Week 38: Service Project, Batisms, and Bogota!

Hola familia y amigos!

Hey guys this week was pretty crazy! First off we had our final lecciones with Carolina and Alfonso before theire baptisms and that was awesome! Then this week we contacted a guy named Luis Alfredo, we taught him leccion 1 and gave him a BOM.  We passed by two days later and he'd read all the way to 1 Nefi 10! He loves the BOM so far and says he's going to keep reading! We have some lecciones set up with him for this week and I really think if he continues to read and pray, he'll gain his own testimony of the BOM and be baptized! 

Saturday was really cool, we went in the morning to do some service at the rehab center....the service was using machetes to cut down weeds in the Amazon it was awesome! Then later that night we had the Baptismal service for Alfonso y Carolina. It was an amazing experience to see them make that convenant with the lord and to be
cleansed of their sins, then they both gave amazing testimonies and Carolin told us she wants to be a missionary!!                                                                     

On Monday we were supposed to catch a flight to Bogota at  2:40 pm.  So thanks to the teachings of my parents we were in the airport two hours before the scheduled flight time so we wouldn't miss the flight. Yep well what happened is that the plane that was going down to Leticia had to go back up to Bogota so we ended up waiting in the Leticia airport for 8 hours to catch our flight up to Bogota. Elder Jeppson and I don't have the best luck with flights in our missions so far! We got to Bogota  at 11:00 pm last night and that's why I'm sending this out today! But since I'm in Bogota I can send a bunch of Pictures!! I love and miss all of you guys I hope you're all doing well!

Elder McBride