A Couple Asistencias

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 Hola hola a todos!


This past week was something else, it was so fast and we did a million things. I also just feel like I go on exchange my whole life because that's actually just what I do. I went on 3 this week and esch one was so good. In one we went to Los Ángeles and together we ended finding a family of non-members with only one member in the family. They'll be getting baptized in two weeks! In another intercambio we went to La Floresta and ended up finding a family where the mom is a member, and her son hasn't been baptized yet, he'll be changing that next week. And the last exchange we were in Esmeralda 2 which is right next to my home of Amancayas so that was fun. We found another incomplete family, but the sister who is a member doesn't want that her siblings are members which is weird. We didn't get to put them on date, but we did make bread and cake with them which was fun.

Apart from the constant exchanges, my companion and I set a goal this week that we thought was crazy. As a mission, we usually average about 270 friends in the church on Sunday, so we set the goal of 300 attendances in the church for yesterday. Idk what it's like in other missions, but here almost anyone will accept a baptismal invitation, but they dont want to go to church, well we worked our tails off this week and with so much help from the Lord, as a mission, we saw 368 of our friends worshiping the Lord with us on Sunday. It was so cool!! Our Heavenly Father answers our prayers and recognizes our efforts and we were so happy yesterday. 

A not so fun this week was I ate Chicken's Kingdom 5 times this week. It's pretty much the only fast food in Bolivia that isn't American which means it's not a million dollars, and our pensionista couldn't make us lunch a couple days and it was the only option,, it's a rip but oh well.

I hope that you all have had an awesome week
Love you all

Con cariño,
Elder Holdstock 












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