The topic basically explains this past week. Sorry I've barely written anything recently. The offices here in the mission can really take it out of you. I had my first and only energy drink of my whole mission. It's called black... only helped a few hours haha. As you can see the color of the drink worried me a little.
One of the few rainbows I've seen here in Bolivia. You would think I would see more with all the rain here but oh well.
I always like to experiment new haircuts here in the mish... my most recent one didn´t really turn out how I wanted it to....
This member family lives in our area and helps us out a ton with just about everything we need. We eat lunch with them on Saturdays and try a new place every week. Here we had what's called milanesa here. Pretty much just a breaded piece of meat. Pretty good. :)
My companion snagged a sweet shot of this butterfly this week. I haven't seen one like this before, but anything can happen on a hot day right outside the chapel building in Bolivia.
I realized that over time in my mission I may have accumulated a few too many blue markers, colored pencils, and pens haha.
Nothing like having to drive through the streets turned to rivers to get to the chapel where the worldwide broadcast for missionaries would be broadcasted this past week. Believe it or not, it got SUPER hot during this flash flood rainstorm. A car drove past us and I had my window down and just about soaked my suit coat. XD I love Bolivia.
These people help me out a lot here. Far left, my local BCD travel agent, Alejandra, who buys most of my flights based off the requests and info I send her, next is Norma Natividad, Alejandra's boss and a HUGE help for us and several other missions that flew here from La Paz to train us a little. Me. Next Elder Gabbitas, the secretary to the pres in the north mission.
New Missionary Schedules
I'll be finishing 19 months in a day or 2 actually haha so I'm just STARTING month 20... I don't actually enter the 20s yet you big trunkazo (bolivian slang mixed with english for someone that is really trunky). The transfers are actually just coming up next week since they're every 6 weeks ish, we have some months without transfers. But my 112 flights, 40 flota trips, 11 micro trips, and nearly 100 taxi rides went well actually, 0 problems. I shook Elder Cook's (of the Quorum of the 12) hand... wow... that's all I've got to say there. His eminence is even more impressive from just an arm's length away. Something that really struck me from what he said.... something like "I want to be more specific with you all. ... I know the voice of the Savior. I know the face of the Savior. I am a special witness of Him."........ O.O Well alrighty then. I was a lot calmer than usual actually because I planned to do EVERYTHING with plenty of time and everyone was chill the whole time, no probs, every early.... so early that we started the conference with Elder Cook 30 minutes early. :j
I want this to be apart.... everything was worth it when I sat next to my rescue (rescate) José María Achá and my son (Elder Flores) after shaking Elder Cook´s hand and with tears running down his face and onto the plaque we had specially made for him, he said "Gracias por traerme a esto." (Thank you for bringing me here). I teared up a lil and put my arm around him for a bit as I humbly listened to the musical number I got kicked out of that sounded just beautiful. I was glad I didn't help, there were some tough notes in there and I was nervous enough with everything going on and being one of the 6 Elders that had to stand with a microphone the whole time so everyone who wanted to ask questions could have easy an quick access to a mic. It went by all too fast.... just 2 hours. and Elder Cook talked for only about half... he had almost everyone else speak before him. Man, so humble. I was just fixed on him the whole time. Elder Godoy from the first quorum of the seventy and our area president as well as Elder Alarcón from the first quorum of the seventy (recently assigned to be a mission president in Guayaquil, Ecuador) were present with their wives as well. A translator had to translate each sentence and question and answer for Elder Cook, way cool.
We also had a transmisión mundial, a worldwide broadcast I hope you guys can see yourselves to explain better I'll try to put a link here: https://www.lds.org/broadcasts/archive/worldwide-missionary-broadcast/2017/01?lang=eng (Not sure if this is allowed but the username: missionary password: Missionary2017) it's downloadable so I think anyone can see it, but idk. There's a new missionary schedule! It's more open!
That's all good.... let's hope the area here isn't having any prophecies, but we're focusing A LOT on emergency plans, backpacks, and preparations. I'm in charge of making an emergency plan for the mission.
I didn't teach much this past week. :/ My area is getting to be pretty tiring and difficult. There's almost no dogs in my area now, always inside the houses because the pound kicks them out of the center of the city. Taxis are always crazy haha but no crashes or anything so that's good. I've been a lot calmer and smoother recently. My to do list is shrinking. Getting better at my secretary assignment. Just learning to go with the flow as much as I can. :)
Love you too!
Elder Van Horne
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