Week 11: Lots of rain,lots of minions, and man the Colombians love futbol!

Hola Familia y Amigos!

This week went by really fast and honestly there's not that much to talk about. We had intercambios again this week and I was with Elder Sorbonne. Our day went really good until about 7 PM when it started pouring down rain like crazy.  We ended up walking in the pouring down rain for 2 hours. Our lecciones fell through so we were just walking and singing hymns super loud, it was a ton of fun. I had to air out my shoes and I wasn't able to use them the next day they were so wet. The next day was fine except it was the day of the Colombian soccer game, the people here love their team. We were contacting for like 4 hours and no one would talk to us. Everyone in the country was watching the game except us and the other missionaries. 

We had some good lecciones this week, mostly was just sitting with people and reading the Book of Mormon, I love the people here. It was fast Sunday and that was actually really spiritual but also really hard. Our area is really big so I biked a lot while fasting and my body was so tired when I broke my fast. Another cool thing is one of the Maestros from the CCM is the son of members in my area and I got to see him again and that was really awesome.

 Then today was P day. It's Elder Sorbonne's birthday this upcoming Monday so Elder Araujo and I bought him presents. I had a really good milkshake, and then we ate Pizza with Elder Mohr and Elder Sorbonne and just talked and laughed. Our district is the best. That's all from this week, next week we have a baptism planned for an awesome investigador Rosana, she's really progressing. I love and Miss you guys, I hope you're all doing well!

Elder McBride

Week 10: Pictures and Video

Week 10: General Conference and lots of sickness!

Hola Familia y Amigos!!!

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