Nov. 29, 2013

Hello everyone! I am going to be a little short today because I want to email a lot of people haha. And sorry, but I did sincerely think that I would be able to email yesterday!

Soooo the past week.5 in the CCM (MTC) has been pretty cool! I have a cool district, and there are a lot of new experiences. They have this fruit called a granadina (I think) and it is pretty cool! google it if you want haha.

So we are only allowed to use our cameras on p-day, I guess that there is some theft that happens here (unfortunately). However I haven´t been stolen from yet!

I went to the temple again on Wednesday, and after we got to go to the distribution center. There I was able to trade in some dolares for pesos! It is like 1800 pesos to the dollar, so I feel pretty rich carrying around 36000 in bills haha. And it seems like most prices here are a little lower than in the US, except gas is like over $5 a gallon! It is pretty crazy haha.

Yesterday we had a general authority come in, one of the seventy down here in Colombia I think. He was pretty cool; however, I was pretty much falling asleep the entire time haha. So he would walk up to me and speak long, fast sentences in spanish and we had a translator telling us what he was saying but it wasn´t fast enough and it was just pretty crazy haha. It was fun though!

Aaannndd I was talkng to one of the latinos here (using the few words I know) and then he said something about merchant... then I realized he was saying Elder Merchen! He (Elder Diaz) is from Guatemala, and Elder Merchen actually stayed at his house! (or something like that haha) It was pretty cool!

So next Wednesday marks the end of the 4th week, and here at the Colombain CCM, that means that all of the norte americanos get latino companions! I am pretty excited. Although I hope he at least speaks a little english. And has good hygine. I guess that is a problem here haha.

Well I know that this church is true! I am so glad to be out here, and although it can be tough at times, I know that my stay in the CCM will help me to better let others come unto Christ! My next p-day is Tuesday, so I will talk to you all then!

Love, 

Elder Toombs

Colombia MTC

Colombia MTC

Nathan and Elder Baumgarten