Hola awesome people!!
So this was a crazy cool week! We had two baptisms in our district and those were pretty awesome!! Richard and Daidamia. Richard was an investigator of E. Recalde and mines, He is like 13 I Think, and he is way cool. His older sister joined a few months ago and they are both really cool.
The other baptism, Daidamia, is really cool. She is like 45 or so, she has 3 kids, one is already a member. Anyway, she went through some difficult times in her preparation for baptism. Many doubts and concerns, especially in her family. But it was a wonderful baptism. All of her family was there to support her and afterwards she bore a very heartfelt testimony about how happy she is to follow the example of our Savior and to become a better person through the princples and teachings of Jesus Christ. Really really cool experience to help people come unto Christ.
Other than the two baptisms not a whole lot happened.... oh yeah wait there was something.
OUR CITY FLOODED!!
Yeah so Friday morning during breakfast it began to rain. Just a normal rain no biggie right? Well that rain increased to a serious downpour and it lasted for 2 hours!! Which in turn, resulted in the entire side of Tingo Maria we live on flooding! Our street had roughly 3 feet of rain in the middle of it (see pictures) it was crazy!!! After noticing that the water was beginning to go inside peoples houses because the river had risen so high we decided it was our duty as servants of the lord to go and to help people save their possessions. So, for the following 3 hours I was shoveling water out of peoples houses. It was a very humbling experience. The people didnt seem to care very much that their things were getting ruined and they couldnt do anything about it but I began to feel real sorrow for these people. They already have so little, and yet here they are losing their possessions right before their eyes. Really Really heart breaking. Anyway, they were very happy to see 4 helping hands reaching out to help them save some of their things. After that we were basically exhausted and retired back to our room for a little bit. Then went out and did more missionary stuff. It was a very interesting experience. But I am thankful we were able to help people that were in desperate need of a helping hand.
Yeah so Friday morning during breakfast it began to rain. Just a normal rain no biggie right? Well that rain increased to a serious downpour and it lasted for 2 hours!! Which in turn, resulted in the entire side of Tingo Maria we live on flooding! Our street had roughly 3 feet of rain in the middle of it (see pictures) it was crazy!!! After noticing that the water was beginning to go inside peoples houses because the river had risen so high we decided it was our duty as servants of the lord to go and to help people save their possessions. So, for the following 3 hours I was shoveling water out of peoples houses. It was a very humbling experience. The people didnt seem to care very much that their things were getting ruined and they couldnt do anything about it but I began to feel real sorrow for these people. They already have so little, and yet here they are losing their possessions right before their eyes. Really Really heart breaking. Anyway, they were very happy to see 4 helping hands reaching out to help them save some of their things. After that we were basically exhausted and retired back to our room for a little bit. Then went out and did more missionary stuff. It was a very interesting experience. But I am thankful we were able to help people that were in desperate need of a helping hand.
Other than that there really is nothing. We are still working with Amado and he is penciled in for the 15th of Nov. for his baptism in a river :) pretty stoaked about that!!!
Thank you all for the support and love! I can really feel it when I read your letters. Know that I can feel all your prayers and they are all needed while trying to learn a language!! But it isnt that bad really!!
Love you all and have a safe exciting week!
Elder Bell
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