Still here in Campiña. I received my new companion sooner than expected, last Tuesday. Turns out he´s got kidney stones and he was in a little town called Yopal that you have to take a air plane to get to, so needless to say the hospital wasn´t the greatest so they moved him here in Bogota where the hospital is grade A. His name is Elder Huaman, he´s from peru, he´s got about 8 months in the mission, so from what I can see he still wants to work. He´s a little goofy, very very different than all the other companions I´ve had, much harder to relate to, but he´s a good kid, i´m sure we´ll have a good time. then called the president to talk, so yeah its going to be a very different transfer. HEY due to the fact that i´m still with elder Fernandez, were in a trio. and we´ve been doing tons of stuff I only had 15 mintues to write today, i´ll get back on finish writing tomorrow in the morning, But all is well here in campiña. GOOD LUCK WITH THE MOVE!!!
Love you all so much,
e. adams
p.s. send grandpa and grandma my love as well. He´ll be in my prayers!
Thursday, January 28, 2010
1 of 2 emails
Welp im back!
So we´ve been super busy the past week. With elder huaman coming and everything, we´ve been running around between the hospital and the mission office almost everyday. Then this Saturday was the wedding of Giovani and Liliana, then in Sunday morning early at 730 they were baptized. And also with Elder Fernandez heading home we´ve had to do tons of stuff for that. And on top of that we had this sweet zone activity in my area where the whole zone came and knocked doors for 4 hours. So were now reaping the fruits of that. We got tons of appointments today that we need to rock. Thanks to that I believe we´ll have about 4 new baptisms in the next two months. SWEET! Our goal of 10 baptisms for the change wasn´t reached, but we got 6 so that’s sweet! But I was able to keep elder Fernandez staying busy for the last couple weeks. Yesterday he had his interview and the president told him he could be trunkie now haha, he leaves tomorrow night. He´ll be with other missionaries that are going home after lunch. This past month and half went felt like two weeks with elder Fernandez. He´s a funny kid. And I learned a lot from him. Especially that if you want to baptize, you can baptize, in any area with any companion. That´s really why were here. To bring the blessings of baptism by someone with the priesthood of God, which allows them to have the greatest gift we can have in this life—the gift of the Holy Ghost, and really every blessing I have in my life is because I was able to enter the kingdom of God through baptism. Attitude determines altidude! What´s up!
Welp love you all again, suerte with the move. I wasn´t able to see the picture but i´m sure the neighborhood is legit. BTW are you guys planning on buying or renting?
Love you all so much.
Btw, Colombia has the best music ever. It´s called Vallenato. You should look it up. It´s basically guitar, acordian, and with what looks like a round cheese greater that they scratch with a metal brush. And sweet Spanish lyrics. I bet you can type ‘el amor mas grande del planeta’ in youtube and your ears will be delighted.
¡Colombia es pasión!
E. Adams
So we´ve been super busy the past week. With elder huaman coming and everything, we´ve been running around between the hospital and the mission office almost everyday. Then this Saturday was the wedding of Giovani and Liliana, then in Sunday morning early at 730 they were baptized. And also with Elder Fernandez heading home we´ve had to do tons of stuff for that. And on top of that we had this sweet zone activity in my area where the whole zone came and knocked doors for 4 hours. So were now reaping the fruits of that. We got tons of appointments today that we need to rock. Thanks to that I believe we´ll have about 4 new baptisms in the next two months. SWEET! Our goal of 10 baptisms for the change wasn´t reached, but we got 6 so that’s sweet! But I was able to keep elder Fernandez staying busy for the last couple weeks. Yesterday he had his interview and the president told him he could be trunkie now haha, he leaves tomorrow night. He´ll be with other missionaries that are going home after lunch. This past month and half went felt like two weeks with elder Fernandez. He´s a funny kid. And I learned a lot from him. Especially that if you want to baptize, you can baptize, in any area with any companion. That´s really why were here. To bring the blessings of baptism by someone with the priesthood of God, which allows them to have the greatest gift we can have in this life—the gift of the Holy Ghost, and really every blessing I have in my life is because I was able to enter the kingdom of God through baptism. Attitude determines altidude! What´s up!
