HELLO!
6 MONTHS ALREADY??!!! I feel like I just got to Colombia. Crazy! Anyway, this week was pretty cool! We had 2 more investigators accept baptismal dates and some of the people we found last week actually seem interested..YES! I will let you all know what ends up happening with all of them :)
Valentines Day was on Saturday and I found out that they don't celebrate it here. They celebrate something similar in September around the 25th. But I did receive my Valentines Day box and have started to share all the candies with the Elders in my house. Its weird because to them its foreign candy and super weird, however they say that gringo candy is the best so I think they like it.
This Thursday we have a Conference with Elder Godoy of the Seventy. He is Brazilian and talked at the last General Conference. We have to go to Bucaramanga and I'm super excited because everyone says Bucaramanga is awesome. However, its about 5 hours from Tunja so that means for us in Barbosa, we have to travel about 7 hours..yay haha. But I'm so excited to hear what he has to say and I know something that he says will help me in some aspect in the mission. And we were just informed about an hour ago that my comp and I have to go to Bogotá tomorrow for a doctors appointment. My comp has a bad ingrown toenail and we called today and said it hasn't gotten better and they told us that Elder Wong has a doctor appointment in Bogotá at 4pm but we should get there early. In total it will take around 5 hours to get to Bogotá and we have to pay for it and they will reimburse us later. So this week is FULL of a ton of traveling...woo. haha. But ya, I'm excited for our investigators and I will let you know how they progress because they are AWESOME! Love you all and thank you so much for all of your support!
Elder Richmond
6 MONTHS ALREADY??!!! I feel like I just got to Colombia. Crazy! Anyway, this week was pretty cool! We had 2 more investigators accept baptismal dates and some of the people we found last week actually seem interested..YES! I will let you all know what ends up happening with all of them :)
Valentines Day was on Saturday and I found out that they don't celebrate it here. They celebrate something similar in September around the 25th. But I did receive my Valentines Day box and have started to share all the candies with the Elders in my house. Its weird because to them its foreign candy and super weird, however they say that gringo candy is the best so I think they like it.
This Thursday we have a Conference with Elder Godoy of the Seventy. He is Brazilian and talked at the last General Conference. We have to go to Bucaramanga and I'm super excited because everyone says Bucaramanga is awesome. However, its about 5 hours from Tunja so that means for us in Barbosa, we have to travel about 7 hours..yay haha. But I'm so excited to hear what he has to say and I know something that he says will help me in some aspect in the mission. And we were just informed about an hour ago that my comp and I have to go to Bogotá tomorrow for a doctors appointment. My comp has a bad ingrown toenail and we called today and said it hasn't gotten better and they told us that Elder Wong has a doctor appointment in Bogotá at 4pm but we should get there early. In total it will take around 5 hours to get to Bogotá and we have to pay for it and they will reimburse us later. So this week is FULL of a ton of traveling...woo. haha. But ya, I'm excited for our investigators and I will let you know how they progress because they are AWESOME! Love you all and thank you so much for all of your support!
Elder Richmond