The top of the mountain

 WUENAS

Quick update on the missionary work here in Gaira, Colombia:

a I got a new comp (like two weeks ago): Elder Romero a Hna Tricias got baptized last Saturday

a we teach a guy that lives on the top of some mountain

a dog bit me

a l've felt my testimony grow SO much

These last few weeks have been super great, we had emergency transfers and Elder Romero became my new companion. He's a really good missionary, I love how direct he is with the people we interact with.

We started teaching someone named Tricias that we met through a member a couple weeks ago. She's such a sweet lady, and has a strong testimony. We invited her to stop drinking coffee and she was able to quit cold turkey

This last Saturday she was baptized and now she's going to help her family do the same!

We also teach someone named Angel that ironically lives on the top of a mountain us he's got TONS of questions and we love helping him to understand them.

I want to testify of the living Christ, and the power he offers us through his commandments. It is part of God's plan for us to have agency, and for the blessings that come in our lives to be from our choice to follow righteousness.

As children of a loving Heavenly Father, we can become instruments in his beautifuly orchestrated

plan.

I'm so grateful for Jesus Christ's atoning sacrifice, to offer himself up as the Lamb of God and be the Good Pastor.

God no longer requires an animal sacrifice, but rather a broken heart that desires to be perfected through Christ's blood. I testify that through Him, we can realize and achieve our divine potential.

In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Riohacha

 HEY I figured after a few months I'd better throw in an update:

So I'm in a new area again- it's called Riohacha- its a super cool area because it's right on the border of Colombia and Venezuela

My companion is a dope Brazilian named ELDER C he's a really funny guy

Here in Riohacha there's a lot of indigenous people and they speak a language called Waünakee. I'm trying learn it but there's not like any books on it so it's a slower process than I would like👍

It's a smaller branch but the members are AWESOME so the work is much smoother.

They eat a lot more lamb/goat (chivo) here and it literally tastes like beef jerky so I can't complain

This last month of March has been really good for our mission as well, we had 147 baptisms which apparently is the most in the last like 15 years so that's a fun fact.

I want to share my testimony of the Savior:

I know Jesus Christ is the Son of the God and his mercy extends to all people. I know that our efforts will be magnified by Him as we have a faith in Him. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is simple enough for a small child to understand but the most educated and intelligent minds can have difficulty applying it. As we become as small children, we can access God's power in our lives. Covenants make our relationship with Heavenly Father stronger, I love this Gospel and love spreading it. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amén. 

I love it

 HEY EVERYONE heres a reminder that im still alive

I've been doing good here in my area, it's called Gaira 😎 Gaira is this pueblo and i LOVE it. Its such a cool place and a nice break from the big city in Barranquilla.

The little branch here is awesome- we've been trying to really work harder with the members here 💪

These past few weeks have been good, we found this super awesome family, the Blanco family. They're from Venezuela and to get baptized the parents gotta get married 🤠 its not easy but definitely worth helping them, they really look forward to progressing in the gospel. We were about to stop teaching them a couple weeks ago then the mom told us she got a couple dreams with her being dressed in all white and some guy in a church telling her to get baptized on the 16th of December 😶 we kinda sat there in awe for a sec and then set the date for her- so far she can still get baptized that day!!

Plz pray for them!!

here in the Colombian coast its especially hot right now so it doesnt feel like christmas apart from everyone painting all the trees white. 😐 yup.  I guess when your country is incapable of producing snow you just PAINT THE TREES WHITE to imagine that it might actually seem like snow or something. Looks cool i guess🤷‍♂️

Anyways, hope everyone is doing alright- love you all!!!

chou pescau' 🐟🐠

also i hit 17/18 months (cant remeber) this month 

Jesus loves you!

 HEY! I had a good few weeks!

This last week was pretty busy but good😎 we've been looking at houses for señor misioneries! It'll be fun to get to know them!! 

This last week we contacted like CRAZY and plowed through some inactive member lists. While contacting we talked to this lady named Ruth and she's really interested! We also put a couple people on date for baptism but they then proceeded not to go to church so that's an L....

We had an exchange with our LZ's and I went with Elder Del Sero from Argentina 🇦🇷(shoutout a los gauchos allá) he talks goofy BUT he's super sick and it felt good to be able to work on the normal schedule. 

