Hey fam and friends!
We had two baptisms this last week! The work has been
progressing well and I got to be a witness for both of the baptisms! One of the
members we go on splits with, Moroni, baptised Lorena because she lives with
them. She was able to stay off coffee and was baptised! Our other baptism was
with an old investigator who just needed permission from her parents because
she was not 18 and she finally got it! She has been going to church for years
with people in the ward.
Sandra Lorena is the mom of the family with 2 recent
converts. The one who would not let us in the house but now finally did. So
guess what? She likes listening to us and sometimes cooks mediana, or dinner
for us! And this last week we taught her whole family the first lesson, the
Restoration! So we have 4 new investigators and are praying they will feel the
love the Lord has for them. The spirit was so strong during the lesson. Nothing
helps to bring the spirit stronger than the First Vision and you could see it
working in their hearts and eyes. We ended up giving them 2 copies of the Book
of Mormon and committed them to read and pray about Joseph Smith, or as they
call him here, Jose Smith! We are going to stop by them again tomorrow and see
how they felt and hopefully teach them more about the Book of Mormon and the
plan of salvation!
So other than this family we have been teaching, We have
been out contacting and tracting and trying to find new people to teach. It has
been a little hard because people set up appointments with us and are excited
about it but then they either tell us the wrong phone number/address or are not
there when we come by! So just last night, we had an impression to speak to
these two guys who were talking outside of their house...turns out one of them
is a less active member, and the other is not and we have an appointment to go
teach him and his family this week! We feel good about this one because the
less active member is going to accompany us when we go teach them! The best
references we receive are from members. After this house, we ran into the old
bishops kid and got more references from him that we are going to talk to this
week also! We are getting answers to our prayers and fasting.
Oooohhh my first fast Sunday in Ecuador. I am not going to
lie, it was tough. We started after lunch at 2pm and went until 2pm on Sunday.
That whole day after lunch we tracted and I usually drink a ton of water but I
didnt because of the fast! We were both so tired and drained but worked so
hard...then Sunday, last night, we have all these new people to teach and share
the gospel with! Just like the Sons of Mosiah in the BoM, if we pray and fast
mightily we will be blessed and be able to teach with power and authority like
they did.
As far as my daily schedule goes it is usually the same
6.30 wakeup and exercise
7.00 breakfast and getting ready for the day
8.00 personal study
9.00 companion study
11.00 language study
12.00 almuerzo
1.00 Visits, appointments, tracting
9.00 back to the house to plan
9.30 get ready for bed
10.30 sleep
So from 1-9pm we are doing everything. Teaching lessons,
finding new investigators, going on splits, holding baptism interviews,
visiting new converts and less actives, everything! We just plan what we are
going to do the night before every night. Planning sessions we try to do
quickly because we are always so tired.
Then Tuesday mornings we have district meetings from
9.30-11.30am and Saturday we have Zone Meetings from 9.30-11.30. Ward Council
is usually Wednesday night at 7.30...but does not start until 8 because the
Ecuadorian people are not known for being punctual hahaha.
So the multi-zone training is actually tomorrow. So
hopefully I will get to see either of them tomorrow! I am excited to be able to
have a meeting with and talk to our mission president again. He has such a
strong spirit and the first capacitacion(training) I had my first day was great
I will start asking around for somewhere to take my clothes
to make them smaller! I probably wont need it for a little bit longer...but
once the neck gets too saggy Ill have to take them in. Here are a few pictures
of the baptism we had this week! I will try to send more pictures next week.
Thank you so much for everything Mom! I love you! Tell the
Fam I love them too!
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