Week 46

Happy New Years Eve!!  woo hooo!! ITS THE END OF THE WORLD!! ..... o wait  .... oops  ITS THE END OF THE YEAR.... ya that sounds right.

So what are all of your sweet plans for 2013?  can you believe that 2012 is totally over?  ... wow.  weird.  i will definitely be sleeping when it is new years... whatevs.  until 2014... but ya, how is the holiday season going for everyone?  It was pretty cool here....

okay so what did i do for christmas... well we woke up and followed the same routine. exercise, study and then we had our district meeting in the stake center.  it was really interesting, and we got to say feliz navidad to the elders in sucre.  i really dont know any of them so it was kinda weird, but ya. whatevs.  Then we had lunch with some members.  they made us the traditional bolivian christmas plate... a soup full of corn chicken and carrots... but ya it was pretty good.  then we went to do some service.  A lot of the poor people that live on the farms come into the city to beg for food and presents for christmas. so sucre is full of super poor families during the christmas season. we went and made hot chocolate and buñelos and then gave them out to the people in the streets.  it was a lot of fun and i got to learn how to cook some classic bolivian food.  but all it is, is fried bread... sweet. Then we headed home and waited for our families to call. it was a super great day.  It was so much fun being able to talk to the family and it sounds like everything is going well.

okay what else happened this week.... hmmm. o ya!  you wont believe it. so we are teaching this guy, and he has a few doubts.  We went to visit him with his girlfriend, who is a member, and he told us that he invited some of his friends to listen too.  oh i see... now we know why he has doubts... because all of his friends are athiests.. o hackin.  so we taught about the restoration to a group of atheists.... it actually was pretty interesting.   it didnt turn out a complete disaster.  They were actually really cool and listened to us. one of them actually found the book of mormon in the trash at school and read it.  He really liked what we had to teach.   We are going to teach them the plan of salvation this week.  woo hoo!  awesome.  it was a really spiritual lesson, i just hope that they recognized the spirit of God in the lesson too!

The ward had a temple trip this week, and didnt get back in time for church... so there were like 10 people in sacrament meeting this week.  it is tough, because a lot of the members are students at the university, so they are not here in december and january... and all of our investigators went home for christmas too.  haha! o man o man.  so we ended up teaching the young single adults class the second hour, and then the primary in the third hour.  Honestly, the primary kids were more attentive and willing to learn than the adult class.... sigh....

The other night we were walking down the street, and we saw an older lady that was shoveling dirt and rocks into bags and taking it into her house. We crossed the street and offered our help.  She was constructing something inside and had to  move all of the material inside, before it rained and washed away all of the dirt... we were on a hill. So my companion, another homeless guy that was looking for work, and I started helping her.  We were helping in our skirts for the first hour and a half, and needless to say, we got some pretty funny looks. haha! then we ran home and changed.  I was able to carry the rocks inside.  they were super concerned that i would get tired or hurt myself... but do not worry. i have had the practice.  It reminded me of all of the roofs that i helped dad tear off, back in the day... pretty much the same work. haha!  they couldnt believe it.  but I helped the other homeless kid carry, and my companion shoveled.  We were there for two and a half hours.  i cant imagine how long it would have taken without our help.  pheww.  but ya it was super fun, and exercise!! ya! 

Well i hope that everyone has a fantastic new year.  Dont be too crazy.  good luck and godspeed this week.  enjoy the holidays! i will write you next year. 

love ya

Hermana Milne