Hey mom! This week was pretty good. We put in our best efforts to find new people to teach, and we found 7 new investigators! We are still helping them to get to church, and read the Book of Mormon, but its all good! We got 7 new people!!
I'm a little nervous about W---. He didn't come to church with us this Sunday, and he told his neighbor who is in our ward that he didn't want to come because he just has too many doubts, and doesn't believe in the Book of Mormon yet. So we went to his house twice this week, and he either wasn't there, or he said I'll be right down, and then never came down. I just really hope he hasn't given up on it yet. We will keep calling him and make sure everything is okay.
This week the bishop got up and talked about the kid in our ward who is heading out on his mission this week. His name is J---, and he was visiting his family in another city so he wasn't in out ward this week. The bishop told us about how J--- was talking to him about before he started going back to church and cleaning up his life, and how rough it was before. J--- (18 or 19 yrs old) was living by himself, and for the most part, lived in the street. He said that he mostly slept by the hospital in Bosa because its open all night and the police were always there, so nothing bad would happen to him there. He said he was making poor decisions in his life, but then he saw God´s hand in his life, trying to help him get out of his situation and get his life back on track. So he decided to start going back to church. The bishop invited him to live in his house, with his family, and he started working to save for his mission. He got all of his papers in and got called to Medellin. He has been helping us out a ton with our lessons too. It's pretty crazy because he has been such a great friend to us this whole time, and it was cool to see him when he first started coming back to church, to now, where he is leaving on his mission in two days. He said his dad was a member, so he got baptized when he was younger. So he was able to get right back in the church and get his life figured out. Its just a really good testimony to how the gospel can change lives. Here he was, homeless, and making poor decisions in his life, to cleaning up his life, and choosing to serve the Lord within a few months. He is a really good friend of mine, and I wish him the best of luck in Medellín!!!
Today we got to go to Centro again, which is always fun. I pulled out some money because I thought I was gonna buy a bunch of stuff, but I really just bought three ties...for like 3 bucks each. But we also ate some burgers that were really good, so I took a real nice selfie in the restaurant.
Aaaalso, check out these sweet pictures Elder Christensen and I got!! Hahaha, Colombia is covered in these little photo stores that you can just go in, get your picture took, and they throw on some sweet photoshop backgrounds, haha. Its pretty great. It was definitely Elder Christensen´s idea, so props to him for the killer idea. Also...she messed up the photo of both of us on the beach, so she had to photoshop the Book of Mormon and my hands, hahaha, so take a close look at it.
Love you mom! You are amazing. Thanks for writing me every week :) Love you a ton.
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