Elder Jayson Bingham : Elder Bingham bites the cake

So I'm officially old now. In the mission and in real life. I'm not sure how I feel about being twenty. But everyone in Bolivia seemed pretty excited about it, just because it means they get to eat cake. Also because they get to shove my face in the cake.

So that's a weird, but awesome tradition here in Bolivia. They have their own special birthday song (look it up, its called "hoy queremos que seas feliz"), and then after they all sing, everyone chants "QUE LA MUERDA, QUE LA MUERDA" and then you have to take a bite out of the cake. And then they shove your face in it. Its pretty fun. If you aren't the one who bites the cake. But if you are, it doesn't feel that great. Lots of frosting up the nose. I'll try to send a video.

So they got to do that to me twice this week. Once in district meeting, and once in a member's house. Fun stuff. But yeah, my birthday was actually pretty awesome. We also had a multi-zone conference where president announced that we can play soccer on mondays again!!! It was banned before but now we're all really happy. Also we got learned about charity and obedience and all that good stuff.

Then on Saturday, which was pretty much my birthday (just the day after) we had a baptism!!! Favio got baptized, he's the brother of another recent convert, and he's a stud. Makes us laugh a lot. So now him and his brother are paving the way so that their parents can get baptized in the near future! We're going to start teaching them, since they're a lot more interested now after seeing the change in their sons.

So all in all, things are going pretty well. Enjoy the photos and the video, if you can see it. Love you all!

Elder Bingham