Lorica, Life in a Tropical Wasteland Week 12

Heyo homies hope everyone is doing swell! You may not have noticed, but the title of the email changed, something Imma try to do every 6 weeks. But ya, this place is a tropical wasteland, its like kind of tropical with palm trees and exotic people, but like a wasteland, cus you walk outside and your face melts from all the nuclear fallout. 

But this week was good in Colombia! We continue to teach investigators, recent converts and less actives every day to grow the Lord's Kingdom the best we can! 

We bought an AC this week to put in our room which is beautiful. Words can't describe how good AC feels. Imagine, walking into a room that's 85 degrees with 0 humidity! It's the greatest thing that's happened to us since we got here, being able to sleep without sweating. Sometimes I feel like it's a little too cold even! It's been weird waking up and being cold... We bought the thing for about $30 and the guy said that when we're done with it, we can bring it back to him and he'll give us our money back! Like what. Blessings come in different shapes and sizes, and sometimes it's an AC that makes living possible. It's great. Have I told you all how great it is? 

This week we were teaching one of our progressing investigators and she told us she had started reading the Book of Mormon from the beginning! Awesome sauce right? We start asking if she has any questions and she starts telling us about all the things she likes and tells us about 1st Nephi 3:7 and how much that scripture resonated with her. All of our lessons with her go great! She bought us iguana eggs to eat this week, not as bad as you would think!

A lady gave me a bowl of beans to eat this week, the first time in my mission it's happened! I just gave them to my comp sneakily. Gosh they're no good. 

So in Lorica we live in the neighborhood Kennedy, which is the biggest most central neighborhood there is, basically the most poppin place to live. Well this week was the neighborhood's 52nd birthday! So everyone was crazy drunk all week blasting loud music and being crazy. The weekend was even worse, with random midnight parades, people throwing colored flour and everyone, and more drunk people. It was pretty nuts. 

This week I got hungry and ate probably 6 loaves of bread.

Our roommates had two baptisms this week which was a neat experience! I had taught them a few lessons and they're super cool people.

The most common thing I've been hearing from my comp lately about my Spanish is: Ya that's how you say it in English, but in Spanish it doesn't make sense at all. Which has been a little frustrating and discouraging tbh. It's just strange how you think learning a language just means knowing two words for every word, but you really have to know how to say what you're saying, which takes a lot more time than just memorizing words. 

A scripture that has helped me a lot this week is found D&C Section 15

6 And now, behold, I say unto you, that the thing which will be of the most worth unto you will be to declare repentance unto this people, that you may bring souls unto me, that you may rest with them in the kingdom of my Father. Amen.

I really like this. If you have anyone in your life who isn't sure if they want to serve a mission, I would encourage you to show this to them. This doesn't only apply to full time missionaries either. Every member is a missionary. The Gospel is about peace and happiness. We should try to share this message with everyone whether being bold and talking to them about what we believe, or just by being a good example and a good person. Easy peasy.

Love you all, Bob Bless