If an angry stomach is part of thanksgiving, then I felt a little home here for thanksgiving day. Ha! But not worries. I´m doing sooo good! Oh and of course, what was literally a piece from home was I got the package on Thursday! THANKS IT ROCKED! I'm looking for microwave so I can enjoy the feast! Haha honestly it wasn´t till the day before that I realized that thanksgiving was coming when someone asked me `what is that big holiday you have in your country tomorrow?` I wasn´t sure at first. How quick one forgets their roots right?
Well I´d like to take some time to talk about how funny Mom is. Oh gosh. She cracked me up with her comments about the BYU football game. Oh soo good. I´ll now refer to her letter so you can get a taste of the brilliance!
´´ The weather was great I only got cold at the end of the game.
Dad and Mike said it was the worst officiated game they had ever
seen. But they have said that before (HA! SHE´S BRILLIANT!). Utah started out strong with
two field goals but BYU rallied with a field goal and a couple touch
downs. BYU lead most of the game until the last 3 or 4 minutes and
then they got a touch down and some field goals the game was tied at
20 20 with a minute left. Utah got a field goal and BYU came back to
win with a touch down. What a exciting game! I was so glad they won
because Mike would have been grouchy all night (GOLDEN!!).``
While in bed actually reading a talk by Elder Oaks, he talks about how many times, we ´have omitted the weightier matters of the law` (Matt 23:23)
I believe that when we are studying the góspel, and our mind wanders, so much of this is done by the power of the Spirit, which brings to our mind the things He wants us to know. When I was reading this article my mind wandered to when I was young and was on a handful of sports teams and was dependent on Mom for a ride. I thought about how when she was late I would think that the world was litteraly going to end if I wasn´t on time, thus I was very impatient, and often at times rude when she did, as always come. I looked back and realized that I was defiantly omitting the weightier things. I´m pretty sure nothing ever happened from me being late, I actually can´t even remember a result. But what I do remember is my impatience and rudeness. How often is this the case, that we omit the things that really matter, like how we treat others and the development of our character, for things that we think are important at the time. I know at least I do. So mom, i´m sorry for the follies of my youth, and thank all of you for your patience with me.
This week more than any, I learned that God does prepares people to be taught. I didn´t have very many lessons this week, but of the few I did I met some of the children that Heavenly Father has prepared to accept his gospel. In Spanish we call them ¨escogidos¨ (or the elect). As we began to talk about the events the Lord´s hand began to be shown, They didn´t exactly recognize it when they were talking to us, but I knew, and as missionaries we try to help them recognize that call from God. I thank Him everynight for the opportunity to be able to do that. One of the examples was of a great women named Luz Maria. She grew up Protestant, stopped attending that church. Was married and started attending the Catholic church with her Husband, but didn´t like the repetition of prayers, which she felt was contrary to exact nature of prayer. Then she went to a Evanglical church, with a big rock band and screaming and yelling. She knew she couldn´t feel the spirit in that atmosphere, she then got tired of her churches and decided that she as going to just read the bible for her shelf. Two weeks ago her daughter told her that a Church would help her feel more at peace. She then, at that moment, remembered a friend from 8 years ago that was a member and what good things that she had said about her church. She asked the people around the church to find out when it opened. She was there at that time. She felt the peace, felt the love of the members, knew the doctrine was true. It might very while be that Luz Maria won´t miss another Sunday. I know what Elder Brent Nielson said in General Conference is true. ``The need has never been greater. The field has never been whiter. You are called to go “this last time” (Jacob 5:62). There is no greater work; there is no greater call than teaching “all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Matthew 28:19)``.
I love this work. I love this people. I love you all.
Feliz dia,
Elder Adams
Monday, November 30, 2009
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
dia de gracias ( day of thanks)
The golf trip sounded sweet, with an excpetion of the BYU hater (btw wheres my BYU sports corner this week?). They have a couple of Golf courses in Bogota, i´ll have to hit up a bucket of balls when i´m there.
Speaking of Snows. Is Dan married yet?
And before i forget, who is the new Stake President? Did any Apostles visit for the change?
I just realized that my birthday is pretty close. I´ll be twenty. If you do the difficult math, that´s half of 40. ¡Estoy viejo(i´m old)!
