This week Colombia celebrated "El Dia de Velitas" Everyone buys candles and places them all over their houses and they light them all up. It's also a tradition here to drink wine and eat crackers for the rest of the night. Everyone basically gets drunk. What I've heard from a lot of the members here is that The 7th of December the angel Gabriel announced to Mary that she was going to be the mother of Jesus. It was cool though because everyone was pretty friendly that night! We also light up some candles and put them outside our window!
We've started heading towards the farm areas in our proselyting area here in Sol. Our area is filled with farms farms farms and lots of dogs that love to attack you. Them puppers are scary looking things. We Don't proselyte where the farms are in the night time because the dogs will eat us.
Something that I've recognized from this week is the importance of knowing what you're studying. Before my mission I knew a lot of the stories in the BOM but,
Something that I enjoyed this week was studying form the scriptures, but studying by using the maps that the scriptures contain. It's gives me a better view and helps me to understand the stories from them. It makes it more real for me as well. I imagine myself that I'm there with these people of old. Sitting off to the side with popcorn in my hands just watching everything go on. Read the scriptures! BUT! Make sure you understand what you're reading and what's going on, who's talking, where are the people, what year is it, everything! I promise you it will make your scripture study a much more thrilling experience! You will also gain a greater testimony of the truthfulness of the doctrine, and have a greater desire to share it with others!
One experience from studying in this way, is when my comp and I were teaching some new investigators that we had found on the street. We knocked on the door and they invited us in the share our message with them. As we explained the Book of Mormon we helped them to understand where this book came from, how old it is, what it contains (The story of Jesus Christ coming the America) etc...we wanted them to understand the importance of the gift that we brought them that day. As they understood their desire to start to read, and pray grew instantly. It was amazing to see the excitement of their faces that there are more answers to the questions we have, more blessings to receive, more knowledge to gain! Helping them understand invited the spirit into the lesson to help testify to their hearts that the message we bring is true! Their names are Yorani, Jesus, and their daughter Stefany. It's a small, but beautiful little family. I'm happy to see them grow their knowledge in the Gospel of Jesus Christ!
Love you all! Have a great week! Go scrutinize and get more knowledge haha!
Elder Horton
Impressions of Sogamoso:
1. The dogs here are big and scary, and always want to attack you
2. The sun here burns! It's probably the first time in my life that I've made the decision myself to put on sunblock haha.
3. People here eat every part of every kind of animal. I ate Pigs feet! It was actually pretty dang good!
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| Lighting up my Candles to Celebrate "El Dia de Velitas" |
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| Our Candles that we set outside the Window |
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| Our Candles that we set outside the Window |
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| P-day with the District in Sogamoso! |
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| Elder Oliveira and I outside the Temple of Bogotá |
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