Hi Tyler’s friends and family,

Just wanted to share with you Tyler’s last letter and share the below info:

Send this on to friends as I do not have everyone’s addresses.

You can see his letters on his blog.  eldertylerbell.blogspot.com

Through Pouch:  You can send a letter as a single paper tri-folded with writing on only one side, address  on blank side and a single piece of tape.  No envelope through pouch services.

Elder Tyler Joseph Bell
Bolivia Santa Cruz North Mission
P.O. Box 30150
Salt Lake City, UT 84130-0150

His address will stay the same throughout his whole mission.  Letters and packages go to the mission office.

Elder Tyler Joseph Bell

Misión Bolivia Santa Cruz Norte

Calle Cochabamba Numero 170 Esquina Saavedra

Torres Cainco Bloque Emresarial

Piso 5 Oficina 3

Casilla de correo: 3873

Santa Cruz, Bolivia

No I can't believe it's already December. The new Elder’s that are new transfers are
awesome. Sadly I don't get to spend a ton of time with them only
Mondays and Thursdays in the mornings. Also the other missionaries are
moving out of our apartment today which is kind of sad. But I will be able to focus
more on my journal which is good! I have a couple questions for you.

This week has been amazing!!!  Probably the best week of my mission. My
companion and I had so many little miracles. We taught about 5 fathers
this week who are menos activos but are never home. We didn't follow
practically any of our plans this week but we were definitely guided
by the spirit. In each lesson with the fathers and less active
families, the father's expressed that the passed missionaries had
never been able to teach them because they are never home and that we
caught them for about the only hour they're home all week. It was
amazing.

We also taught a man named ……. He had a really hard heart
and basically disliked the church. His family was catholic but he
attended church because his wife was a strong member. When his wife
died, he and his family stopped attending. In the lesson, the spirit
was super strong. We could see his countenance change and his heart
being softened. Yesterday, he and all of his family attended church.

We also taught a man named O…..   O……sells soup but only Sunday
morning because it's the only morning that the men aren't at work.
His total income comes from it. We taught him about church attendance
and why we need to make sacrifices for the Lord. The spirit was once
again super strong. At first I was tempted to just wait til Enero
because we have church in the tarde but then the spirit told us that
he needs to make this sacrifice if he's going to gain a testimony and
stay active. He committed to attending church and has a really good
friend who is a member named R….. I am really excited to teach
him. I realized that everybody needs the oppurtunity to sacrifice
something for the Lord so that they can see the blessings it brings
and have a stronger testimony. This inspiration has helped my
companion a lot this week with our teaching. At first we kind of
avoided asking people to make sacrifices but now we look at them as
oppurtunities for greater blessings.

The only problem is that with all these miracles and spiritual
promptings have come new people for us to teach. This isn't bad but my
companion and I are struggling to find time to teach them all. Also
this week, we have a worldwide Christmas initiative to find new
investigators every day using the story of Christ. We then have to
report how many new investigators we have daily. I don't know how
we're going to do it. I'm honestly a little worried that we won't be
able to find time to teach some of our investigators this week but I
know all things are possible through faith!

We also visited 5 super active families this week. I think it was
something that we definitely needed to do. They had never been visited
by the missionaries and each family had super good ideas about how to
help certain families and about upcoming church activities. It was
really cool to get to know them and become their friends. Once again
each of them had more referencias and investigators! Pucha!

There was one active family that I think we visited just in time. They are
having marriage problems and their family is really close to falling
apart. We had a really spiritual lesson about eternal families and how
we can have more love in the home. They are doing better now but we
definitely have to continue to visit them.

I completely forgot it was Thanksgiving Thursday. I didn't remember
until 9 at night. It's amazing how time flies! One of the members gave
us tuna the other day and it tasted super good! Anything but chicken
and rice! Actually I'm starting to become accustomed to the food and
like it more and more so who knows, maybe chicken and rice will become
my favorite.

As far as my mission scripture, if you need to take parts out, only
use the begging of 8 until seen and the end 8, wherefore, go to,...
For 9 only use the end of the verse- wherefore, i did pour out... but
use all of 12. Thanks!!

Love you!!! My companion and I had a really spiritual talk this week
about the main reason we're out here and all I could think about is
how I want to help families accept the gospel and be as happy and
close as our family is!

Love you MTTCT!!!
Your Elder Bell