That was a whole year?

Well there goes the 19th year of my life. 2 months of sitting around waiting to leave on my mission, and then being on the mission for another 10. All things considered, went pretty well. Being in the full-time service of the Lord is a pretty good use of 5/6 of my year. I'm excited to use this year 100% in the service of the Lord! My only full year as a missionary. I hope you all enjoyed setting resolutions that you will quickly forget about. I'll try to set some meaningful ones.

This week was pretty uneventful, all things considered. It rained a lot, and it was really freaking hot, which is a combination that I hate. Sometimes you just get the rain and cloud cover and it's pretty cool, but then the sun comes out and you feel the heat from above and below because of all the humidity. Such is the jungle. Yesterday we were trapped by HEAVY rain for like 25 minutes. it took a lot of patience and 2 companionship prayers for the rain to settle down enough to get moving again. But hey, prayer works! That was a cool spiritual experience. I prayed by myself once for the rain to stop, and then a couple minutes later I prayed in English in case God didn't understand. And then we prayed like 3 different times as a companionship, and it finally settled down! Prayer works. Sometimes it takes a lot of faith and patience, but it works.

Unfortunately, the baptism we had planned for this Saturday fell through. Our investigator is named Jorge, he's 13 and has an older brother who is an inactive member. But Jorge is super awesome, and he was super excited for his baptism up until an hour before, when he got nervous. He basically decided he wasn't prepared yet and needed to learn a little more and read the Book of Mormon more. Which might be true. So it was sad, but we're going to have to postpone his baptism. But I'm glad we're doing it for good reasons. Pray for Jorge please, so he can read the Book of Mormon and get a testimony!

Happy new year everyone, thank you for not being the people who got way too drunk on new years eve passed out on the side of the road this morning

Elder Bingham

I had an intercambio with Elder Jorge on Wednesday so we decided to go out in flower ties together. Más eficaz

Some members had some puppies they were taking care of for a neighbor and I wanted a new friend