Elder Samuel Holdstock

  What's up everyone! Bolivia has been going crazy, not with blockades and street riots anymore, just with a bunch of people who want to hear the message of the restored gospel and it's awesome.  Sometimes my companion and I don't have a ton of time to look for people in our area with everything we have to do, but it amazes me how the members here are so willing to being their friends to church and introduce us to them and help teach all the way until their baptism. We have seen so many miracles this way, if you have friend that isn't a member, or even less-active, introduce them to the missionaries because it helps everyone out.  My companion and I have just started our 3rd transfer together and we are thriving. We have also become the 911 for our ward when it comes to someone not showing up in the ward and we just get talks and lessons thrown at us, but that's what we are here for so we do it with a smile. Yesterday we had one of those experiences and were able to...

  Buenoooooos díaaaaaaaas What's up everyone and how are you all doing? The Bolivian life we're living down here has been crazy. This week was so full of amazing things. It started last monday in a family home evening with our two friends Brandon and Gabriel with this member family that is full of the coolest people ever. We had asked them about baptism before and we had them on date, but then they stopped respondong to us so their date didn't give. Well we asked them to think about another goal and Brandon said he'd been talking about it with his friend Joshua, who is the member, and wanted to set himself the goal of the 12th. We checked the calendar and saw it was Saturday and were super excited, but then remembered we were going to be in Potosí. He understood and said he didn't want to wait anymore and will send us pictures. Two days later we headed off to Sucre where I copped myself I think the greatest beanie anyone has ever seen. On top of that I got to sleep ...