La Boda (1/21)

Friday, January 21, 2011




Can't believe we made it this far. Today, Cristina and I finished our first workshop! With 3 people! We had a 50% retaining rate it seems. The next few workshops will be more fruitful since they are in each stake. We got a phone today (however, it never actually got activated before the weekend…things move so slow here). Today after the workshop, we ate at a local place behind the Employment Center and then walked back to our apartment. I had soup, rice, salad, meat and a drink for only 16 bolivians. The equivalent of about $2. I ate the rest of it for dinner.





We have the day off but got invited to a wedding tonight so that should be fun. Tomorrow we're going on sort of a YSA trip to Las Cuevas. AND on Sunday one of our Workshop Graduates, Reynaldo, invited us to give a talk at his branch's meeting out in Warnes Province. He is the 2nd counselor even though he is our age. We have the next week off!!!




The wedding was pretty awesome. Parties here don't start til 10-11pm and don't end til 5am. It's crazy! They even had a one course meal and everything. It was a beautiful wedding. They had decorated the chapel so well, you would have never known is was a church building. They had 20+ tables and had hired the most popular band in Bolivia. This is a photo of our table:



We ate and danced a ton. People just stared at me and Cristina and I introduced some crazy American dancing after trying to dance Salsa and Merengue with Camilo and Jose. Then we went home at 1am, though everyone else stayed til 5am....I can't imagine staying up so late, I'm getting OLD.