A Marvelous Work and Wonder: December 2014

Sunday, December 14, 2014

MY CHRISTMAS GIFT TO YOU!

My Christmas gift to you! (Click)
My Christmas gift in Spanish (Click)

Well, I´ve been in the office now for 5 3/4 months. On the 25 I hit the 6 month mark. But I had my interview with President on Monday, so he let me know that I´ll be here until the 23-24 of January so that I can train the new office couple when they get here. So I´ll have another transfer here in the offices before going out for a transfer to finish. But as for where I´ll be going, I would like to go to Cucuta or Bucaramanga. Two parts of the mission that I haven´t really gotten to know yet. But anywhere that President sends me will be great. I just want to have a great companion that is going to help me work for the whole last transfer.

The week was really hectic for me and my companion, we had to get all the stuff ready for the transfers, for the missionaries that went home, and we still are getting the last things done for the Christmas conferences along with the new missionaries that are arriving on Tuesday. So it´s been a super hectic week. But I think that by the end of this week I´ll have the majority done and I can relax a little bit, but we´ll see what happens with the finances since I have to revise and close all the accounts of the mission for the year. That´s going to be fun.

SERVICE PROJECT

We had a service project this week helping to clean a field and there were a lot of horses, it was cool. Please send me Christmas pictures of your family at justin.bandy@myldsmail.net. Merry Christmas.

Saturday, December 6, 2014

PARROT NAMED ELDER BANDY, OVALTINE, HIPPOS, TAJ MAHAL

ELDER FLORES AND I FOUND OVALTINE!

PARROT THAT A CONVERT NAMED AFTER ME.

We had a Thanksgiving dinner on Sunday and it was really good because we had turkey, stuffing, corn bread, mashed potatoes, salad and some other good stuff, I made a pumpkin pie and it came out good. I had to make the crust out of Oreos and it was all eaten so it
wasn´t that much of a letdown.

As for tracting we don´t tract in our area, it doesn´t work, and it´s dangerous to do it. So we just go off of references or people that start up conversations with us in the street or the bus or the train or the taxi….. But lessons, we had 1 this week and it was good. But all the others fell through, so that was sad. I had to travel a lot this week, so that wasn´t a good thing. But today we got to enjoy ourselves a little bit, by going to an amusement park (not with rollercoasters), it was more of an exhibition park, it was really big, but I have a lot of photos from it.

As for the fast Sundays, you only have 3 left, I come home on the 6^th of March due to the transfer scheduling and because president needs to get rid of all the missionaries from my group to make room for the next one. I have my return date already set, going to be coming home with about 30 other missionaries (my group is the biggest that the mission has seen) so that´ll be great. But the time is going by fast. We live within walking distance to the office, it´s about 5-10 minutes walking depending on how fast we want to get there. But here in the office I have to use my english more than normal so it probably won´t be that big of a problem when I have to talk to you all.

FYI: But also it´s Col(o)mbia and Monterrey. People here get angry if you spell the name of the country wrong, actually I found a mug that said "It´s Colombia not Columbia." It was kind of funny. It would be like when people say Illinois with the "S" on the end.