July 14, 2014 Cambios!

July 14, 2014

Cambios!

So this week we have transfers... and I am leaving! It is super agridulce (bittersweet), but I am excited to be able to go to... Neiva! It is a city like 6 hours outside of Bogotá, in tierra caliente (hot land). So it is super hot haha.

We have had a pretty good week, where we found (well received references of) a couple more investigators, but this time investigators that are prepared! One of them is an old man who lives like on the border of our area, named Jaime. He was a reference from the 1st councilor of the bishopric of the next ward over, which belongs to the North mission. Jaime has been attending (not assisting...fetching Spanish haha) church over there for like 2 months now, and wants to be baptized! He is a super cool guy, and I know that he will be baptized soon.

On Friday we had 4 lessons with investigators! Normally we can squeeze in like 1 or 2 lessons every day, but this time we did well! We taught Mercedes again, this time, the Word of Wisdom. And she will be having problems with... none of it! She has already been living the Word of Wisdom for years, due to hypertension from coffee and a near-death experience with alcohol. She is a great reminder for me that there are prepared people out there, we just need to go and find them!

Yesterday, it was pretty cool, I got to help a few children with their English homework! We have been setting up an English class here, but now I am leaving... Maybe in Neiva haha.

And big news... this week we found out... that we can play soccer again!!!! So today, the Kennedy and Libertad zones went over to this place with great synthetic fields, and we played! We also brought our Elder's Quorum President, Hermano Parraga (he likes soccer haha). It was an awesome time, but now I am just totally wiped out, and my body hurts all over. But it is ok. Then after Hno. Parraga bought us lunch!

Have a great week!

Elder Toombs

Lunch after playing soccer

Nathan's Zone