MY dear family
ok i have no idea what is goning on the key board i´m useing is all wierd looking and has the numbers in the wrong spots. i kow my last quick email gave no real description about paraguay so i´ll try to do better right now.
once we arriveds in Paragauy i went up to the conter thinbg and they just looked at my passport and gave me a stamp and on i went i never showed any medicail papers or anything like that. Our Mission president was waiting there for us at the baggage claim the first thing he did was give us all a big huge then we grabbed our bags and loaded them on a big truck and then we all piled into two vans and six went with the mission president´s wife in there car.
we all went to the church office buliding. one of the coolest things about paraguay is there is no traffic rules people, cars horses and motocycles go where ever they want at what ever speed. the office building had a huge eight foot tall razor covered fence arounded it it looked more like a fortress. every person that can afford it has the same thing or close they have sharp poking sticks or metal fences and if they are solid stone walls the put cement on top and stick glass srads (broken glass) on top so if you touch them you get cut up. its really cool in my opinion.
the first night here i got to sleep at the president´s house in asuncion it was nice enough to be in the states and yes it too had a razor wire fence. the roads here are really cool the main roads are like ours theya re paved but the rest are cublum stone and not even that they just throw stones on the ground and pressed them or the roads are just dirt.
on wednesday all 27 of us new elders got to go to the last stand of the Gaurin indians. it on top of a mountian and they built a huge staute thing that tells the story and history of their last stand it also looked out over all of paragaauy it was really cool then after that we went to go get our new companions. i was very ecitied and i still am. My companion is Elder McKeon he is from Oregon in a city near portland. he is a great Elder and i would be very lost with out him he has been out here for about a year now and i would be lost with out him. i am serving in a area Call DEL MASTREAO i probale spelt that wrong but in english it means ¨´of the Master´´ it is a little suburd about 30 minutes from asuncion. in this area there´re both kinds of people there are the very ´´rich´´ meaning they have a real fence and painted houses to the very poor one lady that we tought lived in a house made from 2by4 peices of wood cardboard and sheets of pli wood one room and what not but she was great very happy and kind. the thing that is cool about paraguay is that the people are so great but at teh same time so weird.
first they wil give you everything they have but yet there is a huge problem with stealing hence the walls of death around everyones home. second instead of knocking at doors he stand outside the fence and clap. and if they dont want to talk to us the send there little children over to talk with us and tell them that they the parents arent home and so we tel them to go tell there parents that we want to come back another day and what day and time would be best for them so then the kids go back and talk to the parents that arent there it is pretty funny. the other weird thing is that everyone just throws there trash on the ground i have a new apercation for trash cans. there are no trash cans for public use and there is only one in our house which i will tell you about later. paragauy is beauitful the countryside is great and the people are great too. everyone sits outside and drinks maete which is just water with hay in the cup, what they do is cruch up this herb stuff then the have a special straw thing and they pass it around in a big circl and they all drink it is a very social thing and they very cool thing to do is one drive a motorcylce and then make leather covers for your big two liter water coolers. the leather work down here is very impressive i´ll try to send picture some time soon and the picture i have attached i have no idea what they are because i cant see a preview of them because this computer can´t think that fast or just doesnt work that way so hopefully there of something important. i am typing this before i have readed anyones email to me so i´m sorry if i dint get to answer every question i´ll be sure to prepare poperly for next week.
my house is one of the nicer houses in the mission and wqhat they mean by that is that it is bigger. unfortanly it s a huge mes so so so so so os os os os so dirty me and elder McKeon are going to play spring cleaning today so that will be fun i guess. we live behind a little store and these store owners have like a peacock, 4 parrots and a monkey and dog in there back yard right infront of our house its really cool to see them but they are the most noising things on earth i never knew that a bird could make so much noise. evry morning they wake us up early and keep talking through out our personal and compion studies.
i know this is a vewry poorly worded letter and the grammer is awful but learning spanish has destoried my english. i love you all thanks for the love and support love alway Elder Hafen
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