THIS WEEK has been AWESOME! It's gone by kind of slow! That's usual for here! That's probably why I'm here so that the time can slow down because wow honesty when I was in Machala the time literally was flying before my eyes! It's a little hard because we don't have that many people to teach! BECAUSE EVERYONE IS CATHOLIC!! But its good!
Well this week we worked hard on tuesday we had to make sure we could have 2 baptisms in our zone because here, its super super good to get a baptism. The work is hard here! but naww but yeah!
On wednesday we did an interchange. In our zone we have 4 missionaries who are serving 1 hour and a half away from us in a place called Zamora!!! IT'S AWESOME!! It literally is the jungle and soo hot!! So what happens you start driving and then the trees turn into JUNGLE!! It's just like Tarzan! There are waterfalls and mountains ALL around you!! ha ha its super super cool!! I went there to see how the missionaries were doing and we worked hard! We invited over 15 people to be baptized and 6 of them accepted so that was cool! That night I actually didn't sleep with 3 blankets over me like in Loja! ha ha but it's funny! We helped them out a lot! The purpose of the interchange is to help the missionary and to teach him how to work the best he can so I hope I helped this man from Peru who has 5 months in the mission! Well then I got a call in Zamora saying that the assistants were at our house in Loja so we left in the morning super early so we could get there in time. On our way it rained a TON!! ahah So when we were going, the mountains were falling on us!! Literally falling rocks and mudslides!! Almost on every corner, it was soo crazy!! One time rocks were hitting the truck then we ran over a rock and got a flat tire!! ahah But it was cool because where we got a flat tire there was a super legit waterfall!! ha ha but then we got to Loja and I forgot how cold it was here!! ha ha
On Thursday! we worked regularly and tried to invite people to be baptized and stuff!
Then on Friday it rained like crazy! It rained a ton! My companions feet got muddy and were super cold! Soo we went to get a shower and fill the bucket up with hot water!! Well, what do you know he broke THE HOT WATER!!! NOOO!! Do you know what this means!!! Oh my gosh I literally have colder water than warm river!! Because we shower with water from the river!! So it is literally as cold as warm river!!! So for the past 4 days I've boiled 2 pots of water and do a huge exercise so I get sweaty and jump in and scream and scream and then at the end I pour the hot water over my body!! When I get out I can see my breathe! ha ah its soo cold!! I hope we get the water fixed soon!!!
Saturday we had our reunion (meeting) and it went good. Then we had a baptism of a woman named Maria!! She's cool!! My comp baptized her! It was fun!! Then we had a fun time there and started our fast! That's everything for now! I have to go!! I'm going to Guayaquil for the Zone leader meeting, it takes a long time to get there. I LOVE YOU!!!!!! THANKS FOR EVERYTHING!!!! I LOVE THIS WORK!!!!
Elder Hammond
Our Baptism!
This is the jungle in Ecuador!
Zamora the jungle land
This is the zone in Loja I'm in charge of
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