Hello again! Thanks for the letters and photos!

 

In the conference I was the only speaker that was picked at random, out of 2 zones! So like out of 50 missionaries. Crazy. The topic was Book of mormon.

 

We didn't teach a whole lot this week, because of general conference and last monday after writing my companion got sick!! We don't really know what she got but she was in bed, slept for about 24 hours, with some medicines and rest she was better by Wednesday. Hermana Harman also got sick with the same thing at the same time, so we thought it might have been food, but the other 3 of us in our house didn't get sick so I don't think it could have been food.

 

Our pensionista is good, she keeps everything clean and always boils the water for our drinks most importantly. I got a letter from Grandpa and he asked me about the food we eat. Well, we eat lunch everyday at a member´s house, she is paid to give us food everyday. We ALWAYS have bananas cooked in the oven, rice, potatoes, and then some sort of meat or pasta dish. I am kind of sick of the bananas to tell you the truth. she stuffs us full! Sometimes I feel like I can hardly walk leaving there, and then we still have a day of proselyting ahead of us. She usually gives us a drink caled linaza which basically is like lemonade but made from some other fruit, and it´s yellow with gray seeds, it's yummy. Other than that, we don't get fed a whole lot, sometimes crackers or bread and most visits they give us something to drink, water or coca cola. Coke is king here. there's now way to avoid it. We drink a lot of it. It's rude to EVER turn down them offering you food. So we get stuffed full always.

 

Mom, that's cool you met someone that was in Bolivia, to answer your question before I was in Barrio (ward) la Cañáda, estaca (stake) La pampa, and now I am in Barrio Guaracal, (estaca) Cañoto.

 

Florencia passed her baptismal interview and her baptism is saturday! Good to go! Just hoping we have enough priesthood there.

 

Wasn't conference great? Luckily we got to watch all the sessions, we had to bring investigators saturday and we were able to, yay! Florencia came as well as Eugenio, a man we found a few weeks ago but haven´t been able to teach much becuase of schedule and we have to bring another hermana from the ward with us, since his wife doesn´t want to hear, but he usually comes to the english classes and we were really surprised he showed up! Hopefully he liked it...he is prety shy so who knows. I loved the talks by Elder Bednar and Elder Holland and many others, and I can't wait to get the Liahona!! We watched 2 sessions in English and 2 in Spanish. I understood the Spanish sessions but English is a lot easier still, and the jokes don´t make sense in Spanish haha.

 

Meridian temple surprised me too!! But it's great!

 

We were sad though because Victor and Sulema and their family didn't come. I think one of their daughters got sick or something, our pensionista lives down the street from them and she said they left early in the morning Sunday to go somewhere and hadn´t come back...that's the only thing we think it could have been.

 

I wanted to send you some pictures but this computer won't let me...next week! sorry

 

I love you all. Thanks for your prayers, and I hope you are all praying every day and reading your scritpures! It´s really the best thing you can do for yourself. Always go to church too. I love you all. 

Hermana Tibbitts