Pretty rockin´ week here in Central. We had interviews with the president, and the president did a little bit of lecturing my companion for his trunkie attributes. So needless to say, there was a lot more obediance in our companionship this week, thus a lot more blessings. The Lord blessed us with 12 new investigators this week. Outragous, we had like, six combined with the three weeks before. And to add on to that, we have 4 killer references that we recieved yesterday that we are yet to teach. So yeah, the field is white!
Four of these were the second generation of inactives members. So I don´t know if i mentioned before but in my ward we have a program where we visit all the members (the majority of which are inactive) on their birthdays and give them a little card with a scripture and a message from the bishop. Very simple, cheap, and effective. With this birthday, we didn´t have the oportunity to visit her on the day of, but when we were close yesterday we decided to pass by. It turned out that at the hour we passed by the whole family was gathering together to celeberate her birthday. Which consisted of 5 members, and 4 non-members. The family hadn´t been to church for over 20 years, the father told me that really it was very hard to transport their family to the chapel, cause at this time there was only one in all of Bucaramanga, thus it was far away, and they lost touch of the Church. The lesson went well, the spirit was there, and were heading back on wednesday. The mother, of the family, said that ´God had sent us´. The more and more i look for it, I see his Hand more in my daily life.
I hope with this evidence, along with so much more this week, my companion can learn more the importance of obidience. He has said before that, if your baptizing, and your following the ´important rules´, the others don´t really matter. How absouletly wrong he was. We don´t pick and choose the commandments were going to keep. We try our best to keep them, because we love Him who made them, and we know that if we do keep them, He will bless us abudently.
My beloved Sister Jess -
I know have been bad at getting back to your letters, but if its any bit of consilation, i get them all and love to read them. BIEN HECHO (well done) with the member missionary work. Without a doubt, the Lord place the majority of people he is preparing in the circle of relationships of the members. I share the heartache of watching people, that i love not commiting to live with the knowledge of the truth of the restored gospel.
I don´t know if the missionaries have a shared Alma 32 (faith is like a seed) with her, but if i were there i would make sure that she read it. It helped an investigator we had with the same problem. Like it says in v. 21,faith is not to have a perfect knowledge of things; therefore if ye have faith ye hope for things which are not seen, which are true. ´ The chapter rocked my world this past week when i read it with the prespective of missionary work, i realized that its mine, and the members responsibilty to help these new converts, that ¨know the seed is good¨ thus they were baptized, to cultivate that seed so that it can grow in to a tree and give forth fruit, which i attributed to a firm testimony or conversion, and not parish and fall away, when they are pressed up against the wall of faith, and begin to question whether that seed was really good or not. But if they have those roots in the Church of Christ, in ´a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall´ (Hel 5:12)
Jess i´m proud of your efforts in this great work. Remember the Lord´s promise to Alma and the Sons of Mosiah: Now when our hearts were depressed, and we were about to turn back, behold, the Lord comforted us, and said: Go amongst thy brethren, the Lamanites, and bear with patience thine afflictions, and I will give unto you success.
The mission has broke my heart many a times. But I find some much comfort in this promise. I know that if i´m patient in the hard times, don´t complain, when it is so easy to do, but press forward with optimsim (wow i have no idea how to spell), success will come.
Wow, enough of my district meeting-esque letter. I love you all, and am so thankful for all that you do, and have done for me.
con mucho amor,
Elder Pipa (what my security guard friend in our complex calls me, haha. Pipa means like fat stomach or a gut. To call someone gordo here is not offensive at all, so i just roll with it, and accept my chubby stomach)
mom dad,
Thanks for the packages! I´ll let you know when i get them.
jess
haha, almost forgot to answer this, im so bad. But just let me know when todd is going to call or what ever, we decide when we call. I don´t know if im going to be here in b/manga or not, so when it get closer i´ll talk to my companion about it. But no worries. probably around 2-5 in colombian time, i think it´s 3 hours ahead. Not sure. Hablaramos (We´ll talk). BTW send the kids my much love for them. miss them when i talk with the kids around here
Speaking of Snows. Is Dan married yet?
And before i forget, who is the new Stake President? Did any Apostles visit for the change?
