11/21/16: Another Week of Esperanza!

This week, this week....on wednesday we went to guayaquil for a conference for my companion since she`s one of the leaders and so we got back thursday night, and the rest of the week went by super fast. We`ve mainly been teaching Azucena (we found out her name means white lily in english, good to know) and Lisette and Herlinda, the mother of a convert here. Azucena..oh azaucena, that girl needs to go to church! She hasn`t gone to church the past few weeks so she`ll be getting baptized later than planned but that`s alright. She gave us a little bit of ceviche yesterday before we taught her, always good. She`s always so nervous to pray and one time this week we came to her house to teach her and her door was open and she was taking notes from the pamphlets we`ve given her and writing a prayer out, so cute ! And then there`s Lisette, she wants to get baptized but she`s still not so sure about the book of mormon, SO we`ve been helping her with that and if all goes well she`ll be baptized this saturday or a little bit later. And Herlinda! She`s the mother of a convert named Alexandra and she wants to get baptized! She`s like 60 years old and always gives us bread and is so sweet. 

    And then today, we cleaned the house, went and ate some bolones and smoothies for lunch then walked here to the cyber to write! And on the way we met a dog! As pictured in the photos I sent. There are SO many dogs and cats here, it`s kind of ridiculous. One time hermana twitchell and a different companion counted all the dogs here they saw in one day and they counted 223. Yeah. Well, I hope everything is well and that everyone has a wonderful thanksgiving filled with turkey and cranberry sauce! haha. CHAOOOOOO love you guys!

11/7/16: First Real Tourist Attraction- La Chocolatera

WOW! I have like 2 minutes to write this email But hey, I sent like 20 photos so that`s worth like 20,000 words, right? This week we went to our first real tourist attraction here! It`s called La Chocolatera and it was super gorgoeus! And really windy. We went with the bishop and his wife and daughter and the wife of the patriarch and we of course went in the bishop`s taxi! We also went to this little museum they have there, snapped a ton of photos and went to other look out points and even saw some seals. Other than that, we`re getting emily mite to be baptized this saturday and e viisted a member who`s mom the missionaries had been teaching in the past and she said she had a dream and wants to be baptized, so there`s that! Her name`s Asusana valverde and she gave us a mango aftter teaching her. 

   Before going, here are a few options for recuerdos (ahh, my mind is blanking on the word for this in english) , so you can all tell me which thing you would most like and I`ll see what I can do! There are hammocks, futbol jerseys, bags, bracelets, keychains. Yeah. ç

  Well, hope all is well with you guys!! Have a fantastic week!! CHAO LOVE YOU!

Here`s the first of the many photos from our visit to the Chocolatera