4/18/16

Alright, well my time is gone so here`s what I’ll let you people know.

We had stake conference this week which was awesome! Elder Moscoso from the area seventy came and his talks were awesome! Afterwards we visited a recent convert family that absolutely loooved the conference. Haha. it was so funny on Saturday night for the adult session the family thought that it was only priesthood holders and when the brother saw that there were sisters there as well he was a little confused but we explained. What was so funny was the next day he told his wife, ¨wow de verdad que perdiste algo increible!¨ wow you really missed out! Hahaha! And the way he said it made me laugh so hard. Anyways it`s always awesome to see people come to really know the gospel. It motivates me!

This week’s been really good! Working hard and meeting more people. The Murillo family is progressing well but they still have to get married....Ever is also progressing well and really interested in the plan of salvation. He also needs to get married, but they`re really liking it!

Whoops sorry! Out of time! Hope you all have a great week! Love you!

Elder Buma

4/11/16

Alright so there`s not much time left so I basically decided in between sending pics and writing... sending pics is easier so I chose pics hahahaha!

Really quick this week started out amazing--Ever accepted a baptisimal date for the 30^th. Murillo Alvarez had a family home evening with us in the house of the Maldonados and we ate pizza (Murillo Alvarez left before we took pics haha oh well).

There were a couple disappointing things too. Julio Cespedez, a convert who had fallen back into drinking, was progressing so well! When I met him he was super drunk but since that first visit he hadn`t had even a sip of alcohol... until yesterday... when he was getting ready for church his friends invited him to drink... and he drank...NOOOOO! It`s ok though. He`s still awesome and progressing. He`ll beat it!

Alright I love you all super much and stuff. Don`t want to sound girly or anything but it`s true!

Working super hard. Putting faith in the Lord.

Elder Buma

4/4/16

SHOOOOUUUUTT OOUUTT! On April third some very significant things happened in the church. My father Robert Buma was also born on that date. Both incredible events for my life and i´m sure grateful that i only have to remember one date haha!. I am so grateful for my poppy and for everything that he´s done for me. I love you pop with all my heart. I hope your day was amazing! and what better way to spend your birthday watching conference! haha.

That actually brings me into my next point. CONFERENCE WAS THIS WEEKEND and what a blessing it was! As always it was awesome and I can´t believe how fast it went! haha when i was little i thought it was an eternity! hahahha! I particularly loved the talk by bonnie oscarson. ¨we know the gospel, but do we believe it¨ I loooooved that. The church is MORE than just a nice little cristian club! that was great! everything was great, but i really liked her talk.

on saturday and sunday we went around inviting people to conference in ninety something degree weather in our suits and no one accompanied us conference, so we got to the chapel after a 50 minute micro ride super sweaty and alone...but others came! hha that always happens to me in the mission. the people we go personally to invite can´t come but others do!

one family that came is the murillo family. they´re a contact that my companion made before i came here. they lost contact with them a while ago but we went back last week and we clapped but no one came out so we turned to go but right when we were leaving they got to their house from work! right on time! the brother actually used to be a journalist and he´s just loving everything that we´re teaching so he actually did like an ïnterview¨ with us to do a little article in a small paper. we´ll see what happens. 

(internet just went out forever, this email´s gonna be a whole lot shorter now!)

another guy that came is ever loaiza that elder solano and i contacted a week ago on an exchange

During transfers elder Aguilar from el salvador was with my comp and i for two days and we contacted a house right? they let us come into their yard and we were talking and the lesson was going great but at the end elder agular asked them if he could take a picture of their plant. do you want to know why he wanted to take a picture of their plant? because it was a marijuana plant! they obviously told him no and were much less nice after that... man! i know it´s wrong to have a marijuana plant but you don´t need to take pictures of them. I´m pretty sure they think we´re from the FBI now... oh darn.

I love you all somuch and i hope you have a great week!

Elder Buma