Finding galore

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 Gooood morning everyone! What is up?

I hope you all had a fun little week and congrats Clayton and Clara!

This week down here in Bolivia was super good. We had been needing to find new people to teach and didn't know how because knocking doors and just stopping people in the street wasn't showing any success. We sat down and brain stormed a bunch of ideas and put them to thw test this last week. 

My mom was a genius and told me to bring my Kendama and if I'm not wrong she used the words "I don't know, just in case" and on Monday it came in clutch. We went and bought some suckers and took the Kendama out to the streets. We played a little game with the people in the street and contacted them and taught them in the process. It was actually super fun and we saw a lot of success there.

Last week we had seen a clown in the street making balloon animals and so we decided to put our clown talents to the test and make balloon animals to gift to the kids to contact their parents. It just su happened that the day we chose was "Student Day" and everyone was searching for a gift for their student. As soon as we showed up to the school to plop ourselves down nearby ans put the idea to the test, the parents and kids came swarming. We were able to find another group of people that are potentially super cool. 

We were also able to be a part of Gonzalo's baptism this week. The guy hates Satan and is happy to be on God's team now jaja

If anyone has other fun ideas like these of how to find new people, let me knoooooow!

Have a good week
Elder Holdstock











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