Well, I think I'm probably setting a record. I now have my 6th companion in 6 transfers in the mission. Including the MTC. My son grew up really fast and he moved out already. Elder Gonzales got transferred to Santa Cruz for some reason, and I'm staying here in Riberalta with my new companion, Elder Quintana. He's this Peruvian kid who looks like he's about 16, but he's really like 3 months older than I am. Also I'm district leader again. So I just decided that I'm going to have a different companion with some kind of assignment every transfer of my mission. But I guess that's what President Cabezas wants me to do. Or the Lord, I guess. So I'm fine with it. I just hope one day I can have a comp for at least two transfers. Cause I have yet to have that best friend mission companion that I stay with for a couple transfers and then i also my best friend at home. But some day.
But transfers were really eventful. Three people are training new missionaries in our zone. And all three are new gringos. Over half of our zone is gringos now. And also, all the new guys that came are as tall or taller than me. So I don't really feel that special anymore. On the bad side, we kind of suck at playing soccer now. almost all our best soccer players in the zone got transfered. But ni modo.
So General conferece happened. And I was suprised to find out that I could watch it in english. They had one room sectioned off in the church with a tv transmitting in english for all the greenies in our zone. But unfortuately, it was really hot in that room. The only room with air conditioning in the church is the chapel, but that's where they transmitted it in spanish. So I ended up going with that for the rest of the sessions anyway. But of course, I got the most out of the first session. Elder Holland's talk helped me out a ton as usuall, when he talked about imperfections and stuff. Cause normally I feel like my missionary abilities are like slightly above sub par. Or, I guess I feel like I'm a good missionary, but not a great one. But that talk helped me out a lot when I listened to it, but I've already forgotten most of it. I'll go over the few notes I wrote down. I'm looking forward to having all the talks in english in about a month when we get the liahona.
I did hear about Elder Hales' death, we were able to watch every session. That was kind of a bummer, but Elder Anderson's mini tribute to him was amazing. I felt the spirit a lot there.
But the mission work goes about like normal here. I'm happy, its really hot, and we're progressing in our area little by little. I'll let you know how that goes next week, I think we should have a great week of teaching.
Love you all. Glad to hear that all these freaking hurricanes and shooting and fires and stuff aren't really getting too close to home. But for real like what's going on over there? I just keep hearing about how our country is getting destroyed. Those areas will be in my prayers.
Elder Bingham
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