La Joya: the Jewel of the Valley- Week 25 (8/26/19)


Touch of Faith by Yongsung Kim



I kicked a dog this week.
While riding my bike.
Ah, thrilling.

La Joya is my new area! This week has been crazy!
The area was previously combined with another to make one bigger area, but now it's been separated again, so we're working a LOT to find new people because they didnt work in this half of their old area very much...
There are stray dogs EVERYWHERE and there are SO many. A group of like 20 chase us at least once a day; We're on bikes.
That's cool.

It's been a lot of fun though, biking through storms, heat, and killer doggos.
Crashing parties, asking for water, my comp lost his phone.

Elder Quispe and I were in the MTC together too! So that's really cool.

There are a lot of really nice people down here, but I dont have anything TOO cool spiritual wise this week.
Hopefully next week we'll have some more people that we're teaching!
I'm working currently on memorizing the book of Mark in Spanish. Yes, the entire thing.
I'm currently halfway through chapter one since I started 4 days ago.
It's a lot of fun actually.

Also, if you see that someone isn't there in church that week, text them.
Tell them you miss them and hope they're doing well.
Sometimes all it takes is a little bit of effort to make sure that someone stays active.

Love you all, be safe!
Have a great week!!

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