Well, it is good you guys are doing good. The conference was great, it was Elder Godoy, he was great. He told us that we need to use the Book of Mormon more, and that we need to repent of our little sins, and we can't postpone repentance.
I learned a lot at the conference and it was nice to leave the heat for a day. We stayed the night, so it was nice to sleep in the cold too. It has started raining here, so it has been getting a little cool, but much more humid. Transfers are next week, so I hope I get changed, I don't know how much longer I can take this humidity.
Life is good, just not a lot happened this week, just teaching, and contacting, which are great.
Sorry this is short, I'm out of time. I love you all, and hope you have a great week.
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
October 23rd, 2017
It is cool Ellie had a concert, I watched the video dad sent me and Ellie did a great job. It is funny dad had blood on his clothes, maybe next conference Elder Clark will talk about it as an object lesson.
This week we are having a conference with a general authority, I don't know who but it is this Thursday and it is going to be in the city Ambato, which is like 6 hours away. So we are going to leave here at about 2:30 in the morning, it will be great.
As for a package. I have no idea what I want, maybe a pot roast, :) but, I don't know, maybe some twix, jolly ranchers, and lemon heads.
The baptism was great. I guess a few days before the baptism, some Jehova Witnesses talked to him and told him that our church was of satan and it would destroy his salvation if he joined. He told them that it was his decision and that whenever he is at church or reading the Book of Mormon he feels great, and he knows those feelings are from God. He told them that they should talk with us and they can feel they same joy he is feeling. We told him good job and that yeah, all of these feelings are from God. We never did see those Jehova Witnesses.
Life is good here in La Concordia. In December we are going to be low on missionaries because a ton are leaving and we are not receiving a lot. I don't know why God wants so few missionaries here. I don't know how many missionaries are leaving or how many will be here after December, but we will see what happens.
I have started to make empanadas. I'm going to try to make breakfast ones. Right now I just use cheese and ham, but I have no idea why I'm starting to love them. The pineapple is incredible, I love it, it has so much flavor here.
Not a lot happened this week, just contacting, and teaching. Sorry this is short.
I love you all and hope you have a great week.
This week we are having a conference with a general authority, I don't know who but it is this Thursday and it is going to be in the city Ambato, which is like 6 hours away. So we are going to leave here at about 2:30 in the morning, it will be great.
As for a package. I have no idea what I want, maybe a pot roast, :) but, I don't know, maybe some twix, jolly ranchers, and lemon heads.
The baptism was great. I guess a few days before the baptism, some Jehova Witnesses talked to him and told him that our church was of satan and it would destroy his salvation if he joined. He told them that it was his decision and that whenever he is at church or reading the Book of Mormon he feels great, and he knows those feelings are from God. He told them that they should talk with us and they can feel they same joy he is feeling. We told him good job and that yeah, all of these feelings are from God. We never did see those Jehova Witnesses.
Life is good here in La Concordia. In December we are going to be low on missionaries because a ton are leaving and we are not receiving a lot. I don't know why God wants so few missionaries here. I don't know how many missionaries are leaving or how many will be here after December, but we will see what happens.
I have started to make empanadas. I'm going to try to make breakfast ones. Right now I just use cheese and ham, but I have no idea why I'm starting to love them. The pineapple is incredible, I love it, it has so much flavor here.
Not a lot happened this week, just contacting, and teaching. Sorry this is short.
I love you all and hope you have a great week.
October 16th, 2017
Well, it is good you guys are doing well, and that fall break is this week. I hope you guys have fun.
Life is good here. We are going to baptize Luis this week! He would keep bringing up baptism with us and telling us that he was ready, but we just gave him some time and yeah, so we will baptize him this Saturday!
It has been a good week. I have been thinking for some time about an activity to do to preach the BOM to La Concordia. I thought of painting a picture of Christ, but a big one (with the help of the ward), and we would go to a park that is in the center and teach people about Christ and how the Book of Mormon is another testament of Him. Then I started dreaming about it, and one dream everything went awesome, it was a great day, we got a ton of new investigators. But then the next night I dreamed that everything went wrong, it was raining and no one was walking around. But, at the end of the dream, a family was walking around and came up to us and asked us who the picture was. Then we taught them about Christ and the BOM. It was a cool dream, but so I have never stopped talking about this activity with the other elders and the members. When I thought of this activity I felt that this activity will have a lot of opposition and, on Sunday, we had a little meeting with the ward leaders to talk about the activity. All of them said that it would not work, and that this year is too busy to do it. But I feel like we can't not do this activity. Every day I just have the feelings of why we haven't done it yet. We are going to have a meeting next week with the members, to talk more about this activity. If none of them want to help, then we will just do it. It will take forever to draw the picture. We just have to do this activity, someone here needs it.
I hope you got the pictures I sent Ellie. I love you all and hope you have a great week.
Life is good here. We are going to baptize Luis this week! He would keep bringing up baptism with us and telling us that he was ready, but we just gave him some time and yeah, so we will baptize him this Saturday!
