Besitos and the Spirit

The zone

authentic bolivian tire sandals, got em custom made, and they're still a little too small

Here's last week:

Elder Bednar´s son served in this mission, and in this area that i am in now, we met the old pensionista and apparently he came to visit or pick up his son, but he came and ate at her house

Member made tacos for my comps b day, plus our pensionista bought us both cakes for a double celebration for my b day like a month earlier

Officially finished a year in the mish :D 

Aight here's this week:

I love members, we actually had some investigators in church yesterday and all the members came up and were just instant friends, hugging them and giving besitos and introducing themselves and making them feel comfortable

Read a cool talk this week, talking about d and c 50:22 and how when we're teaching the gospel and we feel the Spirit, then the other person feels it too, whether they recognize it or not, cause the influence of the Spirit is there

Also super good talk about happiness by Jeffrey R Holland in this month's Liahona, go read it

Pancakes, Pastors and Mt. Tunari

This was super beautiful, pics don't do justice

One of our investigators right now is a pastor lol he probably wont progress but its interesting to talk to him and bible bash a little, it just makes me realize how blessed we are to have the fullness of the gospel, the guidance that the book of mormon gives us, as well as other modern revelations is truly amazing. I am a 19 year old kid and thanks to the help of the restored gospel i have a more clear picture of the will of God and his plan for everyone, than a pastor who owns his own church and studies the bible every day, the book of mormon is a huuuge missing chunk and that's why we share with everyone

Other than that we still contact a ton, were going to be working more with members this week

Some random guy just started coming to church, he has come 2 times and we're visiting him this week, he doesn't speak much spanish so i'm preparing a very basic quechua lesson for him

Another awesome member always makes us pancakes, like a ton, this week she's making us tacos, her name is Ana, she is going to the Celestial Kingdom

Personal study is my fave time of the day (cause we contact in the sun all day) but the scriptures are awesome, theres also a ton of amazing books by LDS authors, so much to read and learn

Elder G

Eating Adventures and More Birthday Celebration

Second birthday - I'm people's height when sitting

  

A weird llamma store

Day of the pedestrian, no cars on the road this is a super busy street usually, its a cool holiday everyones just outside hangin out

With Elder Clark

Ate a goat brain this week

Since we have to contact a ton we have this game where i'll tell my comp a word and he has to somehow incorporate it into the contact, and then he'll do the same for me its actually pretty fun, a way to make contacting all day a little better

Were finding good people tho! found a good fam, the mom is interested, the dad is atheist lol we start the lesson and he's just like this happy old man who always looks like he's kinda smiling and he raises his hand is just like, "Why don't we talk about something else? :)" and then just smiles at me haha, (we had just gotten talking about like their whole fam and a bunch of other stuff for like 40 min so i was like ok were gonna talk about this for just a second) i think he liked the lesson tho, 

I love church on the mission, i also love members they're the freakin best

The pensionista's niece was born and they asked us to write down a bunch of American names so I just wrote like my family and a bunch of people i knew, they ended up picking Baylee, my comps girlfriend´s name

Also I love training, my comp is great and wants to work hard. I also love listening to his spanish hahaha, if you mess up a little on the conjugation it has a different meaning, like he just walks up to this dude chillin in the plaza, looks him dead in the eye and is like " ¿Creo en Dios? Do I believe in God?¨ and then the other day he was asking a kid if he had friends that were members of the church and before he said the last part the little kid just answers like uhh, yes? Do you have friends? Yes. It was great haha 

Love my comp, and the mish, and all of you

Elder Swenson