- It rains at least 2 to 3 times a week and half of it is !Full hace Color!
- The bakeries, the rice, and the cockroaches are 10x bigger in Ecuador...
- There is a 3 day holiday called Carnaval where everyone throws water at each other. Me and my companion were only able to proselyte for 2 hours each of those days! One day, we were walking down a street and a cute little family drives slowly past us and sprays us with soap and water...it was by far the weirdest experience I have ever had in my life...
- Latinos really like to practice their English when they pass by us. They say," HIII HOW ARE JUUU" One Latino yelled at us while he was on his motorcycle," Hermanas I love JUU¨" It really is quite hilarious.
- You cant flush toilet paper down toilets, you have to dispose of it in the trash. Its nasty
- The jugo (juice) is absolutely amazing, members make it for us for lunch. It is like a smoothy, it super buenísimo!
- Guineos (bananas) are like 25 cents each, I am addicted to them!
- Keys are worth a lot of money here, like 45 minimum! Aparently, to make them it is really expensive in Ecuador. A lot of families have only one set of keys!
MORE FACTS TO COME NEXT WEEK!
This week has been really difficult for me to have confidence in teaching. Every time I say something, the adversary really loves to send buses to overpower my voice and dogs that start barking. At times I freak out because I don't know what to say or how to start lessons. But the times when I just let the spirit guide, everything works out and I am able to teach with clarity. It seriously amazes me when I have no idea what to say, but when I start to open my mouth, the spirit gives me words to say! I have faith that the investigator understands by the spirit!
In Alma it says by small and simple means the Lord will bring about His great and Eternal purposes. I don't know everything, I cant see everything, but I know I just gotta keep doing everything I can, as simple as it might be.
I also learned about sacrifices, that when we make sacrifices the Lord will bless us even more that we thought possible. We just have to have faith and let the Lord lead us! And like President Monson once said," sometimes faith means trying again tomorrow". We cant be perfect at something unless we keep working at it, sometimes we just gotta jump into the cold water until swimming and breathing becomes natural.
Faith is the biggest principle, Life is always about faith. Faith can help us see miracles, we just have to work at it until we no longer need to act on our faith to see miracles, we will have a perfect knowledge of things...I love you all!
Hermana Arnold
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