December 18th, 2017

Well, it is cool it snowed a little (in Utah); I really hope it is just waiting for next winter. Yeah, I'm really excited to Skype you guys, but I don't know at what time, because I forgot to ask people if we could do it at their house. So, I will send you guys an email next Monday, in the morning, for what time, but it should be some time between 10 - 4 😀
Thanks for the Christmas money, I'll use it wisely 😉

This week was ok. We had a ward party for Christmas but they did it at 8pm so we only went for an hour. The members just did a little talent show, so it was cool.
Also, today is transfers, so Elder Johnson is leaving, but I'm staying here. I think I know the sector good enough.

With the family that we found, we haven't visited them because whenever we try to visit them they are working, but we are going to keep trying. But all our investigators are slowly progressing.

But with health, I'm doing good. I have allergies, I think. I'm just always sneezing. Luckily, everyone here is rich so we are eating better/cleaner food, so I hopefully won't get sick from anything I eat. There is a big park here, and I love walking through it because you can't hear cars or anything and there are pine trees, I love the smell of pine. It takes up a lot of our sector.

I love you all, and I'm going to send pictures to Ellie.

December 11th, 2017

Well, it is cool you guys went to a conference and elder Ballard spoke. I know that church leaders have been talking to the leaders here more about helping less actives because they aren't really doing it, and now that the mission is low on missionaries, a seventy told us we don't have enough missionaries to really be focusing on less actives.

Ellie did good with her piano playing. I wish I could play like that.

Not a lot happened this week. today we spent all day on getting my companions VISA renewed, so we just got back, we did nothing today.
It has been raining this week, so it has been nice and wet and cold.  We did service again, we were helping the same family that we did last week just, this week we helped them prepare to build a new house.

Yeah nothing really happened this week, we just visited a few people and contacted.

Sorry this is short, but have a great week, and I love you all. 
Sorry, I don't have any pictures. 🖖

December 4th, 2017

Well, it is cool it snowed (for Utah), it has just started to rain about every day here.  And yeah, it is crazy that it is December, because that means tomorrow I will only have 6 months left in the mission.

It is cool that you guys are doing the Light the World, we were supposed to get calendars for it so we wouldn't have to watch the videos, but we never got them.  But that doesn't mean we can't serve people every day.

The Christmas dinner with president Barlow was good.  I don't have a video of our performance, but I will try and find one.  I just love the house of president, it has a cool view of Quito.

It was cool because this last week we found a family of four, and they are so cool.  They were Catholic and, five years ago, they joined a different church.  Then we knocked their door.  They said that something was missing still in there lives and that they couldn't find faith.  So we talked to them about faith.  At the end we mentioned that families are eternal and they were so excited to hear that, they just exploded with joy.  It was the coolest thing to experience.

Also this week we were doing a lot of service projects with the zone.  It was crazy and a lot of fun.  We also cleaned up a house after it had burned down, which I have no idea how it burned down because all of the houses here are concrete.  But it was raining when we started so it was really muddy, so we got so dirty.  Then the sun came out and we all got sun-burned, and then it started raining again, and it followed that pattern like 100 times.

That was about my week, but I love you all and hope you have a great week.

November 27th, 2017

Well, it is too bad you guys haven't gotten snow, I hope it is just saving up for next winter.  It is cool you guys had a good Thanksgiving.  I did nothing, we were going to buy pizza, but at the end we didn't, so I ate noodles.  I wanted a simple thanksgiving dinner, :)

This week was good, it was just like every day.  We haven't found anyone new, but in time we will.  So this week was just a lot of walking, and I feel like I'm losing weight because my pants are starting to get a little big, so I think I need to eat more :)

Not a lot happened this week.  But this Thursday we are having our Christmas party with president Barlow, and each district has to do something, so my district is going to play a song using bottles.  I will send you guys a video when we do it.  For Christmas, I don't know what we are going to do, but yesterday a family invited us to go to their house for Christmas, so we probably will.  I just wish we would get snow, but I will will just get a green Christmas.

As for mom's question, there are thousands of  Catholics here and Jehovah witnesses.  Every door is one of the two, and they normally just want to fight with us.   

I love you all and hope you guys will have a great week.