Trailblazing southern Peru and then the southeastern quarter of Bolivia wearing a blazer of sorts as a missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has its ups and downs, twists and turns. Follow me on this once in a life-time journey as I strive to spread the message of hope, truth, and peace in a land that I hope will become my second home.
Sunday, April 3, 2016
March 28th, 2016 - Classic Bolivia
The owner of our house is way rich from making ceiling plaques as they call them here. These big ol' ceiling tiles, figured my mom would love that being an interior designer and what not. :) Not much happened this week and the internet is really bad today so once again I can't write much and am going for pictures again but they take a long time to load.... oh well, I'll be better next week, promise. :) Um we don't have to pay rent, water, electricity or anything in our house because rich members own it, pretty sweet. Got pretty cold this week, like 50s haha, I had to pile on everything I had, but I'm adjusting slowly. Our ward kind of came together this week to donate blood and visit a 60 year old sister named Eulalia that is the mother in law of our ward mission leader that found out she has Leukemia (blood cancer). We went with the bishop and another member to talk to her husband that has been in bed from a recent surgery to put metal plates in his leg after a recent accident. I teared up which is a pretty rare thing for me to do talking in Spanish with all the chaos that so often takes away from the spirit in our lessons. I was testifying to him about how grateful I am for the trials and hard times in my life, because they make the good times so much better. Been thinking about praying for a mountain to climb because things have been too chill this past week. We found some old investigators that are literally the best I think I've had yet, named Dalcy and Edson. Couple, not married, Dalcy TOOK NOTES in our lesson and they both committed to get married and baptized on the 16th of April so we have high hopes for them. We were a little sad last night to find out that Edson may be going back to his 23 day away and a week at home job that made him become a "former investigator" so we'll see where that goes. My companion and I have gotten along a lot better this week and been laughing a lot.
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