Welp love you all again, suerte with the move. I wasn´t able to see the picture but i´m sure the neighborhood is legit. BTW are you guys planning on buying or renting?
Love you all so much.
Btw, Colombia has the best music ever. It´s called Vallenato. You should look it up. It´s basically guitar, acordian, and with what looks like a round cheese greater that they scratch with a metal brush. And sweet Spanish lyrics. I bet you can type ‘el amor mas grande del planeta’ in youtube and your ears will be delighted.
¡Colombia es pasión!
E. Adams
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Alejandro baptism "A tital wave"
Welp that sucks the Cardinals lost. Oh well.
So this week went great. We set another baptismal date for January and had the Baptism of Alejandro. This guys the best. Seriously.
So Alejandro quit smoking in a week and was more than ready for his baptism. Ha he was so ready that the little kids in the front of the font ended up getting soaked. Let me explain. During the baptism, he was so ready that after I said the prayer he just flung back and he’s taller than me so it resulted in a pretty sweet tidle wave.
But after as we normally do, we asked him to share his thoughts and feelings after the baptism. Which resulted in one the most joyfull moments of my life. He talked for about 10 minutes about his Journey to get to know God. He said that he seriously began searching for a relationship with God when had 17 years old. And after he couldn’t find what he was looking for he began to study Philosophy, but after time he knew that there was something more. He shared that after the baptism while he was watching the a video we played while everyone changed, he felt for for the first time, in this ten year quest--at peace with Christ. He said he felt the love of God fill him. He said he felt like it was his first time in church where he heard everyone saying that this was the true church, but he can now say this, because he felt is so powerfully in his heart. I know with out a doubt he decided to be baptized because of what he genuinely felt, not because what he knew. He had been learning about the church for less then a month, and I haven’t heard many people testify with more conviction and power than in the manner in which he did. I left feeling as though it wasn’t me who helped Alejandro, but really him that helped me. How great is this work!
Giovani and Liliana are getting married and baptized this weekend! I’m pumped! Then next Tuesday Elder Fernandez goes home and I get a new companion. The president said I’ll be here in campiña for a while. Rockin!
So you guys are actually moving. Tell Josh that moving to Arizona from Utah, although I felt like it was the worst thing ever at first, ended up being one of the biggest blessings in my life. A change that was crucial for me.
Welp. Gotta go. I Love you all so much. Give each other a big hug for me.
Con amor,
e. adams
So this week went great. We set another baptismal date for January and had the Baptism of Alejandro. This guys the best. Seriously.
So Alejandro quit smoking in a week and was more than ready for his baptism. Ha he was so ready that the little kids in the front of the font ended up getting soaked. Let me explain. During the baptism, he was so ready that after I said the prayer he just flung back and he’s taller than me so it resulted in a pretty sweet tidle wave.
But after as we normally do, we asked him to share his thoughts and feelings after the baptism. Which resulted in one the most joyfull moments of my life. He talked for about 10 minutes about his Journey to get to know God. He said that he seriously began searching for a relationship with God when had 17 years old. And after he couldn’t find what he was looking for he began to study Philosophy, but after time he knew that there was something more. He shared that after the baptism while he was watching the a video we played while everyone changed, he felt for for the first time, in this ten year quest--at peace with Christ. He said he felt the love of God fill him. He said he felt like it was his first time in church where he heard everyone saying that this was the true church, but he can now say this, because he felt is so powerfully in his heart. I know with out a doubt he decided to be baptized because of what he genuinely felt, not because what he knew. He had been learning about the church for less then a month, and I haven’t heard many people testify with more conviction and power than in the manner in which he did. I left feeling as though it wasn’t me who helped Alejandro, but really him that helped me. How great is this work!
Giovani and Liliana are getting married and baptized this weekend! I’m pumped! Then next Tuesday Elder Fernandez goes home and I get a new companion. The president said I’ll be here in campiña for a while. Rockin!
