December 5, 2016 - Suuuuuuper Boring Week!

Hey yall!


Welp nothing happened this week. Just lots of working. Summer is officially here in Villavicencio. Before it was hot, now it is a whole new level. Before the sun felt hot,now you can feel the sun burning you and heat coming off the pavement hitting you too! It is the worst sandwich in the history of sandwiches! The heat sandwich! But there is still rain right now which is very good! Other than that nothing suuuper memorable. We had the Christmas Devotional yesterday. That was really good. If you didn't get to watch it you should go back and watch it on LDS.org! We had to go to the other Chapel that is about 20 minutes from here in Taxi, but it was good. There were about 40-50 people watching in Spanish in the Chapel and another 6-10 watching in English in the Family History Center. So that was good. I watched it in Spanish with Elder Hernandez and one of the Zone Leaders. The other 4 gringos and Elder Valverde and Elder Roque went and watched it in English. Elder Hernandez was very proud Daddy when I said that I wanted to watch it in Spanish.  I don't think there is anything else! I will be in Bogota Tues-Thurs. The whole mission will be in Bogota for these 3 days. About 200 missionaries so that will be a party maybe... Thank you all for all of your prayers and for everything! Y'all are awesome!


Matthew

When it is waaaay hot in Villao..

Thanksgiving in Villavicencio

I found these sunglasses in the old house so now I use them because it is very bright!

 Playing with Machetes...

The Crew for our Service Project today. The Elders of Esperanza and one of the Young Men in our Branch.

 Us with a Young Man in our Branch who is awesome!!

November 28, 2016 - WE FINALLY MOVED!!!

Hola Familia!


I hope that all of your Thanksgivings were good! I was super trunky during Thanksgiving. And no to all the questions of if Thanksgiving is a holiday here no it is not. Just lots of stuff on the news making fun of all the fat Americans all day. Also, no we did not do anything as a Zone for Thanksgiving. 70% of my zone are Latinos so we didn't do anything. So that night at 9pm when we got back to the house I ordered Pizza from Dominoes and ate Dominoes and drank Coke in the Hammock that was on our front porch then I went to bed and that was Thanksgiving. The next day we moved which was all day which sucked because after not wanting to do anything for the whole day before I wanted to work like crazy the whole next day so that was a little frustrating but whatever. But yeah not much happening. Oh yeah last week I had to give another talk in Sacrament meeting. I learned about it 15 minutes before the meeting so that was super fun. A Counsaler in the Mission Presidency and his wife were visiting and they wanted to hear a talk from one of the missionaries in the Branch. So naturally President Rojas(Branch Pres) chose the only one of the missionaries who can't speak Spanish which was just awesome, but it was fine. Five minutes talking about the Gospel of Christ then 5 minutes about how to share the gospel for people who don't want to leave their comfort Zone. It was fine. Not great not awful. Then President Garzon and his wife spoke to finish the meeting. Anyways. Not a lot happening here. Next week the Zone is going to Bogota for a Training and to hang out with President and his Family so that should be fun. That is on 12/8. Also if you haven't seen the stuff the church has for Christmas this year y'all should check it out! Anywho, I believe that is all. I love yall! Have a great week!


Matthew