The people that we teach just aren't progressing very much which has apparently been a problem for this area. At the same time there's so many good people that we are teaching that I could so easily see as members of the Church. My zone leader used to be in this area his first few transfers in the mission so when we had exchanges he showed me a lot if houses and people that we can visit. We have been struggling to get people to church. We invite them to church and we have like 9 people tells yes I will be there but then they don't show up. And we even go to there's houses in the morning to remind them/ walk with them/ wake them up and they just still don't come. It's like bro you can just tell us no if you arent going to come. We would prefer it haha. We also are going to visit some more inactive families and we already found one family that has a son who is only enough to be baptized and would like to be baptized. But first we are just going to help them come to church.
We had a mini missionary training for the youth that are going to leave here for their missions soon. It was pretty cool especially because we didn't have to teach it.
So we did have a baptism this week tho. Her name is Mayté and her grandma is a member. She is 11 and has had a few baptismal dates in the past with other missionaries but she may it may not have just not showed up up those haha but its okay because she's baptized now.
My companions uncle is a doctor and his work picks another country to do free surgery in and before my companion even got his assignment to Ecuador his uncles work chose Ecuador. So my comp got permission to move our prep day (pday) so se could take the bus to Guayaquil and spend the day with him there. We ended up walking around Guayaquil and all the malls and just looking at a lot of nice stuff that we miss from the states haha because his uncle took a little longer than we thought but it was super fun the walk around and see stuff. We took this huge ferris wheel. Then we went to the artisans market and saw some cool stuff. My comp bought a lama blanket.
We had so many appointments fall through this week. But we have been contacting people in the street a little more which is always good if you want to fix any social anxiety you have haha.
My Spanish is OK.
Spiritual thought: the day I was with my zone leader he talked about the Book of Mormon (BOM) a lot. And although I know it's very important and I have a pretty strong testimony of it he helped me remember just how important it is. It is literally written for our day. The ancient prophets that lived in the America's that wrote the BOM literally saw our day. It is literally the word of God just like the bible and was written by prophets as well. We can find an answer in the BOM to any problem we have. And like we read in the beginning the BOM is the most correct of any other book on earth. That being because it was only translated once and there aren't any mistakes. I just want to testify of the healing power of the word of God in our life's but especially from the BOM. I think my first and maybe strongest testimony is that when we read the BOM we just have a better day and things seem to go better in our day. Not to mention out ability to resist temptations increases immensely. I knew that before my mission and I know it know. And for that I will always continue reading the BOM every day. If you don't read the BOM every day or maybe if you've never tried reading the BOM I invite you to do so with the promise that it will better your life and you will be more happy. No tengo ninguna duda.
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