So you guys are actually moving. Tell Josh that moving to Arizona from Utah, although I felt like it was the worst thing ever at first, ended up being one of the biggest blessings in my life. A change that was crucial for me.
Welp. Gotta go. I Love you all so much. Give each other a big hug for me.
Con amor,
e. adams
Monday, January 11, 2010
te amo campiña!
Welp first things first: GO CARDS!
Now that we have that taken care of, today we went to a theme park called ‘Salitre Magico’. I´m pretty sure that it's against the general mission rules to go to a theme park, but yeah we did it! Of course with the permision of the President. Some how one's zone got permision to go and they invited my district, so we jumped on that. The park was pretty much just like a sketchy carnival, same exact rides, but it was in COLOMBIA, hence enjoyable. I got fried though. Because its so high in altitude here, when it’s the middle of the day the sun is super strong, and I think I heard something about there being a weak ozone layer here too. Soo HIGH ALTITUDE + SUCKY OZONE = UV RAYS GALORE. Trying to stay up on the math so I can rock calculus when I get back. What´s up. But oh how I love Bogota. I always hear people say that Bucaramanga is el mejor (the best), but I just don´t, Bogota´s treatin me real good, real real good.
There is ony two more weeks in this change! I´ll have a new companion in two weeks. This is nuts! Even though my companion is getting ready and wanting to pack his bags, so glad there is a lot of work to do here in Campiña. We most likely won’t finish up with 10 baptisms this change, but maybe 8, but a sure 6. But those 6 are rockin it. After the end of this month were going to have 6 new men in the elders quorum. Our Class of the principles of the Gospel is off the hook. These 4 new families love to share their testimonies and ask questions. All are so eager to learn more about Christ and to strengthen their testimonies in them.
One of these families is the Silva family. This past week was all about them. I believe I wrote about how we ran around Bogota this past Monday for 8 hours getting all their papers ready, while the rest of the week were finishing up and setting a date for the wedding: Success. The're getting married the 23rd and being baptized the 24th. The're legit. They both have super super strong testimonies of the Church, and are waiting with anticipation to receive the saving ordinances that Christ offers through it. They moved this week to a new apartment, and they talked very openly with us. He told us he went to visit his old Pastor, in which he was part of the Leadership, he told him why he had left the church, and told where he is now (in the church of jesus christ), he feels is really Christ´s church, the true church, and where he doesn´t feel like the church is a business, and that he sees the members love one another, and can really see the hand of God guiding it. THIS MAN IS PODER! He also talked about his past, and how him and Liliana want to start off new in this house, which they want to be built upon the Gopsel, with love and no bad words of influences. We then proceeded and gave a blessing on the house. Liliana shared how much she would love to have her daughter (1 year old) to serve a mission one day.
We have the baptism of Alejandro this week. This guy quit smoking this week. He shared that he doesn´t want anything to hold him back from growing in the gospel after his baptism. Also did I tell you he teaches philosphy and studied in one of the best universities here in Colombia, the guy is legit! I believe he is about to finish 2nd nephi after just 3 weeks!
I´m telling you. Things are hot here in Campiña! Next week were going to do a zone activity where the whole zone comes and does contacts the whole day in an area. The next week will be here. Last week in the area where we had the zone activity, they had 31 new investigators in 1 week!
I love you all. And I’m completely content.
Fuertismo abrazo (super strong hug!),
e. adams
Now that we have that taken care of, today we went to a theme park called ‘Salitre Magico’. I´m pretty sure that it's against the general mission rules to go to a theme park, but yeah we did it! Of course with the permision of the President. Some how one's zone got permision to go and they invited my district, so we jumped on that. The park was pretty much just like a sketchy carnival, same exact rides, but it was in COLOMBIA, hence enjoyable. I got fried though. Because its so high in altitude here, when it’s the middle of the day the sun is super strong, and I think I heard something about there being a weak ozone layer here too. Soo HIGH ALTITUDE + SUCKY OZONE = UV RAYS GALORE. Trying to stay up on the math so I can rock calculus when I get back. What´s up. But oh how I love Bogota. I always hear people say that Bucaramanga is el mejor (the best), but I just don´t, Bogota´s treatin me real good, real real good.
