October 26, 2009

Hola familia querida,
Well it has been a good very fast week. We dedicated the week to work with the Duitama Zone so we were there the whole week going on swaps with the missionaries. It is a unique zone in the mission because it is made up of about 4 small cities, each with a ward or 2 so it is more spread out. Each day from Wednesday to Saturday we traveled to one of the cities and spent the day working with the missionaries there. It was a tiring week because we traveled on bus to the next city each morning, worked like crazy with the missionaries to help them get excited and work hard and sleeping on a mattress on the floor every night... But we worked hard, had a great time getting out and trying to be examples and it was a good experience.

I worked the first day with Tunja (Elder Rodriguez and Saure). Then with Sogamoso (Elder Corro and Burns) it was cool to work with Elder Corro (his first AP companion) again, they are doing great and he is juuuust about to head home next week but still working hard. Then with Duitama. There was only one companionship there so we split up, me with one and Elder Gags with the other. I was with Elder Wagstaff from Salt Lake. We had a great time. If you think one 6'2" blonde gringo in a small Colombian town gets a lot of weird looks you should see 2 of them together. Haha but we worked hard and had a good day.

There was a ward talent show that night so we sang in a little missionary choir with them and they dragged me up to be part of the joke in one of the skits. Saturday and Sunday we worked in Barbosa. It is a little tiny town with a little branch. There is one missionary couple there (the Chapmans from Florida) and one companionship. Again we split up with the Elders, and then went to Church with them on Sunday. It was the first time I have been to church in a "House Chapel" which was interesting but it was cool to see the little branch and how it is growing. Then we took a bus back to Bogotá and here we are.

Well we are now in the last week of yet another transfer. This mission stuff goes way too fast. The usual limit of time someone spends in one area is 4 transfers which I will now have. Tonight we will have our meeting with President Hacking so I will probably find out what my future holds... Ha so we’ll see what happens. I will go and do.

Sorry this is a little short, I am loving life, I can’t believe how fast time goes. Much Love, Elder B