Alright I don't really remember what I said about my daily schedule from last week but we are working non-stop out here and it's WAY different from the states. I'm having a lot of firsts out here like shining shoes for the first time, cooking eggs for my comp, drinking soda from a bag, eating a little cooked cow utter.... it's really exciting.... I'm LOVING trying all these new things. Our house is right next to the SUPER rich, probably millionaire Choquevillca family whose son Mauro just left on his mission a few weeks back to Trujillo, Peru. We have about 4 or more elders out of our ward alone here which is WAY cool and 2 more putting in their papers right now and about 5 more preparing and coming to teach with us a TON. WAY cool! I've been giving away tie bars, a few gnarled up ties, vials, and watches like crazy because there hasn't been a single report of things getting stolen from missionaries out here for a really long time and that's half the reason I had all that stuff... Anytime I give anything away though... it's rarely even that expensive and definitely not something I need, but it's to people that REALLY make a difference for us.... by coming to teach with us almost EVERY day of the week, giving us rides to tons of places instead of us having to walk and they treat it like GOLD wearing their watch, tie, or tie bar EVERY day they get the chance and thanking me for it because it's usually the ONLY one they have.... way humbling and cool. No worries mom or dad, I'm not giving away ALL my stuff and you know how much I love my ties, tie bars, watches, etc. Our house is right next to the Choquevillca's massive plaza I should say where they have their massive banana shipping semis pulling in and out to get fixed up and loaded with bananas on the daily.... it's not even fair how rich they are and how awesome the guys are that work on their trucks. They love to BLARE music which makes it a little difficult to study in the morning especially since basically no one down here understands the strictness and importance of the missionary rules down here. Kind of a tender mercy though because they play some pretty sick music and half of it is the American good electronic pop in English from back home.... which all of which i'm not supposed to be listening to or focusing on. Just a tender mercy and a curse at the same time. The people here struggle quite a bit with fulfilling their callings and our investigators REALLY struggle with keeping ANY commitments. Half our appointments fall through every day. We rarely get help with missionary work except from the teens getting prepped to go on missions and a few other golden members that help us. EVERYONE listens to our message.... and then wastes our time by not keeping commitments and displaying after several appointments that they're really not interested or willing to change.... more next week. Gotta get some pics in :/
Elder Van Horne
We had a multi-zone conference with Elder Uceda from the 1st quorum of the 70 this past Wednesday. This is me and my district with him and mission pres. and wife. WAY COOL guy.... VERY spirited. Understood the WHOLE conference..... which was completely in Spanish. :j I guess Bolivians have some of the worst Spanish so practicing understanding them all the time made it WAY easy to understand someone with really good Spanish.
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