Aranjuez, Medellin, Valar Dohaeris, Week 70

Well here we go boys and girls it is WEEK 6 OF THE TRANSFER! You know what that means. Check it out

1. Starting the week out good with a role play including Elder Granda as the RM and Elder Pavez as his first date, Elder Granda refused to learn. (Elder Granda is a veeery interesting person, he never had a cell phone before the mish, he had never talked to a girl that wasn't his mom, he's a Brand main, etc...)

2. #selfie

3. We don't really have a place to eat in our house so Elder Granda eats his soup in the kitchen in a plastic chair.

1. When you find out the local bakery delivers bread WITHOUT CHARGING YOU EXTRA HUZZAH! 

2. MEDELLIN COLOMBIA NUESTRA TIERRA PRECIADA MISION VISIONARIA BAUTIZAMOS 100 O NADA

3. When you tell them I'm not too hungry...

1. Elder Granda doing his best impression of being in an IMAX movie theater

2. Typical almuerzo 

3. Included on the list of favorite things to do is whistling at people who walk by our house and asking ¨Que mas pearcero?¨

1. A guy who likes to smoke, we gonna change his life. Rip Graves´ cigar...

2. Sometimes Elder Granda will just freeze in the same position for 5 minutes just to see if anyone will notice. 

3. Its not Paradise Bakery, but its some random bakery that sells good bread and we go eat breakfast there.

1. My new agenda for the transfer. Yes, Elder Granda discovered the golden plates if you weren't aware. 

2. WHEN THE TRANSFERS COME IN AT 8 IN THE MORNIN AND YOU GOTTA RUN TO THE INTERNET TO SEE THEM. Ill be staying in my area with Elder Granda for these next 6 weeks WOOHOO! Elder Pavez and Elder Weber are also staying THE WHOLE POWER RANGER SQUAD IS STAYIN TOGETHER

3. On a more serious note #Pray4Perusalem

1. When Nacional and Medellin (the rival soccer teams from Medellin) play we don't go out and work, cus ya nobody wants to talk to us, and even if someone did, we wouldn't be able to hear them over the sound of the crazy fans in every street. So instead we play Phase 10 on the roof. 

2. Elder Weber doing his best Drew Carey impression. 

3. POWER RANGERS

3 pictures that describe Elder Granda´s process of getting ready in the morning. The 3 pictures span approximately 1 hour. You may be keen to recognize that nothing changes in the photos. You would be correct if you made that assumption. 

1. When the investigators aren't showin up so you go into the street and start inviting the randos

2. When the taxi driver almost gets in a wreck and the motorcycle homies don't say anything so the taxi driver goes on a RAMPAGE CHASIN AFTER THOSE HOOLIGANS! I was spooked.

3. Praise it. 

1. When the Jehovas Witnesses be knockin doors and we were giving them tips. 

2. When the neighbor doesn't answer the door for the JW´s for the 15 minutes that they were standing there, but then as soon as they leave she sticks her head back out the window. Pro.

3. Typical. I love Elder Granda, hes actually my fave comp all jokes aside. Hes super goofy, but we get along great and work together super. 

1. Pday playing Domino with the Elders Quorum in their activity. 

2. Micro Soccer. Its like regular soccer but smaller. All the church buildings in Colombia have one. 

3. Wellcome to Columbia. 

That's the week folks! Hope you had a cool week like I did! Love you all lots! 

Aranjuez, Valar Dohaeris, Week 69

These last 3 weeks have gone by super duper fast. I can't believe imma be home in 8 months. 

We had 8 people come with us to church which was a miracle. Looks like all my hard work here is starting to pay off. For 7 of them it was the first time! The Stake Patriarch gave an....... interesting talk about the partriarchal blessing..... All 10 investigators in the sacrament meeting were confused.

We caught a baby bird this week, put it in swaddling clothes and tried to feed it bread, but then it died. RIP Baby Moses.

Things are great here! Love you all have a good week! 

1. Doing our best Pablo Escobar impressions. #Colombia 

2. New Colombian bills next to the old ones, first one to find Gordon B Hinkley wins a special prize!  

Doing our best Pablo Escobar impressions. #Colombia

New Colombian bills next to the old ones, first one to find Gordon B. Hinkley wins a special prize!