I just realized that my birthday is pretty close. I´ll be twenty. If you do the difficult math, that´s half of 40. ¡Estoy viejo(i´m old)!
Pretty rockin´ week here in Central. We had interviews with the president, and the president did a little bit of lecturing my companion for his trunkie attributes. So needless to say, there was a lot more obediance in our companionship this week, thus a lot more blessings. The Lord blessed us with 12 new investigators this week. Outragous, we had like, six combined with the three weeks before. And to add on to that, we have 4 killer references that we recieved yesterday that we are yet to teach. So yeah, the field is white!
Four of these were the second generation of inactives members. So I don´t know if i mentioned before but in my ward we have a program where we visit all the members (the majority of which are inactive) on their birthdays and give them a little card with a scripture and a message from the bishop. Very simple, cheap, and effective. With this birthday, we didn´t have the oportunity to visit her on the day of, but when we were close yesterday we decided to pass by. It turned out that at the hour we passed by the whole family was gathering together to celeberate her birthday. Which consisted of 5 members, and 4 non-members. The family hadn´t been to church for over 20 years, the father told me that really it was very hard to transport their family to the chapel, cause at this time there was only one in all of Bucaramanga, thus it was far away, and they lost touch of the Church. The lesson went well, the spirit was there, and were heading back on wednesday. The mother, of the family, said that ´God had sent us´. The more and more i look for it, I see his Hand more in my daily life.
I hope with this evidence, along with so much more this week, my companion can learn more the importance of obidience. He has said before that, if your baptizing, and your following the ´important rules´, the others don´t really matter. How absouletly wrong he was. We don´t pick and choose the commandments were going to keep. We try our best to keep them, because we love Him who made them, and we know that if we do keep them, He will bless us abudently.
My beloved Sister Jess -
I know have been bad at getting back to your letters, but if its any bit of consilation, i get them all and love to read them. BIEN HECHO (well done) with the member missionary work. Without a doubt, the Lord place the majority of people he is preparing in the circle of relationships of the members. I share the heartache of watching people, that i love not commiting to live with the knowledge of the truth of the restored gospel.
I don´t know if the missionaries have a shared Alma 32 (faith is like a seed) with her, but if i were there i would make sure that she read it. It helped an investigator we had with the same problem. Like it says in v. 21,faith is not to have a perfect knowledge of things; therefore if ye have faith ye hope for things which are not seen, which are true. ´ The chapter rocked my world this past week when i read it with the prespective of missionary work, i realized that its mine, and the members responsibilty to help these new converts, that ¨know the seed is good¨ thus they were baptized, to cultivate that seed so that it can grow in to a tree and give forth fruit, which i attributed to a firm testimony or conversion, and not parish and fall away, when they are pressed up against the wall of faith, and begin to question whether that seed was really good or not. But if they have those roots in the Church of Christ, in ´a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall´ (Hel 5:12)
Jess i´m proud of your efforts in this great work. Remember the Lord´s promise to Alma and the Sons of Mosiah: Now when our hearts were depressed, and we were about to turn back, behold, the Lord comforted us, and said: Go amongst thy brethren, the Lamanites, and bear with patience thine afflictions, and I will give unto you success.
The mission has broke my heart many a times. But I find some much comfort in this promise. I know that if i´m patient in the hard times, don´t complain, when it is so easy to do, but press forward with optimsim (wow i have no idea how to spell), success will come.
Wow, enough of my district meeting-esque letter. I love you all, and am so thankful for all that you do, and have done for me.
con mucho amor,
Elder Pipa (what my security guard friend in our complex calls me, haha. Pipa means like fat stomach or a gut. To call someone gordo here is not offensive at all, so i just roll with it, and accept my chubby stomach)
mom dad,
Thanks for the packages! I´ll let you know when i get them.
jess
haha, almost forgot to answer this, im so bad. But just let me know when todd is going to call or what ever, we decide when we call. I don´t know if im going to be here in b/manga or not, so when it get closer i´ll talk to my companion about it. But no worries. probably around 2-5 in colombian time, i think it´s 3 hours ahead. Not sure. Hablaramos (We´ll talk). BTW send the kids my much love for them. miss them when i talk with the kids around here
Monday, November 16, 2009
City Park clean up
So sounds like your birthday was a hit. I love hearing all the great things Preston and Liz say, and I guess before I’m back you´ll be quoting Alaina. Life´s crazy!