There is ony two more weeks in this change! I´ll have a new companion in two weeks. This is nuts! Even though my companion is getting ready and wanting to pack his bags, so glad there is a lot of work to do here in Campiña. We most likely won’t finish up with 10 baptisms this change, but maybe 8, but a sure 6. But those 6 are rockin it. After the end of this month were going to have 6 new men in the elders quorum. Our Class of the principles of the Gospel is off the hook. These 4 new families love to share their testimonies and ask questions. All are so eager to learn more about Christ and to strengthen their testimonies in them.
One of these families is the Silva family. This past week was all about them. I believe I wrote about how we ran around Bogota this past Monday for 8 hours getting all their papers ready, while the rest of the week were finishing up and setting a date for the wedding: Success. The're getting married the 23rd and being baptized the 24th. The're legit. They both have super super strong testimonies of the Church, and are waiting with anticipation to receive the saving ordinances that Christ offers through it. They moved this week to a new apartment, and they talked very openly with us. He told us he went to visit his old Pastor, in which he was part of the Leadership, he told him why he had left the church, and told where he is now (in the church of jesus christ), he feels is really Christ´s church, the true church, and where he doesn´t feel like the church is a business, and that he sees the members love one another, and can really see the hand of God guiding it. THIS MAN IS PODER! He also talked about his past, and how him and Liliana want to start off new in this house, which they want to be built upon the Gopsel, with love and no bad words of influences. We then proceeded and gave a blessing on the house. Liliana shared how much she would love to have her daughter (1 year old) to serve a mission one day.
We have the baptism of Alejandro this week. This guy quit smoking this week. He shared that he doesn´t want anything to hold him back from growing in the gospel after his baptism. Also did I tell you he teaches philosphy and studied in one of the best universities here in Colombia, the guy is legit! I believe he is about to finish 2nd nephi after just 3 weeks!
I´m telling you. Things are hot here in Campiña! Next week were going to do a zone activity where the whole zone comes and does contacts the whole day in an area. The next week will be here. Last week in the area where we had the zone activity, they had 31 new investigators in 1 week!
I love you all. And I’m completely content.
Fuertismo abrazo (super strong hug!),
e. adams
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
feliz ano
WE have a word here for Josh in Colombia ‘barraco’ (means stud, or pushes through a hard time, like Rocky). Hope you’re filling better bro, and you better be better so we can go shred in I guess, two more winters. (that sounds long!! But i´m cool with it! I missed snowboarding today when we went into a skate shop and saw all the winter jackets, HEY MORG! Neff´s hit Colombia! What´s up! Your brother in law will soon rule the world)
So today we pretty much traveled all over Bogota getting papers ready for the marriage of a family were working with—familia Silva—basically the whole week has been about them.
We has a rocking lesson with them this Tuesday. We had made a stellar lesson plans for the doubt that Goviani (the husband) had. He told us the lesson before that he believed in Joseph Smith, the book of mormon, but just couldn´t believe that we have a living Prophet who guides us today. Anyways, the lesson went sweet, we set up everything we could for our commandment to follow and support the living prophets. They said yes, we then followed up with setting a date for their wedding and baptism. They accepted. We had thought there would be opposition than that. Our testimonies were defiantly strengthened concerning the power of lesson plans.
Hahaha, Govani then told us after the lesson ‘’ you know why I believe there is prophet today, because you Elder Adams were sooo annoyed when I told you the last lesson that I didn´t believe there was a prophet, you just went off talking about why we need a prophet and testifying that there is a prophet. I then began to think about how this 20 year old kid, who doesn´t know Spanish came all this way here to tell me that there is a prophet, then after listening today It just makes sense’’. I thought it was funny, and pretty sweet.
in the same lesson we had with Familia Silvia, I had during my personal study I had been looking for a scripture that I had read before to help Govani. But couldn´t find it. I finally found one that was similar, but ended my study feeling like I had it wasted it looking for a scripture I couldn´t find. But when we had read it, Liliana (the wife), said that it answered the question she had asked Govani earlier that day.
