Mitad Del Mundo

Hola!!! HAPPY FATHERS DAY YESTERDAY!!!!! Dad I love you so much!!! I´m sorry that I couldn't spend it with you, but just know that you are the best Father I could ever ask for! You guys will have to send me pictures of what you all did! They do celebrate Fathers day here, but we didn't really do anything special.Wow this week went by so fast! I cant even believe it! Today there were changes, but we didn't have any because we have only been together for 3 weeks. A lot of people in our zone had changes which makes me kind of sad because I really liked all of them. Changes are the worst part of the mission! Its sad because you don't know when you are going to see these people again! Oh and this week I am going to finish 7 months in the mission! Isn't that crazy!? I have less than a year left! Time is going by so fast that it scares me!

    Ok so today we finally got to go do something! We went to Mitad del Mundo ( Middle of the World)! It wasn't as cool as we thought it would be, but we took a lot of pictures so I will send them later! We just went by ourselves and walked around looking at a bunch of touristy things to buy and took pictures with the monument that they have there. Oh also we went to the planetarium but it was kind of disappointing... 

     This week the work has been a little hard cause everyone is just obsessed with the world cup! Hahahaha we were knocking doors (well ringing doorbells and talking to people through their speaker) the other day and we were playing the game like they do in the movie Errand of Angels where they try to get the person to talk to them for more than 10 seconds (but we are in South America so we did it for a minute). It was really funny! Apparently there was a soccer game going on because when a guy answered and we told him who we are he almost started crying and said "What? Why are you talking to me right now? Don't you know that I am watching soccer? Why would you do this to me!?" and then hung up. We were laughing so hard!  

      Oh so thanks to Fathers day and Ecuador playing yesterday no one came to church! well one of our investigators did, but even half the members weren't there. Oh and guess who gave a talk yesterday in church!!!..... Hermana Chamberlain! I talked about the importance that we endure to the end and cumplir (whats that word in english?) with all of our baptismal covenants! There are so many members who are inactive, but still have a testimony just because they think that it is too hard or think other things are more important or are just lazy! THIS IS OUR SALVATION ON THE LINE! And all of us missionaries in our ward sang a special number. Hermana Finley has such an amazing voice! Like one of the best I have ever heard!  

       I have really learned this week the importance of companionship prayer! So for a few days Hermana Finley and I hadn't been doing our companionship prayer, not because we didn't want to just because it always worked out that we were so tired that by the time one of us was out of the bathroom the other one was already asleep. I didn't think that it was that big of a deal, but I think it was really effecting us. One night I was kind of annoyed (I don't even remember why) and Hermana Finley asked if we could do our companionship prayer before going to bed. As soon as she started praying I immediately felt peace and I didn't feel mad anymore! I know that Satan really tries to get us in any way that he can but if we are always doing the things that we should then there wont be room for him in our hearts! I love you guys soooooooo much!!!! 

We Sang in Church!

Mitad del Mundo

Mitad del Mundo

First Week In Quito

HOLA!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU GUYS!! This has been a pretty crazy week getting used to the new sector and everything, but I am really liking it here! So today we were going to go to the zoo and we were super excited, but then we found out that it is closed every Monday :( That was pretty sad. But there is another one in Quito that technically isn't in our mission, but we are going to ask president if we can go! So we just ended up hanging out around here oh and we went and got Chinese food for lunch and it was wonderful! First time in 6 months eating Chinese food! Yay!! 

    So I will tell you a little more about Hermana Finley! She is super cool and super crazy! Just imagine a mix between me and Bekki. She is from Oakland California and is half Samoan.She is half Bekki because she is super funny and crazy and a little rebellious and like me because we both really love musicals! (someone finally understands me!!!) I am having so much fun with her! We talk about everything! I think that she is my best friend in the mission! She was the trainer of Hermana Conder! Oh and also she is an Hermana training leader which means that twice a week she does divisions with the other sisters in the mission. There are two hermana training leaders in this area so when they go I am with Hermana Nethercot, the companion of the other leader. I am with her two or three times a week so its really kind of like I have two companions! Its kind of hard because we switch off working in my sector and hers and I don't really know my sector and I want to work in it but that's ok! It has made me depend on the Lord so much because when I am with Hermana Nethercot I am the senior companion and she doesn't really know any Spanish so I really have to take the lead. I can feel Him helping me so much. I could not do this on my own. I am so grateful that He is so mindful of us and our needs in every moment!

     The ward here is great! I don't know them a lot, but them seem really nice! Oh we ate with a member this week and we had my favorite soup! can you guess what it is????..... Yay cow foot soup!!! And this hermana that gave it to us stayed at the table the whole time and told us that she wasn't going to move until we finished everything.... that was pretty painful haha. Other than that the food has been pretty good! Nothing else that made me gag! The ward is really big! There are three companionships of missionaries in our ward. Two other sister, us and then the elders. It's fun to have a lot of missionaries here! We found a TON of new investigators this past week! The normas de la mision is that we should find 12 new investigators and normally we find about 6 or 7, but this week we found 22 new investigators!  I have no idea how but it was super cool! The problem is that only 2 of them came to church :( 

      I have really been working this past week to think about converts and not just baptisms. Elder Waddell talked a lot about that with us the other week. We really need to help people be converted to the Lord and want to do HIS will and not just want to please the missionaries (which is the problem that they get in poorer countries) I know that to help these people be converted to the Lord I need to be completely converted first. I really feel like every day I am strengthening my testimony and that my will is becoming more in line with that of our Heavenly Father!  I am still reading the Book of Mormon with you guys and I love it! I love you guys so much and I miss you like crazy!!!

Mision Ecuador Quito Norte:

Lideramos por ejemplo

Servimos con amor

Cumplimos con obedencia

Returnaremos con honor

LOVE YOU GUYS!!!