We had a good week. Our area is picking up and we have an awesome investigator pool.
Some of the people we teach:
Jacinto Delarosa: Architect from Santa Marta
Hermana Delarosa: Lawyer for Fiscalía (the police)
Olga: Lawyer for the military
Jose Davila: Flute teacher for special needs kids
Victoria Correa: Metalworker from Texas
Luis Linares: Venezuelan construction worker
Love our investigators.
We have pretty little time in our area so when we get to work there we are running from lesson to lesson — which is the best feeling.
Some things that happened this week:
I had 2 splits — one with Elder Burbank, one with Elder Navas. Both good friends. Burbank is from Logan; abaseball player who gives baseballs to everyone.
Elder Navas is half Colombian half Hondureño. We had an open house in the chapel and got a ton of people in. Super fun dude to be around.
We finally got the last punch on our card from the empanada store across the street and got 25 free empanadas. #dope
Elder Powlus and I saw this dude practicing rapping in a park and had a rap battle with him.
We had the leadership council for the mission. My comp and I gave a training that went super well. I had an idea of bringing out an ironing board and iron and trying to iron a wrinkled shirt in front of everyone without plugging it in. Obviously it doesnt work. We use it to illustrate a point that an iron doesn't work to iron a shirt without electricity and the Book of Mormon doesn't help people without the Spirit. Pretty corny haha. Everybody was freaking out when we brought out the ironing board.
Our main transportation here in Bogotá is Transmilenio.
Transmilenio is a bus system. Costs about 70 cents to use and is almost always open. Pretty dope. Some qualities are:
Always smells like piss
100% always Venezuelans selling things
People playing music
Grandpas rapping
Fights (mostly after 7pm)
Robberies (24/7)
Students practicing their presentations in front of everyone (awesome)
Preachers preaching
Mormon missionaries preaching
Shocking things that shouldn't be in missionary emails home
Yeah so you get on the bus and there is always someone selling candies or just sharing their situation and asking for help. Super draining stories always right in front of our face. Lots of people make up stories but we can't judge who's making up and who's legit. Missionary policy: we give coins when we feel like we should.
But I have grown to love transmilenio
Some good Spanish words:
jeva: a girl who is almost your girlfriend
aguacero: downpour
plomacera: a fluttery of bullets
gomelo: rich person
papichulo: pimpdaddy
Anyways, awesome week.
Love you guys a ton!
Elder Blair
