The Bolivian 4th of July

-

 


Hola hola a todos


This one was a quiiiick week. We had zone Conferences this week which is always baller. The focus was to teach doctrine not just "cualquier cosa" and to focus on our own covenants that we have made with our Heavenly Father in our baptisms and in the temple because those will help us with our own conversion and in turn be better equipped with the Spirit to bless the lives of our friends. It was awesome,, so everyone remember your covenants and count your blessings!

Also this week after a zone conference I got shipped out to Linde for the day on exchange. We spent the afternoon visiting so many awesome people, but they all have a major difficulty that is stopping them from progressing and being baptized. No one continues to be married here, or if they are, they're married with someone they dont live with and can't get married to the person they do live with now because they dont have money to pay for the divorce or can't find their "spouse" to go and make it official. Sin embargo, they're little by little accepting the gospel in their life and one hermana said "mi vida cambió cuando los misioneros tocaron mi puerta la primera vez." We also gave this lady a Book of Mormon and she said she'd read it all the way to Sucre in the flota on her way to her church service 🙄 

Also this week was "6 de Agosto" which is their independence day. Everyone was warning us to be careful because it's a crazy day and no one will be working, but it's just a normal day. Nothing compared to the 4th of July. I also met an hermana that day as we were buying Bolivia flag face masks speaking English. I talked to her and she told me how she used to live in the US for 7 years and is now an English teacher here, and doesn't like Bolivia that much and because of that she's celebrating the 4th of July in her class with her students jajaja Bolivians are something else! I love it here!

That's pretty much it this week, the work is different now, but I'm still loving my time here in Bolivia! There are so many people that have been prepared by our Heavenly Father and it's incredible! Love you all

Con cariño,
Elder Holdstock





Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Feliz día de la madre!!

-
Image
  Hola hola a todos! This week we celebrated mothers day here in Bolivia. Mothers day is a way bigger deal and no one works, and no wants to talk to you which was an awesome day. It consisted of just walking around trying to make any kind of conversation. One guy asked if we even believe in mothers in our church. Nice one, I think he might have won that encounter  But this week was good! Our teaching pool has decreased and decreased slowly over the last couple weeks. A big point of focus has been to rebuild the teaching pool. We've been spending a lot of time finding news which is kinda what we've always been doing. I used to tener miedo to knock someone's door or talk to someone on the street in Utah in a language I spoke fluently, but now I have seen a huge transformation with the help of my loving Heavenly Father and I am not nervous for any of that in a language I'm still learning. It comes from the power of the calling that missionaries have. Elder Christofferson w...
Read more

Mapa de Tesoro

-
Image
  Hola hola a todos! I don't have a lot to write this week. We had Transfers on Friday and I got a new gringo companion! His name is Elder Diaz from Maryland and he's cool. We have the same amount of time here in Bolivia so we're going to be grinding the Spanish so that we can be a part of so much success in this great work! Something awesome before transfers happened with our family that lives in the house with the red door and red roof. I can't remember if I filled in some information on but basically that lady Virginia that we met and told us she wasn't a member ended up being a member. But! She has two nietos that live with her and we've been teaching them and they've loved it and are all ready to get baptized this Saturday. Their names are Nathaly and Johan. Nathaly just learned English by watching movies and reading books so sometimed we just talk to her in English while her little brother just sits there trying so hard to understand. It's so fun! ...
Read more

Missing in action

-
Image
  What's up everyone, hope that everyone had a grand old 4th of July. We definitely had our little celebration for the country of the Restoration here, just minus the fireworks. This week though was pretty baller.  Saturday last week our first counselor had told us he had met an inactive member that was a returned missionary. We went with him to meet him and it was true. It was also true that he had an 11 year old kid who hadn't been baptized yet. Which is weird because his dad has his missionary plaque on display in his house as well as every pamphlet and missionary manual that you can imagine. The kid asked to be baptized the first time we met him, and now the family is coming back to church so that he doesn't go inactive after his baptism. That's why he hadn't been baptized yet. His dad was scared to have him baptized and never go back. We also met another inactive member that no body would have been able to find. We have a ward missionary that is incredible. Her...
Read more