Well this is the first new transfer of my mission where literally nothing happened to me. Transfer calls came, and i'm staying in this area, staying with Elder Quintana for my companion, and staying district leader. So that was a little underwhelming. The sad part was that they took some of my best gringo friends from me this transfer and stuck them in different zones, including Elder Selinger, Elder Buhler, and Elder McClune. Which I guess I've really only talked about Selinger. But whatever, you guys don't care too much about that I'm sure. On to the other stuff.
When transfers came and they took Elder Selinger from me, a new Elder came in from another zone named Elder Jorge. (yes, his last name is Jorge) He's this really studly Peruvian who's also a stud of a missionary. But when he came here he just cleaned the crap out of our house and also got his comp, who was Elder Selinger's trainee, way more excited about everything and they're seeing a lot of progress in their area now. Really our whole zone is just getting a lot more excited, I think everyone's going to kill it this transfer. Including us maybe.
We found a family of 7 this week!! and 5 of those 7 are of baptize-able age. They're the familia Paja-Crespo, and all of them are awesome and interested. Except the dad kind of, he just kind of likes listening to us. His name is Hector, and he has a really hard time believing that god calls prophets in our day. Also he's convinced the the true church should be the one that does the most humanitarian aid in the world. Which would be the Catholic church, because they obviously have the most money for multiple apostate reasons. So that's a little rough, even though the true church's humanitarian efforts are actually amazing. But he doesn't really get that yet. He told us (but in spanish) "if the mormons opened up an orphanage here to help all the little kids I would get baptized tomorrow and take all my family with me." So for now he's kind of a stumbling block in the progress of his family. But with lots of prayers and faith I think he can come to realize the truth with the rest of his family.
Also yesterday we found an amazing older couple named Luis and Marcela who don't know that much about the bible and get really confused about all the different churches and beliefs and stuff. Which is sad, but like exactly what us missionaries are looking for. So we got excited about that. But after we talked about the restoration, the husband said the most sincere prayer I've heard in my life, saying maybe he's a little confused, and he just wants to know what path he should take. That really strengthened my testimony that the lord prepares people for the restored gospel! Unfortunately, he's going to travel to La Paz for two weeks. So I'll get back to you then and let you know how things go.
Well overall, the work is going pretty well here, thanks for all the prayers and emails, I love you all!
Elder Bingham
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when we changed houses temporarily last week I just had to stand up and basically street surf in the motocar (basically a motorbike with a trailer) and it was awesome. also terrifying sometimes
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| When we were in trio we ate lunch with some Peruvian members who cooked us awesome peruvian food in bamboo shoots. |
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| Also the missionary with me in this pic is Elder Maccerhua, not my comp |
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cooking with bamboo shoots
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nobody paid attention when I took a selfie at the district conference
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