Bolivia Bound

What Do You Do With A Bidet, Exactly?

Hello everyone!!!

First off, congratulations to Bryan!!! Even though I think that December would be a much better month than May for a wedding ;) Haha no, but that’s awesome. Send me lots of pictures!!! Also pictures now of the ring!!!

Well, this week has been wild. We worked a lot, as always, and had some disappointments, but also some great moments. Our biggest disappointment was definitely that Anyelo, our investigator with a baptism date for this coming Saturday, got super anxious and told us yesterday that he didn’t feel good about baptism, that he wasn’t going to do it right now, that we could keep coming to his house but he doesn’t want to hear about baptism. Well, that was really sad for us, but we’re going to keep working with him. He’s fantastic - he reads the Book of Mormon, keeps the commandments, including Word of Wisdom and Law of Chastity, always goes to church, and prays. Also Dad, you would like him - he’s an accountant! I know he’ll end up getting baptized at some point, it’s just important to be patient with some people. It’s not an easy thing to make a life-changing commitment like baptism. But we also found lots of new people to teach, including families, and the Lord guided us to several new menos activos in the past few days. It was really great yesterday. We had lots of investigators come to church, but it was really cool to see lots of menos activos also show up, many of whom hadn’t come to church at all in many years, one of whom is really excited and told us she wants to do a family night with the bishop, another of whom accompanied her husband to church for the first time in years. It was a happy day as the Lord worked miracles in the hearts of the people of La Colorada. :)

We’ve also had a crazy adventure in our house the past few days. On Wednesday, our toilet broke and started spilling water out of the top, which flooded our bathroom to the point that the water started to enter into our bedroom. Uh oh - we called our zone leaders and they came with a plumber, who worked for about four hours (we, and the zone leaders, lost almost the whole day, which was a disappointment), and then proceeded to tell us that he had ALMOST fixed it, but would have to come back another day. So for the next few days, we could use the bathroom, but the toilet kept spilling out water from the top and our bathroom was perpetually flooded, ha. Then the plumber came back Saturday, spent another few hours to fix the toilet, but we weren’t in the house - just him and the zone leaders. We came back to the house that night, and to our surprise, not only was the toilet not fixed still, but the sink also stopped working. The plumber still hasn’t come back, so now our bathroom is still flooded AND we don’t have a sink, ha. Our solution? The bathroom also has a bidet, which we are now using as our makeshift sink to wash our hands, wash our faces, brush our teeth, everything. And then today, the light also went out in our bathroom. Hermana Hincapie and I think it’s just hilarious - hahaha I love being a missionary.

Well, there are always about a million experiences, miracles from the Lord, funny moments, and everything here, and never enough time or space to write about all of it. I know that this is the work of the Lord, and I definitely learned this week that we have to stay positive and make the best of whatever situation. Learning to trust in the Lord, learning to see the silver lining, and learning to laugh are the secrets to a happy life, and I love it. :)

Love you all!

Hermana Chelsie Faulk