Colton in Colombia

This week was suuuuper crazy. Stressful and chill at the same time. This should be good. Tough week- We have a lot of people who have committed to baptism, but many of them had lots of problems this week. Our teaching pool is slowly shrinking, and almost all of our finding efforts have fallen through or were not helpful. Elder Vallejo and I still have faith that God will bless us even though it feels like He is kinda slapping us in the face. I'm just trying to figure out what God is trying to get me to learn right now. Carbón monoxido- You had a long day of hard missionary work in the sun. You slither into your sheets as the heavenly sensation of lying down is bestowed upon you. You fall asleep, then bleeeeeeee bleeeeee bleeeeee, "Elder, the fire alarm".... You run outside of your house to discover that it is actually carbón monoxide. Super fun thing as well. We are still sleeping in the house of the zone leaders, which is super fun and also way inconvenient. I had

What's up my guys. Just a super brief email for ya. I hope you are doing great. Send ya boy an email. We are super busy. Hopefully the following week we will be even more busy. We are always tired, and I always wanna sleep. My bed is my best friend. Honestly, so much stuff. We stayed at this lady's house for 2 HOURS. Have you ever just sat there listening to someone ramble in your second language for 2 HOURS when you're really tired? Man, it was hard to focus. We were 45 mins in and finally it started getting good, so we began reading and answering her questions about why there are so many churches and about priesthood authority. It was crazy and tiring. One of our friends who we recently baptized texted us and said he wouldn't go to church anymore because there just wasn't any sense in it. When we went to his house we just listened and I asked him many, many questions. Ultimately, I determined that he had not received a testimony of the Book of Mormon. We re

What is up mis amigos. How is life in the Motherland? Hope your chickfila and trucks are treating you well. Shoot ya brotha an email a time or two. Halloween here was a little anticlimactic. It's a little dangerous here, so there aren't a ton of little kids running around at night. Though our neighbors hung up their Christmas decorations on Halloween, so that was cool. We went to the Chapel and did a little mission thing with the primary kids. We taught a lesson about being a missionary, and the theme for the whole activity was "I want to be a missionary." We got in the primary room and began our lesson with "we are in a war, this war is super dangerous, this is God's war, and we need to help Him." I then pulled an incredibly sharp and awesome sword from my bag (which was actually a balloon sword - shout out dad) and began to explain that we need to help in this war of sharing the gospel. We handed out our balloon swords to all the kids and sh