So, yesterday was my birthday. I kinda forgot to tell members about it because... well... There isn't really time for parties in this work. However, I got some pretty great gifts that I didn't even ask for:
In sacrament meeting a guy walked in and found us. He said that he attended the stake conference a little while back and wanted to learn more about the church. He attended the full three hours and afterwards we made an appointment with him. It isn't often that a new investigator walks into church without anyone bringing them there, for me it was a huge blessing/birthday present from God. :)
After church a member came to us and told us that he has a non-member friend that would like a priesthood blessing. That night we went with him and visited his friend. We ended up visiting for an hour talking about the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ, he also wants us to come back to teach him more.
God somehow knows that the best thing you can give a missionary on his birthday in new investigators.
Another thing that happened yesterday is that the APs (assistants of the mission president) called me on the phone and sang happy birthday and then told me that they found someone I knew in their sector in Guayaquil and that they wanted to talk to me. They then passed the phone to the person and I heard Gisselas voice.
This photo is from the wedding of Gissela and Carlos September of 2014
Not sure if you guys remember Carlos and Gissela, (mom and dad kind of paid for their wedding two Septembers ago).
I got to talk to both of them on the phone yesterday and hear how they were doing. I was worrying about them for a long time, I lost contact with them when I left Buena Fe almost a year and a half ago. A few months ago, I asked the Sister Missionaries that are in Buena Fe if they knew them, and they told me no which made me a pretty discouraged. Now I know that they moved and they now live in Guayaquil because Gissela is working there now. She told me that she is two months pregnant with her first baby and that her and Carlos are good. I talked to Carlos too, they are doing well.
It also helps me to know that the assistants are visiting them, I didn't ask, but I'm guessing that when they moved provinces they lost contact with the church. Now I'm sure they are being committed to going to church and remembering the promise that they made to get sealed in the temple. I'm going to be bugging the APs a little bit about this one.
Hearing from them ALMOST made me cry, it was one of the best birthday gifts ever. Apart from that President Riggins called, he and Sister Riggins sang happy birthday to me. El es un Buen dato.
Things here are going good, here is a picture of me eating cheesecake. Cheesecake isn't at all common here, but every once and a while I can find it. It is nothing like the cheesecake back home, but at least it brings back memories.
We are getting ready for Carnaval down here, which is one fo the biggest holidays in Ecuador. To describe it in few words, it's a huge national water fight + beer. Anything goes: eggs, dyed water balloons, burnt oil, foam, ect. We are going to try to be careful this week, missionaries would be great targets in a water fight.
There are people selling weapons in every corner in our sector.
...So it begins...
If I wasn't a missionary, I'd be all in.
Things here are all good. We are making an extra effort to put on mosquito repelent these days, these is a new scare about a sickness call Zika right now. But, not much to worry about, I kill every mosquito I see.
Thinks here are all good, I hope all is well back home.
Love you all!
Cameron
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