Hey you remember two transfers ago, when I was in a trio because a new missionary went to Santa Cruz sick? And then last transfer when I was in a trio because a new missionary went to Santa Cruz sick? Well, not even joking, it happened a third transfer in a row. The only difference is the missionary who went to Santa Cruz sick was in his second transfer instead of his first, and we don't have to change houses. Elder Millis, one of the other missionaries in our house, had some constipation issues and had to fly down to the big city. So now Elder Quintana and I are proselyting in a trio with Elder Jorge, Elder Millis's trainer. I decided I might be cursed, and it's my fault somehow that the newbies get sick here in Riberalta. So I either need to get transferred or President needs to stop sending new guys here. But now our district has lost one of our good men, and we will have the tiniest district meetings in the world, since we also have the zone leaders in our district, but one of them usually goes to another district's meeting to see how they're doing. We'll see how that goes.
But hey I still have other cool stories this week! A little bit ago, we found a family! And i think Thursday we finally found all 4 of them together. They're called the Guise-Chavez family, and they're all super interested! They accepted a baptismal invitation in the first lesson if they feel like they get and answer, so now we just have to think a little bit about what date we can put them down for. The lord really does prepare people to receive the Gospel. And at the end of the visit, the dad asked us "so when are you going to invite us to your church?" Which was amazing but...
We actually didn't have church this week. Yesterday in Bolivia they had elections, which means nobody was in their house the whole day and like all the roads were closed to vehicles. And us missionaries just had to stay shut in the house ALL DAY, mission president's orders. Supposedly it would be dangerous, especially for us gringos, to go outside. Some groups of people here in Bolivia are a little racist and they generally hate americans and their government, so I guess election day gets them fired up or something and maybe they would want to mug us or shank us or something. So yesterday I did something unimagineable, I TOOK A NAP *gasp*
I know, I know, sounds horrible. But yesterday, taking an hour long nap wasn't actually a sin, since we couldn't proselyte. So I enjoyed very much my hour long sinless siesta, thank you. I also spent the day cooking chipilo (basically little fried chips made out of unripened platano), reading the scriptures a lot, listening to music (righteous music, don't worry), and writing in my journal and stuff. It was incredibly boring, I wanted to go contact people or something. But it was kind of nice to have a day to chill for a little bit.
But that was basically how my week went. Wish me luck working in a trio in two areas for the THIRD freaking transfer in a row. Oh well, come what may and love it, I think some general authority once said.
Elder Bingham
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| An investigator had a new cat and I made it just sit in my hand. I was very happy. |
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Also their little girl was very happy, her name is Carmen. She really wanted to get in the photo too.
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| These two didn't seem to be sad enough that Elder Millis had to leave so I filled in the space |
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| frying unripe platano! |
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