I counted all the weeks Jason has been gone. I hope my calculations are correct, haha.
September 16, 2013
Hola Familia!
How’s it going!? How was your week? This week was good. We had a baptism on Saturday which was awesome. My comp and I sang a special musical number and Sister Prince (Mission President’s wife) was able to give a talk. Her name is Claudia and we found her contacting about 3 weeks ago. She started reading the Book of Mormon and said that since that moment she has never felt so good. Yesterday she told us that her whole family won’t talk to her anymore because she got baptized and all she said is that I’m sure they´ll come around haha. She’s great. We have been working more closely with the zone and have found that there is a lot of disobedience with some of the elders haha. We got to one area´s house at about 10am and they were still sleeping. Other areas we have found have more of a friends only relationship with their investigators. The problem with that is that if they think of us as just friends when it comes time to invite them to do something they won’t do it. Tough stuff, we have a lot of work to do this week. Hey, I saw a robbery at gunpoint last night which was wild. The problem with our area is that we have a neighborhood which has almost all of our investigators in it. The government gave away all the houses and so a bunch of people came from all over Colombia. The problem is that this neighborhood borders with the most dangerous neighborhood in Palmira and all the bad people from that neighborhood come in and mess with all the good people including our investigators. They call themselves the “300.” We have to be more careful now because at night it’s not that safe anymore. It’s cool because sometimes the Colombian Army roles in with all their big guns. I want to go with them sometime haha. We are hoping for 2 or 3 more baptisms this weekend we´ll see how things go. Things with the comp are good. Nothing else to report. I love you guys soo much!
Les quiero mucho
September 23, 2013
Hola Familia!!!
This was a good week. We had 2 more baptisms which were a little stressful but we did it haha Andrea was baptized on saturday.
Parents arent married but we are working on that. They love the church.
The husband was in the army so hes a little tough on everyone but he
has good intentions. Belliy was baptized sunday
morning before church. She got put on house arrest for being in a house
where there were a bunch of drugs but she had nothing to do with that
she was just at the wrong place at the wrong time. We got a permision
from the police so that she could leave from 8-10am sunday
morning to get baptized and then confirmed haha Right now we have a few
good families that we are teaching. Its sad when people say that they
are going to go to church on sunday but dont show up. Saturday
was a holiday here in colombia which means that everyone parties hard
all night. Transfers got moved to next week because pres prince wants us
to finish out september with all the goals that we have in the mission
right now. The next transfer will only be 5 weeks. Crazy story we were
in the neighborhood that borders the dangerous neighborhood visiting
some converts and when we got done we decided to walk a different way to
get to our next appointment and along the way we ran into a member
thats a taxi driver and he gave us a ride to our appointment. We got a
call about 10 min later from our convert asking where we were and if we
were alright. Apparently there was a big shootout between neighborhoods
and if we would have gone the usual way home we wouldve been in the
middle of it.....crazy right! 
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