So we started of our p-day off with a service project with the ward. Cleaned up this rough park by our house. Bucaramanga is loaded with parks all over the place. They are known as Cuidad Bonita, or Cuidad de Parques. (BTW, ask Bro. Clayson where he served in Bucaramanga. I could talk with some of the missionaries there and find out if ´his fruits remained´ ha don´t say that, i´m sure they´re the poderosos in the barrio)
Anyways this park we pass through is known for its population of ´Mujers de la Vida´ or as we like to call him in the states, prostitutes, and pigeons. Is that the best combination or what! Anyways, while we were cleaning we´re able to talk with the passer byers (I think that is a word in English), and loungers. We talked with some pretty sweet people, got some appointment set. Life rocks. Love productive p-days.
So I had a great week. And what was great, and what we can all do, is try my best to make it that way. I finished the other week feeling like we just weren´t doing all we could. For the past three weeks I´ve been working with trunkie central here in, central. And I felt like I wasn´t doing everything I could to stop ´the trunk´. I knew I was trying hard and doing good things, but I just wasn´t sure I had been doing my absolute best. So I really just tried to work my guts out this week. The thing is that there wasn´t really any change in our week. Not a huge spike in our numbers, they didn´t really even increase much. But I knew that I was trying my hardest and that made all the difference. So many times we don´t see the fruits of our efforts, but we know we did our best, and that’s all that matters. It was though my fastest week, and one of my happiest. It actually is the principle on how salvation is reached. “For we know that it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do.” (2 Ne. 25:23.) How simple is that. It doesn´t matter who we were, what great things we did, the positions we held, but that we gave our Father that is in Heaven our best effort, our very best effort.
There was one great fruit from this week: basically an already converted investigator. So sweet. Her name is Clarasofia, and she has a good share of friends in the Church, but because of her busy Schedule, she never had the time to talk with the missionaries. We met with her for 45 minutes and were just in awe of how great her and her mom were. Then we had to leave for my English clases. Returned, and taught her for two hours. Ha. She started by asking if we could ¨please¨ teach her more about the book of mormon. Brilliant. We taught about the Restoration of the Gospel, and when we asked if she would read and pray about the book of mormon, to know if it was true, she said that she had already read it and knew that it was true, nuts, and preceded to flip to her `favorite` verse, read it, and stated ´how can this not be true, it´s beautiful´. I left being awestruck, not only by her faith, but by the process in which she obtained that faith. Oh, the power of members, and how much they can bless missionary work.
I love that that I have no idea how much time I have left here in Bucaramanga--gives me more motivation to absolutely pour out my soul.
I love you all. Les están siempre en mi corazón.
Cheers,
Elder Adams
Moms and pops-
So there are 6 elders in my district, 2 live with me. Your package to me is already a package to 6 missionaries already so whatever you see fit.
Happy 28 years and many more¡¡ (haha I can only find the upside down quotation mark). If in the end all that I learned from you guys was the love that should be shared in a marriage, that would be enough (of course there are countless other things I´ve learned). Thanks for being the best parents ever.
So we started of our p-day off with a service project with the ward. Cleaned up this rough park by our house. Bucaramanga is loaded with parks all over the place. They are known as Cuidad Bonita, or Cuidad de Parques. (BTW, ask Bro. Clayson where he served in Bucaramanga. I could talk with some of the missionaries there and find out if ´his fruits remained´ ha don´t say that, i´m sure they´re the poderosos in the barrio)
Anyways this park we pass through is known for its population of ´Mujers de la Vida´ or as we like to call him in the states, prostitutes, and pigeons. Is that the best combination or what! Anyways, while we were cleaning we´re able to talk with the passer byers (I think that is a word in English), and loungers. We talked with some pretty sweet people, got some appointment set. Life rocks. Love productive p-days.
