Hola familia and friends! This week was the craziest week of my life. We got the training with the branch council out of the way and it was great but that was only the first part. We also had a baptism in "La Cascada De Carachupa." The translation of that is the Waterfall of Facesuck. I don't why they named it that, but I'm sure someday soon I'll figure it out. It's a super cool waterfall though. The baptism went very well as well. We worked liked beasts this week and we had some good success. Bryan Rodriguez is progressing well and he will be baptized on the 12th of December. He wants to be a missionary which is super cool. He's awesome. Minerva Calderon has already started inviting people to her baptism on the 12th of December and there are others who can also be baptized in December. We are happy about that. We did an activity this week called the flight to Hawaii. We assigned four organizations to help us out. Well we get there to decorate and explain everything and one organization showed up, so in a moment of panic, we had to improvise a huge activity with tons of different parts. I volunteered to take on the management of three game at once; Elder Herrera took on one of the biggest activities by himself; my comp did a jeopardy game by himself; and there were many more things we had to do because nobody got there, but somehow we pulled it off. Elder Barnes was directing 65 people and throwing up every 30 minutes. It was awful but we did it, and it turned out being one of the best activities ever. It was crazy though. We went above and beyond the call of duty for that one. Then Saturday night after finishing this activity while us six elders were walking out of the chapel almost dead from the activity, the first councilor of the presidency assigned me a talk for the next day. It was good, so i gave my talk and we found out we lost our ward mission leader this week so we had to improvise gospel principles class. It went well. I had baptismal interviews to do, so I actually wasn't there but the elders did it well. Then our lunch fell through on Sunday. That was a bummer but another family gave us some rice and an egg. It was good. I can't complain. It was a crazy week, but there is a scripture that says "Hold on thy way" and that is what we are doing here in Coca. God is preparing the way and we are doing everything we can to be in the right place at the right time. That's about what happened this week. I love you guys and I'll talk to ya next week.
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AuthorThis blog is dedicated to Easton Nielson's mission to Ecuador Quito North Mission. Archives
March 2016
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