Happy Halloween!
Yo yo yo ok here is the report:
I am now in Colombia.
Bogota was awesome. Super green. Lots of bricks. Surrounded by mountains.
Mission President Laney seems super cool. His wife was on ski patrol at Sundance. They will be here my whole mission.
Love the APs. One is Elder Borges from Brazil who also lived in Spain for 4 years. The other is Elder Hunsaker whos family is super tied to Germany. We went to the Bogota CCM and it is tiny. Im so glad I got sent to Mexico.
-Met some French girls at immigration
My first Area is Barbosa
-Accessed via a 3 hour bus from Bogota to Tunja, then a 2 hour ride in a tiny bus from Tunja to Barbosa
-Barbosa is one of the coolest places I've ever been to
-about Argentan size, a little smaller
-so many motorcycles it's insane. Kids riding em and 5 people piling onto one. Trailers on the back sometimes. Amsterdam has bikes, Barbosa has motorcycles
-Everyone knows each other
-music is playing everywhere, usually Regaton. Hotline Bling a lot too. (miss Drake)
-really hot, rains at night
-I'm digging the food a lot too. Lots of avocados, garbanzo beans, pasta, rice, chicken. We make breakfast and Dinner and a member makes us Lunch
-so much fútbol everywhere MESSI
-A lot of poverty. Most of the houses we teach are dirt floor. The people still give us hot cocoa or bread. Its crazy.
-Lots of cowboy hats.
-Girls are prettier than Sofia Vergara #lockyourheart
-members are super cool. Jorge Ariza is one. He comes to lessons with us a lot. He has a flame motorcycle and skeleton gloves. One is named Ley. He loves Paramore and Linkin Park and Assassins Creed. there is also a Colombian Frere Bojou
-Colombian kids really like the stuffing pencil in ear trick
-kids are outside playing and walking around late at night.
-lots of hills like SF
-surrounded by mountains and jungle
-Haiti+Italy+Mexico is kind of what it is
-It´s like everyone here is a stereotype. Cowboys and dancers, Wisemen, Hairdressers.
Parted ways with Elder Dallas Karren. He´s headed to Bogota.
My trainer is Elder Porras of Mexico City. I am his last comp. He returns home December 4th.
He's pretty legendary. Mexican Taylor Lautner. He would go to raves in the forest back in Mexico.
He loves dancing too. We exercise every morning, and one morning he taught me bachata dance.
He's crazy at soccer. We play soccer Saturday mornings. He has a girlfriend waiting back home. He wants to learn French for her so I am teaching him. His personality reminds me of Victor Clouet D Orval. He made me contact first morning in the field which was crazy.
We started free English, French, and Portuguese lessons on Thursdays to get to know more people.
Starting a branch fútbol team. I am stoked.
I invited a family to be baptized for the first time and they said yes.
-most of the day is drifting around. Sitting down and talking with people on the street. Really long rich days. Exhausted by bedtime. Vivid dreams.
Tons to say
Colombia is super cool.
Miss everyone
Elder Gringo Bandito
