Sunday, December 3, 2017

Another Fast Week and teaching Lots of Bolivians

This week went by so fast! I swear i was writing you guys like yesterday, ha-ha but I mean how can it not when you teach like 4 or 5 lessons a day, something that is really hard down here is time, nothing is on time! We show up to lessons 30 minutes early or 30 minutes late and no one cares, it’s totally normal, like even church starts 15 minutes late ha-ha, In all the houses I have been in I have seen only two clocks and BOTH did not work ha-ha!

Lunes- visited the cancha again, that was really sweet, and after which we had a lesson with a dude named Alex he has been an investigator with a date for baptism for almost 4 months now, and now he is finally interested in baptism he has come to church for 3 weeks in a row and you can really tell the difference when he was just listening to us with now action but now he really wants to be baptized, when you can see the spirit in people’s eyes its so awesome!

Martes- remember Jonathan the kid that likes basketball? I think I told you last week but like his sister is really anit Mormon and we had a lesson today with him and he had this paper with all these questions and scriptures about how the Book of Mormon is fake, as I started to read the paper I got really nervous but then we were like why not look at these scriptures, so we did and every scripture he had said something different! He was so shocked, and he felt so bad, it was super awesome ha-ha,, but no we told him we love him and that these questions and doubt are normal but you need to ask God, not  Facebook!

Miércoles- In the morning we had to go to this place and fill out more paper work for my Boliva I.D and when we were there I got to see E.Dalton, E.Davies, E.Fisher and all my buds from the MTC, it’s so awesome how we only know each other for like one month but we talk like we are best friends and have known each other forever!

Jueves- Most of the time if we have a lesson fall through we will just go and visit little stands that sell like candy and Coke and we just try and have a lesson with them, but this time we were teaching this one girl and the lesson started out kinda normal, how to begin teaching but then like she just like told her whole life story to us and how she has all these questions about God, and she knows we are missionaries and she has wanted to talk to us for the longest time! It was so amazing and the Spirit was nuts!

Viernes- Usually our days we have 4 to 6 lessons plans but usually we will teach like 4 or less but this day I don’t know what was happening! Cause we taught all 6, it was really wild cause we had to take lots of trufies and it was really difficult to get to everyone’s house, but we did all six, and after which I slept like a rock!

Sábado- We had this lesson with this one girl like 18 years old in this park and when we went to see her She started talking and asked if we could  share a message, she said yes and invited her 5 other friends over ha-ha! it was super weird teaching a lesson to five teenagers, but we got other visits for all of the and we made our goal in one day!

Domingo- yesterday was really rad, we have 7 people with baptism dates and 4 of them were at church! It´s so awesome to walk into church and just see all your investigators its like a party in the Lord’s house! Also something not so rad, this week Saturday and Sunday Bolivia police are going to be walking the streets looking for illegal’s and stuff so our Mission President told us that we can´t go outside to proselyte! ha-ha for two days! he said stay in and clean your houses.. SO it’s gonna be a long couple of days..

Days are long and
the weeks are short but
All is well down here!

--
- Elder Clayton
Bolivia Cochabamba




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