5/11/15

Hey everyone!

Well yesterday was a great Mother´s day! Just super!

Anyways so this last week was transfers and pretty much no one changed in our zone. My comp was a little sad that he didn´t get a transfer because that basically means he´s for sure going to the la paz mission. The only change was that Hna. tijerino finished her mission and her comp went to montero so we got two new elders in my district: elder folland from bountiful and elder castro from columbia. Elder Castro is suuuuuper funny. He was actually going to be a catholic preacher before his mom introduced him to the missionaries. He always tells me that his conversion was completely the spirit and not just because the missionaries were smart or cool because every time they would have a lesson he would just destroy the missionaries bible bashing and eventually he just felt like what they were saying was true. Really cool story actually. And when he converted his dad quit supporting him in school cause he´s a preacher but elder castro says it was worth it to come to the true church of christ. He also always makes jokes about columbia because drug trafficking is so big there and it´s pretty dangerous apparently. Really like that elder. elder Folland´s cool too but he´s just another gringo from bountiful who played football hahaha.

Service is seriously the best way to contact. There was this lady trying to get her scooter to start right. Anyways, we offered our help and ended up pushing her scooter around for like thirty minutes literally sprinting trying to get it to ignite. Finally it turned on after 30 minutes and we were just sweating bolts and breathing super hard, shirts unbuttoned, ties loosened, shirtes untucked, looking super profesh ya know. And then we just started like a regular contact ¨hey thanks for letting us help you with your scooter and did you know that we´re missionaries? ya we´d like to teach you the gospel of jesus christ.* haha she was a little surprised but she was super willing to listen after what we did for her. She also tried to pay us 20 bolivianos but we just said no and set up an appt. she lives in the area of the other elders but it was awesome!

Mother´s day was awesome. still helping out secia and denis make it to their baptism, still district leader, still sweating, still loving cobija! love you all! talk to you later!

Elder Buma