This place is gorgeous, in 2 years when I get back to Utah it will feel like there aren´t actually mountains there!
I forgot to bring my journal with me to tell you guys about all the fun things that happened this week. but from memory, this is what I got.
Elder Brown, my trainer, is from Kaysville, UT and has been here for 1 year. He knows what he is doing and is an awesome teacher to the investigators and for me. He plays football and after the mission he is going to play for Utah State.
It´s weird for me to think that I am in a foreign country, it really doesn´t feel different to me. it´s definitely not Provo, UT but I do feel right at home here.
The language definitely sounds different coming from native speakers. When my companion and other white guys speak spanish, I understand pretty much everything. but when a native starts talking, I just look at them really confused. but the members are super nice about it and are just fine repeating themselves and saying stuff slower for me!
The bishop in the ward we are in is learning a lot of english so he basically only talks to me in english which is soooooooo awesoooooommeeeeee.
I have been so blessed this week. It has been a tough week starting to get settled in and figure out whats going on, but I know that I have an awesome support group around me and I know I can do hard things.
And this is pretty cool. I get to baptize someone this friday!
Photos:
Blurry picture from Miami about to board our flight to quito
This is our little travel group from the MTC to Quito. Hermana Earnest, Elder Hammond, and Me
this is the view from the balcony of the secretaries apartment in Quito where I spent my first couple nights
This is where elder brown and I live. we got our desks and a little kitchen and our beds are in the room in the far corner
and this is the outside of our house! We live below a guy that apparently is really high up in the military and our house is surrounded by like an 8 ft concrete wall with an electric fence above that. We sleep very very safely.
I took this picture on the way just barely to drop off our laundry and send emails. this is definitely a mountain town!
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