I'm honestly kind of running out of activity ideas.... I've kinda done everything we can do... if you guys could look into cool stuff to do in Santa Cruz Bolivia that'd be sweet. No, we can only play sports on pday and I'm usually busy with other stuff like updating my journal, cleaning, etc. but we've played a lil, almost never against lil kids though... even though I should probably only be playing against them being the only ones with the same soccer skill level as me down here in south america. Everyone else kinda just schools me. I'm hoping I can even find a cool new place, there's really not much that's for rent out here since the people are all kinda poor and buy their own lot and build their house from the ground up.... the richies don't go out to 10th, 11th, and 12th, ring to rent their houses haha. I got packed in just 2 hours this past time. I go back to the offices every tuesday and wednesday morning from 10:30am to 12:30pm just about to teach the new secretary, Elder Jones, who's one of the missionaries I received I believe in the airport like back in September, or maybe it was before me, not too sure, he's pretty new, but I worked really hard and smart there in the offices so he didn't get so much piled on him when he started and could read some things I left to teach himself.
I believe I can express my feelings a lot better, now I just immediately act upon thoughts and feelings I have a lot more and often cool things happen because of that. We're finding lots of new people to teach, nothing hugely spiritual though recently... idk I think there are a lot of distractions that can really takes away from the spirit here... but what the Bolivians lack in the part they make up for with their humility.
My new pensionista is strictly following the food suggestions for the mission which I really like. She's columbian and gives us some different foods. She actually cooks very well and very healthily, I eat a salad every day and I feel like it's actually helping me to have more energy so that's good. Her husband is a return missionary from Columbia /:j soooo if you do some math there you might notice somethings a lil off. Supposedly he passed the reference of his own future wife to other missionaries and his last area in his mission just so happened to be where she was at. She later got baptized and later on moved to Bolivia and they got married..... that's messed up.... haha. Columbians are known for having VERY strong personalities... what they say goes... so you can imagine how lunch can be at times. She's really nice though and treats us like her sons, constantly worrying about us and even calling us during the day at times to check on us. She's pretty smart too, good lady. We've had a lot of fried banana, there's a special one for that here and in columbia where they eat it a lot. We have all sorts of stuff though, stuff sandwhiches, spaghetti, chicken, meat, rice, veggies, always a soup first, I guess I should take some pics of some of the food so you can see. I think I got all your questions answered there. :) Love ya) :)
I believe I can express my feelings a lot better, now I just immediately act upon thoughts and feelings I have a lot more and often cool things happen because of that. We're finding lots of new people to teach, nothing hugely spiritual though recently... idk I think there are a lot of distractions that can really takes away from the spirit here... but what the Bolivians lack in the part they make up for with their humility.
My new pensionista is strictly following the food suggestions for the mission which I really like. She's columbian and gives us some different foods. She actually cooks very well and very healthily, I eat a salad every day and I feel like it's actually helping me to have more energy so that's good. Her husband is a return missionary from Columbia /:j soooo if you do some math there you might notice somethings a lil off. Supposedly he passed the reference of his own future wife to other missionaries and his last area in his mission just so happened to be where she was at. She later got baptized and later on moved to Bolivia and they got married..... that's messed up.... haha. Columbians are known for having VERY strong personalities... what they say goes... so you can imagine how lunch can be at times. She's really nice though and treats us like her sons, constantly worrying about us and even calling us during the day at times to check on us. She's pretty smart too, good lady. We've had a lot of fried banana, there's a special one for that here and in columbia where they eat it a lot. We have all sorts of stuff though, stuff sandwhiches, spaghetti, chicken, meat, rice, veggies, always a soup first, I guess I should take some pics of some of the food so you can see. I think I got all your questions answered there. :) Love ya) :)
Love,
Elder Van Horne
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