Santa Rosa

Hey everyone,

I hope everyone has had a good week. This week I had changes and I am now in Santa Rosa. I am about 4 and a half hours from Asuncion and in the middle of nowhere. I am in a branch of about 50 people and it is super cool here. My area is huge and I can drive for about 2 hours in any direction and still be in my area. But we definitely dont have a car so it means lots of walking or getting rides from the few members that have cars and are willing or have time to take us out. But we can usually get help when we neede it. Our branch president is actually kind of rich and always comes with us to do visits so that is nice.

Anyway, the area is strange and people speak a lot more Guarani, but almost everyone speaks or at least understands spanish so that is good. I am starting to understand some Guarani as well and my companion too so we can get by at least. The weirdest thing though is that I am actually close to some German Mennonte colonies. Now I dont know that very many people on this email list know, but in Paraguay in the norhtwest there are some German Mennontes weirdly enought and they just have their own super nice part of the counrty that is super foreign to regular paraguayans. Anyway, this week I went to this fancy hotel in my area (which exists becasue a lot of germans and Brazilians come through here and spend the night to get to Asuncion) and at the hotel they have really good pizza for dinner. Anyway, we were surrounded by super rch Brazilians and these weirdo Mennonites that wont even acknowldge you if you say something to them. It isnt exactly something I thought would ever havppen down here. But there were a lot of languages being spoken in that little restaurant, especialy with mw and my companion speaking english.

Oh, we also had a baptism this week. The guys name is Juan and used to be a preacher

Love,
Elder Seibert




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