More adventures in Sucre

This week went by super fast, we had to fly out to Cochabamba and come back to Sucre in about 24 hours due to leadership conference so I was a little tired haha. But we still worked really hard!!!! 

Leadership Conference

During leadership conference

Mauri and Juan Pablo our pensionista's son

We are working with Alejandro and Mauricio they are our pensionista's sons and wow it has been so so awesome to be able to teach them. Ale is 25 and Mauri is 18. All of the family was baptized 6 months ago except them and its been a slow process but a miraculous one too . This past Friday we asked them if they felt ready to be baptized and Ale said he was sure, but Mauri said not yet and that Ale should just be baptized without him. But we felt strongly that they could baptized together and then their family could start preparing to be sealed in the temple so we told Mauri we would give him until the 16th to decide so that we could start planning his baptism after. We told his parents about our plan and we all decided to fast for them. It was probably one of the sweetest moments in my mission being able to fast with their parents. The dad said a really strong prayer about how much he wanted their family to be eternal. We are all praying for Mauri to feel ready.  

It's so  hard for most people here to be members of this church, they have to sacrifice so much and give up a big part of their culture. But I know that repentance changes us and it helps us become converted to God and not to anything else. This Sunday the elders convert came running up to us crying because her dad hit her once he found out she was coming to church to be confirmed. She asked us why it had to be hard for her and easy for everyone else.

It was a really humbling experience. We are so blessed to have the truth.

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Hermana Lopez 

Bolivian breakfast: Api and bunuelos!!

Sometimes we have to take these huge buses to get from one part of our area to the other and the buses get really full so we have to hang out of them.