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Thanks mom!!!! Also,
if you want to send in your next package, LDS
movies specifically made by the church like the movie about Joseph
Smith, The Testaments, On the Lords Errand, and the Restauracion that
would be great. For carnival in March we sit inside for three days
straight and I think I will need those to make it through! Also some
more pictures of the Fam. My relationship with my companion is better
than ever. It took some work but we made it through. He didn't really
want to talk to me at first but after about 20 questions about his
home he finally opened up and we've been good friends since.
Even more discouraging than problems with my companion however are
problems with the investigators. None of them attended church
yesterday and all of them promised too. We can't get any of them to
follow up on their commitments and they can't recognize the blessings
until they do. I guess all we can do is keeping loving them and having
faith that they will have a change of heart!
I was made into an English tutor for the natives in our zone that
don't know English and they have all been picking it up really fast. I'm
afraid some of them might start to know English more than I know
Spanish. I am also second counselor to the President de Rama and the
new gospel doctrine teacher for the branch. The hardest part is just
the Spanish. I also think that our Rama is starting to respect me
more. Before this week, they always just treated me as the white
missionary that didn't know Spanish. I talked a lot in one of our
meetings yesterday and now I think they're starting to realize that I
have good ideas that can help the Rama. So that's exciting.
Last Monday we went to a park named Esmeralda. It was super fun. They
had tennis, soccer, ping pong and a zip line into a lake. Sadly we
couldn't go on the zip line or in the lake but playing games with the
other missionaries is always a blast. I think the best part was just
being able to relax for a couple hours. We stayed for 4 hours but it’s
amazing how your desires change on your mission. After 3 hours, 2
missionaries were reading their Book of Mormons and the rest of us
wanted to go back and prepare to teach. Honestly the best part of
every day is sitting with an investigator and helping them learn and
progress with the spirit. I just wish we had more of it!! It also
rained for 2 days straight this week. I didn't think it was possible
to get more humid than it already was but I was wrong. With the rain,
pretty much everything is a little bit damp and nothing dries because
of how humid it was. Also there was actually cloud cover, apparently
that never happens in Riberalta. It almost always rains while it’s
still sunny. It dropped to about 60 degrees one night and everybody
besides me and my companion were wearing giant winter coats and were
freezing. I thought that was pretty funny!
One of our investigators made us hamburgers Saturday night. I've been
craving one really bad and I don't think I've ever tasted anything so
amazing. The hamburgers are different here, if you can ever find one.
The bread is covered with melted cheese and there's egg, beef, ham,
tomatoes and corn on the inside. It was super good.
We also had kind of a scary experience yesterday. A drunken guy
confronted us and told us to enter his house. I was ready to speedily
walk away but for some reason, my companion complied and entered the
house. He stood in the door way and talk about his life problems over
and over again. We tried to teach him at first, but he wouldn't listen
and it only made him mad so we ended up just sitting there. We were
stuck there for two hours until he kind of passed out on the ground.
After that we left pretty hastily.
Well that's pretty much everything for this week. Love you super super
super much!!! Can't wait to get your packages! Love you MTTCT!
Elder Bell
movies specifically made by the church like the movie about Joseph
Smith, The Testaments, On the Lords Errand, and the Restauracion that
would be great. For carnival in March we sit inside for three days
straight and I think I will need those to make it through! Also some
more pictures of the Fam. My relationship with my companion is better
than ever. It took some work but we made it through. He didn't really
want to talk to me at first but after about 20 questions about his
home he finally opened up and we've been good friends since.
Even more discouraging than problems with my companion however are
problems with the investigators. None of them attended church
yesterday and all of them promised too. We can't get any of them to
follow up on their commitments and they can't recognize the blessings
until they do. I guess all we can do is keeping loving them and having
faith that they will have a change of heart!
I was made into an English tutor for the natives in our zone that
don't know English and they have all been picking it up really fast. I'm
afraid some of them might start to know English more than I know
Spanish. I am also second counselor to the President de Rama and the
new gospel doctrine teacher for the branch. The hardest part is just
the Spanish. I also think that our Rama is starting to respect me
more. Before this week, they always just treated me as the white
missionary that didn't know Spanish. I talked a lot in one of our
meetings yesterday and now I think they're starting to realize that I
have good ideas that can help the Rama. So that's exciting.
Last Monday we went to a park named Esmeralda. It was super fun. They
had tennis, soccer, ping pong and a zip line into a lake. Sadly we
couldn't go on the zip line or in the lake but playing games with the
other missionaries is always a blast. I think the best part was just
being able to relax for a couple hours. We stayed for 4 hours but it’s
amazing how your desires change on your mission. After 3 hours, 2
missionaries were reading their Book of Mormons and the rest of us
wanted to go back and prepare to teach. Honestly the best part of
every day is sitting with an investigator and helping them learn and
progress with the spirit. I just wish we had more of it!! It also
rained for 2 days straight this week. I didn't think it was possible
to get more humid than it already was but I was wrong. With the rain,
pretty much everything is a little bit damp and nothing dries because
of how humid it was. Also there was actually cloud cover, apparently
that never happens in Riberalta. It almost always rains while it’s
still sunny. It dropped to about 60 degrees one night and everybody
besides me and my companion were wearing giant winter coats and were
freezing. I thought that was pretty funny!
One of our investigators made us hamburgers Saturday night. I've been
craving one really bad and I don't think I've ever tasted anything so
amazing. The hamburgers are different here, if you can ever find one.
The bread is covered with melted cheese and there's egg, beef, ham,
tomatoes and corn on the inside. It was super good.
We also had kind of a scary experience yesterday. A drunken guy
confronted us and told us to enter his house. I was ready to speedily
walk away but for some reason, my companion complied and entered the
house. He stood in the door way and talk about his life problems over
and over again. We tried to teach him at first, but he wouldn't listen
and it only made him mad so we ended up just sitting there. We were
stuck there for two hours until he kind of passed out on the ground.
After that we left pretty hastily.
Well that's pretty much everything for this week. Love you super super
super much!!! Can't wait to get your packages! Love you MTTCT!
Elder Bell
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