6-19-23

FIGHTING THE COLD IN JUNE!?! MY STOMACH CANT DO CHICKEN AND RICE EVERYDAY!?!



I was always telling myself, "dang, I just want the cold. I have been in summer for like a year now." I forgot how much I hate the cold. This whole week it was in like high 30s or low 40s. At one point we thought it was snowing. I had to bring out the scarfs, gloves, hats and sweaters. The worst part about all of this though is that all I could think about was Christmas music. So when we were walking in the street, I be singing Justin Bieber in my head. I had to keep telling myself that it is June and not December.


However, even though it was cold we accomplished a lot this week. We have been making great progress with our friends and we actually found a good amount of new people to teach this week. I'm super excited to see what July holds because our area can accomplish a ton if we do everything right.


Sooo, back with chicken and rice... I threw it all up on Thursday. I think my stomach is starting to tell me that I can't eat chicken and rice everyday when I said I could easily eat chicken and rice everyday.


Lost power in our house on Saturday. So we had to sleep in our house without the heater on. Yeah...that was pretty cold.


Got my haircut done by this goat. He was super funny and asked at the end if we could take a picture. Of course I had to take a pic with the guy who gave me a sick cut.

Other than that we are chilling and living our best Paraguay life.


Love you all

From your favorite,

Elder Ressel 







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