well it was super great to hear from you all a fun way to end the week for sure. to clear up the doubt about in what language i do interviews with Pte. Roundy the answer is a resounding.... SPANISH. after the 3rd interview here in colombia all the interviews have been in spanish so the last time i had an interview with pte roundy in english was more than a year ago. the idea was not speak english so i had to speak spanish so i could learn faster, i think it worked.
well after telling you all about my marvelous life yesterday as promisedhere is a funny dream i remeber from an invest. back in Sincelejo.
one must remember that sincelejo is a cow town and if you remember i think i wrote you all about the ¨corraleja¨ which is put alot to drunk people in a rodeo type arena with an angry bull and see who gets run over first. Well thats is a tradition since 50 years ago so often contacting we would run into old guys who were all scarred up from getting gorred when they were younger and all guns to talk about the glory days liked to show us this scars. One of the best ones was when we contacted a man who let us teach him in his garden of mangos and papayas behind his house. he seemed pretty interested at first but then... the dream! just as we got to the part of lesson one where we talk about prophets out of nowhere he interrupts and tell us how much he believes in jesus because he saved him from the crazy cows when he was younger. Well i knew this was going to be a great one so i had to ask him how. well he told us how when he was 20 he decided to go to the corraleja and being drunk he was gored but the bull. he was gored in his lower abdomen (which scar he did NOT show us) and while he was injured and the rest of the spectators carried him off the rink he looked at the people and saw carrying him off the rink peter, james and the VIRGEN!!! (the best apostles ever as he told us). he told them he didnt want to die and the virgen at this point had turned into jesus and he told him the if he wanted to live he had to give up the corraleja and drinking. Well the injured dreaming costeño told the dream jesus that he could give up the corraleja but he wasnt too sure about giving up drinking because he really likes it. Well because jesus is to kind he told our dear costeño friend that that was ok and he had to give up just the corraleja.... how nice. Well he got better and to this day he hasnt gone to another corraleja buthe still likes to drink! the costeños really are a special people and a hoot but i love em and if i dont work for their salvation i dont know who will (besides the Lord). keep praying to Laureano and ana (the Jimenez Gomez family) this weekend is going to be great!
love you all!
Elder Larson
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