So that was encouraging Elder Bangerter, Mom, and Dad with all your beautiful weather stories. Here in Santa Marta we are going on a long time hot streak, usually the rain is supposed to come about 3 weeks ago because the breeze stopped. Its around 37 39 degrees so that means like 97 or something neat, but i gage tempurates by my pañuelo (handkerchief). If i pull it out of my pocket and its pretty dry it´s not very hot, if i pull it out and its already sweat damp its normal, if i pull it out and its wet its hot (its been pañuelos mojados for 2 weeks)! But with sacrificio comes blessings thats for sure. We had one this past saturday his name his Leonardo Alvarez, his wife was really inactive (22 years) but we walked up a hill and talked to them and she told us to come back. this is also the family that i mentioned a while back about how we contacted the dad, and then the neighbor, and then the neighbors friend, and then the person who wanted to hear us. This saturday his daughter is planning on getting baptized as well as another man named Anwar which is great, 2 future priesthood in 2 weeks. Also the branch presidency changed so thats GREAT, the old worn out guy went to the district counsel (you might have thought gringo high council was dry but i feel like latino style is much moreso) and his young missionary accompaing grandosn is the new branch pres. So all and all things are looking up here in Santa Marta. Its really nice to think about the blessings i´ve recieved here in this area, when i got here they had 4 invest who didnt really like the church and now we´re baptizing again. I´m just greatful that the Lord sent me to a mission where if you work hard you baptize, the people are there you just have to find them. Thats what we´re working on this week, finding.
Being a District leader is fun (not sure if thats the word for it). My deber (as matthew with happily tell you from his mish memories) is really get to know and look out for the 5 other Elders in my district (my son included). This will present a challege as i´m not the most observant of others feelings as Kalan well knows so i´ve been studying the gift of discerment a bit. Pretty soon i´m expecting to be able to see into my comps mind during study but i´ll let you know how that goes (that was mostly for lars and layne i dont really think that....pero será chevere). One bonus is when i do intercambios (which is alot because there always people who need to talk about thier souls with me so they can be baptized) i get to take a taxi and if i´m lucky it´s air conditioned and i get to persuade the taxi driver to use his agency in the right way for 15 mins. Funny thing about taxi drivers here in Santa Marta is that most of them are from the interior of Colombia but have been here in the coast for along time (or recently)because they are running away from people who had intentions of breaking the 6th commandment with them. I got the whole story from one guy from Cali (the mision where they dont send gringos) and after i did i wish i didnt. But it makes for good taxi rides.
Everything is going good with my son he knows alot of spanish for where he is and he works hard. He´s from Malad Idaho so im sure we´re realted somehow.
Everything is going good and looking up like it always does when you´re working for the Lord.
Love
Elder Larson
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