This week was pretty solid, we had some nifty experiences and saw some cool miracles.
We found a cool area to go contacting, it's called Lligñay. In order to pronounce it, just pretend like you are eating a banana and talking at the same time, and then it will sound correct. We found some good people to teach over there, and it's really pretty, so win win.
Okay, so we have a couple of investigators that are progressing right now, and a lot of investigators that we've only taught one or two times. Our most solid person is a man named Rafael, he's been taking missionary lessons for almost 5 years. His son served a full-time mission and his wife is a member, but he's not quite there yet. We are currently helping him realize that he has a sufficient testimony for baptism and are re-explaining the principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I think he's close, he's showing signs of progress. We are also teaching a Venezuelan man named Gandy, he's awesome. He works a lot in his barbershop so it's sometimes hard to visit him or get him to church, but the visits we've had have been great. We have a few more people, but the majority of our teaching pool is pretty new.
When we go contacting in the morning, 99% of the people that answer are just older ladies that are at home making lunch. Lunch is the biggest meal here, so they sometimes start prepping the food as early as 8am to be ready by 1pm. We've set up lots of lessons with older women, we'll see how they all turn out.
This past week we were visiting a family of members and they mentioned that they love love love pancakes, but they haven't found any good ones around here. I mentioned that I always made pancakes back home and that I had a great recipe from my Uncle Mel, so they invited me to come over and do a Family Home Evening and I made them pancakes. They loved them so much and now when they see me they call me "Elder King of the Pancakes."
We went to the zoo today for P-day, it was pretty cool. The animals were pretty neat, but I enjoyed the english descriptions of the animals. They were awful, I loved it.
I ate chicken foot again this week, but this time I actually ate it. Thankfully when they served it it wasn't an entire foot, they had just kind of scraped the skin and meat off and put it in the soup, along with the gizzard. Gotta love Ecuadorian food.
I found a really cool scripture this week, it's been a good motivation to me during some rough patches I've been having. It is found in The Book of Mormon, in Enos 1:27. It says, And I soon go to the place of my rest, which is with my Redeemer; for I know that in him I shall rest. And I rejoice in the day when my mortal shall put on immortality, and shall stand before him; then shall I see his face with pleasure, and he will say unto me: Come unto me, ye blessed, there is a place prepared for you in the mansions of my Father. Amen. I still have a long way to go until I finish my mission and until I die (I hope), but it's a really good reminder that if I do all I can do here in this life, then the day when I see Christ will be a day of pleasure, a day of peace.
That's it for this week, hope all is well in your lives!! Please write!
Elder Spangler
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