Awesome Week!

Awesome week, we were busy with non missionary stuff so it was sort've like a half week

Went to the temple and i absolutely love the temple, it put me in a good mood for like 3 days, i hadn't had the opportunity to go since i was in my first area

I love my mission president he was talking to us and he's like, if theres a girl in the mission that you have feelings for, good, it means you're human and Gods plan is working, but just don't act on any of the feelings during the mission, then after the mission get her email and write all the novels and love letters

We have a super good investigator that wants to turn his life around, he said he wanted to repent of things, and also that he is struggling and doesn't really have a social life, after the first lesson with him he came to church this week, and between the 3 hour block at church, of all the lessons and talks, the only 2 topics were fellowshipping among the members, and the sweetness of repentance, so that was awesome

We got to watch the face to face with Elder Oaks and Elder Ballard it was suuuuper good

So 2 stories for the week...

We went to a members house for a family night, and here they always sing before they start but i've noticed that Bolivian mormons can not sing, and neither can I, also it was after a long day and we were very tired with not a lot of will power, so were singing this hymn and its just so off key and everyone just sucks at singing and while listening to it i could not help but just burst out laughing, my comp also did the same, even tho we cant sing were better than most so we kind of lead the singing so when we stopped the room was a lot quieter and we were just laughing and couldn't stop, and it was 23450923184 times funnier cause it was a time we shouldn't have been laughing, so yeah it was interesting, thankfully it was a member and hes super cool and didn't care

The second one was a little more spiritual, I don't want to sound cheesy when i write this but i learned more about what the gift of tongues really is, and how it is one of the gifts of the spirit. We had an appointment last Monday night and i noticed a difference, the gift of tongues isn't just for learning a new language, when someone has the gift of tongues they speak with the spirit, they know exactly what to say and what will help the person and what the person needs to hear, and the words are powerful, which is something that everyone has heard before and probably already knows but it was just cool to experience it first hand, and i know it has happened at other times in the mission but i just didn't really realize i guess, i was speaking very good Spanish and saying things i hadn't really ever said before, and was excited to answer the questions it was great

Twas a good week

Miracles Happen

The area is great, we get lots of lessons in, and the members are great with referrals. There's this one who every time we go to his house we whips out his lap top and pulls up 2 tabs, one of google earth to show us exactly where they live (cause streets don't have names) and the other tab is facebook to show us the name, face, and personal information of the person. I feel like a CIA agent, and they're good references too, he gives a ton of info and he's like yeah go say this, tell em jared sent ya, and they'll listen, so references are great!

Other than that our ward split in half, we had over 100 members that came regularly, now its only like 60 or 70 but that still makes it my biggest ward, the members are awesome i love being at church, on friendly territory, everyone loves the missionaries

So the little miracle of the week, today we went back to the ruins of sipe sipe which are on top of the mountain and its a pretty good hike, we went as a zone and almost killed half of them off, someone after like 1/5 of the hike was dizzy and nauseated and i was praying that this person would be ok, not even that they would make it to the top, after the first little part they got used to it and made it all the way to the top, everyone survived and had a good attitude about it, the hike kicked all our butts though.

That's all
Elder Swenson

Loving Colcapirhua

The new area is awesome

Everyone in my old area is mad cause i couldn't say good bye but i had no time cause i didn't know i was leaving, but i get to go back on splits cause i'm super close by 

The pensionista and her family in my new area are hilarious haha they're just super funny and goofy, and all have contagious laughs. Someone will say something that may not even be that funny but everyone just bursts out laughing like its the funniest thing they've heard, such a cool family

My first area Sipe Sipe was a branch and now its a ward! :D

There were huge changes in Cochabamba yesterday, there was a huuuge multistake conference, and Elder Falabella from the Seventy came, they rearranged the stake and ward boundaries, and added 2 more stakes in Cochabamba so now there are 7

Elder Falabella is awesome he talked about how we don't nourish ourselves intellectually as well as spiritually. He asked if we knew what the last book we had read was, and if we knew what book we were going to read next. He also said that out of the 1440 minutes we have in a day, we should be able to read the book of mormon for at least 5 of them, we cant feed ourselves spiritually all in one day, just like we cant do with our bodies, we have to feed ourselves every day, its just the spirit isn't quite as loud and demanding as the body for when its hungry, also for praying

1. Before you pray think about what you want to tell your Heavenly Father

2. Say it

3. Listen to what He says

That was from his son

The new area is good, ill send pics next week, im with my third white comp in a row, thankfully my spanish isn't suffering 

Thats all

Gar

Buzzer Beater Baptisms!

Nariet C. was baptized!

Nestor was baptized by my comp.

Nestor and Nariet — wedding day

Surprise transfers, I'm going to Colcapirhua, i'm packing up allll my crap to go 5 km to the next, bordering area, same district

Sipe Sipe is 18 km west of Cocha, Quilla collo is 13 km west, and Colcapirhua is 8 km west, so i've been in like the same general area my whole mish almost, none of you know where that is and no one really reads these anyways, but basically i've been in the same place my whole mish

My comp just finished his training and is going to finish training someone else, so i have a grandson

The kid my comp is training was with the same elder as my comp, so they're brothers

My comp is training his brother

Its like president just walks into his offices for transfers and is like how can i shock the heck out of the whole mission with these transfers

Nestor and Nariet Calle are awesome, and the newest members of the church in Quillacollo, they got married friday, baptized saturday, and confirmed Sunday

Other than that nothing happenned this week