I learned more so that God leads and guides us even when we don’t feel it is so. I know that we can find assurance in the fact that the Spirit will guide us in all that we do as long as we follow in His way.
One other lesson: two weeks ago we were introduced two a friend of a member named Alejandro. His friend asked us for a Book of Mormon to give to him, we then set up an appointment for that week. Turned out that Alejandro had been reading the Book of Mormon those few days before our lesson, and came ready with a testimony of it. He shared with us how he had never felt anything like he felt while reading it and attending church, and he knew these feeling were from God. We then invited him to pray to know that this is really the Church of Jesus Christ and that it was restored through Joseph Smith. He then sacred us a little bit as we asked him how it went in the next lesson. He asked us ‘’do you want the truth?’’. Haha he then sacred us more as he told us he had been looking for information about the church, while doing so he found an anti mormon page from an ex missionary. He began to read it, but the result was the exact opposite of what we thought. He told us that what he read didn´t match what he had seen and felt in and about the Church. And he then told us that while reading this he received his answer from his prayers, that this really is the Restored Gopsel of Jesus Christ. A quote by the Prophet Joseph Smith then popped into my mind, ‘’Persecution has not stopped the progress of truth, but has only added fuel to the flame.’’ Alejandro had found his answer, his flame, his evidence, in the persecution.
Joseph Smith continues by stating, ‘’…the Standard of Truth has been erected; no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear; till the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the Great Jehovah shall say the work is done.’’ To me, this was a little fulfillment of prophesy that I was able to witness this week.
He said that he didn´t let the things he didn´t know, govern or over ride the things that he DID know. How true and powerful is that! It is my prayer that we can be like Alejandro. That when ever we have a doubt, or a lack of wisdom, about the Gospel, we use what we do know, we hold on to that forever and whenever we have a question about the truth, we use the divine knowledge from the Holy Spirit to figure it out, and to turn that doubt into more truth.
And to add to that, we then invited him to prepare to be baptized the 16th of January, he quickly replied ‘yes, what do I need to DO to prepare?? THIS GUY IS PODER!
Thinks are going great here in Campiña. Were going to finish the last transfer of E. Fernandez mission with 6 baptisms. I´m learning so much from him.
I love you all soo much, you´re in my prayers,
E. Adams
So today we pretty much traveled all over Bogota getting papers ready for the marriage of a family were working with—familia Silva—basically the whole week has been about them.
We has a rocking lesson with them this Tuesday. We had made a stellar lesson plans for the doubt that Goviani (the husband) had. He told us the lesson before that he believed in Joseph Smith, the book of mormon, but just couldn´t believe that we have a living Prophet who guides us today. Anyways, the lesson went sweet, we set up everything we could for our commandment to follow and support the living prophets. They said yes, we then followed up with setting a date for their wedding and baptism. They accepted. We had thought there would be opposition than that. Our testimonies were defiantly strengthened concerning the power of lesson plans.
Hahaha, Govani then told us after the lesson ‘’ you know why I believe there is prophet today, because you Elder Adams were sooo annoyed when I told you the last lesson that I didn´t believe there was a prophet, you just went off talking about why we need a prophet and testifying that there is a prophet. I then began to think about how this 20 year old kid, who doesn´t know Spanish came all this way here to tell me that there is a prophet, then after listening today It just makes sense’’. I thought it was funny, and pretty sweet.
in the same lesson we had with Familia Silvia, I had during my personal study I had been looking for a scripture that I had read before to help Govani. But couldn´t find it. I finally found one that was similar, but ended my study feeling like I had it wasted it looking for a scripture I couldn´t find. But when we had read it, Liliana (the wife), said that it answered the question she had asked Govani earlier that day.
