Can I start saying "Adios" instead of "Chao" now?

Well, my time has come to its end.  I'm not even sure what to say. I have loved my time in the mission. There were times where I hated my time in the mission, but those hard times serve for learning experiences and I'm thankful for them. But we finished off strong, with a couple of miracles and lots of happy times.

On Friday a miracle happened! Remember how we were supposed to cram our baptisms in for today because our investigator Bertha was traveling? Well, Bertha called us on Friday and said "Elders, I'm already back in Trinidad! I'm ready for my baptism tomorrow!" I cannot even describe how happy and relieved I felt, because we weren't sure if we were going to be able to get those baptisms in on Monday. Thank you all for your faithful prayers, they were answered. :) 

So Freddy and Bertha got baptized on Saturday. I had the privilege of baptizing Bertha, and Elder Reynolds baptized Freddy (proud dad moment, it was his first baptism). It was a really spiritual experience and I couldn't have asked for a better way to finish off my last week in the mission.

But, I'm not going to bother writing too much more right now, because as it says in 2 John; 12 Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.

Farewell all. Until Saturday :) 

Adiós Bolivia. Te amo mucho

Elder Bingham

my last zone!!

Freddy and Bertha's baptism

Raul and Blanca! (and lucas) Sadly, they won't be able to get married and get blanca baptized before I leave, but I'm confident that Blanca will get baptized this Saturday! they're the best

Elder Bingham tries to plan a wedding

OOOHHH getting people married is so stressful. It's way harder than it should be. We're trying really hard to get Raul and Blanca married so Blanca can get baptized before I go home, and we just might pull it off. But We definetly need many of your prayers por favor.

Wednesday we kind of ended up having a crappy day in which we learned that Raul didn't have the money to get the birth certificates they needed to get married. But then with the help of our awesome relief society president we've been able to organize an activity that we will be doing in the near future to help raise funds for their wedding, and a member was willing to lend them the 100 Bs they needed to get the papers going until the activity can pay her back! It was a miracle!! But then the next day when we were going to go in for the papers we get a call from Raul saying the guy he had a debt to came to him asking for the money and he was forced to give him the 100 Bs the ward had just lent him. So we were once again devastated. But hopefully today that guy will be lending him money again andwe can get the papers going today! If all works out well, they should be getting married and baptized on the 11th, my last day in Trinidad. Please pray for this miracle!!! Raul and Blanca are amazing and Blanca is super prepared to be baptized, we just need a little bit of good luck.

Other than that our week was alright. We somehow mananged to find 21 new investigators this week, which is a new personal record. Elder Reynolds and I are giving it all we got here on the final stretch. This next week we have chuck full of family home evenings with members to help out our investigators and hopefully next monday we should have 3 baptisms! Its all really stressing me out. I'm going to be exhausted coming home. 

But talk to you guys next week! for the last time...

Elder Bingham

ps sorry this computer is being stupid and not letting me open up my SD card to send pics. next week!