Week 35!

Hey mom! This week was pretty deece, haha.  We didn't get a lot of new investigators, but that's fine, we are teaching the ones we have.   This week we had exchanges with the other elders in Leticia.  So I went to the other elders' area for a day, and I got to work with Elder Cantos, who's from Ecuador.  Hes super cool, so it was a lot of fun.  His mom even lives in St George right now, so that is also pretty rad.

We have been doing our best to keep teaching William and Andrea, it's hard though, they live super far away.  We have to take a bus clear out there, and it takes forever.  But hey, ya gotta do what ya gotta do.  They have been reading the Book of Mormon, so now we are just kind of teaching them and helping them to find an answer that it's true.

This week we had a pretty cool experience.  A while back, we found some missionaries from the 7th day Adventist church, who were also from the US, and we talked to them for a while.  Super nice people, they are a family (2 parents and 3 kids). It was nice to run into people from another church who didn't just want to fight about doctrine.  So we talked for a while.  We always talk when we see them in the street.  We were talking about how the transfers were coming up soon, and one of us could be going, so they asked if we wanted to grab lunch with them some day.  So we set a day to go over, and they made us pizza! It was super cool.  It was a vegetarian pizza, which was really good.  It was great to just hang out with some other gringos for a bit, and eat pizza that isn't super gross (like Colombian pizza, hahaha).  So we got a photo with them, I'll try and send it to you.

Yesterday we called a good friend of ours from the branch, Rogelio Campuzano.  He's just this really dope old rich guy who lives in Leticia who got converted about 7 years back.  He is ALWAYS coming with us on lessons, and he's awesome.  He's basically famous, haha.  Almost every time we bring him on lessons, the people know him.  So yesterday, when we felt like we had just hit a brick wall, we decided to call him and ask if we could teach one of his friends. So we went to a guy named Alberto´s house...who is ANOTHER super famous guy down in the amazons. For some reason, there are pictures of him all over the place here, holding giant snakes and stuff.  Ill try and send a picture of him too, but it was quite the experience.  We taught him and his wife.   When we got there, Brother Campuzano asked him "These are the missionaries of my church, are you pretty interested in religion?" and he goes "no, I'm really not.  Not really interested at all." But they still listened to our message and accepted to come to church with us this next week haha.  I guess we'll see how it goes.

Sooo...the transfers are this week.  There is a chance that my comp is leaving, so we´ll see.  He is a ton of fun so I hope he doesn't leave yet.  But we'll see.  If he leaves, then my new comp will bring my package down with him so I guess we will see what happens.

Love you mom! Thanks for all you do!  I hope Garret gets better.  That sounds horrible.  Love you a ton, talk to you next week.