Elder Jayson Bingham : Elder Steve Erwin

So you guys remember the crocodile hunter Steve Erwin? Of course you do. shame on you if you don't. But I decided Elder Quintana is the reincarnated form of the crocodile hunter. Except not with crocodiles. So far he's kind of obsessed with ducks and ants. Yes, you heard that right. I'll explain a little more with the photos I send.

But as far as everything else goes, this week has been kind of awesome but also really frustrating. Awesome because it was "cold" here in Riberalta. Rainy season has started, and I'm loving it. there's been a couple storms recently and I haven't felt nearly as hot or sweaty. Last night I broke new ground and slept with a blanket. And I didn't even use the fan. But I did have the window open blowing nice cold air in. We're still enjoying the nice weather today. So i'm praying that keeps up for a while

But as far as the work goes, we're finding that nobody has real intent here. Or in other words, we ask them to pray to know if the church is true, or the book of mormon is the word of god or whatever, and they say they'll do it. We come the next appointment, ask them if they prayed. They usually say yes, so we ask them what they prayed about. And it is has never been even close to what we asked them to pray about. Just for health and protection and stuff. And then we ask them, "if god told you to do ______, would you do it?" which they always respond in the affirmative without hesitation. And then we ask "if god told you the church is true and you need to get baptized, would you do it?" and then they always say "i don't know" or "maybe". So if anyone has advice about how to help people have real intent, I would love to hear it.

But other than that the work here is going alright. We're making little bits of progress here and there. we found an awesome family, la familia Aguilar-Hurtado, and they were really interested. We went to a lesson with them on Wednesday when I had an intercambio with my good buddy and zone leader Elder Croft, and I'm pretty sure we taught the best lesson 1 of my entire mission. They understood everything really well and we taught really well together even though I've never worked with Elder Croft before. but I have lots of hopes for this family. But other than all that, its been a pretty normal, boring week this week.

Love you all, thanks for the emails and the support. Pray for the Bolivians, they need some Gospel in their lives (real, restored church Gospel, that is)

Elder Bingham