This week has been really good! We have worked really hard and tried to get more people to come to church!! It's a struggle here in the mountains!
Tuesday! We decided to go for an adventure and contact in the mountains where it literally is like the Teton Mountains. Tons and tons of trees and rivers! We came to a place where the missionaries have never been. We started contacting there! It's super super cool! It's a town of like 50 to 60 people and they are ALL FAMILY!! So, if we can baptize the Grandpa and Grandma we will be able to baptize the entire family!! ha ha but they are super catholic. They pretty much have their own church. So we have plans this week to visit the pastor and try to convert him!! Hah it's gonna be good!!
Well, my companion and I had to travel to Machala this week to do some things. We went and it was super fun to see how the zone was doing! I absolutely LOVE MACHALA!! It's soo warm and amazing! The people there are soo much more animated and want to talk! But it's good. I love it here in Lola! It's like Idaho!!
Then on Thursday! I don't know if you guys know but everyone here are catholic. Every year they have a huge tradition to walk miles and miles carrying the virgin Maria and it came here! Thousands and thousands of people came here to Loja to see it. I was like oh no we have to see our investigators! They went to see her and stuff. I was feeling like we really are still in the great apostasy! Soo many people need this gospel and they need it now! They have absolutely noo idea what they could have! How they could be blessed with this message that we have! I was like wow! There were thousands of them!! They closed the streets! Even members went! That will tell you how big it is!!
Friday! We had an amazing lesson with PF and T. It went really good. We taught her about the restoration of the gospel. I always always love sharing this message more than any other! It's because it's the message that you can feel the spirit most for me I think! She told us she was going to come to church afterwards!!
Then we worked and we didn't have any appointments, so we just started talking to everyone! We found a Colombian he's super super cool He has 2 kids and is separated from his wife! He started talking to us how he wants to come closer to Christ and we are like WE HAVE THE MESSAGE WE HAVE IT HERE!! We invited him to be baptized and he accepted it was super cool! So he and his family all came to church!!
Thanks everyone for all your prayers in my behalf. I have been able to learn the great attribute of patience this week with a lot of things here! Thanks for everything and all you do ! I don't have much more time at all but the Gospel is true!! Jesus Christ lives and is our Savior! There is nothing more ensuring than that! Love you all
Making you proud in Ecuador!!
Elder Hammond
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