10/11/21: Lots of waiting

 This week started with a lot of waiting in line. In order to leave the main city, you need a Bolivian national ID card, and to get one of those is the most confusing, boring DMV-like process. Luckily, us gringos have Elder Lopez the mission secretary helping us through it. Basically he just points at where we need to sign an tells us what to say and we do it. We always say just be a dead fish, don't fight the flow not matter how confusing it is. The worst part is we have to go back and forth from our area to central which is about and hour of travel, but it is fun to see the other gringos and converse in English for a while.


Outside of standing in lines for hours, we have been able to get some good work done in our area. We taught 8 more people to teach this week, which apparently is a slow week here, but to me that was amazing. Also the two families we're working with who are closest to baptism came to church which was great. During church, Obispo called me up to introduced myself in the middle of the meeting. That was terrifying, but at least know the ward knows how little Spanish I know Haha. However, my understanding of the language has definitely improved. Its used to see progress because it's so incremental, but I definitely feel I can follow conversations a lot better now.  Its only been a week though, so I think it will take a lot of patience with myself to really get the language mastered.

The lessons we have had though are always great  Elder Peñaranda is an amazing teacher. He have dozens of visual demos hes come up with and his explanations of the gospel principles are super clear. Ihave a lot to learn for him.

I feel fairly  well adjusted to Bolivia, but there's always new things to learn. 

Talk to you all next week!




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