Aranjuez, Medellin, Valar Dohaeris, Week 66

The other missionaries had a baptism this week and I played ¨Mas cerca Dios de ti¨ on the ukulele which went pretty well! 

Elder Falabella from the 70, from Guatemala yee shoutout to TBone, came and spoke to our mission which was pretty cool. I learned a lot and got to see all of my old companions that are still in the mish including 8 of the 9 gringos from my group! 

On Saturday night me and Elder Pavez made ¨completos¨ which is a Chilean food thing. It's basically a hot dog with tomato, avocado, ketchup, mayo, and mustard. They were pretty good.

At the start of this transfer we had 4 couches in the house. We now have 8.... Whenever we see people throwing couches away we always take them to the house 

The laws of Colombia changed recently and now people can't listen to super loud music at night. If they do, the police can now make them stop the party. This is good news for missionaries that need some beauty sleep. It's weird tho. Cus we spend a lot of time on our roof with all our new couches eating and chatting, but now we have to do it in silence  cus none of the neighbors put on loud reggae-ton music like they used to  I actually really like reggae-ton music...

It was a good week here in Medellin, hope you all are gr8 have a good one! 

ya boys at the chu church

Eattin thos completos

Aranjuez, Medellin, Valar Dohaeris, Week 65

Hi guys! I'm in Medellin and life is GR8! My new comp is super humble and loves to help out with everything! He washes all the dishes too so that's a score! 

Everyone here talks in vos. If you don't know anything about Spanish, there are different ways to say the word ¨You¨, like if you wanna be formal, or informal, and then you can use the word ¨vos¨ which is super informal to the point where it either means you hate the person you are talking to or you love them. I'm pretty sure everyone uses it with me cus they hate me.

We`re out here finding tons of new people to teach! We found this cool family this week and when we visited them yesterday they gave us morcilla! Not my fave, but its still fun to eat blood sausage! 

I live with Elder Weber who lives in Power Ranch in Gilbert. He's a cool guy. I also live with Elder Pavez from Chile. We have lots of fun together! 

Love you guys lots have a gr8 week! 

1. My comp loves this picture of the family of Elder Weber. He looks at in in all his free time...

2. When I just ate a bunch of Chinese Rice and feel super fat, but still gotta make it on time to that appointment!

Chinchina, Its lit, Week 64

Well this was my last week in Chinchina! And as you know every week 6 of the transfer is a blast of pictures.

• The sides of my new agenda. Valar Dohaeris.
• My comp likes to practice his Shia Labeouf impression by screaming at everyone JUST DO IT! This picture was taken at 11 at night when the sister missionaries were in the hospital and my comp here is trying to animate one of our zone leaders to take money to them. 
• A nice breakfast. Aloe vera drank and a muffin.

• Coca Cola in CANS! What a find!
• I don't even know what he wants. He sleeps inside btw. 
• Vamonos lets go!

• Lunch at a place called Panda Express, it wasn't as good. Also yes it says jedi in the background.
• When your comp orders a rubiks cube online and it doesn't get to him on time so he goes and complains. #suchacommonplight
• Sam Witwicky pls

• Never leave your house without the rift.
• When the zone leaders invite us to their house for a meeting called "Noche de Garments, Noche de Paz". The taxi dude just wanted to talk about prostitutes. 
• Smile and say gg ez boys

• We actually met the famous esus Hernan Tobon!
• The branch presidents son is playing with the neighbor boy who isn't allowed to leave his house. The branch presidents wife hears the word "bazooka"  and freaks out and tells him he's not allowed to play with bazookas or any type of weapon. He comes in 5 minutes later "Mom can we use a landmine PLEEEEEASE!?" #godzirra
• Cookin it up Gary's way. Ft. tongs and glasses to protect me from harm. 

• My new area will be Aranjuez 2 in the city of Medellin! My companion is Elder Granda from Ecuador.
• Chao Chinchina! 
• They stuffed us like a cheeseburger into this bus yo

A little pic of the new house. Im really excited to be back in Medellin working! It'll obviously be hard, but with the help of the Lord anything is possible. Love you all lots have a good week