Che añe´é imi guarani (I speak a little guarani)

Wow, I love this area! Hahaha, but we have been finding that lately, there are quite a few people here that dont speak a word of spanish, yep, just guarani. So i have been learning the language pretty fast, hahaha so a normal contact on the street with someone that dosent speak spanish, usually goes like this

Me- Hola como esta hermano, nosotros somos los misioneros aqui en Natalio 10 (hi how are you brother, we are the missionaries here in Natalio 10)

Them- blank stare

Me- Como se llama usted hermano (what is your name brother)

Them- more blank stare

Me- Mbae che nderera (what is your name(in guarani))

Them- cherera Pablo (I am paul)

Me - Mucho gusto cherera Elder Stewart (nice to meet you I am elder Stewart)

Them- giggle a little

Me- Hey hermano ndereñe´é castellano (hey my brother do you speak spanish)

Them- no

Me- Dí...... bueno ñande tupao esta alla, domingo..... a las 8 (darnet.... ok our church is over there, sunday at 8(as i hold up 8 fingers to show them the time)

Them- oima (ok)

Me- ja yo hay sha pe ve ( see you later)

Them- oime, ja jay to pata (ok goodbye)

hahahha, not to effective but what can you do. I am learning a little more every day. But it is still fun hahaha

Well busy week lately with not that much sleep. We are still pretty tired from the temple trip, and then on sunday we had district conference in encarnacion (here the have a district not a stake). But we woke up at 430 to go start getting investigators. We were blessed with 7 that came to district conference. But we left our church at 7 to start heading to encarnacion, then we arrived at 930 (we took a big bus with all the members here in Natalio, and the other pueblo in our area paloma there was 68 of us in total.) The conference was great, and it was great to here President Callan and his wife speak. Then we traveled the 2 and a half hours back.

The traveling AP´s (we have 2 normal ones and 2 traveling ones) got here last night at 8, they will be here working with us for a week, with their help we went from having maybe one baptism this weekend, to now having 5!!! We got alot of work to do, but we will do it.

Then today at 9 o clock president and his wife showed up at our pension to inspect it and see if it was clean. Suprisingly we passed with flying colors. But i am excited to work my tail off this week with these guys, we are going to have tons of success, and see tons of miracles.

The 3 best things about Natalio 10, are

1. getting mud, inches thick on the bottom of ur shoe, and flinging the mud at the chickens (there are tons here)
2.finding dead bay cockroaches in your ground beef u just barely bought
3. Walking through the jungle at 530 in the morning looking for investigators and hearing roosters all around you bugling as if you are in island park with the bull elk bugling

Ah, it feels like home

Love you guys

Elder Chase Coy Stewart