Ipiales - Week Two

This week was actually pretty cool, we ended up finding 26 new people to teach, which was literally "the most in the whole mission" also was probably one of the coolest experiences that I've ever had in the mission. We got a reference and we ended up going, and it was like a group of Alcoholics Anonymous, and the boss had asked other missionaries to go and teach all of them, so we showed them the "Light the World" video. The Spirit was really strong, a lot of the guys started crying, and shared their testimony, said that they felt the spirit really strong, (they like to shout "Amen!" and "I testify!" a lot haha) and almost all of them wanted to go to church, but they couldn't, because the boss, or the guy that runs the house said that he already had plans for that Sunday and that they can only leave the house if he takes them out to do something together. That group is already kind of sad, since there's 18 kids who live there mixed with 60-70-year olds, and seeing how drugs and alcohol have ruined their lives and how even still some of them sneak out at night to do drugs, but I really think that we can make a difference.

My new son’s also really cool, and such a hard worker, he's really in tune with the Spirit, and even though we´re opening area with hardly any investigators, he's not getting down or anything.  It kinda sucks that he's starting the mission in a place like this--he's gonna think that the whole mission is like this when it's really not, and the fact that I have a 38 degree fever and that they're gonna take us out of our area for the carnivals in about a week doesn't help either, but were doing the best we can.

We also had our Christmas conference this week, which was really cool. I got to see a lot of my old companions and friends the pictures in order are "Elder Tantachucco,

Elder Berrio,

The old distrct Morichal,

Elder Cumbal,

Elder Martinez,

Elder Meneses,

Hna Copa,

My District,

and the Zone.

We also did another Christmas carol thing like we did last year, ill probably put the video on Google drive when I have more time

My companion told his family between 3 and 6, Colombian time, so I hope that works out for you! Haha if not you might have to skip your meeting...anyway, see you on Sunday!