Saturday April 17, 2010

Terry is with the Mission President from the South Mission, President Callan and the Temple President, President Udall. Here are some pictuers of the great fruit stands on the street. They are wonderful. You can buy the best fruits. We can buy a dozen bananas for 25 cents. We go through two of those big bags of oranges a week. Modesta makes us freshly squeezed orange juice. IT IS INCREDIBLE. Here are a few pictures taken at the grocery store. Do you like the meat department?

Pictures from this last week. Terry and Ryan at the house, Ry, Terry and Jace at a little town named San Bernadino.

The office elders, Elder Peterson, Elder Gage, me and Elder Decker at the airport. Me with all of the boys that work and shine shoes at the airport. They are amazing young men. They get up at 3 am and go to the airport to work. They work all morning and then go to school in the afternoon. AMAZING!!!!!!! Some of those boys are as young as 9 years old!

Ryan and Jace at a inter-school tournament. It is fun having them play on the same team.

Here is a picture of a cart full of tree branches. The horses are soooo tame. They go on streets full of cars and yet they don't scare or spook. You can see them just standing still waiting patiently for their masters to load up the cart. You can see a cart at a gas station and the guy is inside buying food or drink and the horse just stands and waits. They don't tie them up or anything. It is unbelievable.

Here are some sights and Here are some sights and sounds of sounds of Paraguay. Jace and Ryan at their basketball game. The tomb of the Unknown Soliders downtown with the Paraguay flag. Here is a picture that I took last Sunday at Relief Society a dog came walking in. The teacher tried to have him leave but he just laid right down and decided to stay and listen.

There are lots of horses and carts on the streets. They pick up things that can be recycled. You see them get tree branches, plastic things and iron and metal things to recycle. It is crazy to see them driving right on the street by cars, trucks and buses. Most of the time you see young boys working and driving these carts. You have to really admire them for their work ethic. So often it is these young boys working late into the night. You know that they have a long ways to go to their homes. It is pretty impressive the responsiblity that they have on their shoulders at such a young age.

Cow going for a ride in Paraguay

Ryan and I saw this on the street the other day. It was crazy to just see the cow standing there on this flat bed truck as it was going down the road at a high rate of speed. It is tied up but that is all.

Zone Leader Coucil

Here is a picture taken this month. We have a Zone Leader's Council every six weeks. This is a great group of missionaries. They are from Canada, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, California, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, El Salvador and Peru. They are the hardest working missionaries in the mission. They are like the 2000 Stripling Warriors. We feel blessed to be working with them.

Mission President's Seminar

Here is a photo from our Mission President's Seminar that we had last week in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This is a picture of the 14 mission president's, their wives, and the Area Presidency of the South America South Area.

Paraguay Bath

Here is a cute picture of one of our great missionaries. This is Elder McMurdie. I thought this was such a great picture.

A group of great missionaries. Elder Maddux, Elder Curtis
and Elder Peterson. They are the Assistants to the
President.

Elder Soto was Jordan's companion in the

MTC in Buenos Aires. He is a great missionary!

Here we in a shopping place eating chocolate covered strawberries!
We are with the Weavers, Rhys, Pam and Nick. They are great friends from St. George.

This is a typical picture. This man is carrying bread. It is called chipa. The Paraguayans love it. They make it in big circles and then in smaller ones like a donut. It does not taste anything like a donut. It is more like the consistency of a bagel but it still different than that. They put cheese it in. It is amazing to me how they carry things on their heads.

Our new missionaries that arrived this month. We had a group of
15 arrive. This picture was taken outside the airport.




Ryan, Jace and Nick standing in front of the temple.

Shopping at a few shops downtown.

Terry enjoying some "DUNKIN DONUTS" that the Weavers' brought. We don't have donuts here. As you can see we miss tearing into a dozen.

We finally stopped along the road and asked a nice guy if we could take a few pictures of him and his cart. He had it full of watermelons that he was selling. Ryan and Nick Weaver enjoying the moment.

I had to jump right in and get a picture. I have been wanting to do this everytime we pass one but I always talk myself out of it. Terry stopped the car and said today is the day. The man was so nice. He didn't seem to mind that we were so excited to take some pictures. I felt like my Great, Great Grandfather, Edmond Lovell Ellsworth, coming across the plains in his handcart.

Here we are with Rhys and Pam Weaver outside a great Mexican Restaurant. In South America you would think that there would be a lot of Mexican Restaurants. That is not the case in Paraguay. We love this place though. It does have great food. The Weavers are amazing people. We had a great time with them.

Here are a few pictures from this last week. Our good friends the Weavers came down to visit us. We took them to see the Iguazu Falls. It was an incredible experience. There was so much more water flowing over the falls than we have ever seen before. It was BEAUTIFUL. The power and the beauty was unbelievable.

We went on this boat ride that takes you up pretty close to the falls. It is an amazing and incredible experience. The pictures just don't do justice.

There are over 275 waterfalls. They just go on and on. The weather was great and so it was spectacular.

Here is a picture of the Wade family without Jordan. This was taken when the boys were here at Christmas time.

Here we are at a little diner that serves soft ice cream and pecan pie. It is the only place in Paraguay where you can get Pecan Pie!

Christmas

We had a great Christmas. T., Chris and Brett flew done for Christmas. We had a blast.
We were able to talk to Jordan on the telephone on Christmas day. He is in Artigas, Uruguay and is doing great.

The 5 Wade brothers at Christmas in Paraguay