Cochabamba, Bolivia

Milagros this week!! Too many people to teach. Too many investigators at church coudn't talk to all of them! Is that even possible.... It happened! Love you all! The work is good and I am great!  Things I love: This week we were walking down the street near our house and a dog came barking and charging at us. MER. My love for dogs is for sure decreasing everyday! BUT out of no where a cholita (traditionally dressed bolivian lady) with a broom came charging at this dog. Yelling at it to leave us alone. Oh my. I love her. And after that I could not stop laughing. Saved by a cholita.  DUDE. This morning I went HIKING. I miss hiking. I love hiking. This morning was the best. I pretty sure when I get home I'll be spending 7 days in the mountains. By myself. Ok maybe not. BUT this morning was SO GREAT. We hiked to the tallest hill near us (basically a mountain. Almost...) . And at the top there were BULLS. HA. So random. And then a random CHOLITA searching for her lost lamb....

I was in some sort of funk this week. I don't know what happened. I was beating myself up in my head... I kept praying to know how to improve, how to be a better missionary, a better companion just to know how I could improve... BUT guys there are so many miracles in my life. Yesterday we met so many people in the CHURCH. Who came on their own and wanted to learn. WHAT. That never happens. I think God was letting me know I was doing ok.  I love the mission. Love the experiences I'm having and the things I'm learning! Love you allllll!! Things I Love: Igo. I have no idea how to spell this. It’s some fruit. I had NEVER had it before but now I’m addicted. We steal tons everytime we visit a lady from our ward. She just laughs at us and tells us our mouths are going to burn. We found another tree in someones yard while we were walking down the street.. but the branches have grown over into the street SO we took advantage of that. AND THEN. Some lady in our ward heard th...

Things I love: We got stuck in a rainstorm. We were just walking from one visit to our pensions house when out of NOWHERE it started pouring SO HARD. Like rain drops the size of golf balls. We got soaked. You could literally squeeze tons of water out of my clothes. BUT hey that’s what makes it fun, right? Our pension has started feeding us VEGTABLES. What!! It’s a miracle. She was joking around saying we were going to only eat vegtables because they were buying new furniture… But we took the opportunity to tell her that we WANTED ONLY vegtables. PLEASE. Wooop. Woop. We were helping a lady was her clothes this week and all of a sudden she jumped in the tub and started jumping on her clothes. Haha this lady. She is so funny. She speaks more quetchua than Spanish so it’s always entertaining to chat with her. But one day this week we brought someone with us that speaks quetchua and she LOVED IT. I’m pretty sure they were just making fun of me the whole time! But at least she felt mo...

What the. I just looked and CANNOT believe it's week 47. Sorry I've been MIA for the last little bit. BUT hey. I got a little busy. And lazy. Mostly lazy.  Things I love:  This week I have been so incredibly GRATEFUL that people can understand me. And that I can respond to people. And joke with people. And I'm not just some dull, boring person who stares at the wall the entire time (like my first 6 months). So basically... To anyone going on a mission that has to learn a new language: It gets SO MUCH BETTER. How cool is it that I can talk to people in spanish?!?! I just wish for one day everyone in the world could speak the same language. OR that I could speak EVERY language. ANYWAYS. I love speaking spanish. I love joking around with people. I love being able to be myself in SPANISH.  Sharing about The Book of Mormon. Last night we visited a family. The mom is a member but no one else in her family is. So we went over and they STARTED FEEDING US... haha so I pull...