10/11/ 22: Sigo en el Guayaramerin

 I feel bad for not writing for so long but so much has happened in the last three week I really don't know where to start. I don't really like doing list email but I really don't know how else to cover everything that happen so here we go

- flew back to Santa Cruz for Mission Leardership concilio and it actually really went well
- a general authority, elder Bercero came to concilio and gave an awesome talk and really help us figure out how to help the mission use technology better ( also check out his gen con talk call Poor Little Ones)
- went straight from the airport to lead a stake mission training, it was improvised but still super spiritual
- ate torta de peta, turtle egg kiche, which was surprisingly good
- went to the jungle to go fishing, river monster style
- survived an absolute tropical downpour in the smallest wooden shack I've ever seen
- had a small conversation in Portuguese with some Brazilians, takes me back to my first transfer learning Spanish jaja
-service project with the zone in the hottest weather ever  to help some inactive and the came back to church
-started Doctrina y Convenios en español, it's slow reading but we'll get there
- watched General Conference with a great family of  investigadores and every felt the Spirit strongly
- organized zone conference with my comp which is apparently a lot more complicated here in Beni,  but then again everything seems that way here
- suffered in the jungle heat... daily
- got bit by more mosquitos... daily
- kill another tarantula and who know how many more spiders
- invited the owner of our favorite restaurant Guayaburger to come to conferencia and he brought his whole family
- gave a talk on the last days, everyone said it scared them a bit but all I did was read Alma 34:33
- went contacting in the furthest pueblito in our area and had lots of sucess
- lots and lots of motorcycles. Not saying I miss the micros, but motos are a lot more expensive 

That's sums up a lot of what went down, lots of spiritual highs, low, stresses and tender mercies. Happy to be here as a missionary and share  Christ's love with my friends here in Guayaramerin 

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