Old geezers and mangos

Well this week has been filled with old geezers and mangos, as the title describes. So in other words, its been a weird week.

Well as far as old geezers go, we've been focusing a lot in finding people to teach this week. Mostly because Elder Quintana really likes contacting everyone. Which is great, but he almost does it in excess. Like makes us late for appointments sometimes. But we've ended up teaching a few old geezers who don't really understand what we're talking about. Also most of them cant see good enough to read the book of mormon if we give them one, which makes it kind of hard for them to progress. Also Elder quintana is really intelligent, which means he likes to teach everything he knows with complicated scriptures and like lots of details about the history of different churches and the apostasy and stuff. But I think thats because he hasn't adjusted to Riberalta yet. Where the people really don't get stuff like that. Here you have to teach in the simplest way possible or they will have no idea what you're talking about. Also we've ran into a lot of people who kind of just want to bash with us this week. So I learned a lot about using the book of mormon to respond to objections. As missionaries, we don't have to respond to every question or objection they have. I've learned this week that that just leads to more objections or more contention. Also longer, less spiritual visits. So this week I've been trying to improve, and teach (like in district meetings) about that. Cause sometimes people have a lot of apostasy built up that just needs to be destroyed by the book of mormon. So I highly reccomend reading it if you havent done that yet. Its a good book.

Also, its freaking mango season in Riberalta. Theres mango trees all over the freaking place here, and all the fruit is starting to get ripe now. We went and did a service saturday digging some holes (and I felt like a manly man swinging that pickaxe around. Also my back hurt because I'm a large man trying inside a relatively small hole digging), and the family we helped gave us a whole bunch of mangos to eat in return. And they're freaking delicious. So we just constantly have mangos in the house to snack on. I bet you're jealous.

Well, that would be all from this week. Once again I haven't taken too many pictures, sorry. But I think I have a few. We'll see. 

Love you all! Try not to be too sad that you don't have fresh mangos growing all over your city!

Elder Bingham

also from the las pday this last transfer with elder Gonzales at "el mirador" which is basically just a place where you get a really cool view of the river

pic from last transfer with a cool family in our branch. also where we eat lunch

it was raining really hard one day. looked up at the sky and it was basically clear. Bolivia