Awesome Christmas Skype Call Home and Other Great Things!

Baptisms, Family skype call home for Christmas, and zone activities! This was such a great week for me.

FINALLY HAD THE BAPTISM FOR LA FAMILIA SALVATIERRA!!!!!!
Luis and Sofia Salvatierra! After 2 years we finally had their baptism! So excited for them!

Had a zone activity on friday and we sang hymns and talked to people about why we celebrate Christmas and all that good stuff.

Had 3 dinners yesterday for Christmas Eve with members and I'm ready to dang near explode.  My Skype call home to family was the best Christmas present ever and I loved seeing and talking to Mom, Dad, Cayla, and Kolleen

In the words of my amigo Elder Cope, "I got a humpty dumpty haircut" and life is going well here in Bolivia.

Bolivians light off fireworks at midnight for Christmas so basically its New Years part 1....nice

Good food, Good people, Life is chillin here in South America.

Elder Connor Ryan deCocq
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Here are my Journals from this week:

Boom, Boom, Bautista!

Good week this week!!!!! We had some really awesome miracles as always! Had a baptism for Carlos Gil and 3 more baptisms for this coming week. I don't like to type a whole lot but I have pictures so yah. Also got sick this week and I lost 7 pounds!!!! Solid Viva Bolivia!  See my journal entries below for more details from my week

Bro Gil is now a member of the church!  What an amazing baptism

"There's got to more to the Bible. It can't just end like that.  God loves His children. So why would He cut off his teachings and communication with/for them?  What happened from then until now?  There has to be more"  ~ Bro Gil

(Yes....there most certainly is more)

Awesome dinner at Bro Gil's casa

I failed :(

My journal entries:

Storms, Progression, & Loving the People of Bolivia

This week was wild folks. Buckle up.

One: Went to a birthday party for like 30 mins for one of our investigators. Waler turned 5 and had his spider man birthday party of course.

Made some spaghetti which turned out bomb but not sure if it was the spaghetti or something else but I had maddddddddddd "stomach problems" the next day.  Note.....my life has been a lie.  I found out that Salsa just means 'sauce' in spanish.  Chips and Sauce, por favor..... :(

We have some pretty wild storms here too which are cool to watch. The weather is Bipolar but the Lord blesses us when we need a break from the heat.

We have 3 baptisms for this upcoming week and I am super excited for all of them! All amazing people and all have strong testimonies of the gospel!!!

** As always, more details in my journal entries....see them below

VIDEO NOTE:  I have two videos attached below, but they do not render in the emails that get sent out.  If you are reading this via email, click here to view my blog entry itself and see the videos

Chau and Love,

Elder Connor deCocq

Journals:

Three Months on the Mission Already

** Dad note - no pictures this week other than journal entries because of computer issues in doiwnloading from his camera. Hopefully more next week!

I'm already 1/8th of the way into my mission!

So this week was pretty good as always.   Lots of rain sweat and hard work! Computer is not letting me add pictures so sorry gonna have to wait until next week for them.

Had a really awesome experience with the gift of tongues during one our lessons and I know it is because of Faith and being "digno"to have the compantçionship of the holy ghost with me.

First week of the new intercambio is going great and I'm excited to see what next week brings. Good lessons, good food and great people. Santa Cruz de los milagros.

Way more info in my journal entries below.  I'll have more pics next week

Elder Connor Ryan deCocq