Dear Alex and Bridger,
I had some extra time on my hands one night and I decided to write you guys a letter. You both can't really email and I don't get to talk to you guys very often, so here it is. :)
I'll tell you one of my crazy stories so far. I was walking through a kind of jungly part of Paraguay trying to get to a main road. It was very dark and we could barely see anything. We were on our way home and we were scared because it was a road we really shouldn't have been on at night. We were practically running down the road to get home when all of a sudden a Chicken popped out of the bushes with a whole bunch of baby chicks. I screamed like a baby! I thought someone was popping out of the bushes to kill me. It scared me to death I thought I was going to die and it was just a chicken. :)
Paraguay is crazy, especially when it rains. When it rains the streets all flood. We go out no matter the weather so I am always crossing huge rivers and in the streets and jumping over puddles. It's insane! The thunder and lightening here though is awesome. The lightening lights up the whole sky and the thunder is so loud that it shakes the sky. Sometimes I just put a chair by a window and watch it because it is so cool.
The animals here are the same but everything is bigger, oh and they have cute little monkeys here that just sit up in the trees and eat mangoes all day. I saw my first one a couple of days ago, it was awesome.
The bugs here are scary though. I hate bush and you guys know that. I have a terrible fear of grasshoppers and they have poisonous ones here. They are everywhere and it scares me to death. They also have moths here that can kill you. There are the size of my hand and they try and pee poison on your head. It's scary! All of the people here run from them. I have killed 4 in my house so far. Just imagine me running around with a sword hunting moths. ;)
That's pretty much Paraguay. Thanks for keeping me in your prayers. Mom and Dad tell me that you don't miss a prayer without blessing me and that means a lot. Love your Big Brother Drew
Elder Heugly
La Iglesia De
Jesu Cristo
De Los Santos
De Los Ultimos Dias
We probably should be a little frightened by this letter and all of the poisonous bugs he is encountering but it gave us quite the laugh instead. We just kept picturing him screaming like a baby when the chicken popped out of the bushes. :)
Drew seems to be doing well and we love to hear from him each week. We would love it even more if he would send us some pictures. Hopefully he will follow through next week like he has promised...fingers crossed.
Hey Family,
I received all my packages. Thanks for everything! I did make some of it but I don't have a microwave or anything so I can't save anything. I just make one thing at a time. So far I just made the stuffing and it was so good. So Thank you so much for that. I'm probably going to go home and eat the mashed potatoes today. It's nice to have some extra food. Each week we only spend about
20 US Dollars on food so some times we run out. Usually by the end of the week we are struggling.
I get my packages whenever I got to zone conference so I will get my Christmas package some time in December. I will let you know when I get it.
Glad you got the letters. I had some extra time for once so I decided to write a letter. Hopefully that makes up for sammies email last week. Elder Ratliff brought them home for me and sent them from the US so I took the chance when I had it.
Good old Bridger always being a maniac. I miss him too. He's going to be so different when I come home it is going to be crazy.
Still can't believe you don't have snow. If it's hot there just imagine it here. I'm struggling, today it was 100 degrees in our house when we woke up this morning, it's crazy!
Today has been an interesting day. Today is a national holiday where they all go crazy so nothing is open. We are way far away from the house just so we can email you guys. I had to make some sacrifices, P day today is just going to be emails and buying food and then it will be over. The bus I took today to get here was packed. It was a tiny bus and it was so full that I had to hang out of the door, it was scary.
Most of my days here are the same. We walk a lot. This week we were in Mbaritu out in the middle of nowhere. We have been there for most of the week just contacting all of the houses that we could. It's funny because I think people think we aren't very smart. We go to clap at a house and before we clap we see people sitting outside and by the time we get up to the house to clap everyone has disappeared. We still clap and so they send a kid out to say that nobody is home and then we say all we want is water and magically people come out. It's funny, another thing they love to say is some other day. Every time we talk to someone we say how about Wednesday and then they say no some other day so we say ok how about Thursday and they say no how about some other day and it just goes on and on. ;)
Our investigators are good they are just lazy. It's just a lazy country. People don't want to do anything. Our investigator that is a single mother and was looking for another job vanished again. Not exactly what her deal is. :(
We did get some water this week but it is contaminated so we have to clean it out. I actually got sick from it the whole first part of the week. I drank it without knowing. That was rough.
The members here are really nice. We have lunch with them 3 days a week. We eat a lot of pasta but they cover everything in oil so it gets nasty at times, but for the most part it is good. They make something called milanessa. It's kind of like a fried chicken and so far that is my favorite thing to eat here.
The ward is good. We attend the 3 hours of church and then go to ward council after. We had the most people we have ever had at church this week. There were about 50 people there. Church is just very different here overall.
I also pay a member to do my laundry. I wasn't really excited to have to wash my clothes by hand so I pay a member and she does it for me. It's really nice. :)
I'm so glad you all have watched the video. I have now seen it about 80 times and it still has the same effect on me each time I watch it.
I guess that is all for today. Just the same old same old in the life of Elder Heugly.
Love, Drew
P.S. Pictures will come at the end if possible. The wifi is bad in this place. I can barely send emails but I will try.
So the pictures never happened. I think he needs to try a little harder next week ;)
Love, Love, Love this cute missionary of mine.
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