10/26: First Days in the Field

Well its out of the frying pan and into Ecuador!! Flying into Ecuador was one of the most exciting things ever!! We left bright and early for the airport at 430 AM and when we stepped off the plane the heat and humidity just hits you haha. Our mission President and his wife picked us up at the airport and then right as we were about to leave my mission president said the person who stamped my visa and all that good stuff wrote down the wrong type of visa so I had to go get it fixed. We stayed in the temple housing the first night and then the next day all the new missionaries and trainers met together and we were assigned our campanions and areas!! My companion is Hermana Rojas and shes from Peru and is so sweet! She also anjoys pretending like shes a cat...haha, anywho, our area is in Portoviejo so we took a 4 hour bus ride after we got our companions and it was so gorgeous to see so many different parts of Ecuador! The other two sisters in our house are Hermana Ospinoza (Bolivia) and Hermana Miller (Minnesota). On my first day in the field we went to a members home for lunch and I couldnt understand anything they said except for when they said I looked like Hermione from Harry Potter, or "arry Potter" haha. Then the next day we went to lunch at another member´s home and they had two girls and they totally reminded me of Layla and Adelyn with their Tangled backpacks and how energetic they were aha. One of them when I dropped a piece of rice on the table picked it up`and ate it in the funniest way aha. Ive never had so much rice in such a short amount of time! The rice here comes in one size, a mountain! Teaching has been good, the people here are so kind and will almost always listen to a short message from us! We got to go to a baptism on Saturday and it was so great! The family of the girl getting baptized sang a song together and it was so sweet!Then yesterday was my first Sunday in the ward and they were all very welcoming and there were lots of Bienvenido s . CHAO!!