Hola Everyone! How's it going? I hope you're getting ready for general conference! Things are all good in Ecuador! This week was a pretty hard week, but it ended well so that was good. Stalin Daniel Chinchuña Toalombo and his little brother Edison Andres Chinchuña Toalombo got baptized this Saturday. We are still working on the parents but I think that the service was able to help the dad feel a little better about things. We still don't have a date planned for the parents, but they are progressing. The service was great. The two kids were both powerful when they bore their testimonies after. They talked about how they felt the spirit come over them and how they felt so happy and clean after. It was super awesome. As far as people with fecha we are working with Fausto Tixi for the 18th and Carmen Briones for the 18th. They are progressing really well and with General Conference coming up we are hoping to really help them get there. I'm super excited for GC. I can't believe it already came around again. Super fast! This week we were contacting and a 20 yr old guy was walking down the street and he looked really sad. I felt like we should contact him so we did, and he told us he had been asking God for a way to be happy in that moment. He has had a tough life up to now, and he doesn't have a whole lot of friends.   His mom died; his dad and him don't get along; and he just wasn't happy so we will be trying hard to se what we can do with him. He is a super good guy but hasn't had a great chance at life yet. He's studying and working and trying, but he just needs something more so we're going to try follow up with him. We were happy about that. This week was pretty normal apart from that. We are just working hard and trying to find people. I love the scripture in D&C 1:38.

What I the Lord have spoken, I have spoken, and I excuse not myself; and though the heavens and the earthpass away, my word shall not pass away, but shall all be fulfilled, whether by mine own voice or by the voice of myservants, it is the same.

With GC conference coming up, I invite everyone to search the talks because I know that they will give answers to all types of questions because they really do speak the words of Christ. I know that to be true. I love you guys. I'll to ya later! Hasta luego!

Hola familia? How's it going? This week was really good for us. We were able to do a lot of work, and it was awesome. We had a ton of success this week as well. People are accepting baptism like crazy. I just hope we can follow through with all of them. This week the familia chinchuña should be getting baptized which is super good. We have been with them for ever and now there are starting to feel good about things. I'll include a picture of them so you guys can remember who they are. This week we found a lot more people as well. I'll tell you what though, the mission is hard sometimes. This week, even though it was good, it really stressed me out. We are working in basically three different sectors, and we have people in all three and i'll tell ya, it's hard to balance that. Especially when the members from the three sectors expect you to be somewhere at sometime and then still managae all the people progressing. It's hard sometimes to keep everything straight. We have been busier than ever before lately. From the moment we wake up to the moment we go to bed, we have been super busy the last week. It's a good problem to have, but it is hard to balance sometimes haha. I just want to send a warning to Macee and Roman, if I dont have an autographed ball by Pete Rose the moment I'm back in the states, someone is going to get hurt!! I'm so jealous. This week was pretty normal like the weeks before. Nothing amazing has really happened recently. Just livin the life. Can't believe I've got 9 months in the mission. It's crazy how fast it went by. I've been reading a lot about Moroni and how he prepared the cities for the Lamanites and I love the symbolism of the story. He prepared in every way possible and the Lamanites couldn't do anything. It's the same with us and Satan. He's going to be atacking us forever but if we prepare ourselves like Moroni he really wont be able to do anything and we will be able to withstand everything the world can throw at us. One of the best ways is by reading the Book of Mormon every day. If we aren't reading everyday it's really hard to keep testimonies growing and to prepare ourselves for these things. I love you guys. I'll talk to ya next week. Hasta luego.

Hola everyone! This week was crazy. We worked like crazy finding more people and looking for more families to teach. We were able to find several families that have a lot of potential, but we will have to see what the future holds. Yesterday we were with familia chinchuña. We have been with them since the day I got here, and they still hadn't accepted baptism until last night. We brought a member with us that knows them really well and to say the least, he came to play. He talked to them directly and sincerely and they were really moved by what was said in the lesson, and they finally accepted baptism. I'm hopeful this month it will come to pass. This week not a whole lot happened other than this. A gigantic dog tried to eat us. I thought of the scripture in Phillipians 3:2, "Beware of Dogs." Paul was definitly feeling the spirit when he said those words. I'm not kidding though this dog is a perrazo in every form of the word. They named it Bear, and they did so with reason haha. We had a cool experience with the recent convert Marco this week. We showed a video about Joseph Smith and as the conversation got going he wanted to know how we know that Thomas S. Monson is a prophet. Well we explained that he is succesor of Joseph Smith and all that, but he still had questions. Well ladies and gentleman I'm glad I'm from Utah because I could say, "Marco, I'm from Utah.   I've had the oppertunity to see these men, shake the hand of some, and even talk to some. I know that they are men chosen by God to be in their positions and that really we do have prophets and apostles today." Then he said, " Elder, I believe you. I can feel now that they are really prophets and apostles." It was a pretty powerful experience for me. But he is the man. That is really what I've got today. It was a pretty regular week. I like the scripture in Mosiah 22:2," And behold, all he requires of you is to keep his commandments, and he has promised you that if ye would keep his commandments ye should prosper in the land, and he never doth vary from that which he hath said, therefore, if ye do keep his commandments he doth bless you and prosper you." God has only asked us that we keep his commandments and if we do so, we never need to worry about the future. Trials will come but we will be just fine no matter what happens. I know this is true and I love you guys. I'll talk to ya next week.