Mom I got your package this week! lol It had both the dinosaur cookies and the scripture marker so no worries :). I'm not sure exactly how the pouch system works because also this week I got a whole bunch of letters all dating anywhere from the beginning of May till May 20 or so. I got 3 of your letters, Dad. All dating one week after each other. lol Which was cool that I got so many to read but sad because they had been written so long ago. So I don't know if it's just the pouch system only sends once or twice a month or if they just had a hard time importing to Ecuador. I heard sometimes the Mission has a hard time importing church supplies and such. So who knows. So thanks! The cookies turned out fairly good, lol. But it was kinda sad when we opened them because when Elder Sanchez took one he found what looked like mold on one of them. yeah A1que triste! I don't think all of them are bad (i'm not even sure if it really was mold, at least I really hope not, I've eaten some and they taste really good, so I think I'll just have to check :). But yeah and the scripture marker is great! So yeah I'd love it if you could send a copy of the recipe for the cookies, I'm pretty sure I could get all the ingredients. I'm just not sure if all the houses have pots, we don't really have pots here. And haha (StorminMormonEcuadorian) sounds like a great name for a blog, thanks for setting that up. That willl be really neat for friends and especially for a record-journal for myself after the mission :).
So anyways, this week has had a lot of ups and downs, lol. We've had some days where we had a ton of lessons planned but by the end of the day like nearly all of them had failed us! (er, fallen through? lol we use the verb fallar (las citas nos fallaron, por que??! lol which is to fail). Like Wednesday especially. We had an interchange with another companionship from our district (which is one cool thing about having a district leader as a companion, we get lots of interchanges :) Elder Xec, which was kinda crazy because it was my first interchange for a whole day with a native, so if I didn't know how to say something that meant I wasn't able to, lol. But I was excited because also we had 2 other guys from the area acompany us that evening so we had a group of 4 missionary aged young men walking around (it was a kool feeling :) but like over half of our appointments fell through! Yeah annoying, plus more than all of our back up plans didn't work. So yeah, days like those are really annoying. But alas, the last appointment for the day we taught a family one whole lesson on the Atonement of Christ, and it went really well. I don't think it's possible to have a bad lesson about the Atonement, lol, so it was a nice final lift to end the day. And of course the highlight of the week was Saturday because we had 2 BAPTISMS!! It was Carmen and her daughter Michelle (in the first picture I mailed home of Julia's baptism, Michelle is in it. She's the grandaughter of Julia). We've been working with her family since I got here and they are awesome! Elder Sanchez baptised Carmen and I baptised Michelle. It was an awesome night! We weren't able to celebrate with magnums because it was fast sunday and we start our fast after lunch on Saturday and break it at lunch on Sunday. but it was still way awesome :D
To replace Elder Martineau here we have Elder Ayala who is actually from Ecuador so it's pretty kool. He was actually baptised not too long before he came out so he's pretty neat. And yeah he is the zone leader, and funny thing, Elder Eaton is the new District leader in the only other district in our zone. So yeah, we have a house full of leadership :=). And by the way I guess under Pres. Gamboa he usually only has one zone leader per zone, so for our zone, it's Elder Ayala. And our next zone conference is actually this Wednesday and it'll be in Guayaquil with 2 other zones so I'm excited :). This is gonna be a crazy week....
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