10/25/15

Alright shout out to two girls who i know will be wait for me and won`t send me a dear john... My sisters. hahaha! anyways Chelsea and Emily are two locas that i love with all my heart. I am incredibly grateful for both of them. I always secretly wished that you were boys but you guys are ok too haha. These two gals have always helped me in everything. be it homework, hanging out, or whatever. Thanks for being awesome examples to me!

How has another week gone! weird. anyways. it`s been a great week. Transfers were this week which i never like cause i have to say buy to friends and it interrupts the works and stuff but whatevs. I`m still still in warnes and it`s still awesome!

Something amazing happened in santa cruz last week... PAPA JOHNS OPENED UP! Oh baby I was so happy! So last monday me and elder ryan, elder francis, and elder rivas went... I never knew a single food could make one so happy. I think only one food could make one happier. The fruit of the tree from lehi`s dream. But papa johns pizza takes a close second haha.

So for transfers we had to go pick up an elder from the airport cause he was coming to warnes which was fun. I got to eat crepes in the airport which just about made me cry i was so happy. Anyways, the problem was that his flight got delayed and we had to get back to warnes to do an activity in the chapel. So Elder Santos got to the airport and we FLEW in a taxi back to warnes and everyone was already there just standing around so we stated setting everything up like mad men.

The activity was towel balloon volleyball. They`d never heard about it and i always liked it, and it`s funny to watch people get nailed with water balloons. so it was a win win. We didn`t get to play cause a missionary in a wet shirt is not a good idea haha but i was sweating so much getting everything ready that i pretty much looked like i had gotten nailed with five water balloons haha.

this week we had a regional stake conference with peru and bolivia. It was the first one I had ever participated in. In the morning on sunday i was a little upset that none of our investigators came to church but that went away when we had technical issues in the church for a while and it ended up starting at 11 30 instead of nine. so the members sat there for a good two and a half hours waiting, and then another hour and a half listening to the talks. They were awesome talks and elder anderson even gave his in spanish (not the best spanish in the world but it is his fourth language so i`ll give him a break haha). so after those difficulties i wasn`t too upset that we didn`t have too many investigators come.

The Lord loves all of us and he`s sure blessing the people here in Bolivia. We`re working hard and now it`s time to go play soccer hard with the zone!

Anyways, as always never any time. I love you all! talk to you next week!

Elder Buma

10/18/15

Yet another week has gone by... AH! Super crazy fast.

So this week I lost my dignity on Tuesday... We went to do a service in the morning cutting grass and weeds with shovels which is always super fun. I got shown up by a fifty year old lady with diabetes... oh well haha. Anyways I really lost my dignity when we got home. When we got home we found out that there was no water to shower or anything. I was also having a bit of the runs so... I had to use a shovel and make my own toilet... then i had to shower on a chair in our lot with a bowl of our drinking water, soap, and a sponge... HAHAHHAHA! I felt like i was camping haha!

Anyways about two weeks ago I got pepper spray in a package for the dogs. Thank you momma. But... I think I`ve sprayed myself more than I`ve sprayed the dogs... hahah! A dog will just come up to us barking and stuff,--I`ll whip my spray out like batman does from his belt, spray... and nothing happens to the dog...then the wind blows it into my eye... HAHAHA! I would be the worst mall security. I can`t even spray a dog with pepper spray hahah!

So every week to get to know the members we get assigned to a member`s house to eat dinner. Well this week it was super weird. We got assigned to go to Mayerline`s house. This is a 16 year old girl who I baptized like three months ago and it was suuuuuuuper weird. We get to the house and there`s a table set only for four: me, my companion, mayerline, and her dad. Her mom and her sisters ate in the other room. The entire time I felt like her dad was trying to set us up or something. It was terrible! I just kept thinking back to my first date in high school. I thought that dinner was awkward, but this one takes the cake, haha. I think we need to talk with the Relief Society and tell them not to assign us to houses with young women haha.

In general this week was awesome like all the others. Noche de hermanamiento on Thursdays is going super well and more and more people are coming! It`s all about having awesome games so if anyone has games in mind I`d love the ideas.

We also had an activity onSsaturday where the organizations all danced and sang and stuff. It was awesome! We also made a rule that to come you had to bring unperishable food. We got a bunch…mostly sugar, but we still got a bunch!

Next to where we collected the food we had a whiteboard that said la caridad nunca deja de ser. I think it`s charity never faileth in English. So I was thinking a lot about charity and lo and behold the next morning on Sunday they asked me to give a talk. I didn`t have anything prepared so I just decided to talk about charity and being nice to everyone. It ended up pretty good. I kind of like talking in public now and I don`t get as nervous so slang doesn`t slip out anymore haha.

Anyways, great week.Transfers are this week so we`ll see what happens. Love you all! Be charitable! Read Moroni 7 45-48

Elder Buma