This week went really, really fast. Monday night my companero left for Bogota so I had a new companion Missionary Elder Cieza for Monday and Tuesday, he has less time in the mission than me so we were probably the youngest companerismo in all of the mission! We biked a lot Tuesday and had some good lecciones, but it was hard to get around because everyone was celebrating Halloween. I got little candies for Elder Cieza, Araujo, and Duerden. Then Wednesday my packages came! Thanks for the peanut butter and all the other goodies! I eat the peanut butter very sparingly. Thanks Fam Aanderud for the mini hands and the minion stickers!! Later that day we had a leccion with an invetigador Victor and when we were getting ready to leave 2 bats flew in his house and Elder Araujo and I ended up in his bedroom with 2 bats! We had a broom and eventually got them out the window.
Thursday we all traveled to Bogota for a MULTI ZONE conference. It was really good, Presidente Baquerizo talked about how missionaries and members need to work together, and how investigators with baptism dates are like "MESSI" and "MESSI IS MESSI" so they are special and we need to treat them like the soccer world treats Messi, it was really funny. Then Friday and Saturday was a lot of working, a lot of our lecciones fell through, but Saturday night we had a leccion with a guy named Alfonzo, he was baptized when he was 8 but has been inactive. We had set a leccion with him the other day but he purposely left so he wouldn't be there when we got there, but we were late so he got home and then we arrived 2 minutes after him. He let us in and later he told us that he let us in because it was a sign from God that he needed to listen to us! That was really cool, it lets me know that God is putting people in our paths to teach . Then Sunday was good, Church was great, but lots of our lecciones fell through but we had to really fun Noche de Hogar's with Fam Guzman and Fam Echevere.
Today we played games as a zone with all the Elders. We played musical chairs, a flinging chicken game and eating donuts without using hands, it was really fun. Then I ate at a really good burger place. The mission is really fun and really hard, but the message that we have is all about Christ and his atonement and that is the most important event in the history of the world. It wasn't something easy, so it shouldn't be easy to teach people about it. I'm glad I have this chance to serve the people of Colombia and I'm excited for the next week! Love and miss you all, hope all is well!!
Elder McBride
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