It's rainy season right now so we've been absolutely DUMPED ON by the rain this last week🤗😊 the roads turn into rivers its kinda sick

Jesus loves you! If you wanna know if the church is true then just ask God in prayer and you'll receive an answer! 

Love you all Chau Chau

Gonna start teaching them!

 Hey guys I had a good week i met some super cool people, we found a lot more people to teach because of a challenge our mission President gave us, and I finished up a video

On tuesday it was SO stressful trying to get everything ready to record 😵‍💫😵‍💫 We ended up getting everything done and the rest of the week I was in a HUGE rush trying to get it all done by sunday- fun stuff🤠

Our mission Presidente told us to start talking to every person we're able to, and it's helped us find a lot more people. It's fun to get to know people and joke around with them. I started talking to this one guy and told him I'm from Africa (totally believed me👀) as I I left I gave him a handshake and he grabbed my thumb and then started twisting it- he started laughing and i totally thought he was gonna break it 🥴

One day we were walking and this random house just kinda called my attention so I walked up and asked if they know us. They said they thought their grandma sent us because she's a member of the church and they had just recently moved in. We're gonna start teaching them- they seem pretty interested!

Hope everyone has a good week! Love you all! 

Lord's hand in the work

 hey its been a few weeks so I figured I'd send an email 👍🤠

Ive been really good this last week! We encountered an ... interesting... guy, we got some new missionaries, I'm working on a new vid and broke my toe🥳

Our area doesn't have a lot of people so one day we just went straight contacting and ran into a jdub, I wanted to talk for so long but It wouldn't really do anything we decided to move on- then we found this dude who was super nice and told us to come back! 

After that there was a couple guys from Boston but somehow had broken English (no clue how that works) and he was in a biker gang for some time. He got super excited when I told him my mom and dad have bikes and he explained how he never wrecked because he put a poster of jesus on his chest when he rode 👍 mom and dad please start wearing a Jesus poster when you're riding; I've heard Utah traffic is only getting worse 🤠

Another day we met this lady who's jdub BUT she has memory problems and can't Bible bash with us because she doesn't remember the scripture references. So naturally we started teaching her and her family. She has two grandkids that are our age and are super cool- they asked for the church address and said they were interested 😁

Later that day we asked a guy for a dirrection and he asked about the church! We asked if he's religious and he then explained to us his .. beliefs....? I was informed that all of us are actually offspring of reptilian humanoids and homosapiens- called scraps. 🦧🦎🦧🦎 he proceeded to enlighten us in saying that every 100 years there's a major disease in the world, obviously caused from the two galaxies colliding and becoming "crossable" (our galaxy is the holographic one, which is why we're apparently holographs) he asked if I understood him and told him "even though I understood your Spanish just fine, I've never been more confused" when he shook our hand to go I gave him a pamphlet hoping that maybe he'd read it. He told us to read numbers 11:11 and look up his religion on YouTube.🤯  he didn't even sound drunk either

Other than that it's been good! I've seen the Lord's hand in the work and I want to share my testimony that the church is true! I know that God- a perfect being- loves YOU, an imperfect being. That means that you have divine potential and God's perfect vision of you gives you purpose in this life! I know were not a weird reptilian/homosapien mix but RATHER children of a loving Heavenly Father, and we are capable of becoming like Him through his Son Jesus Christ

we stood where it should have been

 Hey everyone! these past few weeks have great we had to do more house audits and traveled ALL DAY on tuesday and wednesday, we saw some miracles, and I feel like I've spiritually grown a lot!

sometimes we will plan lessons with inactive members to help them come back to church. a couple weeks ago I was looking through a list of the members in our ward, theres about 500 of them. I was scrolling through and was writing down addresses to contact, and I felt the Spirit SO strong telling me to go to a specific house. We went there that night and the address was so old that the house didn't exist anymore. As we stood where it should have been, a neighbor came out and started talking to us. We're now teaching him because of is interest in the gospel! I know that the gift of the Holy Ghost is a divine help given to us from God to serve as a guide in our earthly lives! 

I have been able to study more recently, and it has really been such a blessing for me. I love reading the Book of Mormon and seeing the powerful examples and people that are found in it. I want to testify of the Restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ, and the love and happiness that can really be achieved through the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Other than that, its been pretty normal. Ill keep the updates coming every week (month)!!

This pics a tarde Blanca- our zone had some baptisms on Saturday!