Elder Andrew Smart: The wall must come down (Leaving Berlin)

(8-31-15)

So this week has been exactly 7 days long. Sounds like I'm still sane.

I’m almost positive I’ll be changed out of Berlín, but I wont know until the day before. So there’s that.

I held my district meeting and taught how to preach repentance using power and authority through the holy ghost. T’was good.

I’m not sure if the gangsters or the police are more dangerous here... some gangsters kill some people, and then the police come and start killing more people. I just don't know. It’s getting old.

I have felt so so so tired these past few weeks. I just get into the house at night, and I'm beat. Straight burnt.

Oh cool experience of the week. The Zone Leaders called us at 7 pm and told us we needed to come and do an emergency baptism interview... If it’s dark outside, you get shot or mugged, so this was an act of faith. We went and did the interview, and it was the coolest interview I've ever done. Hermana Filomena is her name. I’ve known her for a while now, going back and forth from El Centro all the time. She is the sweetest lady I have ever met in my entire life. She is super old. She’s like 78 or something, and she is more pilas (charged up) than the obispo (bishop). She seriously has a testimony of steel.

That was super cool to be a part of her years and years of searching for the truth.