Quinn's Colombian Column: I saw monkies this week!! (Feb 22)

but more importantly our investigadores are progresando. This weekend we have a young family programed to be baptized, Jose y Yulema Hernandez. As of a week ago Yulema didnt want to believe that the BoM could be true and we couldnt have that so we all got on our knees and asked God what he thinks about the Book of Mormon and He let us know. Since then Yulema has been progresando rapidamente and is getting real excited for baptism. Her husband Jose is doing OK but he is still getting over the fact that he is now married and cant hangout with his loser older brothers and play pool/ nintendo 64 all day. Its a rather typical costeño male problem, get married (well normaly he doesnt get married but thankfully jose did marry Yulema before they had a kid), has a kid, realizes its alot of responsibilty, gets scared, and hangs out at his moms house until his mother in law gets sick of her daughter whining and tells him to shape up or she wont let her daughter live with him anymore (the best part is when the mother in law tells him to shape up with a broom or a hose or something like that, the whole barrio comes out to see it). But we are going to watch ¨juntos por siempre¨with them, they react well to movies here, and pray alot. So pray for Jose and Yulema so they can get baptized TOGETHER this weekend. Other than them we have an investigador of GOLD who is doing golded. Her name is tatiana and she is a reference from her member boyfriend. WE taught her the restauracion about 2 weeks ago and after we invited her to read she got curious and read and prayed that night and got a big YES. since then she reads all the chapters we leave her 2 or 3 times and is also reading the BoM from the beginning a chapter a day. she is programed for the 6th of march so we are excited for the 6th of march, but pray for her too because alot of stuff can happen to an investigador in 2 weeks. As for me im really happy that im a DL again, not so much stuff to do and more preaching. I dont have to think so much about all the missionares in my zone and can focus on my distrito and my investigadores. oh also i have discoverd what was making our room smell strange at night latey i thought it was mice in the wall but...... its my compa!! he has a very peculiar smell at the end of the day and since i have discovered this i wont pray with him at night until he showers (i shower everynight just so you know, its complelty necesary). im sending you pictures of the central park here in monteria, thats where i saw the monkies and the iguanas, fun stuff.
Thanks for everything and i love you all
Elder Larson

p.s. the last photo is the latest of me, like i said earlier the sun here is extra crispy and i ran out of sunscreen about 3 days ago and this is what happened.