Back with E Amick!

April is awesome!  Back in Bogota with Elder Amick, my pal!!   It's going to be an awesome month!  

So my voice recorder broke, I'll try and fix it and hopefully be able to send you some stories next week. this week has just been busy getting to know the area.   We had a bunch of zone activities that we were in charge of too, and it turned out to be a lot more complicated than I thought. we had to go all the way to the offices one day to pick up supplies, and when we showed up saturday to do our activity the relief society also had an activity planned... sooo we just improvised the best we could doing our activity in the hallway.   We put up a big banner of Jesus in front of the bathrooms, and then used the classrooms for the rest of our presentations since the relief society had the gym and the chapel. after all was done, we got 2 references though so we will see how they turn out. anyways, highlights for the week;

Funny story, at least to us..... Elder Amick and I saw a dude in really tight skinny jeans on a skateboard, and just as we were smiling at his jeans when out of the blue he fell of his skateboard and did the splits.  We were dying trying to act compassionate and contain our laughing.  It was sooo funny.  He was okay, but then he didn't want to skate anymore and he started walking.

We also found a really cool family by accident.   We just starting knocking doors and we found a less active lady who hasn't been back to church for years.   She told us she had thrown away her Book of Mormon, and then she asked us why we had come.   We said we were looking for people to visit, and then she said a prayer thanking God for sending us and said that we had answered her prayers.  I'm not sure what she was going through but it wasn't a coincidence we showed up. We will begin  teaching her whole family this week. 

 

Had a great birthday!  Thanks for the $$ and all the notes.  We had fried chicken and ping pong.  As good as it get in the mission.  

 

 

Elder Amick are the zone leaders here, both coming from that assignment in other zones were just serving in.   Often I miss just being a normal missionry.  I have a lot more paperwork, math, and errands now that aren't my favorite.   But I have a great area and a great comp so I cant complain.

End of April:  Our new English classes worked!  We had like 60 people in our English class this week! Seven of those came to church on Sunday.   We have so many new investigators because of starting that class. 

Also we developed a new contacting strategy where we go ask people what they love most about their country and then record their response... its good   I'll send you the recording! 

 

We also had an intercambio this week and we also went preaching Parley P Pratt style.  I just put a chair on the corner and started reading the Book of Mormon!  Nobody listened but I did get two amens! 

Cristina and her brother got baptized this week!   I shared that on the recorder too! 

 

had a bunch of cool experiences finding investigators this week. One guy stopped us after a lesson and told hus he had just prayed the day before for a sign from God, and believed we were that sign.

 

Luckily my new comp speaks English and we can continue our English class. He ends the mission a month before me so we will probably just both end here, at least I hope so.

Loved chatting with all of you at Mother's Day.  You are all the best family.  I love you all.

Elder Gardner goes home this week.  Potatoe boy.