So I had a great week. And what was great, and what we can all do, is try my best to make it that way. I finished the other week feeling like we just weren´t doing all we could. For the past three weeks I´ve been working with trunkie central here in, central. And I felt like I wasn´t doing everything I could to stop ´the trunk´. I knew I was trying hard and doing good things, but I just wasn´t sure I had been doing my absolute best. So I really just tried to work my guts out this week. The thing is that there wasn´t really any change in our week. Not a huge spike in our numbers, they didn´t really even increase much. But I knew that I was trying my hardest and that made all the difference. So many times we don´t see the fruits of our efforts, but we know we did our best, and that’s all that matters. It was though my fastest week, and one of my happiest. It actually is the principle on how salvation is reached. “For we know that it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do.” (2 Ne. 25:23.) How simple is that. It doesn´t matter who we were, what great things we did, the positions we held, but that we gave our Father that is in Heaven our best effort, our very best effort.
There was one great fruit from this week: basically an already converted investigator. So sweet. Her name is Clarasofia, and she has a good share of friends in the Church, but because of her busy Schedule, she never had the time to talk with the missionaries. We met with her for 45 minutes and were just in awe of how great her and her mom were. Then we had to leave for my English clases. Returned, and taught her for two hours. Ha. She started by asking if we could ¨please¨ teach her more about the book of mormon. Brilliant. We taught about the Restoration of the Gospel, and when we asked if she would read and pray about the book of mormon, to know if it was true, she said that she had already read it and knew that it was true, nuts, and preceded to flip to her `favorite` verse, read it, and stated ´how can this not be true, it´s beautiful´. I left being awestruck, not only by her faith, but by the process in which she obtained that faith. Oh, the power of members, and how much they can bless missionary work.
I love that that I have no idea how much time I have left here in Bucaramanga--gives me more motivation to absolutely pour out my soul.
I love you all. Les están siempre en mi corazón.
Cheers,
Elder Adams
Moms and pops-
So there are 6 elders in my district, 2 live with me. Your package to me is already a package to 6 missionaries already so whatever you see fit.
Happy 28 years and many more¡¡ (haha I can only find the upside down quotation mark). If in the end all that I learned from you guys was the love that should be shared in a marriage, that would be enough (of course there are countless other things I´ve learned). Thanks for being the best parents ever.
Monday, November 9, 2009
New companion trunkie
Mom, HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
A happy birthday before, and a happy birthday after is as close as I can come to an actually on the day happy birthday. I love you so much, and just remember that to the people of Colombia, your only 22 instead of 21. And don´t worry, in two years,
i´ll go sky diving with you!
So my new companion is Elder Moreno, he´s from Peru, and has 19 months in the mission. So he´s going to finish up here. Ha another trunkie. The last two weeks with elder Reynoso it was hard to get anything done and I thought it would change with a new companion. Wrong. Elder Moreno is a super cool, super chill, and a good missionary. But he says that he´s not trunkie he´s `tired`. Haha But no worries, hopefully I can make him un-tired. Bah, forgive me for my 5th grade English, I think every change I lower a grade in English. So only me and elder Au are still here in districto central. The rest are newbies. They sacked the two missionaries in one district and brought in a brand new missionary and his trainer. There both are ready to work, so its great having them in the house. It was hard the change before with three trunkies and me. T`was hard to have any rhythm in the morning when I looked around and they were all still dead asleep, and you know me, I am not a morning person.
Reynoso, although a little bit trunkie, was a great influence. Being 27 this December, I learned a lot of things with him I
couldn´t have with other´s because of that. I´m defiantly a better missionary because of him. And a better cook. None of the elders in my apartment know how to cook so I make breakfast everyday. Today we had hashbrowns, scrambled eggs, and French toast. Hashbrowns are going to rock the socks of latin America. I´m calling that they are the next `hamburguesa´ here. They loved them!
Things have defiantly been different here. I- because elder Moreno doesn´t know the area, plan our days and call members and schedule appointments and all that stuff. Its been a great growing experience. I don´t think I would be able to do it if I knew any less Spanish. Elder Moreno doesn´t speak a lick of English, the other missionarys in my apartment as well, so i´m loving it because I get to speak Spanish all the time. And don´t have an easy way out when I don´t know something. I´m teaching elder Moreno English, and we decided that im going to give him an exam at the end of the change, and if he passes it, dinners on me.
