Here is her letter, and the rest of the pictures:
Hi everyone! So its the end of week four, for real now... and its time
to get all new Latins! Its so exciting when they all come, even though
its sad to see the old ones leave!
TOUR
Ok
so we got to go on a tour of Bogota today and it was awesome! We went
to Monserrate (I don't know how to spell that) but its very cool and very
pretty and very high in the mountains. We took this really cool tram up
the mountain, and I kid you not, straight up the mountain...it was
crazy. We got to look out over the city of Bogota and its huge! and we
didnt even see all of it! I got a lot of cool pictures that Ill try to
send! We also went to the souvenir shops and bought stuff and that was
way fun too.
ARE WE IN UTAH?
Ok,
so there are these beautiful mountains here that remind me of Utah and
then one night we had green jello and someone was like...mountains and
green jello, are we in Utah? haha I just thought it was funny and I
wanted to share.
CONFERENCE
Wow,
wasnt conference great!? I loved watching and listening to all the
apostles and prophet speak to us..I especially loved it because it was
in English! Jeffrey R. Hollands talk definitely made me cry....I
love my mom! and I'm so grateful for her unconditional love! Also, I
really liked the talk about ponderizing the scriptures. I think thats
such a good idea and Im going to try and do that here on my mission. One
thing that he said would happen as you did this was that the scriptures
would become like loyal friends you could rely on and I really want
that and I believe its true. I just want to challenge you guys to do
that..find a scripture, put it in a place where you can see it every
day, think about it often, and really ponder the meaning. Try it for
just one week and note the change in your lives..I promise that it will
make them better and as you do this it will provide a higher place for
you thoughts to go, like he said.
WE ARE ONE
Ok,
this is not the Provo MTC and its very small here and our district had
six people in it and I was like, yes I like this, this is good. Well,
the rest of the people I came here on the plane with were in another
district and there were 7 of them and that was good too, but last night
they combined us into one district so there's like 13 of us and its
HUGE...ok you know you're at the Colombia CCM when 13 in your district is
huge, but really it feels quite big, but I love it and I love these
people. They are all so great and have wonderful testimonies..I couldn't
have made it this far without them!
PROSELYTING PART II-WITHOUT HIVES
Ok
we went proselyting on Friday and it was so awesome! We went for 3
hours this time instead of 1 and we were around a library and there were
so many people to talk to. It was a lot different from the first time
we went. We had more confidence and it was fun. Even though we couldn't
understand most of what they were saying, we could feel the spirit and I
know it was helping us. Its amazing that the spirit works that way and
Im so grateful that it does because it really is the true teacher and
its helpful because I don't know Spanish. We gave out both of our Books
of Mormon and I really like the people we gave them out to. One guy, he
was probably in his 20s, seemed really interested and said he was going
to go read it. I felt like he was sincere and it filled me with such
joy-oh I wish I could follow up with these people! But I know the
missionaries in their areas will be able to touch their lives!
Well, I hope you are all having a great week! I love you!
Love,
Hermana Roylance
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