Interesting week, but good.

Muy buenos días!

Haha thanks for all the birthday wishes! It was a good week. Interesting week for sure, but good. We had this small party on Friday with the branch president and one of his counselors and the pension and these other two ladies in the branch that are awesome. We had this really good rice dish and then Brazilian cake with maracuyá (passion fruit - but that sounds dumb in English) filling. So good. And yes, in accordance with Bolivian tradition, my head was smashed into the cake. But that just means that my piece was bigger haha!

 

Then our little friend B** got baptized on Saturday. Elder P** baptized him and then I confirmed him yesterday. The baptism was interesting because we were really busy all morning and couldn´t fill up the font until 2 hours before the actual baptism, which is something you should never do in Bolivia haha! (memories of filling up fonts by make-shift well and bucket in el Plan haha). But ya, we get there and everything is good...... for 3 minutes when we find out that there´s no water..... Awesome. Normal in Cobija actually. We only have water 1 or 2 times a week so everyone has huge tanks to store it all all week. And the tank in the church wasn´t filled........ But there´s a pump that can take it from the even bigger tank outside like a normal church..... But there wasn´t any power....... Almost went straight to plan B, the river 5 minutes away... but then the power worked and there was water. Ni modo. But it filled up SO SLOW. Good thing B**´s really really really short haha.

 

Yesterday was good. Nothing too exciting for my birthday, just a couple of small things and Brazilian chocolate. But normal day no más because I don´t like publicizing my birthday to the whole branch haha. But it was the hottest day ever. It´s probably been a whole year since I sweat as much as yesterday haha! But ya, good day.

 

Got the package today! Elder D** couldn´t mail pouch to Cobija the other week, so didn´t get it till today, so I´m gonna open it up later at home, but thanks!

 

Love the pictures, sorry can´t send my own haha. Just tried again, but the wifi is complicated here and wants something that my camera can´t do and I lost my cable to plug the camera straight into the computer and left the other one in Santa Cruz. Ni modo. It´s not worth getting a virus putting the memory straight in. I might be the only missionary who´s lived here without a virus on his camera haha.

 

But ya, that´s basically it. Good week. There´s a family that came to church yesterday and we´re really really really hoping that they get baptized the 15th so I can be there! Lots of prayers.

 

Love you all. One day very soon you´ll see pictures.

Que tengan una excelente semana! Besits.

Elder Groneman