Another week in Colombia!



This week was a little rough at times but a huge testimony builder.

I am super glad to hear that everyone is doing well, I pray for you guys a ton and I hope that things keep being good.

My companion and I started this week with a lot of energy and working really hard.  We have found many new people that we think can progress in the next couple of weeks.  We just keep inviting everyone.  We invite, they commit and we follow up.  So we are just trying to increase the number of people we invite because many are called and few are chosen.  But if you invite many many people you will naturally find more of the chosen.

What made this week a little more difficult is that Cartagena is having a plague of pink eye.  I don´t know if I have mentioned it or not but a lot of people here don´t do a lot to protect themselves from sicknesses like that.  My companion and I were working really hard to protect ourselves from it washing our hands in our house every chance we got... until we ran out of water again... Two days later I woke up with pink eye in my right eye.  I called the wife of our mission president (which is what we do if we are sick) and told her what happened.  One of the elders in my district Élder Peña (also my ex trainer) also got pink eye that morning so him and I went on divisions to rest while our companions left to work in our area.

Élder Peña completed his mission that day so that night he left and I was in a trio for 2 days and it was super fun.  But my eye got super sick.  It got really swollen and the next morning my other eye had pink eye too.  And that morning was Sunday, so I went to church.  That morning I couldn´t sleep hardly at all because my eyes hurt so much, but it was something really cool because that night I got on my knees and I said a prayer.  Just a prayer to thank God for the chance I have had to serve a mission and the chance I have had to be here.  After that I could sleep.  I have thought a lot about the Atonement since that experience and how Christ has already felt these things for me and is still helping me if I am humble enough to ask for his help.

Sunday I went to Church with a pair of sunglasses and I looked like a blind guy. It was awesome.  I even bore my testimony to the congregation in my sunglasses just because I could.

Church is true and Jesus loves you.

Have a great week.

Eyes still hurt, I am wearing sun glasses right now, but it´ll all get better here soon.

--
Con muchisimo amor,
Elder Fuell

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