Jamundi - Week Six

This week was really good I think. One of our goals for the month of September was to baptize the 8-year-old daughter of a family of less actives, Familia Tulande. They were really less active when I first arrived but after six weeks of kinda teaching them consistently they started coming to church, and their kids (who are members) started going to seminary, and the parents said that they wanted their youngest daughter to be baptized and they talked to the bishop and then on Saturday her dad baptized her! Honestly we didn't really do anything special to help them.  They just kinda came back on their own.

But the service was really good. In the program they put that the missionaries were gonna perform a musical number, and I wasn't informed until like three hours before, and my companion really can't sing, and the other Elders in the district had an appointment so they couldn't be there, so I ended up singing a solo in front of everyone! It was short and not really anything special but a lot of people told me that I was really kinda amazing, so I guess I’ll take it LOL.

The families that I wrote about last week couldn't go to church and we couldn't really teach them that much because it was the 15 birthday of Michel Usma on Saturday, and in South America the 15 birthday of a daughter is literally huge, so they were busy planning all week and got home at like 7 a.m. on Sunday, so neither of the two families or Felipe the boyfriend came on Sunday, but we taught Fam Toro like two times this week and put baptismal dates for the two kids! The family is excited n stuff, they're going to be baptized on the 19th by the stake president who is really good friends with the father who is excommunicated, because that's what he wants. But we’re really excited for them.

Nothing else REALLY important happened this week, except for normal teaching, all of our appointments falling and the usual LOL.

There's honestly not that many things to take pictures of, I don't know what to say. I’m understanding a lot, but sometime's I'm really lazy and if I don't know what like 50 percent of the words mean I can't figure out the meaning and when I can't figure out the meaning I stop listening and think about something else. I'm trying to do better . . .

I eat literally everything cuz I like the food here, and I'm discovering that I actually like things that I thought I didn't, like corn on the cob, LOL. We eat lunch at a member's house every day, buy bread for breakfast every day, and for dinner I normally just make eggs with salchichas or sometimes I make French toast or something fancy. The other day for Sunday we made chicken Alfredo for lunch, wow, that was really good!

Colombia isn't really scary, some parts of Jamundi are kinda poor, but everyone is really nice. Every time we enter a house they give us free juice without even asking us if we want any. Now when we go to someone's house and they don't give us juice I think that they're being kinda rude, LOL.

For something spiritual, something I like is that every time I recite the first vision (which is kinda a lot) I feel the Spirit literally every single time, so that's always like a good reassurance of what I'm doing isn't for nothing.

Love and miss you.