We're Starting a Church!

Welcome to Los Cacaos!

Hi Fam!

Woo! Cambita! I love my new area. It's just a tiny branch, but the members are on fire! Especially the recent converts! There's lots of work to do here.

We're starting a church! 🏫

There's a little town called Los Cacaos about an hour's drive away-- clear up in the mountains, and the branch president had it in his bonnet to start a branch up there, so Hermana Lopez and I make the trip up there twice a week! Missionaries haven't ever tried to get up there before but we are finding so many people READY and it's super exciting!!

Albert is the first convert in this town and he has ganas (desires) to baptize the whole mundazo (world). He's the best member missionary ever! He takes us to meet all his friends. Our only progressing investigators are from Cacao i.e. Marlon, who accepted a fecha to be baptized his first cita, and Boly told us she had a dream that she has to join our church. Didi is almost ready to be baptized, and he wants to bring his kids, too, now. We keep meeting all these prepared people.

Good luck on the guaguas!

The only stressful part is catching the guaguas to get up and down because nothing has a fixed schedule-- and this week the guagua didn't come to pick up the investigators for church! Only Alberto and Didi made it down on a motorcycle, and 5 were left waiting above. We could've had 8 investigators total at church :/

Even though Hermana Lopez and I get reimbursed for the $1000 pesos we spend getting up to Cacao every week, we're still left super super poor, so if anyone wants to send us some poor people recipes, we could use those. I don't know how we're going to pay to get up this week. I wish there was some possible way to capture how beautiful the drive is to Cacao. I love mountains! 🌄

Falls in Los Cacaos

Have a great week family! I love you!
Hna Ludlam