Week 27 Ecuador

Skinny ties:)

Enjoying the rain!

Found some nice rubber boots so I can go stomping through the rain. I like it. Maybe I was deprived of this in my earlier years?

I took Elder Melzer out on a date after soccer this morning for tostados (toast) & batidos (shakes), then he took me out to get a haircut. Successful day.

Sunburn:(

3/30/15 Family recording

Hi family, I just got home. It’s Wednesday night, so that finishes out my 24 hour vacation, if you want to call it that. We left last night to go to Guayaquil, and woke up this morning at 4, and went to the temple. I felt like a real bum because after texting my district and telling them to get their recommends, and telling my companion earlier in the day to get his recommend, I forgot to bring my own temple recommend. So, I had to wait in the front lobby for the president to come. He was coming anyway, don’t worry, but ya I just felt like a loser sitting there waiting. Lesson learned...don’t forget your temple recommend! He just gave me a big smile and a hug, and escorted me through. Good way to draw negative attention to myself. Naw, not really to worried about it. The temple was wonderful as always. I love it. I almost made it through by myself in Spanish, we’re getting there. Little by little, one day we’ll do it, hopefully before the mission ends. Ever since then we have been at the mission home having meetings all day...lot of new rules, as far as p-day and clothing, just a lot of rules. They’re setting up a new thing with our ward meetings, so idk it wasn’t to exciting, but this morning the president gave a really powerful talk. 

After, Elder Parkinson and I swung my the mission office and we picked up our pouch. Big surprise to me, I got a package from mom & dad! I had no idea that was coming, but thank you all the same for the frisbee, and belt, and letters as well...and jellybeans. Jellybeans are incredible. Some of the latinos have never tried them, so it was a delicious experience. That belt looks pretty sweet too. I have seen other elders with them, but thank you. It will be a good back up belt, belts wear out really fast here from what I’ve seen. Mine’s holding in there pretty good, but we’ll see, the whole is getting a little stretched out. The frisbee, that will be fun, we just have to find a place to play it. We’ll figure that out, maybe at the church we can play something, except the fields a little small. Thanks though, that will be fun. 

 It’s now 7:00, and there’s some thunder outside. It’s not raining, so we’re going to go and see if we can find some investigators. We didn’t plan lessons for tonight because we didn’t know what time we’d get back but, we’ll make the best use of it. Baptisms at this point for this week are looking a little gloomy. Our female investigators are being a little dramatic, but we’ll try to get them over their little problems, and see what we can do. I’ll try to give you some more details later on throughout the week as far as that goes. Anyways, there’s little bits and details I could add in, but I better get on my way for now, so I’ll save that for later. That’s all folks.