Camron's letter.....August 6, 2012

Hola Familia, I am very happy to say that the Lique family was baptized this Saturday. The mother,(Ignacia), father, (José), and their son, (Rodrigo). It was awesome! We were going to their house to pick them up and Rodrigo was outside waiting for us and looking out their fence door. When he saw us, he opened the fence door fast and their van started backing out so that they could take us to the church with them for their baptism. I was priviledged to baptize Ignacia, and Rodrigo. My comp, Elder Blaser, was able to baptize Jose'. It was pretty funny because Ignacia and Rodrigo, (the 12 year old son) weigh the same, so it was pretty easy baptizing them. The water was quite cold and they were a little scared because of that. But after the baptism, we asked if Jose' was cold and he said, "no I feel warm". I'm sure he could feel the holy ghost testifying to him that the decision that he had made was a good one and was going to help him alot in his life. Sunday they all made it to church in time to be confirmed. I was priviledged to be able to confirm Jose and Rodrigo. It's always a great feeling when the holy ghost is guiding your words, and you are able to know exactly what you need to say. The spirit was so strong and we had an awesome day at church!  Since I'm the first councelor in the branch, the President and I take turns conducting. I was able to announce callings and sustainigs and ask if everyone supported or was against those callings. Never thought I would be doing that in the mission field, but it's some good practice for the future if I'm called to do it. The branch that we are in is starting to become organized pretty well, and I'm sure it will start to grow. Our President is an awesome guy and a great leader. He cares a lot about the branch and he is willing to work hard. We were able to play soccer today. It's independance day for Bolivia so there are a lot of parties and parades going on. We had an awesome soccer game today. The Latins were saying that it was like the gringos versus latinos. We said allright then, lets do it. There were 4 of us and 5 of them and we started beating them 6 to 2. By the the time the game ended, it was 15 to 12 and we beat them!  It was fantastic! Oh and while we were playing, we saw some tuacans flying above us and a wild monkey in the trees. It was pretty legit. The Latins weren't too happy, but we had a good game. My comp and I are working really well together. We have goals to work extremly hard so that we can be great examples for the zone. We want to be able to be tools in the Lord's hands and be able to save those that He has prepared for us. We have some great elders in our zone and we are all really excited to work hard and see what we can do together. We had a great time in Santa Cruz. It was a great concilio! There are going be alot of new zone leaders in the next four months because more than half of the zone leaders are going to go home. But the mission has a bunch of awesome missionaries. You can truly see that the missionaries that have been sent here, needed to be sent here. This should be a great week because we're going to be able to work the entire week, and we're going to work hard. I'm excited to be able to tell you how things go next week.   Love, Elder Christoffersen