Well well, my wonderful family...
Again, sounds like another busy and full week! Tanner, I seriously can’t believe that you blessed YOUR baby. We’re just all too young for that. :) I’ll have to admit, I got a little jealous reading about how much football I’m missing with Chad and Mckay’s games, but man will that be fun to see them again. Good luck with getting ready for school and all. I quote Luke in his letter... that seems like worlds away for me. But to be honest, I’m happy to be here in MY own little world.
This week was great in Calderon. Our threesome received a fourth missionary for the week because her ankles were really hurting and she was getting ready to go home. So... we had a rotation of us four. Two would go out and work, one would stay home with the other Hermana, and each day we switched off sectors. It was quite the schedule... I feel like we’ve gotten like no time lately in our sector, but like I said last week, the Lord blesses nonetheless.
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| Making it work with "4"! |
We’re teaching someone named Anderson who is going to get married to someone who’s a member and has family members in our ward... so it’s a pretty good situation. Their family is so cool! They’re all from the coast and make me feel like I’m teaching in Africa :) He wants to get baptized after they get married and as we taught him the plan of salvation this week, wow, he lit up so much. He told us that he had never realized how much we have to look forward to after this life.
We also had a big miracle this Tuesday. We returned with a family that we had contacted and they were one of those "golden families" where you just know the Lord has been preparing them. They have three kids and one on the way. When we got there they expressed that they want so badly to help their kids focus their lives on Christ and loved listening to the first lesson about Joseph Smith. The next day we went back and asked how reading and praying had gone. The mom told us that she had a dream that night. In her dream she had seen two people in white who came up to her and told her that everything she is learning is true. She wants to keep learning and the whole family has a baptismal date for the 10th of September.
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| Gringa Trio! Hermanas Israelson, Hermann, & Yorgason |
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| Hermana Yorgason and Hermana Israelson |
We got here to the bus station and waited for a while because we had no cell phone, no idea of WHERE our house was or in what direction we should go. The zone leaders got there a while after and took us to where our house was. We got off the bus and I felt like I was in a tornado... of dirt. Man, I forgot the reality of Otavalo... We drug our suitcases down a long dirt road (sorry mom, the wheels are shot), they gave us a hand shake and told us to work hard. We turned around, went into the house, closed the door, looked at each other and just started cracking up. We literally have no idea where we are. We have an area book... that’s KIND OF filled out. We don’t even know where our sector boundaries are and apparently we can only talk to indigenous people.... our church is all in kichwa?? A while later we left to try and find some food, because we didn’t eat breakfast or lunch, and we literally walked for like 45 minutes asking everyone if they knew ANYWHERE we could eat. Ya... our dinner ended up being Doritos and bread.
So... that’s about where we’re at now. No idea about anything. (Not even what time church starts or where to invite people to come) But.... we know that the Lord is on our team. That’s about all we’ve got right now. Him, us, and our many prayers of guidance and help. This week may be lots of contacting, but we’re excited to see what comes our way.
Love you all!!!
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