I had the great opportunity, and a little intimidating chance, to have companion exchanges with the Assistants to President. I went with Elder Lopez, who has already been one of my Zone Leaders. I actually enjoyed a lot being with him. He had an excitement about everything that it was actually a little contageous. We turned out having very little time to do anything, however, due to the excitment to work and the guidance of the Spirit, we were able to talk with about 26 people and teach two new people within two hours. It was amazing and it made us both really excited to keep working. However, I did have to travel back to Quito and travel back to Ibarra within the same day. Still recovering.
We had a really awesome miracle this week. We've had some troubles lately trying to find new people to teach. It makes it that much harder to teach people, have people progress, and eventually get baptized. We felt like we weren't completing our purpose. So, we went to work. We knew we would have an entire day without any work in our sector; we had to work harder to find new people to teach. It was 8:00 and we had only found one, we needed at least two more. We knocked the first block and we couldn't teach anyone. By this time it was 8:20. I thought, alright, we will contact all the way back to the house if we have to. We then knocked the next door and a family opened up to us and we could teach three sisters. We were so happy with that, we thought, let's just keep going. We knocked the next door and met a youth that doesn't have much of a belief in God or in Christ but was really interested in the Book of Mormon. Another one. I thought, we'll maybe we'll just go to the end of the block if we keep having success. We knock the next door, and a mother and her daughter came out to talk to us. They were interested in having an eternal family, considering the whole family is 13. We taught two more new people. I thought about being out after nine, but we couldn't. It was just that the Spirit was with us and was blessing us with so many blessings that we wanted to just keep going. However, if we disobeyed, we wouldn't have the Spirit. So it was better to return home. That day we found seven new people and were able to give out all the Books of Mormon that we had. It may seem like a little miracle, but it was a miracle we definetly needing to keep our Spirits up. I know I am greatful we endured to the end so as to receive the help that we wanted and needed.
We heard the exciting news that a new companionship will be coming to our sector as they prepare to split the ward and make a new stake this next year. I'm super excited for the progress we are seeing in this ward because of all the sacrifices they make for the missionary work. I also hope that the YSA watched the powerful face to face with Elder Cook. It was amazing. You can think that you were watching it with your favorite person in all of Ecuador! Love you all!
Quito
Just chilling with the Elders in Cayambe (for the third time!)
Just a casual picture
Beautiful
So, we had to cram one truck of eight elders and another truck of four sisters and my companion and I. You can't see them, but that is why he is practically sitting on me.
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