La Tarde Naranja

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 Hola hola a todos!!


This week has certainly been something! Everyday this week we just had something crazy happen every single day. I also got to travel down to Sucre and Betanzos en Potosí for a couple days this week. Long distance traveling in Bolivia is awful. There are these things called "flotas" and it's just a massive bus, kinda like the classic buses from London with two stories, but with airplane seats. I'm sure it would great if you could sleep in it. I couldn't so I stayed up all night Tuesday night and Thursday night coming home. 

Sucre and Potosí are beautiful though! So different than the good old Cochabamba I'm used to and know. Betanzons has probably the coolest chapel that I have seen in Bolivia, and it's also so tiny. And Sucre is a literal city just built on hills, buy its old timey and pretty too.

We got home from our excursion down south on Friday morning at like 4:30 in the morning and got to our house at 5:30 which gave us an hour to sleep. When we woke up from our nap Elder Nóbrega was dead sick so we had to work in a little bit of a different way. We decided to create a challenge for a bunch of missionaries which was that they had to find someone in the streets with an orange shirt and invite them to church, and if the spirit directed them, invite them to baptism on the spot. It was so cool to see pictures of all the new friends and even hear some stories of miracles and the dates they put with them. God will always provide a way to help his work progress!

OH!! I also got the package from my good old Stallion Way Ward!! I missed fruit snacks!

I hope you all had an awesome week too full of unforgettable experiences because that's what makes life fun, or something like that.

Con cariño,
Elder Holdstock






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