This week went by super fast and it was a ton of fun. Tuesday we contacted a lot and found two really good new investigators. Wednesday I had an intercambio with Elder Sorbonne and that was really fun, we had to ride our bikes and carry our lunch which was hard but fun, we had good lecciones with members that day. Then Thursday we found an awesome familia contacting, they let us right in, we taught them about the restoration and it was awesome, the spirit was so strong in that leccion. Then Friday was interesting. It was hot all day, but that night it started to rain like crazy. Elder Araujo and I were riding our bikes in the streets but it was more like a swimming pool. There was no one else outside so we sang Rolling In The Deep at the top of our lungs. We were so soaked we literally dumped glasses of water out of our shoes when we got home. Then Saturday was fun too. It was hot all day long, we had almuerzo with Familia Alcira and that was the first time that I've really eaten anything weird. I ate cow lungs and then I ate cow intestines filled with rice and blood! I actually really liked it, the food here is awesome. Then the same thing happened it started pouring down rain, so we took off our shoes and socks, put them in our bags and we rode our bikes home 20 minutes in the pouring down rain without shoes haha it was awesome! Then Sunday was great too, we had two of our young investigators come to church and that was awesome. Then we contacted that night and found a really good familia again. We taught them and they were really receptivo and then they made us dinner!! Then today we cut our hair, cleaned the house, took pictures with santa and bought food. I'm really having fun here and I love the people!! Miss you guys hope you are all doing well!! Elder McBride
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Week 15:Multi Zone Conference, Halloween, and packages!
Hola familia y amigos!!
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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