Week 40

Whatsup?!

 

How is everyone doing in Utah?  Good?  Everything is going well here in Bolivia.  This week has been full of training and conferences.  So i had to wait for my companion to come from the mtc, so i got to have a sleepover with the other hermanas in my zone.. awesome!  It was a ton a fun and the next day i headed to the temple for the trainer´s training meeting.  We talked all morning and then had lunch in the mission home with our new companions and then another training in the afternoon.  My companion totally rocks.  she is from Buenos Aires Argentina... city central.  She has been a member her entire life.  This is my first companion that is not a recent convert.  it is really interesting and different.  She was a tour guide before her mission... so she totally knows english perfectly.  wow.  my first comp to know english... also very different and new.  She has one little sister who is preparing her mission papers right now also.  She is super chill and spiritual.  we are going to have an awesome time.  We are for sure going to be together for 3 months, her birthday is in the first week of december too. we are pretty much going to party it up, in a missionary appropriate manner of course... ahah!  Training is a lot of fun.  We get to study together more and she is really motivated and ready to preach. 

 

So our second day we had a few appointments, but all of them fell through so we decided to walk the area and visit everyone that i knew.  We ended up walking all day long to the limit of our area and back.... nobody was home.  But we found two investigators at the last moment of the day. it turned out really well, but i made the mistake of making my new companion walk all day long on her second day... woops sorry!  We really didnt break into it slowly.  but i am learning.  it is a ton of fun to train. 

 

We had our conference with all of the missionaries in Cochabamba this last week.  We had a special guest come to visit.  Elder Allen: he is a seventy and the creator of Preach my Gospel.  he pretty much is in charge of the missionary work for the entire world.  He reports directly to the twelve apostles.  wow... no pressure.  we have been preparing for his visit for 2 months.  and wow it was worth it.  He taught us a lot of useful stuff that i am going to put into practice.  what a privledge to hear from him and learn so much.  so i was studying in Alma 36 37 38 and it was totally awesome.  i love this part of the book of mormon.  Alma is pretty much giving a bunch of really good advice to his kids.  I learned so much and i want to apply it in my life.  well i gotta go.  i hope that everything is going really well.  o ya.... and this last week i hit my nine months in the mission... half way..... can you believe it?  blows my mind.  well good luck. i love ya lots!

 

Hermana Milne