July 17, 2017

Another good week down here in the dirty streets of Bolivia. First we had a baptism of an investigator named emma! All of her family are members but alot are menus acvtive. About a month or 2 ago they started to return to the church and we learned that their youngest daughter hadnt been baptized! So we have been working for about 4 or 5 weeks with her and we baptized her saturday! I ended up doing the baptism so that was a pretty cool experience! Besides that today is freaking freezing and windy. Eveyrythings going good down here! 

 The baptism with the ward and her family

a random place in our area where people dont live because there are pumas

July 10, 2017

Well as of this week i feel like im understanding everything is spanish and i can say almost everything i want, so the gift of tongues is real haha. For the 4th of July i said the pledge of allegiance and sang to myself so that was pretty awesome. On Thursday this week i lost my voice and literally coudlnt speak so i literally just sat in the lessons all day and listened to my companion teach, I felt pretty worthless that day so ive gained a testimony of our ability to speak haha. So then Friday we walking to an aoppointment and this guy pulled up to us in his car and said he is investigating a lot of churches right now so we gave him a pamphlet and so we are just waiting for his call now, cause i know he is going to find the truth he is searching for! We had luch with a member Sunday

 and he talked to us for about 30 minutes when he used to fight roosters for a living so that was pretty crazy haha. Well thats about it fam. We are working really hard with our investigators with baptism dates right now, lots of prayers haha. Well love and miss you all!
 

 I found this Dr Pepper for a dollar so that was one of the miracles of week haha

July 3, 2017

Hola familia y amigos, wow first shout out to USA for her birthday, they dont seem to celebrate that down here so thats a bummer, but we had really good week down here in Bolivia, This week we put a ton of baptism dates for people so that was pretty awesome, we have 8 baptism dates this month, so we are praying a ton for them right now haha. The weather is perfect here right now so thats a blessing, a little cold in the morning but perfect in the afternoon. We always have a ton of miracles in the week. One miracle was Friday we had a lesson at 5 pm and it was about 4 pm and we were close to our house and i had to go to the bathroom really bad so i went to the bathroom and then we got on the bus to go to our lesson and this lady starting talking to us telling us how she was a meno active member and wants to return to the church and her husband isnt a member and they both want to come to church and so we got their information and everything so its just pretty cool to see how God puts things in our path, me going to the bathroom was part of Gods plan so we could find this lady haha. Thats about it this week, if you are reading this you should shoot me an email 

June 26, 2017

Well I´ve been out in the field for 6 months... The time is literally flying by, but man the mission is awesome. Also shoutout to my brother jacob for getting married, sucks i missed that, but its all good. My area is the biggest in the mission, one side of my area doesnt even have a limit because its just straight jungle and wild animals haha. But man there are a to of people in the area that want to hear about the gospel. We found 27 new investigators this week and so we are working with them to be prepared for baptism! They created a new stake here yesterday so 2 members of the 70 came and we got to listen to them which was awesome. I feel could such a power in their words. Elder Hugo Montoya and Elder Fabio Moscoso were the 70´s. So that was definitely the highlight this week, to hear the testimonios of special witnesses of Jesus Christ is always a great opportunity. 

we watched Moana the last Pday on this, so that was lit

redbull gum for 10 cents

June 19, 2017

Well honestly family I dont have much to say. We found 24 new investigators this week so we are working on putting baptism dates for them. This week was suppper hot, sweatin bullets all day, but today is freezing, the weather is pretty crazy here haha. I was reading in the ensign this week of the talks from general conference and one theme i sensed was that we have to be preparing our selves right now, today to be ready for the 2nd coming, we dont have time to wait. We have to prepare ourselves right now through the scriptures, prayer, the church, and trying to develop more christlike attributes. I think everyone has quoted what President Monson said about reading the Book of Mormon everyday, but it is so true. The Book of Mormon changes lives. It has the power to guide our lives in harmony with what our heavenly father wants for us. I have the seen the change the Book of Mormon does for us in my mission, in myself and also in the people we teach. Reading the Book of Mormon is something we have to do everyday, there are not excepetions. Well thats about it fam and friends. Love and miss you all!

June 12, 2017

Well friends and family another good week out here in the dirt roads of Bolivia. First shout out to my brother Cole, he finishes his mission this week and hes been a great example to me. So we had changes this week but im staying in my area for one more change! So that will be about 6 months in my first area, but im not complaining because that is the Lords will and the people her are so awesome and ready for the gospel. So right now we are just working with a bunch of teenagers and about 2 families. We taught the Restoration so much this week and when ever we get to the Book of Mormon and talk about when Christ came to the Americas, that always gets their attention and then the spirit is super strong and testifies to them and wow The Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is so real. The weather this week was pretty chill. Hot in the afternoon and then freezing cold in the night.

June 5, 2017

Hola familia y amigos! Well this week was pretty good! We had a baptism planned for this coming Saturday but we pushed it back 2 weeks cause we felt like he wasnt prepared but he is progressing really well right now so im pretty confident we will have a baptism in 2 weeks! So after our conference with our mission president we were just stoked to get back into the field, and this week we found 25 new investigators! Which we had a lesson with them and we set another appointment so thats pretty awesome, and wow some of them are really prepared. But besides that the work is going really good here, we are preparing a lot of people to be baptized soon! Thats about it for this week, but its pretty cool right now, i can basically say whatever i want in a different language haha, still got a lot more learn about the language tho. Love and miss you all, the church is true! 

 My zone leader that finished his mission