Mythbusters and pictures!

Beunos Dias!

As I thought about how I can best give my report this week, I figured sharing pictures and giving descriptions with the pictures is the best way to do it. Firstly though, let me take a moment to despell a few rumors about my mission that I hear before I left and during the CCM.

There is not a member who cooks us food, cleans ours house, and does our laundry.  In the CCM there was a rumor that in many South American missions there's members that are paid to cook you food and that all you have to do is buy ingredients and they're make something out of it.  When me and Elder Povar heard this, we both immediately thought "BROWNIES!" as in the mystical creatures described in Fable Haven.  We do have members who have assignments by the ward to take us into their homes to feed us lunch everyday, and we pay a member every week to do our laundry, but there isn't anything like a house maid or Brownies in our mission.

From the things I've heard about Ecuador in the past, things here have changed a lot.  The Bus system is good, the people are nice, and people don't mug people like I've been led to believe.  Though there are a few missionaries who have been robbed, it was always more of a take and run situation.

This week the world cup started along with the battle between missionary lessons and people's TVs.  Ecuador played yesterday, church attendance was cut down by a lot, and for some reason the people who did attend church were wearing Ecuador Jerseys or Yellow Ties.  Missionaries are told by the mission president to not have anything to do with the world cup, but it's nearly impossible to not know the score and who's playing who.

Anyways, time for pictures!

Love you!

~Cameron

PS. Go watch the John Tanner movie, especially if you've never seen it!  A part of my testimony comes from that movie, it's super good! Here's a link:
https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2010-07-139-treasure-in-heaven-the-john-tanner-story?lang=eng

The Main Room

The other side of the main room/kitchen

The room we sleep in

The random extra room where we store stuff and iron things.

The Bathroom... Had to.

My companion and me

La Comida de mi Gente.

Our Sector in all it's glory.  This is my favorite part of town to teach in, it's not as busy and crazy and downtown is

In the back of a Trictymoto, the best way to get around here.  I'll try to get a picture of one to send to you next week.

The missionaries all seem to sit on one side of the table when the world cup is on...