2015

HELLO people that speak English.

Well here is good news update of what is happening here in in my new area. I figured out where I am, we live on the top of a HUGE hill, our area is all hills basically just stair cases, with cows and tons of pigs everywhere and all dirt roads. AND IT IS FREEEEZING we are about 2k feet higher than Conocoto. Much different than Conocoto, it reminds me a lot of Mexico City. New Year’s happened; we were not allowed to do anything that day but leave the house to eat at members’ homes. New Year’s here consists of EVERYONE being drunk, all the men dress up like hooker women and run around the streets, and people burn everything in the street from that year that they do not want to remember. It’s basically just a bunch of chaos!!!!! Also the biggest women singer artist in Ecuador died yesterday and everyone is depressed about it.  I know you were wondering if  they eat rice in this area and YES we eat just as much ! Being in a trio is much different, at times it is fun and feels like we have a sleepover every night and at times it’s hard.

ON a more spiritual note, and positive note, the work in this area is GOLD. We do not have enough time for the amount of people we need to teach. We found families this week that are truly prepared by the Lord. The Family Arias is a family of 3 they are young and could not be any better. They pray with intent, read with pure intent and want to complete the commandment of baptism. They are amazing and will get baptized.  I have been focusing a lot on my relationship with my Father in Heaven. Prayer is the communication we have here with the Lord. He wants to hear our thoughts, our pleadings of our heart. He truly hears every word.  What he wants me to do here, truly I am only here for him and not for myself, here to do his will to do his work. WE walked up 286 stairs on Friday to find that our investigator was not even home. Half dome anyone?! But, come to find out we were contacting up on the top of the world and found a member that got baptized 23 years ago up in the north of Ecuador and had no idea where the church was here and has been inactive for 15 years. This really is a reason for everything we do, if we wouldn’t have hiked up the mountain that day we would have never found Hermana Katy on the street, a lost soul. 

Something funny....We live in the middle of a hill with tons and tons of dogs more than my other area, one night we were walking home and a good 4 dogs started running towards us barking basically about to eat my face off so Hermana Pace and I threw our cookies at them along with our cell phone and it split in half,  maybe it was funnier in person or the mission is turning me into an old boring hag not quite sure .

Well that’s about it for Asisencia Social this week. Thank you for your prayers, I need them this transfer, I love each and every one of you

Para Siempre Dios Este con Vos

Love always,

Hermana Merrill:)

my area on top of the hill.... and new years eve