I learned more so that God leads and guides us even when we don’t feel it is so. I know that we can find assurance in the fact that the Spirit will guide us in all that we do as long as we follow in His way.
One other lesson: two weeks ago we were introduced two a friend of a member named Alejandro. His friend asked us for a Book of Mormon to give to him, we then set up an appointment for that week. Turned out that Alejandro had been reading the Book of Mormon those few days before our lesson, and came ready with a testimony of it. He shared with us how he had never felt anything like he felt while reading it and attending church, and he knew these feeling were from God. We then invited him to pray to know that this is really the Church of Jesus Christ and that it was restored through Joseph Smith. He then sacred us a little bit as we asked him how it went in the next lesson. He asked us ‘’do you want the truth?’’. Haha he then sacred us more as he told us he had been looking for information about the church, while doing so he found an anti mormon page from an ex missionary. He began to read it, but the result was the exact opposite of what we thought. He told us that what he read didn´t match what he had seen and felt in and about the Church. And he then told us that while reading this he received his answer from his prayers, that this really is the Restored Gopsel of Jesus Christ. A quote by the Prophet Joseph Smith then popped into my mind, ‘’Persecution has not stopped the progress of truth, but has only added fuel to the flame.’’ Alejandro had found his answer, his flame, his evidence, in the persecution.
Joseph Smith continues by stating, ‘’…the Standard of Truth has been erected; no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear; till the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the Great Jehovah shall say the work is done.’’ To me, this was a little fulfillment of prophesy that I was able to witness this week.
He said that he didn´t let the things he didn´t know, govern or over ride the things that he DID know. How true and powerful is that! It is my prayer that we can be like Alejandro. That when ever we have a doubt, or a lack of wisdom, about the Gospel, we use what we do know, we hold on to that forever and whenever we have a question about the truth, we use the divine knowledge from the Holy Spirit to figure it out, and to turn that doubt into more truth.
And to add to that, we then invited him to prepare to be baptized the 16th of January, he quickly replied ‘yes, what do I need to DO to prepare?? THIS GUY IS PODER!
Thinks are going great here in Campiña. Were going to finish the last transfer of E. Fernandez mission with 6 baptisms. I´m learning so much from him.
I love you all soo much, you´re in my prayers,
E. Adams
Friday, January 1, 2010
Christmas Call was Great!!!
Well the Christmas call was a hit! Props to the missionary who doesn´t miss home a little bit more after calling. Ha not me. Loved every minute of talking to you all and seeing your beautiful faces. Fun fact: I have the best family.
But i´m back in the groove..
we had a rockin bautism and marriage for the Family Beroy, I love love love the testimonies of new converts, fuerte fuerte. So fresh and so clean, clean. They have been investigating the church for about a year then they finally got married, and baptized, and they are now loving, and feeling the blessings. They have 4 super funny kids 12, 10, 6, 5, and one´s a baking for about 6 months. I`m pretty sure I have the best ward in the mission. The Relief Society, do to our request that this family doesn´t really have the means to pay for a little celebration after there wedding, paid with there own cash for a little meeting with flowers and a wedding cake. And today we dropped off a Christmas food package with one of the members to a family that was baptized two weeks ago. It’s a rockin.
So I talked a little bit about our little missionary Christmas get together that the mission put together. A Super P-day. It was a sweet. Played some football, ate, watched a movie! Yeah the emma smith movie. We keep it real here in bogota norte. I didn´t get to see the end of this action packed film, we had to go the wedding, but I guess I´ll just have to wait until after my mission to catch the end. Talk about suspense huh!
I don´t have much else. Really. I´ll make sure I take notes this week or something. Not much, due to the holiday happened. Visited some new converts. Some how this city just shut down after Christmas. Ha and I hear its worse for the new year. Welp i´ll work my best with what I got this week haha. A trunkie companion and a drunkin city.
