Nuevo cambio, ya nos vamos!!
Buenos tardes, amigos y familia. Today marks the start of a new
transfer, a new lapse of time where I am to go out and to get to work!
The
last six weeks have been a rollercoaster ride. Last week itself has
been a challenge, but hey! I'm pressing forward. This is part of life!
Woohoo!
I almost lost all my photos to a Virus
Okay, this is a pretty fun story.
Monday
we hop into our normal Ciber and we're writing and everything is
completely normal up until the point where my companion asks me to take a
photo of an important document and send it to him. No problem. I take
the photo, connect my camera to the computer and make the necesary
preparations to send a photo.
I open up the files on the computer
and I can already tell something was fishy. A file named BAT was
installed on my SD card that is only used for photos. It was an
executable file that opened up any time I tried to access my "photos",
which was very strange. Trying to send anything to my companion from my
SD card would instead send the executeable file. In a hurry, I asked the
owner of the ciber to change my current session to another computer as I
assesed what was going on. BAT could not be deleted from my SD card, so
I disconnected my camera from the computer, turned it on, and tried to
access my photos from the camera itself.
When I tried, the camera merely beeped and said "No Picture!".
I
was incredibly nervous. I had all of my photos from my six months in
Mexico on this device and a virus just ate them all. Connecting to the
other computer, I was pleased to see that there was an antivirus program
installed that quickly got to work, eliminating BAT and restoring my
photos, locked away in a folder named .Trashed.
Long story short I
lost no photos and invented a new cartoon character based on the
experience (I'll send the drawings in an art dump).
I almost lost my companion
Please remind me to tell you both parts of the story when I get home it's a pain to type both versions of what happened.
In
short: We entered into a Farmacia Guadalajara to buy a quick snack
before getting back to work. While I was paying for my snack and waiting
for my change, my companion left the pharmacy and began to walk out
into the dark streets alone, not figuring out what happened up until he
was four blocks away from the pharmacy. He freaked out and thought I had
been kidnapped, so he began to search for me and quickly returned back
to the pharmacy just as I had recieved my change.
Elder Estrada was not very happy, basically.
I gave a neat talk in sacrament meeting and everyone liked it
I have it written down and I'll share it with you when I get back because it's not the same if you just read it.
That
was basically my week. We are very close to getting a house, and bit by
bit we are moving forward! We have encountered some really nice people
in our area that we hope to start teaching. And I'm very excited to help
the work of God push forward! I have goals to better myself this
transfer... and It's almost Christmas! Woo!
I'll be sure to send more photos in the upcoming E-mail.
Scripture
study tip: Highlight! I'm always marking my scriptures with colored
pencils. Every time there is a mention of God or Jesus (or any of their
many names) I mark it in a bright yellow. I also mark their words in
bright yellow, so I know when they're speaking to us. I mark verses and
phrases that I especially like in red so I can always pick them out. Let
me share one of my highlighted doctrines with you.
Jacob 1:8
Wherefore, we would to God that we could persuade all men not to rebel against God, to provoke him to anger, but that all men would believe in Christ,
and view his death, and suffer his cross and bear the shame of the
world; wherefore, I, Jacob, take it upon me to fulfil the commandment of
my brother Nephi.
Little treasures like that which you can find in the scriptures. One of the many reasons we have scriptures!
Please stay safe, study hard, and be a better you every day! You are loved.
Ever thankful for your prayers,
-Elder Bowlby
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