We set a baptismal date for the brother of Ortwin who we went to the botanical garden with. He knows he needs to be baptized the problem is that he has to work every Sunday at 9. Welp! Here comes the Sabbath day lesson and much praying that he will be able to not work Sundays or find another job.
My highlight of this week, was when Amdrely asked in a lesson this week ¨how she can do what we do, as in how can she become a missionary. We talked about It and she was pumped, then we mentioned about ward missionaries, and she again asked how she could do that. Oh the change in this girl. What a miracle, and a blessing. She told us how she decided it was easier to just stop hanging out with her friends then to try and resist the temptations of associating with them. Oh if we could all do this, Draw our line before the actual line, avoid even the appearance of evil our spiritual-selves would be a whole lot `safer`.
I love you and pray for you all,
Con todo mi amor,
e. adams
A happy birthday before, and a happy birthday after is as close as I can come to an actually on the day happy birthday. I love you so much, and just remember that to the people of Colombia, your only 22 instead of 21. And don´t worry, in two years,
i´ll go sky diving with you!
So my new companion is Elder Moreno, he´s from Peru, and has 19 months in the mission. So he´s going to finish up here. Ha another trunkie. The last two weeks with elder Reynoso it was hard to get anything done and I thought it would change with a new companion. Wrong. Elder Moreno is a super cool, super chill, and a good missionary. But he says that he´s not trunkie he´s `tired`. Haha But no worries, hopefully I can make him un-tired. Bah, forgive me for my 5th grade English, I think every change I lower a grade in English. So only me and elder Au are still here in districto central. The rest are newbies. They sacked the two missionaries in one district and brought in a brand new missionary and his trainer. There both are ready to work, so its great having them in the house. It was hard the change before with three trunkies and me. T`was hard to have any rhythm in the morning when I looked around and they were all still dead asleep, and you know me, I am not a morning person.
Reynoso, although a little bit trunkie, was a great influence. Being 27 this December, I learned a lot of things with him I
couldn´t have with other´s because of that. I´m defiantly a better missionary because of him. And a better cook. None of the elders in my apartment know how to cook so I make breakfast everyday. Today we had hashbrowns, scrambled eggs, and French toast. Hashbrowns are going to rock the socks of latin America. I´m calling that they are the next `hamburguesa´ here. They loved them!
Things have defiantly been different here. I- because elder Moreno doesn´t know the area, plan our days and call members and schedule appointments and all that stuff. Its been a great growing experience. I don´t think I would be able to do it if I knew any less Spanish. Elder Moreno doesn´t speak a lick of English, the other missionarys in my apartment as well, so i´m loving it because I get to speak Spanish all the time. And don´t have an easy way out when I don´t know something. I´m teaching elder Moreno English, and we decided that im going to give him an exam at the end of the change, and if he passes it, dinners on me.
We set a baptismal date for the brother of Ortwin who we went to the botanical garden with. He knows he needs to be baptized the problem is that he has to work every Sunday at 9. Welp! Here comes the Sabbath day lesson and much praying that he will be able to not work Sundays or find another job.
My highlight of this week, was when Amdrely asked in a lesson this week ¨how she can do what we do, as in how can she become a missionary. We talked about It and she was pumped, then we mentioned about ward missionaries, and she again asked how she could do that. Oh the change in this girl. What a miracle, and a blessing. She told us how she decided it was easier to just stop hanging out with her friends then to try and resist the temptations of associating with them. Oh if we could all do this, Draw our line before the actual line, avoid even the appearance of evil our spiritual-selves would be a whole lot `safer`.
I love you and pray for you all,
Con todo mi amor,
e. adams
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Tricky tricky Halloween
So in the hustle of yesterday being the last day for Renyoso here in Bucaramanga, I only had time to write a email to Josh. I
don´t know how often he checks that thing but let him know ones chillin there.
So it was rockin here with dulces and disfraces here for holloween. From what I understand Colombia has more influence from american culture than the other countries in South America, they love there comidas rapidas (fast food), so of course they do it big with Holloween. Christmas might even be a bigger deal here than in the United States, they do not honor the known rule that christmas decoration cannot start until after thanksgiving, our neighbors are already dusting off the Christmas lights.
