Cambios Locos

HOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLAAAAAA

Okay, so sorry for not writing for a few weeks, but honestly its been pretty crazy for me lately.

Los cambios locos

So I had to leave la linda Tarija and return to Santa Cruz De Los Milagros and actually the first two weeks of this cambio I was sent back to my first area! That was a shock! But sure enough it was revelation. I was able to see all my converts again and they were able to go to church! I was able to get to know the wonderful hna Ius. She's from Utah and is going to study animation! We have a lot in common. I also got to teach a wonderful investigator that I only got to know a little last year. Last Saturday she was baptized and it was beautiful. She has so much faith and a strong testimony. Her two children are also recent converts and its wonderful to see the whole family being brought together through the Gospel. Families can be eternal!!

Then we had emergency transfers this last Domingo(not yesterday) and I am now Guaracal, (that's the ward name) and my companion is hna Rayme. She's from Puerto Maldonado, Peru. She's really nice :)

It's been a LONG week, I haven't had to get to know a new area for a long time and the heat of Santa Cruz takes some getting used to again. but I'm optimistic.

I know God is on my side! and he's also in control,and he has my happiness in mind.

Thank you all for your prayers and help!

Love from Bolivia,

Hermana Café

Plot Twist

Hey guys! Don't have a lot to say this week cuz I'm working through some things. 

But long story short, I've moved back to my old area Las Misiones 2. My comp is hna Ius from Utah. 

It was hard to say goodbye to cuatro de Julio yesterday. Here's some pics of a investigator family. I forgot my flash drive so I'll have to send other pics of more people next week. sorry!

I know that God loves us and I know that this is His work and I'm on His errand. I hope I can work well enough to do the things He wants me to do. 

I  testify that personal study of the scriptures and personal daily and nightly prayer, can change your whole life and help you out in the difficult moments. I'll be depending a lot on the Lord in these next few weeks and I invite you all to strive to do the same. 

When in doubt. just serve.

I hope your all liking the new arrangement of third our classes at church! I think its gonna be great!

And to mention, our dear Prophet Thomas S. Monson...

I loved him, and I am 100% sure he was a true prophet of the Lord and he left an example that we should all follow. He was a kind, friendly and loving leader and I'm grateful to have had him as our prophet. I know the Lord will call another man just as worthy and just as inspired as he was. 

I invite you all to look up his teachings on lds.org

And to second his testimony in the last April conference. his last talk: please if you are not reading the Book of Mormon daily, please do so.

And if you do not have a strong testimony of Jesus Christ right now, do whatever you can to obtain one. It is crucial to your happiness.

Love you guys. Prayers would be a lot of help right now. thanks

Hermana Brown

Bolivia.

Feliz Ano Nuevo!!!

​¡¡¡Feliz Año Nuevo!!!   

Hey guys! I hope everyone has jumped into the new year with excitement for this new and marvelous year!  

My week went really well! we found some wonderful families and also we have some investigators that are really starting to understand the gospel  and gain their own testimonies. It's really beautiful to see the light in their eyes when the spirit testifies to them. 

For example, one man we're teaching named Aldo is a 33 year old professor and hes a thinker. We finished teaching him the plan of salvation this week and when we got to the kingdoms of glory he went from listening respectfully to literally leaning on the edge of his seat and was like "woah woah woah wait, can you explain that again?" he is a very good person. And it reminded me how exciting the gospel really is.

For new years they do things  bit different here in Bolivia. And its kinda dangerous.

So basically EVERYONE stocks up on firework like REAL fireworks and sets em off at midnight on new years. 

Literally THE ENTIRE HORIZON LIT UP last night and we had a great view! We had fireworks exploding like RIGHT over our heads and we saw at least a few explode in people garages. SO illegal in California. but man was it was amazing! Me and my companion loved it. It truly felt like new years and was better than ANY firework show you'll ever see.  Just so many fireworks. It sounded like world war three and they were going off for at least half an hour straight.

On other new years happenings, we live in bishops house so we had a dinner with them before midnight and I shared my American powdered sugar donuts with them and for dinner we ate......LLAMA.

Yeah I can now say for the rest of my life that I have eaten llama. 

It was good.

OK well I love you guys!!

I can't believe its 2018!! That's just super super weird. What is happening to time. I've been in Bolivia for a YEAR that's crazy. What is America even like? I don't remember...

Here's a really good video for you.  I hope you enjoy it!

Have a wonderful new year and make good and achievable and hopeful goals! I work to achieve them!!

Hermana Brown

Tarija Bolivia <3