This week was pretty normal but still started out a little weird. Tuesday we were supposed to have interviews with President at 6pm so we planned our day with that, but then we got a message that our interviews would be at 8 instead so we had to change everything up. Then we get to the church at 7:45 pm and find out that our interviews got cancelled and we would have interviews the next day. So then Wednesday we had the multizone conference which started at 9 am. It was really cool, we even had Colombian Chinese food for lunch. Then when that ended all the missionaries that hadn't had our interviews had interviews with President...my comp and I were the very last ones!haha. We didn't end up getting home till after 9 pm so we were there all day. My interview with Presidente Palhua was really cool. He has family friends who live in Oregon so he face-timed them and I talked with them in my interview haha. It was super random but really fun, they seem like really nice people!
Thursday my English teaching skills were truely put to the test because I had to teach alone since the other missionaries got emergency transferred. I am officialy a very unofficial English teacher! Then Friday I had an intercambio with Elder Stearns in his area and they have bikes!! That was super fun and reminded me of Villo. While I was there I got to do a baptismal interview for a friend of the missionaries in another area. That was super fun the young lady has an amazing testimony and a really big desire to follow Crist and be baptized! While I was over there some of our friends had their baptism interviews too which was really awesome.
It was Colombia's Independence day on Friday so Elder Stearns and I contacted with Alma 48:11 talking about rejoicing in the freedom and independence of his country. We are all so lucky to live in a free country where we have the right to choose what we want to do, who we want to be, what we want to believe. We can never forget how blessed we are to have all those things and to also never forget that freedom and Independence isn't free. Millions of people have sacrificed their lives so that we can be free in our respected countries, and our savior Jesus Crist sacrificed his life so that EVERYONE can live again with our father in heaven. We can never fully repay them for what they did but we can do our best to remember and honor them.
Sunday we had the opportunity to remember Christ and go to church. We had the opportunity again to pass by Hno Marco and push him in his wheelchair to church. He is so excited about the gospel and his baptism this upcoming Saturday; he even set up an appointment with the bishop to make sure he's ready! We also had 4 other friends at church with us which was amazing! Later that day we contacted a big family outside their house with the Family proclamation to the world. They are really interested and we're going to pass by for them this week! Today we did some needed cleaning of the house and spent some time with Elder Sosa and Elder Paredes. That's all for this week! Sorry Mom I don't have any pictures but I'll work on that this week I promise! I love and miss all of you! I hope you're all doing well!
Nos Vemos!
Elder McBride
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