Week 20: McDonalds,Temple,Moana,and 2 boxes of milk!!

Hola Familia y amigos!!

This week was really fun. Tuesday we left for Bogota to go to the Temple and Christmas activity it took a long time and we did not get there until until 10:00 pm.   Wednesday  we got up at 4:30 am so we could get over to the temple. Before we went to the Temple we ate a McDonalds breakfast, it was awesome!!!  Next we went to the temple and  it was my first time going through in Spanish.  I love the temple the spirit is so strong there and it was really cool to just be there in a session filled with missionaries and our mission president. Then after the temple we went and had our Christmas activity, we had a really good lunch and we watched Moana,  it was really fun!   After the Christmas activity we took the bus back home from Bogota and got in at 1 am in the morning. Then Thursday we worked a lot and didn't have much success, then Friday we found a new investigator which was really cool. Saturday we had another leccion with our investigator who gave us the box of milk from last week, and we got to teach his wife this time too!  I really think they're going to progress, we were getting to leave and this time he gave us 2 more things of milk! haha. Our fridge is just filled with milk!!. Then Sunday was awesome, we had 3 investigators attending church and it was conference here so Presidente Baquerizo was speaking and he got to meet our investigators which was really cool. Then we had a leccion in the church with one of our investigators and it was awesome, she accepted a baptisimal date and is really excited about the gospel. Then later that day we had another leccion with a new investigator and she has already been reading the BOM and she says it's true and wants to be baptized!! Things are going really good in our area right now, there are so many people here who are ready to accept this gospel and I'm glad that we've been finding them lately. Then today my companion  and I found this cool little store that sells movie and TV shirts so I bought two awesome Star Wars shirts!! That's it from this week it went by really fast, I love and miss you all, thanks for all the prayers and I hope you're all having a great christmas season!!

Elder McBride

Week 19: Pictures

Week 19: Lots of new investigators, a trip to Hawaii, and a giant box of milk

Hola familia y amigos!!

This week was really, really good. First week with my new companion  Elder Gregerson, he's really cool and a great missionary. Tuesday nothing really happened, but Wednesday we had an awesome day. We taught this family and the dad told us he's going to read the entire book of mormon. Then we had a leccion with the guy who runs our internet cafe and that went really well too! We found 6 new investigators that day. I also ate this awesome thing called a patacona burger(I'll send a pic of it) Then Thursday we had another really good day, found 2 new investigadores, one is this young family, they're married and they want to change their life's to be better parents. I really think they're going to progress. When we were getting ready to leave the husband got up and told us he had something to give us,then he came back with this giant box of milk haha! We have a bunch of milk in the house now. Then friday we found another new investigator the mom of a member who I think we'll be able to baptize. She's amazing and is totally prepared to hear the gospel. We also set baptisimal dates for the kids of Rosana, Sergio and Daniel. We gave them a challenge to live the word of wisdom and the law of chastity for 3 weeks and if their lifes are better be baptized at the end of the 3 weeks! Then Saturday we had an awesome activity of the branch called viaje a Hawaii. They set the chapel up like a plane and they make a plane ride into the plan of salvation. It was a ton of fun and we got 30 referencias from it! Then Sunday we had church and then we found 4 more investigators! We found 13 people this week!! Then today we cleaned the house, got our haircuts, ate burgers, and we got these sick star wars journals! Tomorrow we're going up to bogota to have our big christmas activity so that'll be fun! I hope you're all doing well, Love and miss you guys!!

Elder McBride