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!!!