In the past week, we have had a ton of rain! Pretty much every day. And just when we think it is over, look outside and there isn´t a cloud, in the afternoon it is dumping like crazy. It is raining right now! So my companion, Elder Giler, was robbed in his last area, La Victoria, and he lost all his stuff: Scriptures, bag, everything. Including his portable umbrella. But in our house, there just happens to be an umbrella! It is a ful-size, so my comp doesn´t really like to carry it around. So, because of this, every morning he says (in spanish) "Oh, it´s not going to rain today," he doesn´t bring his umbrella, and he gets soaked. So the first few times, when I offered to share mine, he didn´t want to (yeah it´s kinda weird for two guys to share the same one), but the last time, it was cold and he finally gave in until a member let him use his.
So every Tuesday night, la Rama Tintal (the branch Tintal) does an activity called "Sacerdocio en Acción," or Priesthood in Action. What it is is that the missionaries go on splits with members of the branch, and we go and visit less-active families. So the last Tuesday, I went over to the house of a less active named Claudia. She is one of the coolest people ever, and has a really strong testimony of the Church and that God is present in her li9fe. She just doen´t go to church! She has a young child that is dificult at times, but we are working with her to get her to come.
Our Rama is really progressing! The size isn´t increasing too much, but the leadership is really coming together. For the fisrt time in the time I have been here, they are organizing home teachers and visiting teachers, and we have a lot of plans for how the branch is going to help the missionary work!
Another cool thing: Ok I don´t remember if I already talked about it, but we are working on having an English Class! We just submitted an official proposition to see if we can teach in an apartment complex! It´s pretty cool, I hope we can!
This week was pretty hard. We had a lot of lessons just not happen, and a lot of investigators that were committed to go to church, just didn´t show up. It is pretty normal, but hard at the sametime. But we did have Two show! Alba and Johan, our best (and only) progressing investigators. We will see how far they go!
So after church on Sunday, we went to a recent convert´s house and had lunch, pretty normal, except for lunch I had my first whole fish! Yeah I know it isn´t that exciting, but I have never eaten a fish that still had the head attached, so it was something. And it was filled with so many spines that I think I burned more calories taking the fishb apart than I got from eating it. But it was pretty cool!
And today is P-Day! So I got to try out my new shoes, which are Definately worth more than $10! I probably jinxed myself, but we will see how long they last. I also made Patacones for the first time! (see photo) So what they are are pretty much smashed slices of platano (giant banana), fried in oil a couple times. They are pretty good!
So I have a challenge! So in my personal reading of the Book of Mormon every morning,m I have a study journal with me always. I look for things really cool, or how scriptures can apply to my life in that moment, and write them down! It is really helping me to understand, learn, and to feel the Spirit in my study. I know that the Book of Mormon is true, and because of that, Joseph Smith was a prophet, and we have the fullness of the everlasting gospel of Jesus Christ! I am super grateful to be able to be here in the mission, and I am looking forward to the rest of the experiences I will have here in Colombia!
Love,
Elder Toombs
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