Mom´s Q&A
We do do tracting, as in contacting, there aren’t very many houses here in campiña, mostly apartment complexes. We really just do contacts after our plans have fallen through. We work almost completely off references, its so much more effective for us and the potential converts. So anyone who is reading this, and you think one of your friends or neighbors are interested in the Gospel, or seem like they are in a point in there life were they are ready to except it. REFER THEM! I can promise nothing bad can come from being concerned about the salvation of someone you love.
Although I would love to back on a bike and pretend its my stolen Schwinn Varstiy 78`, its much safer walking here. There are only two areas that are more farmish that have them in the whole mission. So i´ll probably have to wait tell im back in Provo with my Rattle Snakes (my bike gang).
YEAH BOGOTA IS HUGE I HAVE NO IDEA REALLY WHERE I AM IN THE WHOLE SCEHEME OF BOGOTA, don´t know why I was writing in caps, whelp, yeah but im sure ill figure it out. I need a map.
It´s just me and my comp in the apartment.
Love you all, and miss you all dearly. But I know why i´m here. And I wouldn´t trade it for anything.
My address mama
Carrera 102B #148-31
Torre 7 Int 2 Apartmento 302
Bogota D.C.
Colombia
And if you could fit, It would be cool to have the ensign in English of the last general conference. I understand it in Spanish but there are just things lost in translation. For example. No laughs. Not once during conference. Cause the jokes don´t translate.
But i´m back in the groove..
we had a rockin bautism and marriage for the Family Beroy, I love love love the testimonies of new converts, fuerte fuerte. So fresh and so clean, clean. They have been investigating the church for about a year then they finally got married, and baptized, and they are now loving, and feeling the blessings. They have 4 super funny kids 12, 10, 6, 5, and one´s a baking for about 6 months. I`m pretty sure I have the best ward in the mission. The Relief Society, do to our request that this family doesn´t really have the means to pay for a little celebration after there wedding, paid with there own cash for a little meeting with flowers and a wedding cake. And today we dropped off a Christmas food package with one of the members to a family that was baptized two weeks ago. It’s a rockin.
So I talked a little bit about our little missionary Christmas get together that the mission put together. A Super P-day. It was a sweet. Played some football, ate, watched a movie! Yeah the emma smith movie. We keep it real here in bogota norte. I didn´t get to see the end of this action packed film, we had to go the wedding, but I guess I´ll just have to wait until after my mission to catch the end. Talk about suspense huh!
I don´t have much else. Really. I´ll make sure I take notes this week or something. Not much, due to the holiday happened. Visited some new converts. Some how this city just shut down after Christmas. Ha and I hear its worse for the new year. Welp i´ll work my best with what I got this week haha. A trunkie companion and a drunkin city.
Mom´s Q&A
We do do tracting, as in contacting, there aren’t very many houses here in campiña, mostly apartment complexes. We really just do contacts after our plans have fallen through. We work almost completely off references, its so much more effective for us and the potential converts. So anyone who is reading this, and you think one of your friends or neighbors are interested in the Gospel, or seem like they are in a point in there life were they are ready to except it. REFER THEM! I can promise nothing bad can come from being concerned about the salvation of someone you love.
Although I would love to back on a bike and pretend its my stolen Schwinn Varstiy 78`, its much safer walking here. There are only two areas that are more farmish that have them in the whole mission. So i´ll probably have to wait tell im back in Provo with my Rattle Snakes (my bike gang).
YEAH BOGOTA IS HUGE I HAVE NO IDEA REALLY WHERE I AM IN THE WHOLE SCEHEME OF BOGOTA, don´t know why I was writing in caps, whelp, yeah but im sure ill figure it out. I need a map.
It´s just me and my comp in the apartment.
Love you all, and miss you all dearly. But I know why i´m here. And I wouldn´t trade it for anything.
My address mama
Carrera 102B #148-31
Torre 7 Int 2 Apartmento 302
Bogota D.C.
Colombia
And if you could fit, It would be cool to have the ensign in English of the last general conference. I understand it in Spanish but there are just things lost in translation. For example. No laughs. Not once during conference. Cause the jokes don´t translate.
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