Week 31: CALI knows how to party!

Hola Familia y amigos!

This week was insane. Tuesday and Wednesday I was stuck in an area in Bogota called Fontibon with the other missionary who was going to Leticia with me, his name is Elder Jeppsen he's really cool. We just chilled there, went out and worked with the missionaries but mostly we just kept repacking our bags and playing cards. On Wednesday I got to go see Elder Araujo ( my trainer)before he finished his mission, that was awesome!!

Thursday came, the day of our flight, we get up go to the airport and wait a bit. We get on the plane and start our flight to Leticia and it's only like a 2 hour flight, first over the intercom we hear that there is a medical situation on the plane and they need a doctor,that all got under control. Then right when we're about to land they say over the interco that there is storm in Leticia right now so we can't land so we have to go to Cali. Cali is not in our mission, it's a completely different mission, so we flew back to Cali waited in the Cali airport for like an hour and a half.  We called the Presidente to tell him we're in Cali(that was funny) then we got on another plane to Leticia and we were able to land this time.
                                                                                                                                                   Leticia is insane, it's literally the Amazon rainforest, our area has the amazon river in it.  My new Comp is Elder Caqui from Peru, he's awesome his first comp was Elder Gregersen. We had a baptism on Saturday of one of the investigators Audi Moreno, that was awesome she's a great lady. The Church building here is literally right on the border of Brazil  and Colombia. It is cool because on Sunday there is a branch from Brazil so there are missionaries from Brazil  there and everyone speaks Portuguese which is weird because I can't understand anything. Then after church we went and had a leccion at a drug rehab center and that was really cool, the guys there are all really young and want to change their lifes, we're going to go every Sunday.                                                                    

Then today we cleaned the house  because it was  disgusting, that took up all morning. Then we went to Brazil  and bought chocolate, and little  wooden things that are made of this really rare famous red wood from Brazil. I never thought I would go to another country on my mission but I did! That's about it, it's really hot here but I'll get used to it. Love and miss you guys, hope you're all doing well!

Elder McBride

p.s. The computers here suck so I'm going to try and get fotos through
but we'll have to see!