There could be worse places....

So, Today we had the chance to go to the temple. Amazing! I love the temple. before we left to go in, our driver guy said he would be back at one to get us.

1:15

1:30

1:45

2:45....

and still no driver. We had a lot of bonding time though! It cut into our tour time, (WE GOT TO TOUR COLOMBIA!!! SO PRETTY!!) but there could be worse places in Colombia to be stranded!! :) We were able to talk to a guy who just was walking around the temple grounds. And we met missionaries who were spending their last day in the field... at the temple. So cool! I won't complain one bit! Other than waiting in two thunderstorms during our wait, there was nothing that went amiss. I absolutely loved it! 

So everyone in my district sings.. all of us 6 girls. And our favorite teacher, Hno Martinez, calls us "mermaids". Cause we always sing! haha we have sang songs in every meeting we have had as a CCM. We are told to share our talents, and we have been blessed with plenty of opportunities to do so! 

Also, with God, all things are possible. On our first day in the CCM, they asked us to read the Book of Mormon all the way through in English before we left for the field. And so I knelt down to my Heavenly Father and asked for his help! There is no way I could have done that had I been at home! But, two and a  half weeks later, I finished. And I finished on my dad's birthday! I learned more in this reading of the Book of Mormon than I ever have any of the other times I have read it by myself. 

I just got word.. like... twenty minutes ago.. that my Latin companion (we get Latin companions our last two weeks) is from Argentina... I'm not going to be able to understand her one bit. But that's okay, I'm super excited to meet her!! 

We went proselyting! OH MY GOODNESS IT WAS SO FUN!!! Me and my companion got references for 31 people! IT WAS THE FUNNEST THING OF MY LIFE! It is such a great feeling knowing I have been entrusted with the power to share the Gospel to anyone I come in contact with! I can stand there in the street talking to a man dressed in all black, a woman who I'm pretty sure was a prostitute, and a young family all at once and share that God loves them. That families can be together forever, that there IS hope, and it is through Jesus Christ! It was so fun! We got some crazy people who told us we were going to go to the Firery furnace of the devil, but that's okay! I wouldn't have traded that day for anything! 

I hope every single one of you had a wonderful Easter! Here, the CCM president's wife made us all mini Easter baskets with a Solo cup and chocolates. It was so cute! I hope you all remember the real reason we have Easter as well. We had the opportunity to watch a broadcast with President Uchtorf on Sunday. He was speaking at the Provo MTC. He started out with saying how we have the chance to celebrate Easter every Sunday! Each time we take the sacrament! What better gift can we ever receive!? If you haven't already seen it, please go to easter.mormon.org and watch "Because of Him." I promise, it's worth the three minutes. 

I am so excited to be a missionary. The first month is gone! It was hard, and lots of hard things happened, but no one can be engaged in a greater work than this. Have we not great reason to rejoice?

A picture with some local dancers

Traffic is horrible! You think Utah and California drivers are bad... We almost died like 13 times today