There was a situation here this week in the coast of Colombia which forced all of the coastal missionaries, in our mission at least, to stay home on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. We were unable to leave the house for any reason. Baaaaaaasically, in Colombia, there is a lot of military groups that want power. One of these military groups is based in the coast of Colombia. This group works against the Colombian Government and kills police and stuff like that. So an important leader of this military group was killed by police this week! In retaliation, this group basically took over our whole department (state) and made sure that all the stores in all of Lorica, except one, were closed, and they apparently partrolled around and idk murdered people! This is basically just word on the street, but it's all we know! So ya, the rebel group was being all rebel group-y. So we had to stay inside to not be murded nbd.
Soooo because of that we unfortunately could not watch conference on Saturday, not that anyone even left there house on that day or even opened up the chapel. Imma get caught up this week though, which I'm excited about!
We had some good lessons in the days where we were't playing connect 4 in our house! With Yorleidis and Laura, they came to conference and their excitement for their baptism in 3 weeks is continuing because of their reading of the book of Mormon! Love it.
Conference here is in Spanish, obvi, so I couldnt understand everything. Something I liked from Linda K Burton, I think she was, is the message that I got that: The Church is not only a good thing, it is also true. I love the simplicity of this statement. We need to focus on these two things about the church, that it can bless our lives, but also that it is literally the church of Jesus Christ restored on the Earth. Love it.
Not much more happened this week since I mostly just ate chocolate bars and collected stickers in my house while losing tan. Hope you all enjoyed more sessions of conference than me, love you all lots!
Picture 1: Pinate, Laura, Yorleidis, and me at conference on Sunday!
Picture 2: The chapel where we watched conference!
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| Pinate, Laura, Yorleidis, and me at conference on Sunday! |
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| The chapel where we watched conference! |
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