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LA IGLESIA DE JESUCRISTO DE LOS SANTOS DE LOS ÚLTIMOS DÍAS MISIÓN PARAGUAY ASUNCIÓN NORTE                                                                                                    Avenida Santísima Trinidad Nº 1280  C/ Julio Correa Casilla de Correo 1871                                         ...

Hey Everyone! I feel like last weeks email was pretty heavy so I wanted to lighten things up a little bit by telling you about some of the funny things about Paraguay, the reasons I like being here. To start, there are chickens everywhere here, like every piece of chicken I have eaten here was probably only a few hours before eating it. Anyway, it spring here right now and there are a bunch of little pollitos running around which is nice. They are pretty cute and it make the annoying Roosters a little easier to deal with.  The next thing that is endearing about Paraguay is that no one really cares if their zipper is up or down here. Most people wear sweats or basketball shorts all the time, but some people will be in jeans and just have their zipper down, it must be a tradition here or something. It was pretty distracting at first, becasue sometimes during a lesson it is wide open. But you get used to stuff like that pretty quickly down here. The people here also take t...

Sounds like a fun week for everyone. And thank you for the advise, it is good and I will try to use it. To answeryopur questions, some people speak fast, but mostpeople have a pretty normalpace, which isnt too bad. It is only hard to understand older peoplen because they only have like 2-4 teeth and they dont open their mouths. Where I am at now, Guarani seems more like a hobby, they all learn it in school but the members just think it is fun to teach to the missionaries. But there are some parts of the mission where they speak pure Guarani. There are other places where it is portuguese and others more where it is other natie languageslike the Nivacle, they speaktheir own language. We givve our laundry to a ldy inthe ward, but we waqsh our own garments at our housein a bucket because she is not endowed and allowed to that

Hey Everyone, This week quite a bit happened, I will give you some of the highlights.This week started off with some pretty heavy lessons. We were at a member`s house for lunch and she told us that we should go visit a lady down the street, she is an investigator of the other missionaries in our area. We were told that she just had a misarriage. It is strange that someone would send a coupleof 19 year old boys to go console someone who just lost a baby, but because of our calling we were able to help. I don`t have any idea what losing a baby would be like, but because of the spirit that webrought to the lesson we were able to provide some words of comfort. I do not know a lot of Spanish, but I shared my short testimony of eternal families, that God has a plan for us and we will be able to see our entire familiy in Heaven. There is a plan for each of us.  Later that same day we taught a man in our ward who I knew had just gone through a separation. During the lesson though I...

1. MTC District 2. Some Pictures of the Panama Canal from our stop on our way to Asuncion 3. The Protection they give us at all the missionary apartments 4. Pictures of our apartment 5. At a member's house​

Hey everyone, I made it to Paraguay safely and I am doing well. I love it here already. Even though I cannot understand most of what is going on, I know it is where I am supossed to be. Everyone here is super nice and helps me with my Spanish whevever I need it. My trainer is Elder Ruiz from Lima Peru, he is a great guy. He has a pretty good English vocabulary so he helps me when I am stuck.  So a little about Paraguay. It is definitely third world and it is hot. The people here are super nice and they are always outside sitting in some shade. Out of all the lessons we have taught and member families we have visited so far, probably around 40 or so homes, I have only been inside 2. We teach lessons in their front yards sitting lawn chairs or something resembling lawn chairs. I dont have a lot of time, but I will tell you something funny that happened this week. It was around 8 30 one night and we were quite a ways from home so Elder Ruiz and I starting walking home (or ...

Hey Family, I made it to the Mission last night around 11. Today I have been spending some time at the President's house eating breakfast and filling out papers. Everything is great here. I slept well and feel ready to serve. Love, Elder Seibert

So I leave the empty sea on Monday morning at  6 am . Our flight is around  10 am  and we stop in Panama City for about an hour and a half and then we go to Asuncion and land about  11 pm  Asuncion time. There are 4 other missionaries from my district going with me to Paraguay. I have heard about that tribe in Paraguay and I guess they all got baptized right away after they heard the message. And one of the Elders in my district has an older brother who served in Uruguay and had a Navicle? Indian as a mission companion. He said he was super weird, as you might imagine they didn't have a lot in common. I have also heard that all the people there are super nice and if someone ever yells at you to go away you can yell back "What part of Argentina are you from?" and then they will soften up and ask how you knew they were from Argentina? Haha. Also if it makes you feel any better it is forecast to be 104 with like 90% humidity the day I get to Paraguay. But that ...

Hey Everyone, This week is my last week in Mexico City! I leave the training center on Monday at  6 am  and I am scheduled to land in Paraguay at  11 pm  so it will definitely be a long day. this week has been really weird as we have been getting everything ready. We have had to re-weigh our bags and now I pretty much have to live out of my suitcase for the last couple of days. It really makes me anxious to get out of here seeing my empty closet. Other than the craziness of getting everything together, I have had a lot of spiritual experiences this week. I want to share one with you guys: We watched this video that included some clips from talks from Jeffery R. Holland and Henry B. Eyering. The part that struck me was elder Holland said, "If our message is true, and if the spirit can work so strongly in people, why isn't the only worry missionaries have is getting pneumonia from being in the font all day?" It is because the price of our salvation was not chea...

Hey All, This week at the C.C.M. has been really good. I am getting more and more comfortable with the language every day and I love being a missionary. It is kind of crazy to think that I have been here for five weeks. Sometimes it feels like I have been here forever and sometimes it seems like I just got here and am nowhere near ready to head down to Paraguay in a week and a half and be a missionary for real. I have to say that there is not much to report this week. Pretty much every day is the same here in the C.C.M. and it is starting to feel like I am in a bit of a time warp whenever I am in class. I am so grateful for the opportunity to serve a mission and I am so grateful for the love and support I have back home. Love, Elder Seibert