sounds like an exciting weekend for all you gringo folks up north. IT just started a huge rainstorm here so we are going to be wading out of the internet after we finish typing.. YAYY!! it has been a good week of hard work looking for people who are willing to listen and change to be more like Christ (the keyword is change b/c here in friendly B/quilla almost everyone is willling to listen as long as they dont have to do anything). Here it was big soccer news 1) b/c the world cup started and everyone is glued to the TV and 2) this last weekend was the nacional finals of soccer with B/quilla playing at home for the championship. About 2 hours before the match started nobody was in the street or if they were they were watching a gaint street screen. Our area is about 5 blocks from the stadium so we could hear all the noise and see the fireworks. The only time the costeños actually get angry for us talking to them is when there is soccer so we got some fun insults thrown at us. One guy angrily told me that if the team was to lose it would be my fault bc i had inturrupted his prayer to the saint someone that the team would win. Luckly i didnt inturrupt his prayer too much and the home team won!! our apartment is next to a main street and that street was full of people blowing on plastic trumpets and playing drums until early in the morning. these happy people are always ready to start a party for whatever reason. On a more important note yesterday we had a good group of investigators at church which made my compa all happy( me too). it always is neat to me how one gets to an area, starts with pretty much nothing, start talking and testifying, and if you look hard enough with your eyes of faith investigators start to form. It has always seemed to happen to me to get to start an area over again and its such a miracle to see how the Lords guides those who wish to be guided to thos who will accept Him. It just cant be something that ¨happens¨ bc it happens so much and when it happens (it being finding people who are really prepared to change) its amazing! so here to working hard and smart so it happens some more!
We have a neat family of 5 (la familia Velez Hernandez) who are really friendly and looked like they had a good time in church yesterday. the ward really struck a home run with talking to them and taking them to classes when they were looking to sneak out early. i felt really relieved that the ward helped us on this one bc after all the work it takes to get people to go to church once they are there its up to the members to make them feel welcome, and it they dont do it there really isnt much that can make up for it. also another man who we found our first day together while we were walking around lost came to church by himself and with his BoM in hand. He informed us that he had read all of the book of Jacob and was working on helaman, we were floored. It just reminds me how big of a power the ¨el libro de los mormones¨ (like they call it here) is to convert, the only thing is trying to get this people who see the need to read books to READ it!!! as a mision we have been reading the BoM together since Jan. and we are going to finish the end of this month. i have really enjoyed seeing how the book has elevated the mision to achieve the goals we have set as a mision and i have seen alot more humility in the mision. and personally reading the book has helped me mantain the focus that is so important here in the service of the Lord.
thanks for your letters and love,
ill hear from you next week,
keep praying for us here and well pray for you there
Love
Elder Larzón (our name colombianized)
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