So Reynoso se fue (left) this morning. Took him to the airport and now I'm solo, waiting for my new companion with a member. His name is E. Moreno, there´s two of them here in the mission so I'm not sure which one it is exactly. One is from Peru and is about 4 feet tall and the other one is from Ecuardor and has 4 months left and rumor has it that he´s trunkie central. But I´ll believe it when i see it. Cualquier bring it on. He´ll come in this night. Poucho, my favorite member who goes out with us everyday leaves on a mission tomorrow. So needless to say, its going to be a big change here for me. Lost my two biggest helpers in the mission. Snikes. Oh well, I´m excited to grow.
A member this Sunday showed me her coke stash this Sunday. Haha. The coca plant, which is the plant used to make cociane, here has been used for forever for medicine and healing purposes. They grow it in there backyard. And in her pharmacy class they learned how to make coke, that they put a very small amount in a lotion for medical purposes. Nevertheless, twas a little wierd seeing cocaine in the house of member. Haha, they are all strong members, shes actually starting here papers for her mission this week.
We had the baptism of Ortwin this week. Went very well. He got really attached to Reynoso, so it has been a sob fest for little Ortiwn the past couple of days. But he´s a tough kid. He promised he wasn´t going to miss one `holy Sunday´. He´s been through sooo much, rough rough rough. His dad, whom tried to commit suicide multiple times and was a drug addict, died in an accident last year. He lives with his mom, they were seperated for some time before the accident. His mom feels like his brothers are following the same path but we started teaching one of them and I feel we can get him baptised this change, he has a desire to change, so therefor his repentance process has already started. In our last family home evening with them his mom expressed how much Ortwin has changed in this little time, and cried and stated how she felt like ´God sent angels´ into her home. She is a wonderful woman.
I love you all so much, and subsiquently you are all in my prayers,
Con todo mi corazón,
Elder Adanz, or Adass (how my name is spelt here in colombia, haha)
don´t know how often he checks that thing but let him know ones chillin there.
So it was rockin here with dulces and disfraces here for holloween. From what I understand Colombia has more influence from american culture than the other countries in South America, they love there comidas rapidas (fast food), so of course they do it big with Holloween. Christmas might even be a bigger deal here than in the United States, they do not honor the known rule that christmas decoration cannot start until after thanksgiving, our neighbors are already dusting off the Christmas lights.
So Reynoso se fue (left) this morning. Took him to the airport and now I'm solo, waiting for my new companion with a member. His name is E. Moreno, there´s two of them here in the mission so I'm not sure which one it is exactly. One is from Peru and is about 4 feet tall and the other one is from Ecuardor and has 4 months left and rumor has it that he´s trunkie central. But I´ll believe it when i see it. Cualquier bring it on. He´ll come in this night. Poucho, my favorite member who goes out with us everyday leaves on a mission tomorrow. So needless to say, its going to be a big change here for me. Lost my two biggest helpers in the mission. Snikes. Oh well, I´m excited to grow.
A member this Sunday showed me her coke stash this Sunday. Haha. The coca plant, which is the plant used to make cociane, here has been used for forever for medicine and healing purposes. They grow it in there backyard. And in her pharmacy class they learned how to make coke, that they put a very small amount in a lotion for medical purposes. Nevertheless, twas a little wierd seeing cocaine in the house of member. Haha, they are all strong members, shes actually starting here papers for her mission this week.
We had the baptism of Ortwin this week. Went very well. He got really attached to Reynoso, so it has been a sob fest for little Ortiwn the past couple of days. But he´s a tough kid. He promised he wasn´t going to miss one `holy Sunday´. He´s been through sooo much, rough rough rough. His dad, whom tried to commit suicide multiple times and was a drug addict, died in an accident last year. He lives with his mom, they were seperated for some time before the accident. His mom feels like his brothers are following the same path but we started teaching one of them and I feel we can get him baptised this change, he has a desire to change, so therefor his repentance process has already started. In our last family home evening with them his mom expressed how much Ortwin has changed in this little time, and cried and stated how she felt like ´God sent angels´ into her home. She is a wonderful woman.
I love you all so much, and subsiquently you are all in my prayers,
Con todo mi corazón,
Elder Adanz, or Adass (how my name is spelt here in colombia, haha)
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