Monday, June 12, 2017

Medellin, Idk what week but I have like 18 weeks left

Alright Phonies, its week 6. Here we got your classic week as a missionary in Colombia.

-Startin out with some peanut butter popcorn.

-7.5 liters of juice for less than 2 dollars. I love it here. HEY THAT'S A LOW PRICE!- Elder Weber (We think that's from some commercial in Arizona, if someone could let me know from which company it would be greatly appreciated.)

-I got my package so now we`re clowns with the clown balloons! That reminds me of my favorite insult, ¨Who's this clown?¨ Because you're not only calling them a clown but also that they're not even a well known clown!





-Ramen noodles bruh. 

-Live 100. 

-That moment when you decide to smash all the plastic bottle guys that youve been saving up for 3 transfers to go and sell to be able to buy a PIZZA!







- That moment when you sell two giant bags of smashed plastic bottles and they give you 60 cents......... 😶

-The new style. Watch out. 

- No, you don't need to clean your monitor. This is real life. This is a lunch in Colombia WITHOUT RICE! 






-Elder Moutinho learned in less that 24 hours to do the rubik cube. Str8 up mathematician. 

- A guy who hopped onto his pile of stuff and rode it down the big hill screaming! Reminds me of Brother Memmott, ¨GERONIMOOOOOOOOOOOO¨.

-When the members visit investigators with you.






-Your classic pizza party. Looks like we collected the most box tops! #4thgradealloveragain






-A sign I found 10 feet up in a tree...

- My favorite part of the Bible, when Mary gets crowned in heaven.

- I miss this.






-Medellin is neat-o.

- Its like in Celtic Kings every time I won the game against the bots. Surrounded. GGEZ. 

-When somebody throws the card on the ground 😑





-MFW the water balloon pops.
- ANOTHER PIZZA PARTY WOOHOO BOX TOPS 
- La niña de la noche. He didnt eat his crust, so we gave him a wig. 







-When we went to go do a service activity to help the Relief Society President move. We broke her glass table..... Ooops....
- Not pictured: All of Sunday. We had 10 investigators at church. When we got the transfers and Elder Weber is going to CHINCHINA and he screamed NONONO!
Ya that was basically the week. Love you homies lots! Bob bless! 





Monday, May 8, 2017

Medellin, Week 77

I don't have much time, but my comp is Elder Moutinho he is from Brazil! 
He's a 2 year convert and only member in his family. Hes a gr8 guy. Probs my best companion I've had and he's been a missionary for 1 week lol. 
Elder Pinacho from Mexico is our new roommate. He was my roommate in the MTC so I already knew him, he's a gr8 guy too. Really humble and nice. 
We're doing great. Hoping to baptize haha. Elder Moutinho laughs cus I told him that all our investigators need to get married and he didn't believe me, but now he does lol. No one gets married here. 
We didn't do much when we got our new comps. 
I haven't gotten a package yet. 
Love you lots, talk to you on Sunday!


Monday, May 1, 2017

Medellin, Week 76

Aight. Here we are with the fresh week 6 of the transfer picture spam. Rundown of the week- I'm staying in my area and will be training a new missionary, Elder Pavez and Elder Granda are leaving, I have a lot of pictures of Elder Granda because he's the greatest, 5 people came to church with us woohoo. Also a lot of people in Colombia speak sign language....

1. Elder Granda plays with Batman and Power Ranger action figures in our free time.
2. Aranjuez 2
3. Elder Granda´s face when we see 2 hoodlums eating TREE LEAVES with koolaid powder.....





1. Ya better watch out, ya better not cry, ya better not pout im tellin ya why, ELDER GRANDA IS GONNA SLICE YA UP
2. Elder Pavez eats 8 eggs a day. 
3. He burned himself and then put bread on the burn. Sounds like a bad idea to me, sounds like someones asking for a duck to attack them





1. Aight so Elder Granda completed 6 months in the mission, so like any rational person would do, he decided to buy 6 hamburgers. 
2. Hamburger 1
3. Hamburger 2





1. Hamburger 3. As you can tell. The first 3 burgers all go down fairly easily. 
2. Hamburger 4. 
3. Hamburger 5.





1. THE 6TH
2. He had to use ¨weber sauce´ to be able to finish the 6th burger. But holy moly. 6 hamburgers. GGNORE.
3. Cinnamon and sugar popcorn. great for weekly planning.








1. When the other missionaries didn't have their phone charger the whole week and then they find it in Elder Grandas drawers. (packing up Elder Grandas stuff when they called us to let him knows his new area is Cerete!)
2. When we made Rice Krispie Treats!
3. Eating outside the house when there's no male inside the house, lel. The last supper.






1. RIP the dream squad 
2. Duck face
3. Reunited.







1. Jelly beans. Alone with Elder Webber waiting for our companions. 




Well ya. Hope everyone is great. The Church is true. Live it up. Have a great week homies! 🍍

Saturday, April 22, 2017

Photo and Email from Pippert Family visiting Colombia!

Howdy,

We're traveling in Colombia,  and guess who we ran into...?

Elder Dawson!

He's working hard in the Lords work. He looks healthy and in great spirits.



Jon and family 



Monday, April 17, 2017

Medellin, Week 74

The work of the Lord continues even if I dont write. 

This was the Holy Week and holy cow do people get really busy in this week! We knew that none of our investigators would be in town or available so we did 3 contacting activities Friday Saturday and Sunday like all day where we were in a couple parks with a bunch of signs and we invited people to a table filled with pamphlets. We had signs that said, ¨Meet the Mormons!¨ ¨Why do we walk all day?¨ ¨Why should you listen to us?¨ ¨Why do we knock on your door?¨ and ¨Why are we all named Elder?¨ It was a fun activity. Here in Colombia nobody has heard anything about the Church. For every 100 people we talk to, about 10 will say that they've heard of the church and maybe 1 could tell you something that we believe.

Elder D Todd Christofferson will be visiting our mission and specifically the Medellin Stake this week and Sunday which should be one of the coolest things of my whole life. 

Here in Colombia, Easter isn't really a talked about thing.... Just like last year, none of the talks had to do with Christ. We had a talk about arcade games, a talk about reverence, and two talks about the temple. Its all good tho. This mish is gr8. I feel like as a missionary, my testimony of the Savior grows every day, whatever the church talks may be about.

Ill be home in 6 months. That's a weird thought. I'm trying to live it up while I can. Thank you all for your continued support and love. Love all you homies lots have a great week or 7 until my next letter! 

1. Classic Street Art. Barrio Moravia. 
2. The table with stuff. We talked to a bunch of homies #spreadtheword