Elder Samuel Holdstock

  hola hola a todos!! how are you all doing? I'm just thriving out here in Bolivia speaking Spanish and stuff still. This is gonna be a super quick email because I am jam packed with tasks to do this week.  I got 3 quick things for you all.  Number one is that I bought a vest on pday two weeks ago and it´s the greatest purchase a  man has ever made in his life. Not like an old suit and vest type of thing, but a nice puffy type vest and now people call me the chaleco guy. Number two is that we don't work a ton in our area, but we've been talking with our friend Ernesto who is progressing so well. He went from telling us that he just wants to learn more and doesn't want to change religion to now coming to church with us every sunday and telling us he learns so many new things that are aligned with what he's always thought. I think his most used frase with us is "Oh, super genial! eso no se hace en la iglesia catolica" but then because he also speaks english ...

  hola hola a todos! how are you all?! this is gonna a quick email because I didn't last week. everything is still so good here in Bolivia. this week we had a baptism for our friend Marcelo who is so excited to get the priesthood so he can baptize his kids which is going to be awesome.  we also had an activity in the ward where the youth were acting as the prophets and important people from the old testament. they had been practicing for weeks and so many had had their scripts memorized. well last minute someone dropped out so they had to ask the "white one" to be adam in their little skit thingy. it was a grand ol' time this week we had zone conference and a lot of capacitations so we always had something to do which is fun, but not mych time to visit with Ernesto which was sad. This week we'll get back on the grind with him and see where it takes us

  Hola hola a todos! How is everyone doing this fine morning? This week down here in the land of the chuño and matecito de manzanilla has been wild. This week we had transfers and Elder Nóbrega left and went to my home over in Sacaba. Now Elder Gallo and I are ballin it up over here in Villa Moscú and it's been a party.  Yesterday we had el día de peatón which is where there are no cars in the road and everyone is outside with their friends or with their familias. We're supposed to have am english class each week, but President sent out a messages that all english clases would be canceled and that we had to contact 50 people in the streets. We were hyped and got straight to work. We searched for familias and found so many. At one point we were walking and this little kid yells at us from across the street so we went and talked to him and his family and they were super cool.  We were also doing of thirst and heat because we hadn't gone home after church and we had fasted a...