It has been a good week. I have been thinking for some time about an activity to do to preach the BOM to La Concordia. I thought of painting a picture of Christ, but a big one (with the help of the ward), and we would go to a park that is in the center and teach people about Christ and how the Book of Mormon is another testament of Him. Then I started dreaming about it, and one dream everything went awesome, it was a great day, we got a ton of new investigators. But then the next night I dreamed that everything went wrong, it was raining and no one was walking around. But, at the end of the dream, a family was walking around and came up to us and asked us who the picture was. Then we taught them about Christ and the BOM. It was a cool dream, but so I have never stopped talking about this activity with the other elders and the members. When I thought of this activity I felt that this activity will have a lot of opposition and, on Sunday, we had a little meeting with the ward leaders to talk about the activity. All of them said that it would not work, and that this year is too busy to do it. But I feel like we can't not do this activity. Every day I just have the feelings of why we haven't done it yet. We are going to have a meeting next week with the members, to talk more about this activity. If none of them want to help, then we will just do it. It will take forever to draw the picture. We just have to do this activity, someone here needs it.
I hope you got the pictures I sent Ellie. I love you all and hope you have a great week.
Thursday, October 12, 2017
October 9th, 2017
That's funny mom has a mouse at her work, I've only seen dead ones. I think there are more frogs than mice here, but a lot of insects. Some nights I feel like I'm in the movie Avatar. Some of the insects are so weird, but cool.
Life is good. The rain is starting to come back, but in the night. So it gets nice and cool in the nights but then it is horrible to shower in the morning because we don't have hot water. I tried asking the owner, but I think he thought I was joking when I told him that I want hot water. He just looked at me and said, "in this heat?" So I don't think we will be getting hot water.
The baptism was nice, this time the water was green. I hope next time it will be pink or something, no just kidding, but I have no idea why it was green. Ivan is doing good, now I just hope we can get Luis in the water soon. We are also now teaching Luis' daughter, but she is really quiet. We were teaching his son too. He was doing great and he loved readying the Book of Mormon, but about two days ago he left to join the army.
I love you all and sorry this is short, but I ran out of time. I will send pictures next week.
Life is good. The rain is starting to come back, but in the night. So it gets nice and cool in the nights but then it is horrible to shower in the morning because we don't have hot water. I tried asking the owner, but I think he thought I was joking when I told him that I want hot water. He just looked at me and said, "in this heat?" So I don't think we will be getting hot water.
The baptism was nice, this time the water was green. I hope next time it will be pink or something, no just kidding, but I have no idea why it was green. Ivan is doing good, now I just hope we can get Luis in the water soon. We are also now teaching Luis' daughter, but she is really quiet. We were teaching his son too. He was doing great and he loved readying the Book of Mormon, but about two days ago he left to join the army.
I love you all and sorry this is short, but I ran out of time. I will send pictures next week.
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
October 2nd, 2017
Well dad, I have no idea how mom let you get uncle Logan's motorcycle, but it funny, it is almost winter so you only have a few days left to drive it.
It is funny the dryer broke, but good dad could fix it.
But yeah, conference was awesome, me and another elder went to a member's house to watch it in English. I loved elder Anderson's talk at the end. I think he changed his talk completely, and I loved how he used a part from elder Hales' talk, and how he basically introduced elder Nelson to the world. We thought at the end of the prayer they were going to announce that president Monson died just because of how much elder Anderson was talking about elder Nelson. It was great because after conference when we left the house of the member it was so quiet, no cars, no music, just birds and the wind, it was so peaceful. But the world quickly made its entrance, with worldly music and tons of cars. But I felt great after, just spiritually exhausted.
This week we were supposed to have two baptisms. We are still going to have one this Saturday, his name is Iban. He is a really old guy that wants to make sure he's on the right path before he dies.
We have another investigator name Luis and he was going to be baptized too, but last week we found he has a few problems. We made some goals with him, and are going to help him every step of the way. He is a great guy, all of his family is dead, so he is very excited to walk the path God wants him to walk, and then to do the work for his family.
Life is great, it is getting hotter every day and the sun just gets more and more powerful. But I love being here in Ecuador. I know the food isn't great nor are the people open to the Mormons, but I never want to leave. I hope the second coming comes when I'm still here in Ecuador serving my mission just so then I can stay here for the millennium.
I love you guys so much, and hope you guys have a wonderful week.
I will send pictures to you guys next week, sorry :)
It is funny the dryer broke, but good dad could fix it.
But yeah, conference was awesome, me and another elder went to a member's house to watch it in English. I loved elder Anderson's talk at the end. I think he changed his talk completely, and I loved how he used a part from elder Hales' talk, and how he basically introduced elder Nelson to the world. We thought at the end of the prayer they were going to announce that president Monson died just because of how much elder Anderson was talking about elder Nelson. It was great because after conference when we left the house of the member it was so quiet, no cars, no music, just birds and the wind, it was so peaceful. But the world quickly made its entrance, with worldly music and tons of cars. But I felt great after, just spiritually exhausted.
This week we were supposed to have two baptisms. We are still going to have one this Saturday, his name is Iban. He is a really old guy that wants to make sure he's on the right path before he dies.
We have another investigator name Luis and he was going to be baptized too, but last week we found he has a few problems. We made some goals with him, and are going to help him every step of the way. He is a great guy, all of his family is dead, so he is very excited to walk the path God wants him to walk, and then to do the work for his family.
Life is great, it is getting hotter every day and the sun just gets more and more powerful. But I love being here in Ecuador. I know the food isn't great nor are the people open to the Mormons, but I never want to leave. I hope the second coming comes when I'm still here in Ecuador serving my mission just so then I can stay here for the millennium.
I love you guys so much, and hope you guys have a wonderful week.
I will send pictures to you guys next week, sorry :)
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