Read Alma 26

Comp had his b day this week which was basically mine too cause we got free cake at a church activity and then later at a church activity

We never contact tourists cause they obviously dont live here but we contacted a french girl and almost everyone says yes if you ask them if they believe in God, theyll even get like offended a little like of course i believe in God, who doesnt? and so we asked her and shes like nope and we had no idea what to say lol that never happens, and we asked her what she was reading and it was some feminist book and i was like this is a whole different mission, im used to contacting different types of people

Alma 26, super good missionary chapter

Were working hard and are maybe going to have some baptisms but like right after leave cause im out of here in 2 weeks

Not too much from this week, lots of contacting, lots of teaching,

Gar

The Dog Whisperer

Just call me the Dog Whisperer...

Sucre -- the white city

Elder Stevens bigger than me for a sec

Walkin down the street the other day and these two random dudes stopped us and invited us in their house then whipped out these little guitars and started playing and singing for us, it was interesting, then they're like "ok your turn" no idea what to do, comp pulled out his hymnbook and we dueted like champs, took pics after

Went on splits with the zone leaders, they're cool, kinda trunky cause one goes home in 3 weeks

FHE with Elvis and Blanca, the coolest ppl ever, if I could bring 10 ppl home with me after my mish they would be 2

Accidentally totally hit on this girl our age trying to contact her the other day, we were talking and were like oh what was your name? and she's like Lydia, but my comp didn't hear her so he's like "what was that? ¿Linda?" (which in spanish means beautiful or pretty) and she laughed and he realized like right after what he said and after the contact we died laughing, had to have been there, i gave him crap like her mouth said lydia but her eyes said linda (or beautiful)

Good bye

Elder Swenson

Family Night Inspiration

Met the new mission president, President Montoya from Peru, suuuper awesome guy, he taught a lesson on super deep, profound doctrine which blew us all away

Also his conversion story is cool. He grew up Catholic but always had questions about God and the church, he went to a ton of other churches, adventists, Jehova's Witnesses, other Christian churches, etc. but found that they were all missing different things, and one day two sister missionaries contacted him by accident, looking for someone else, and as they were walking away, one turned around and was like "you wouldn't want to hear a message about Jesus Christ would you?" and he was like heck yeah, they came in and he said they taught like crap haha, they didnt ask any questions or anything they just taught the first lesson, he said after he still had a million questions but he was interested in seeing how the Mormons were, he kept meeting with them, read the BoM in 2 days then Doctrine and Covenants as well, just looking for answers, and after praying and thinking for about 2 months he got baptized, and now he's a mission president

We traveled to Sucre, the Capitol of Boliva, and in the city area its suuuuuuper nice i forgot i was in Bolivia, it was super beautiful and nice, unfortunately we didn't have much time for pics and sightseeing, ill send a few pics later

Since we had to travel with like 30 plus missionaries we just rented a bus for the 4 hour drive and it was super fun to just chill with every one

No baptism, all her fam was out of town for an emergency so it got postponed

After knocking doors for like 4 hrs one day me and my comp were desperate for ideas for finding new people to teach, and we came up with the idea to do family nights at members houses and they can bring friends or investigators, we just wanted more member help cause there was none, so we were gonna bring it up in branch council and before we even said anything branch pres turns to us and basically tells us the same idea, like him and the whole branch and us had the same idea at the same time, super cool so now we have all the members addresses and numbers and fam nights scheduled, idk why but there was like no member help before, now there is, Uyuni is finally an area :D

Hopefully not too boring of an email, ill send cool pics later hopefully!

Elder G

Yellow!

Asked a little kid if he knew any english words and he's like yeah, yellow, and we asked him what it meant and he's like yeah, hola

Things are going great with the new comp, were actually working and following rules and its great, already seeing the blessings

Saturday we had 9 appointments and 8 canceled :D so we tried to contact but these two idiot dogs that aparrently love us started following us around to all the doors, and so wed knock on a door (literally everyone here has like 3 dogs) and they're dogs would start barking and our pokemon pet dogs would bark at them and then the person would answer and they'd get in a fight like right in front of us, when were trying to talk to a stranger about the church, that happened a few times, nice and awkward, and we couldn't get the dogs to go away no matter what we did lol they even came to church with us yesterday

2 awesome lessons from this week:

We contacted this dude on the street and found out he actually lives right above us, he just moved in. We went yesterday for the first appointment and were talking for a bit and asking questions, and he came out to us and told us everything, he started crying he said he had just gotten back from the cemetery visiting his friends, and was like would you like to know where they are right now? and he said yes and we taught a very good lesson on the Plan of Salvation, whether he gets baptised or not, it was awesome to share that with him

Another lady, first lesson as well, probably one of my best lessons on the mish, she asked a ton of questions, and was very interested, after literally 2 hours, we had taught 3 lessons as well as a lesson about the book of mormon, then she bore her testimony to us, she is one that has always been interested in religion, and tried some churches but they always lacked in something, it went very well and we're inviting her to baptism tonight

Awesome week. I will meet the new Pres on Wednesday in Sucre, the white city!

Elder Swenson

Be of Good Cheer

Elder Stevens from Idaho! First American comp

So I got a new comp this week :D my other comp had some issues with his back and the cold so he complained to president and he took him out

New comp is Elder Stevens, my first white comp so we can speak english :D He's super awesome and not lazy, we workin hard

Also got a new mission president! President Montoya, haven't met him yet, ill kinda miss being able to speak english with the president

Moved houses which was extremely fun

knocked on a door and like 5 little kids came out and we asked for their parents and they said they weren't there, so we were like oh ok, were missionaries we talk about Jesus Christ, do you know who Jesus Christ is? and one of the little girls was like no, Jesus doesn't live here. lol dang it

Elder G

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. John 16:33