This week was a good Solid week. Just about like your week: went by super fast and I feel like not that much happened. On Thursday I went to Cerrito which is a little town about 20 minutes away from Palmira. I went and did divisions in Cerrito with one of our district leaders, Elder Stevenson. He is from St. George and he is the one that I mentioned earlier, that is family of the Johnsons in Kanab. We had an alright division. Elder Stevenson recommended a burger place in Cerrito, so I bought myself a huge double bacon hamburger. In Colombia there are a lot of Burgers that áre not so good, so I took advantage of being in Cerrito.
On Saturday we fasted as a mission for the wife of one of our mission counselors. HIs name is Pres. Trochez and his wife has been having some pretty major health problems so all the missionaries in the mission dedicated their fast to her. Now that our area is super huge (there were 6 missionaries in our area before) we always do divisions on Saturday to be able to invite all of our investigators to church. One of the kids in the church that is preparing for his mission always does divisions with us. His name is Bryan, and he is one of the best friends I have made in the mission! I was with him on Saturday visiting the people and he had a little breakdown. I guess he is going through some trials in his life so while he was doing visits with me he just like got bored and said that he was sick of teaching with us. He said he never wanted to help us out again and that he gave away his whole life just to help us out (which is kinda true because he teaches with us just about all day, every day!). That was kinda a bummer because we basically didn`t have the Spirit after that and we couldn`t invite all the people we wanted to. Luckily after the day was over he regretted what he said and the next day at church he apologized to me. I felt super bad though, because I hate obligating people to help us out! I guess I think back when I was home and never helped the missionaries out. . . I sure wish I would have.
The other thing that happened on Sunday is that we finally scheduled a baptismal date for Eyesmit and Alejandro!! Thanks so much for the prayers because it was a fight to get them to finally accept the baptismal date even though they are super ready! They are going to get baptized on April 12 and we have them super excited to go to general conference this weekend too. I have no doubt that they will be baptized this day now, but we of course have to keep working hard with them because the adversary is going to be fighting hard to make them not be baptized. Yesterday we had a little picnic with them to get them out of the house and talk in private with them. It was nice; we made peanut butter bars (one of the recipes you sent me) and sandwiches and went to a little park and just talked to them. It was after that that we finally scheduled the baptismal date.
Also on Sunday we had a huge family night with almost 40 people! We had planned this family night with the family of Bryan, and when we got there we were amazed to see so many people when we were only expecting like 15 people! It was the craziest family night I have seen in the mission, but I guess you could say it turned out alright. I made a little cinnamon roll cake (another recipe from the cookbook. I am becoming quite the baker with an oven in our house) and everyone loved it too!
Well those are about the highlights of the week. It was a good week, but nothing much to report more than that. We have my first leadership council this Thursday so that will be cool to go to too. It will be great to hear the vision of the mission from Pres Prince, but I am also excited because Sister Prince always cooks some good food for us! Don`t know if you guys have seen the mission blog, but it is something like Colombia-cali.blogspot.com. Sister Prince always updates it with pictures and everything, so feel free to check it out if you want!
We are doing good activating a lot of people here too. Hope you guys there in Utah can always give a lot of encouragement to the less actives and inactives. In Colombia the main reason that people are inactive is because they don`t feel needed or loved in the church. It is amazing what a visit can do to help these people.
Love you guys a lot and hope everything goes good in California. Glad Tanner is doing good in baseball and the other kids in their sports and music.
Love,
Elder Armstrong
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