Hello Utah!
How is everything going at home? So my instincts are telling me that it should be getting cold... but i am in bolivia.... and we are entering summer right now... huh. so it is getting hot. and it is really windy. haha! so we have the hot windy season for a while and then we hit the rainy season in january and feburary. sweet. It was pretty hackin hot this week. but it really motivated us to find people to teach so they would let us into their house. but! nobody has airconditioning here because the climate is usually so mild. ugh. the church was a little steamy yesterday, but we finally had normal church. we had general conference, stake conference, and dividing the stake so we havent had a normal sunday for almost a month... wow! it was pretty awesome.
we had two birthday parties in the same day last week. A lot of the birthday parties here occur in the early morning. We headed to a members house and ate cake and a special hot chocolate for her birthday early in the morning. yum the hot chocolate is sooooo good. we need to have birthdays for often. and then one of the elders that we eat with had his birthday dinner at night. yuummmm PIZZA! yes... awesome. good day. and!! my companions birthday is this wednesday, so we get more food. and we got special permission from the president to eat pork.. we are usually not allowed to eat pork, lettuce, strawberry, or fish. so naturally. all i crave is a good salad with ranch dressing and strawberry cheesecake. hhaaha!
but ya we had a really good week. We finally know our area and we are working hard. the investigators are doing really well. and the cell phone is just so fantastic. we got to play some wallyball this morning. it was sooo fun. my companion played volleyball in high school too, so we are a pretty good team. We also had our interviews with the president yesterday... president and sister Dyer are just so amazing. They have so much love for the people of Bolivia and the all of the missionaries. They really take care of us and know what we need to learn.
So there is a house across the street from the temple that is almost an exact replica of the telytubby house. It is pretty cool. and members live there. this family with 7 kids. The mom is sooo cool. Her husband is recovering from brain cancer and she has 7 kids to take care of. Hermana Saavedra is so caring and used to be a pensionista for the missionaries. you can tell that she is a mom, because she gives the best hugs in Bolivia. (she might even pass up Devin in her hugging skills.) She is so humble and you can feel the love that is present in her home.
The school that is in our area was supposed to have 5 parachuters drop down in to the street to celebrate their anniversary... but only 4 arrived. one of the parachutes didnt open and the parachuter fell and died near the temple. in our area... and all the kids saw it. luckily, we were in a training meeting in the stake center. but wow... i cant even believe it... Advice for the Week.... Do not go parachuting in Bolivia. and i think i am going to leave it at that. good luck this week. i hope everything is going great! i love ya and Godspeed
Hermana Milne
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