Hello!
Happy leap year!
So, I don't have any pictures this week. I actually sent my SD cards and pen drive to a guy who knows how to recover data so that maybe I get some lost pictures back so that I have things to show for when I finish. There are pictures that you all have not yet seen.
...I just hope the guy didn't cross the border with my pen drives. I shouldn't trust people, but, I do anyways. I don't know if it's a bad thing or a good thing.
Around here the work is going well. The ward is progressing and we are, as usual, working our butts off to find people to teach to line up the plates for my last big bang in Ecuador.
We are commencing operation: ¨Marzo de Locura¨
Its looking like my big bang is going to end up with three baptisms, which is pretty exciting. We are teaching a guy named Luis who is REALLY awesome. We are just trying to help him feel excited for baptism. Because really, he was ready before he even knew about the church. He´s the same guy who we met when he walked into church to see what it's like on my birthday. His name shows up in the dictionary when you look up what a golden investigator is.
Last Thursday we were having a pretty bad day. A bad day in the sense that all of our plans and backup plans fell through and contacting wasn't going to well either. In a moment at about five in the afternoon, we sat in the curb because we had been walking in the sun all day without much success. In that moment I thought to myself ¨what are we doing wrong? Haven´t we been doing everything in our power to do the Lord´s work with diligence today? What´s going on?¨
Not long after that thought, the phone rang. It was the Relief Society President. She asked us if we were busy, she said that she had a friend who came to her house saying he wanted to meet with the missionaries. WHAT? ...that doesn't happen too often but... COOL!
We - not really busy with anything but sitting on the curb at the moment - went straight to her house and found out that a few years back he was meeting with the Elders and attending church and was just about ready to be baptised when his work made it so that he had to move out of Babahoyo. As a result he lost contact with the church.
But he recently came back to live in Babahoyo and he wants to come back to church and be baptised.
After getting to know him and setting an appointment with him while trying not to show our excitement too much, we started walking to Luis´ house because we were getting close to the appointment that we had with him that evening.
On the way to Luis, a lady stopped us in the street yelling ¨¡Elderes!¨
We stopped and went to her. She presented herself to us and explained that she recently moved to Babahoyo and that she was a member of the church. She lived in a little town called Baba before moving here. Baba is about forty-five minutes from Babahoyo. She said that five years before she was really active in the church, however, Baba doesn't have a ward or branch, so she had to travel forty-five minutes every week to go to church on Sundays. After some time she gave birth to two other sons apart from the one she already had. Her husband being in the military, it was really really tricky for her to attend church, so, she deactivated. But now that she´s living in Babahoyo she told us that she´s committed to going to church every week. She also presented us to her oldest son, Fernando, he is 12 years old. When they were active in the church he was 7 years old. She asked us when he could be baptised, we told her that he could be ready in three weeks. He confirmed to us that he wanted to be baptised. And so, he shall be baptised in three weeks.
After that we went to teach Luis -which is always great because he´s always so willing to do God´s will and change his life for the good.
So after a bad day, we got to finish off with a triple whammy of an evening and a really good feeling going to bed that night. It was another testimony to me that God really loves us and is always there helping us in his work. And I think he´s also a big fan of my March madness plan of baptising like crazy before packing my bags and going home. :)
So, that´s how things are. Me and Elder Ames are still having a blast working together; teaching lessons and singing Disney songs loudly in the house at night.
....I might have to watch some Disney movies when I get back -if I have time that is. I have a big list of movies to watch and rewatch, but I'm not sure if I want that much couch time when Im home -there is so much to do with life and time is short!
Health wise I'm doing good, I plan to stay that way too. There´s no use in getting sick in the last stretch.
That is all.
I love you all and I'll see you soon!
Have a good week!
-Elder Cameron Howell
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