Thank you Dad

Thank you Dad for teaching me since I was young how to use the bathroom in the woods. It saved me this week when I asked to use our convert's bathroom and it was just a hole in the ground.


{I'm thinking the security on this property is aMAZing.  Look at the spikes on that gate - I won't be climbing over that wall.  No one's getting onto that property today!!!}

This week was amazing! General Conference was amazing and I learned so much! Something I absolutely loved was that there was a main theme of all the talks that we really all are so important on this earth. EVERY ONE OF YOU IS IMPORTANT. God has a plan for everyone and every single person needs to realize they are so loved! There is nothing to far out of the reach of the atonement of Christ. I have learned that very well here on my mission. Don't give up. You are all important to God, and to me. I want to see all my heavenly brothers and sisters back in the Celestial Kingdom with me!

This week I met two atheists. I don't know if I have ever talked with atheists in my life before, but there was a huge difference between the two I met. The first one was a woman waiting for her kid to leave from school. She told us she didn't believe in God or a life after death. But there was doubt. There was a want to believe. Even though with her words she told us she wasn't interested at all, her attention and her eyes told a different story. We talked with her using inspired words that were not ours. We opened our mouths, and the words came.

The second was a grandpa that we met knocking doors. He left and immediately told us that there was no God. That believing wouldn't do anything for us and that all there was to believe in was Science. When we talked to him, there were no inspired words. There was no spirit. He did not believe, and when we opened our mouths there was nothing that came. 

There are people who will change in this world. Even if it is with time. And there are others who are okay with where they are and will keep living the way they are. But I know it is my job, our job, to give everyone the chance.




{don't miss the Christ statue on the hill overlooking Cochabamba}

Fun Facts:

-I met a man who was 100 years old! He was still walking around and healthy! The only defect he had was a broken hip, but still walking=)

-Here in Bolivia the people who drink aren't just drunk on weekends... they are walking around drunk every day, at all hours of the day.

{On transfer days, they seem to meet here to greet all the new missionaries into the mission}

-- Don't count the days, make the days count!

~Hermana Madsen