Elder Jacob Todd Hammond: August 11, 2014 2nd letter

August 11, 2014 2nd letter

I am here in Ecuador in Guayaquil! a place called Santa Monica! It is very very HOTT!! like very hot! the days I just sweat and sweat its awesome! ha ha but at night time its like 80 degrees! and we have to sleep with mosquito nets because we could get sick or even die if we get bit by a certain mosquito they say! ha ha yeah soo it's hot and its hard to fall asleep sometimes! but ha ha

This week has been crazy! Mom and family and everybody- Mom it was soo amazing to have that miracle with the family you converted!! It was one of the happiest but craziest things in the whole planet to meet your convert! It was soo amazing I love them soo much and I barely know them!

This week has been super super hard! ha ha because

1. The Spanish... the Spanish is the hardest for me.. at first it was kind of a joke because its like ha ha yeah I have noooo idea what your saying but I'm going to keep a smile on my face and say SI every time but now.. its real and I HAVE to know what they are saying and its soo hard! ha ha not only that but when I speak the people don't understand what I'm saying and they make fun of me... yeah.. its really hard!... but I just try to smile and laugh it off!

The animals here are sooo gross and its soo sad.. you don't know if the dog or cat is dead or not.. they are limping and some have blood on their legs and they are just terrible looking its soo sad...

Quite honestly I cannot describe it here! The people are amazing and I love them so much! They are very very different from u.s. haha I love it though!

The living conditions are very difficult and hard because everybody lives in a concrete house ... everybody with concrete floors and their is just soo much dirt! Literally dirt is their carpet! haha its awesome! It's been a long week! I got sick last week so it was hard but I'm getting better!

The food! okay the food ..all we eat is rice... and rice hahah and rice and beans! We drink a lot of coca cola because we can't drink the water its the best ever! haha but my nose always hurts after I drink it! haha

Worst part of my day is the shower though... why.. because I literally do the hoki poki in the shower it is SOO COLD!! Like put your right arm in! Right arm out! And you shake till you can get your left arm in!! I'ts soo cold!! but gosh it wakes you up! that's for sure!!

The smell it reeks here unless you pass a bread shop and oh my gosh the bread here is to die for I love it!!

This week we have a baptism!!!! YEYA!!! My first baptism his name is Fernando Nath! I don't even know what he says but he seems legit! We also gave a woman a blessing here too!

People here dress very immodestly.. like the women... oh gosh you just can't look down! just don't look down and you'll be good because I feel sometimes they want us or something and will come up to us and I'm just like buenos dias AND run Off. Totally pulling a Joseph there.

It's awesome here and I love it! Even though its super hard! I love it! The best part is the night time! haha These huge guys come out with their shirts off and they are completely DRUNK!! They are huge too! these guys are big and just drunk and its sooo funny but honestly its quite scary but don't mess with me! Today was cool we got to go to the mall and that was way fun! haha but yeah super cool!!

I do want to apologize for not writing all my family 1 by 1 I love you all soo much family is the world over here!! I seriously have the best family ever!!!!!!! seriously ever ever ever!!!!

The church is true and I love you with everything with all I have!!

Elder

Hammond This is our church!