Asuncion near the mission office.

2- The Paraguay National Program center for the elimination of Tuberculosis.  Hard to find and at times hard to believe.

3- Dents from a motorcycle

4- Hermama Cranney, Hermama Brunelle, and Hermana Trujillo at the Tuberculosis Program Center in Asuncion.

5- Us near a fairly large ant hill on the way to Asuncion.

6- Cheryl and the ant hill. 

 

 

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Yes, we are in Asuncion this week spending some time with Travis, the son of President and Sister Evans.  They are in Buenos Aires for a new Mission President Seminar.  Travis is in school so we have been keeping busy helping Sister Trujillo, the mission nurse.  We have a missionary here in the mission who has an active case of Tuberculosis.   And guess what - he is staying here in the mission home with his companion.  So he wears a mask every day and today we went all over Asuncion with Hna Trujillo to get his medicine, his tests, looking for a closer clinic, etc.  It was quite a day.  We have now been informed that all of the missionaries, including us, need to have a TB test when we return to the US after our mission. Swell.

We had a great day on Sunday.  We went to church in our own branch - Horqueta - and loved being with our own branch members.  We from the District taught a combines RS / Priesthood lesson on Home and Visiting teaching.  Everyone participated and it turned out well.  My favorite learning from our discussion was that everyone wants someone to visit them - but not many people want to go out and do visits.  Kind of hard to have it both ways.

After church Hna Cranney worked with Junior Diana who is 9 yrs old and wants to learn to play the piano.  They have a short lesson each Sunday and he now comes to church every week.  We provided a white shirt for him and a zip tie and he looks so good.  We then took the elders to the house where we had a light lunch and then drove to Tacuati.  We had a temple preparation lesson on being worthy to enter the temple and it went well. There are at least 3 couples in the group from Tacuati who want to go to the temple in October.  After the class we went and visited two families and had really good visits.  The first, Noemi, is a member with 3 kids and an inactive member husband who drinks a lot.  She has such a sweet spirit and her husband doesn’t.  But we had a short lesson with her and it went well.  We then visited a member family where only there 16 year old son Jose is active.  They are such good people who just need to realize that they don’t need to be perfect to come to church and be blessed in their lives.  The dad of the family is the one who broke his arm and after a blessing he healed totally after a few short months.  The doctors were amazed. 

We left Tacuati a little late, and as we left our last visit we noticed that at the top of the trail where we were parked was a police pickup blocking the road.  Made me just a little bit nervous. But we drove right by without any problem. 

Last Friday we were having a missionary meeting at the local hamburger place.  After we ate we loaded up into the truck and shortly after we pulled onto the road a motorcycle without lights ot license plates sideswiped us.  He hit hard but did not fall, so he drove off.  We have two dents in the left side of the car.  We need to get a police report so that insurance will pay for the repairs.  Kind of shook me up. 

We are on our way to Iguazu Falls in Brasil tomorrow.  We hope it doesn’t rain.
Take care and we love you all.

Jerry and Cheryl