Elder Donaldson's Service and Adventures in Colombia: Joyful Christmas 2017!

Hey FAMILY!

Fun to see everyone on Skype! Sorry the connection was so bad and hard to understand, but I loved seeing everyone. The Arias family are great here and nice to host us on Christmas Eve. Thanks again for the extra packages and stuff to share with those here. My Christmas was the best. We made BBQ chicken for the entire zone Christmas day. :)

Christmas BBQ Chicken for the Zone

We did a lot of Christmas caroling this last week. I'm not very good at singing so I'm pretty sure I offended some people. One day we decided to go with the whole ward choir, so we walked to all our investigators and some less active families to sing to them. One family was having a really heated discussion when we showed up, and while they were yelling at each other we were singing "Joy to the World" and wearing Santa hats... hahaha it was pretty awkward.

For the mission conference week we went to go to Bogota for an exchange with the Assistants! One of them is from Sugarland, Texas, Elder Mohr. Not sure maybe Aunt Kathy and Uncle Ray know him. It was a lot of fun and loved working hard up there. We were pretty much contacting all day long, but we had one lesson with a big family. The spirit was really there.

We also had a few more interesting experiences this week discussing with people about the Bible. I get really frustrated at how one minded people can be sometimes, but the trick always has been and always will be the Book of Mormon. If people read it and ask God, he always tells them its true. The problem is they don't read it.....that's my two cents for the week.

Weekly P-Day Ping Pong Squad.

I forgot to mention there was a pretty big earthquake here Saturday. It shook the whole house... I think it was a 4.9, me and my comp ran outside during studies. It only lasted like five seconds but it was really strong... but no one died or got hurt, so everything is fine.