Joseph Smith was a prophet!

Laying on some random half built house in the middle of nowhere it looked like minecraft

Sorry i tell yall the same things every week haha, we contacted a ton, taught some first lessons, not a whole lot really came of it. Its getting sort've rough to just contact all day, teach a lesson or two to a "new" investigator, but were not getting any new legitimate investigators

We still hustlin tho

We get a new mission president this week on Friday!

President Hansen has been awesome, super great guy, and inspiring, i'm glad he was able to get me started on the mish

Took another lovely trip to Tupiza, none of you know where that is, and neither do I really, but its a 7 hour bus ride from here one way, more than half is off road, and its at night when its super cold so its like a bumpy fridge that makes you super nauseated

Also love when people do the teaching for us lol, another story this week, we were teaching Mayra the girl thats gonna get baptized, we were teaching about tithing and her mom kept interrupting about random crap, not being rude but totally interrupting and asking a bunch of unrelated questions about Joseph Smith and the BoM, and finally her daughter just turns to her and is like but mom, you have to realize Joseph Smith was a prophet! Me and my comp looked at each other and were just like ye

Pics this week: llamma, and me taking a break from our minecraft house construction

Peace

The Lord Needs to be a Priority in Your Life

The house we painted (inside)

This guy could show Utahns how to food storage

A bucket of cement I pulled up on a pulley -- 

they had to load a bunch of buckets on top of the roof

yeah we found this cool guy who told us he was looking for a church to join, he's one of the few ppl here that has actually read the bible lol he knows it very well, and he actually read the pamphlet we left with him 😀

 his only problem is it says in a ton of places in the NT that there will be false prophets in our day, so he said he was skeptical about joseph smith but super nice about it, which i can see how he could see that as a false prophet, it was the first time in his life he had heard of him, anyways i was just like heres a book of mormon, keep studying the bible, be wed like you to atl east try this too and see what it says, and he said he'd read it, and i trust him cause he's read the bible multiple times and actually read our pamphlet lot

Contacted a ton more people, door to door to door to door, met some cool people

Moved a GIANT pile of dirt from the side of the pension's house to the back yard

Was a bolivian construction worker for a day -- did some construction work with one of the members

Ive been on a mission for over 9 months!!! 

After a lesson with a new investigator we made an appointment with her dad who was also there, he lives somewhere else so we got an appointment at his house and then we asked the lady what other day shed like us to come back and shes like i dont have time, and her dad turns to her and just goes off, like you need to make time for these hermanos, the Lord needs to be a priority in your life, etc. 

Galatians 6:9

Teaching English... I'm Amazing!

"You are amazing Swenson!" –Blanca

Set a baptismal date with someone :D July 17th her birthday

Also met another dude and I asked him if he had any questions and he's like yeah, how does someone become a member of your church?

2 baptisms in Uyuni would be legendary

BoM is a great book, very inspiring and motivational

That same guy that roasted a Jehovas Witness also roasted everyone else at church, he gets up to the microphone and is like yeah today id like to talk about in punctuality, and he proceeded to destroy everyone, like if you're not on time it means you don't have control of your life, and it shows lack of respect, and I'm not exaggerating, more than 10 ppl walked in late during this talk which lasted like 15 min lol it was great.

Painted 2 houses this week

Gar

Blessings Come to Those Who Wait

Serving a dinner for Mother's Day

 Rock on the island in the middle of the salt flats

Pics from Tupiza

Not a ton from this week, just did a lot more contacting 

Had our last interviews with the mish pres before he leaves, hell be missed he is awesome, hell be at my homecoming tho cause he's gonna live in Utah :D also in the final prayer blessed that my future wife will be attractive :D

To get to Tupiza its a 7 hr bus ride, but theres no road so its super comfortable haha and it gets so cold inside you can see your breath

One day we actually had some appointments and people to visit and they all canceled on us, I guess we should've called before haha but we went to all their houses and they weren't home or couldn't talk at the time, and so 2 hours later we had done nothing, 2 hours of walking basically and all we learned was the nobody was home, buuut i saw we had an appointment with someone that we made the week before, and i was like yeah she wont be home but lets go anyways we have nothing else to do, well long story short she was actually home and we taught a great lesson and got a new investigator, prob doesn't sound that cool or interesting but that day it seriously was a blessing!

Taught another dude but he thought we had our own special bible so were like aight bring yours and he whips out a bible from the jehovas witnesses which is pretty different so we were nervous but the scriptures we shared were pretty much the same.

I'll do cooler stuff this week lol so i have something to write

Bye