I'll start this week report off with a quote that recently came to my inbox:
"I'm super chaaaaarged. Bout to take this whole thing to mars."
-Kanye West
These are my feelings.
How are you family?
I hear some Blair cousins are getting married?
We had a crazy week in Misión Colombia Bogotá Norte.
This dude just came to visit our mission:
ELDER ZIVIC, BUENOS AIRES ARGENTINA
We had 2 huge conferences with him — 1 in Bogotá, the other in Bucaramanga.
see photo below: a view of Giron, and Bucaramanga
It was awesome having him here. Elder Zivic is President of the Caribbean area (so not sure why he came to our mission haha) and he turns 70 this year, so he has almost finished his duty. Zivic gave up going to the Olympics for track & field so he could keep the Sabbath day holy. He taught about listening better, working better with our bishops.
OTHER THINGS
I had 2 splits this week. First one, the Zone Leaders from Bogotá came — Elder Skinner (Missouri) and Elder Valenzuela (Panama).
We all went to Suba to pick up my next companion: Elder Dias. Also from BRAZIL. Im super stoked. Elder Vieira finishes this week. We have so many jokes now and the mission is a 24/7 party with him. Dias will be awesome though. We lived in the same house in Suba and got along super well.
This is us at the terminal. I'm sitting next to Dias.
My other splits were in a trio with Elder Dias (my new comp) and Elder Wood (he used to be AP). We had a sweet day. We found this lady named Pilar who is a powerhouse. Her husband is tied up with intense military vs Guerrilla stuff in Arauca and she hasn't seen him in a year. We taught about the Restoration and she gave us orange Gatorade. #winwin
The whole mission is having tranfers today.
Last night we were doing transfers till 2:00 am.
At 1:00 am we got a call from Zone Leaders in Cúcuta and they told us sister missionaries in their zone wouldn't answer the phone at all throughout the day. They went to their house and the sisters weren't there. I called Pres Laney at 1:00 am and he told me to tell the ZLs to go home and sleep...wait it out.
This morning still no good news...on the day of transfers. We were making calls to all the missionaries and different members in Cúcuta patching the story together. We got a Sunday 7pm last sighting from a member. and then...
12:00 pm news: turns out the sisters were in their house asleep. #praise
Anyway, anything that could go wrong went wrong but everything is all good now.
We are trying to help missionaries call us with solutions instead of problems. We must take 100% responsibility for our lives.
Elder Zivic repeatedly shared this verse with us as well:
D&C 82:3 For of him unto whom much is given much is required; and he who sins against the greater light shall receive the greater condemnation.
Anyway we are bulking up for a crazy week of receiving new missionaries and saying bye to old ones.
Sure miss and love you guys.
Elder Blair
P.S. We finessed our way into the AVIANCA VIP LOUNGE and got to sit in these seats. #fighttothetop
