Conference and Tacos!

Hey there!

So, conference was awesome!  This was the first time I saw the sessions in English since Ive been here in Ecuador.  We got a television and put it in a classroom where all the North American missionaries watched while everyone else watched in the chapel.  I saw all but the Sunday morning session in English, the Sunday session I watched in the chapel because we had a ton of investigators who came to see that session and we were there to sit with them and answer questions.
We are really exited because all of our investigators who have baptismal dates were in the session.  We have some great families who love the Gospel and are progressing quickly.  We are really exited for them.  :D

I loved conference!  I'm planing to ponderize a scripture every week from now on.  I'm always ready and studying the scriptures, but I think it sounds like a good idea to focus on one scripture, especially every week.

I also plan on asking God ¨What lack I yet?¨ frequently to help with my personal progression.
I also loved the talk by Robert D. Hales giving the youthfully people a whole pile of elderly advice.
All the talks were awesome!  I cant wait to go back and read them.

Mom will be especially proud to hear that today me and Elder Salazar deep cleaned our house just because we wanted to.  We used bleach and disinfectant on every inch of the house.  all this was in celebration of our first p-day with water in the house.  The guy finished our cistern on Friday after having been working on it for almost two months, not we have water in the house at all times.  Its a heavenly thing.

other news in that after conference on Saturday we made tacos.  They were fantastic.  I'll be sending photos.

Love you all!  Talk to you next week.

-Cameron

P.S.  Yes, I did see mom many different times.

TACOS!

These are some people that I know.  The first is the first counselor in the bishopric who is basically an icon and the second is my best friend Jahir.

Replaced by girls and El Niño viene!

Hello!

Last week a seventy came to talk to our mission.  Elder Calderon from Quito Ecuador.  He's a really cool guy!  We learned a lot about diligence and obedience from him.  We had to go to Guayaquil to see him and I was reminded how much I flat out hate buses.  I HATE BUSES!

At the conference I met up with Hermana Romero -a sister missionary who's currently in my old sector in Guayaquil.  She told me how things are in my beloved Barrio Albonor and told me that one of my old investigators was about to get baptised.  That made me super happy!  I found that people I influenced are getting baptized even though I didn't get to finish the work. Things like that make a guy's day.

Buena Fe also has sister missionaries working there now.  It seems that every time I leave a sector they replace me with girls.  I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.  I don't think that will happen in Duran though.  We're serving in Arbolito, which is a part of Duran that Taxi drivers wont take you to because they're scared of it.  The members there say that they didn't know that sister missionaries even exist, I think that President doesn't send them there as a protective precaution, but, anything could happen.

Everyone here has been saying "El niño viene!" "ya viene el niño!"

"El niño"  Translates to be "the child" which is apparently a weather thing where it rains REALLY hard in rain season.  I just haven't been able to figure out why they call it El niño...  It sounds like a horror film if you ask me.

"The child is coming! the child is coming!     ...The child is here"

...I played Limbo back in my day.  GREAT GAME! 

I'm not 100% sure what to expect in the next few months, but everyone says I should buy boots while I can and get ready for lots and lots of rain. ...and maybe a Chucky style horror film in real life... HAPPY OCTOBER!

Yeah, I have to get out of the Cyber now.  I hope everything is all well back home, I love you all!


-Cameron

P.S.  Who's ready for general conference?