Hola familia and friends! This week was awesome. We had six confirmations in the district and one in our sector which is awesome. I can't even believe what has been happening. When I got here, there had not been an investigator progressing for 6 months and we have had 3 confirmations and we have 4 more progressing. The district had been the most unsuccessful distrcit in the history of the mission. We are now passing entire zones in baptisms and rescues. We are being blessed beyond all belief right now. We have 23 people progressing and a district that has barely 5 or 6 confirmations in a the best months. I love working among this people. Every day we walk with the Covenant the God himself made 2000 yrs ago to take this people the gospel, and it is definitely coming to pass. I'm watching in a front row seat right now. I wish you guys could see what I see everyday out here. It's incredible. The people are unbelievable the work is hastening out here unbelievably fast. This week we barely escaped a pretty scary situation as well. We had been teaching a family of investigators and they were progessing quite a bit. They hadn't attended but they were super close. We were happy. Well we get to ward council on Sunday and a sister walks in and says that we shouldn't visit that family anymore because the husband is in hiding right now for a big scheme he pulled off to not pay child support for his daughter that lives with his first wife. However she also said that the Lawyer that is trying to find his house and put him away, made it to our sector. He had heard that the members had been visiting them and there was suspition that we were helping him hide, so he started going to church waiting to find him there and take him. Had that happened everything would have fallen on the church, and it would have gotten ugly. Well we found out and we completley pulled out of the family and now they are going through with a plan to make sure the ward doesn't fall into anything. We were close to being in a horrible situation, but I think we got out in time. It was nuts when we found out though. They had a baptismal date at one point as well. Here in Compania they have what is called indigenous justice, which is that the Natives punish the accused. That could have been even worse haha. It was nuts but we got out of it all thanks to the members. I'm doing pretty good out here. I'm happy. I love my companion. Things are going well. Im learning more and more Kichwa everyday so life is good. I love you guys and I'll talk to ya next week.
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March 2016
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