Hit it with the rock! January 21, 2013

Hey gang. we got together with another zone today and presidant and the assistants came. we ate choripan and played sports for hours and hours. i went from football to soccer to frisbee and back and forth all day and im exausted. it was way fun though (especially with the soccer shoes mom and dad gave me for christmas.)

        So the p day has been great, last week was great. Im fixin on makin this week even better. Ive got some great friends in my zone and like always, were seeing alot of miracles, so its a really great thing to be a part of. My apartment has a nice roof and ive made a habit to go up and have a nice sit every night. i usually bring a bowl of frozen grapes that grow in our back yard (the grapes, i actually freeze them myself) and ive come to value that little time to think. Things are going well, and our bishop just got back from like a month in bolivia, so hopefully things in the ward will start going back to normal. love you all!

     Elder Bridge

Some say the soul of the city's the toll of the bells of notre dame. January 7, 2013

So, Not a single brother or parent wrote me today, so my time on the computer was significantly shorter than i expected. oh well, everyone is good and busy and i know how that is. 

  Im doing really well, my new comp wants to work hard for his last transfer so were gonna try to light it up for his last 6 weeks. 

      I got my christmas package and i absolutly loved it. I loved the shawn white gum, and the candy, and the hackey sack, and the snow in a can (not sure what to do with it) and all the other things! Just loved it, so thank you so much eh?

   Today were gonna go over and play soccer together, imma use my christmas money to buy some soccer shoes, and then weve gota busy night planned ,so its gonna go really well. 

  I hope everyone is doing well! Talk to you later!

      Love Elder Bridge

2013. January 1, 2013

Happy new year fam, 

         Today is gonna be a fun day, every companionship in the mission baptized in december, thats the first time thats ever happened in this mission so everyone is pretty excited. that said, i gotta run, cause were about to go party.

     you only have a couple months left to recieve the blessings that come from writing me! GEt on it!

         Im staying another tranfer by the way, which means im probably gonna finish here, and im happy about that.

         Love, Elder BRidge

Home alone 12, lost in Cordoba. December 17, 2012

    Dear Family, 

        Do you believe in miracles? i started out my application to BYU today, and i barely passed high school! that said, i believe, so lets keep that in our prayers eh? 

      Im wishing you all a merry christmas from afar, and im very happy to know that ill be talking to a good handfull of you in a week! im way excited.

       This Saturday we´ll have 3 baptisms, a family whos parents arent married, but were right their with them as well. the whole family came this sunday and the priesthood just POUNCED the dad, finding a brother to fix his car and everything, i love my ward, and im proud to be serving along side them. they get it.

     Other cool thing is that Elder Larson and Melendez are probably gonna be able to come and chill with us on the 25th, were all going over to the gonzalez home to have an asado and stuff so itll be a really good day, and were almost for sure with the skype, so things are lookin right good.

       I miss you and love you all, this will be my last christmas that i wont be able to at least talk to all of you. for now though, i love ya and miss you and i know that we will be together forever.

       Elder Bridge

 jo jo jo!

My race is not yet run. December 10, 2012

Things are hoppin in La Madrid! Were lookin to have a white christmas down here in the blazing heat, and everyone is working really hard to do their part. On saturday we went to the house of a family we are teaching so that we could sand their walls so they could paint, and the house looks alot better now on the inside. its kind of a depressing little pad but with the TLC theyll be a lot more comfortable.

     i have been trying to keep organized and it is a constant battle for me but im getting better and were seeing some good results. My comp is really coming out of his shell too and i like him alot, we have been getting good work done. 

 This wednesday presidant is gonna dress up like santa again and give us our packages. i already have saras, under the tiny tree i bought and its waiting for christmas. Then after the conferance we are gonna spend the day playing basketball and soccer so it should be alot of fun. 

       Hope everyone has a good christmas!

            Love elder Bridge

Chew your food you're an animal! December 3, 2012

So we went to the zoo today, pretty cool! My favorite was of course the elephant, which is my favorite animal. it was one they rescued from the circus and he is 71 years old! so cool. The hippo was pretty cool too, among others. i find myself without time to send many photos though.

       We worked really hard this week and have alot to be juggling right now, im feeling your prayers and im thankful for the strength they give me. I miss you guys but im not lettin myself miss you too much, were pretty busy you know. Tonight we are going to teach a new family that we started teaching one saturday. they are going through kind of a really tough time and one of the ward missionaries set up a lesson with them, so we went and then yesterday the whole 5 of them came to church, so tonight were gonna go try to get the parents married as fast as possible. less than ten percent of the couples here get married anymore, so its a big obstacle for us, but if we explain why, i have no doubt that they will understand, people always do. 

 Marriage is such a hard, beautiful and irriplaceable part of life, it bottles my mind ( like when your thought are in a bottle) to think of how people would pass it up. i try to transmit that, and since its doctrine, its not hard to transmit. so wish us luck. Familia Gomez is their name, and they need aloooooot of help.

       I love you guys, talk to you next week!

 p.s. the picture was taken right before we did a race up these stairs. i didnt win. didnt even get second. but i did get really tired

     Elder BRidge

Zooin it baby.

This was our tour guide. cool guy, jonny is his name. he called me marc zuckerberg. thanks ya jerk.

And you're great! November 26, 2012

Dear Fam,

Pablo and Alejandra got baptized on saturday, so that was the highlight. Elder Larson and Melendez ( two of the guys coming to virginia with me) got to come over so that Larson could baptize Pablo. hes the one that started teaching him a year ago, so it was pretty special. tons of people were there and it wont let me sent more than one picture.

     hey, im watching on the tv screen a video of a guy  doing the "horse dance" or whatever its called from that gangnam style song. is that as popular up there as it is down here? anyway, time is short. i sure love you guys and hope you have a great week!