Intermediate Changes
Jan 4th
So we had changes last night so that
was a pretty big surprise. My comp left and I received my comp who is from Italy
(but was born in Ecuador). he is pretty cool he just hit a year.
This last week was pretty insane
with it being new years and there were a ton of drunk people New Year’s Day.
And new year’s eve there are what they call widows, or cross dressers that
dance for money. They then celebrate the New Year by burning life size dolls
they make to represent their old self’s. We were able to see the ward dolls
they made the elders Quorum made hulk and the young men’s made bender from
futuram.
Also the Tuqueres family are finally
gunna get baptized this weekend. So we are super stoked for that please pray
that it comes through. They really have been through a lot just to get to this
point.
This week was also full of miracles
we were able to find 3 new families and all of them look really promising the 2
do not have the struggle to get married and the 3rd they have to get married
but they came to church and really liked it so things are looking pretty good
up here in Santa Anita.
Love you all
Elder Keyes
We had a great Baptism!
Jan
11th
The Tuqueres family got baptized finally!! It was a pretty
cool baptism and they gave us guinipig after so that was the first time I’ve
eaten one of the those things. My old companion elder Quintana received permission
to come to the baptism so me and him were able to baptize them.
The first councilor in the bishopric let me know Saturday
night so that was a pretty fun talk. um but this Sunday it decided to rain a
ton when we were in our suits, so a member lent us some rain gear and Iended up
looking like a deep sea fisherman.
we found a super cool family of 8 this last week they are
the Angamarqas and the mom is a widow; she has a ton of faith and really
completes with her commitments so we know that she and her will continue to
progress if she keeps up with her commitments.
Today we were able to go out to eat with a member for his
birthday and we had some civiche which is like a lime fish soup thing that is
super good.
That’s pretty much all that happend
this last week.
Love Elder Keyes
Elder Godoy
Jan
18th
So this week we had a ton of
meetings starting with the zone conference where due to the other meetings all
of Quito was there (which is like half the mission). It was pretty cool especially
when they announced that Elder Holland is coming to our mission next
month.
But the Elder Godoy meeting was
super cool he had a special 1 hour meeting with just the leaders before so I
was lucky enough to be able to go to that. He talked about the challenges that
we have as a mission.
In the big meeting he talked a
little bit about his conversion at 16 where he talked about the power we have
as missionary’s, he told us about the first lesson he had with the missionary’s
and when they told him the first vision he started speaking in Portuguese and
it was really amazing how strong the spirit was and we could barely understand
him.
We also had a tour of the church
with Segundo our little old man with date to be baptized. This guy is awesome
he doesn’t understand or remember things very well but he is always coming up
with ideas so that he doesn’t forget the things we tell him. But what else is
cool is he receives his revelation through dreams and in one of his dreams he
saw the book of Mormon and he said that he felt like this "book" he
saw was going to change his life. And then pointed to my book and said it
looked exactly like that.
That was pretty much all of the
exciting things that have happend this week
Love Elder Keyes
