This week was all over the place! Tuesday was a normal day, we had appointments in this place that's 30 minutes away by bike and all of them fell through, so my comp and I ended up just biking around most of the day. Then that night Colombian life finally hit me. It was probably the worst night of my life, I literally didn't leave the bathroom for 3 hours. My companion was awesome, he helped me the entire time and stayed up with me. Then Wednesday I was still really sick in the morning but we had a multi zone conference in Bogota so I had to get up around 5 am for the 4 hour bus ride while I was still super sick. I brought a bag on the bus, but thankfully I didn't have to use it! The conference was really cool, I talked to my President and a bunch of other cool missionaries from the other zone, but I was falling asleep all day because I was on anti-vomiting pills that make you really drowsy.
Then we took the bus back to Villavicencio and we didn't get to our house till around midnight. Then Thursday we had a few lecciones but most of them fell through. Then Friday came and it was my companions birthday! All of our lecciones fell through that day too, except a leccion with a member family and a leccion with a lady who's been a member for 4 years. She was baptized but her son wasn't and now he wants to be baptized which is really awesome! We're going to have more lecciones with them in these upcoming weeks! Then I bought my companion a cake and we ate a bunch of bad food right after we'd both been sick, but it was his Birthday so we had too!
Saturday and Sunday was Conference! And it was in Ingles!!! Our zones Gringos set up a "Gringo Room" where we all took notes, watched conference, and ate lots of snacks haha. We watched every session and I can honestly say I love Conference! It was cool at home but it means so much more on a Mission, I'll never take Conference for granted anymore. My favorite talks were President Nelson's and Tad R Callistar's about the Book of Mormon. If any of you have doubts about the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon I invite you to watch those talks and then read it!! I know that it is true! It was sad not seeing President Monson and also hearing Elder Hales passed away. Today we went and had lunch with our Zone leaders, I got a hot dog and it was actually really good! Next my companion and I went shopping for food and I finally gave in and bought Lucky Charms (sorry Mom, but I do only buy healthy bread so you can be proud of me for that!) Love and Miss you guys! Hope everything is well!
Elder McBride
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