1/16/17: Flight Plans!

AHH!! I can`t even concentrate because I just read the official flight plan for my return home. WHAT. I feel like there`s still so much time left and last night it hit me  that  there`s only NINE MORE WEEKS. That`s  insane. We`ve been contacting and walking like crazy people this week trying to find someone to bring to church! We`re still visiting maria castro and she wants to learn more she just has trouble understanding, but we`ll work with her on that.. We`re  visiting her in like an hour so pray that everything goes good! She has 4 children, and all their names begin with K, Kevin, Kerlie, Kenya and Karla. We also taught a woman named MAriana Anchundia a few times and she`s way great, hopefully she`ll go to  church this sunday! 

  Hmm, what else..everything`s going good here, Hermana mayo is in her third week of training! She`s a quirky little thing her. Always talking about her  food from peru and these words they only use in Peru,haha. Here it`s been SUPER hot , but you already knew that. This sector is HUGE and we`re slowly but surely knowing more and more of it! We made appointments to viisit a handful of the members this week and I`m making no bake cookies to bring them to try to win over their hearts,uhhh.....WELL, next week I`ll write a more quality email, I`m sure I say that every week....but next week it`ll be true. LOVE YOU ALL!! CHAO CHAO!

1/9/17: Montecristi Museum

Time is going by way too fast. We`ve already been here for like 2 weeks! Yesterday we brought one lady to church, her name is Maria Castro, she has 4 children and she`s seperated from her husband. We found her contacting and in the first visit she was like yeah I`d like to go to church....okay yeah! Then we passed by a secnd time on Saturday to teach herr and she was in a blow up swimming pool with like 4 of her children so that was an interesting lesson? More to come on Maria...Also I spoke yesterday in sacrament meeting on you guessed it- missionary work. I`ve never had to give a talk before yesterday haha, almost got away with it my whole mission...

   Then today for p-day we made lunch in the house, hermana Roylance and I made arepas and the macaroni and cheese from the chirstmas package and a fried egg to go with the arepa. Then we left with a member, Hermana Laris, to go to montecristi. There we went to a muesum and took a ton of photos and then looked at some of the shops. And now we`re here writing. The branch here is pretty small, Yesterday there were like 60 people at church and there were like 15 sisters in relief society. Time to make this branch a ward!

     Well, those are probably the most interesting things thave have happend this week, CHAO LOVE YOU!!

we went to some museum today in montecristi, enjoy!

 

1/2/17: First Week in Jaramijo

I´M IN JARAMIJO!!! Me and Hermana Mancuso went to Guayaquil in the early morning to go to a little capacitation and then to meet our new companions! My new companion is....Hermana MAYO! She´s from Lima, Peru and comes from a big family of like 11 people, ahaha. But we got to our new sector here in Jaramijo Wednesday night and started contacting! We´ve found a few people who are interested like JAcinto Bolivar and a woman named Elsa Mero. Woop woop. Oh yeah, to travel from the terminal to our new sector I lugged around my 2 giant suitcases, my pillowcase AND the 2 packages that arrived in the office, whaddup!

    We´re also here with 2 other sisters, Hermana Roylance from Utah and Hermana Torres from Peru. 2 gringas and 2 peruvians! It´s a branch here and yesterday there were literally like 40 people at church haha, but it was news years so there´s going to be more people next week. We live like 1 block from the beach, it´s so beautiful but so tempting! 

    Well, I´ll give more updates next week. CHAO CHAO!! 

Pictures with Miguel Ortega, aka Miguelito! He´s getting baptized the 7th of January!

 Selfie from today in Jaramijo. With Hermana Mayo, Roylance and Torres. 

Some pictures with my ¨hija´´ , Hermana Mayo de Peru.

12/26/16: Ahhhhhh, This Week!

WOW, SO MUCH HAPPEND THIS WEEK. We went to Guayaquil monday afternoon and had a family home evening sort of thing with other zones, then later this week we had a baptism and it was great! It was Christmas eve and it was the baptism of Gabi Rojas and it was at  9 AM, more like 9 45 because everyone showed up late,haha. But it went really well, Gabi was super happy! He works for the governor or something and he`s always SUPER busy and he has like 3 different jobs on top of that so it was good that everything worked out to have his baptism that day. Then later that night we went to sing as a zone at Malecon with the stake choir. We sang all the christmas hymns then we sang that alelujah song that`s on Shrek and we sang it in spanish and it was  astruggle aha. Then the stake choir started singing other songs and I didn`t know some of them so I kind of just did what I could...it`s the same as talking, it´s just louder and you more your voice up and down! Pretty sure I didn`t quote that correctly because it`s been awhile since seeing that..uhh... And of yeah..... Last night the zone leaders called us and told me that both me and my companion are going to train! I have cambios to a different place and she`s staying here to train but I`m freakin out, what do I do...Opening a sector and training. WHAT. That`ll be interesting. There are only 2 sisters that are coming this transfer and they`re both from Peru. Whatttt....Many stories to come. Well, I`m going to go take some deep breathes and drink some water. LOVE YOU ALL!!! Hope you all had a marvelous Christmas and have  agreat new year!! CHAO CHAO!

FIRST UP-The baptism of Gabi Rojas the morning of Christmas eve,

 The streets of Ecuador 

We took a lot of pictures today..haha

More photos at Malecón .. 

12/19/16: Merry Christmas from the Mission President

Dear Family of Sister Tirrell,

 

In behalf of the Ecuador Guayaquil West Mission, we send you a very warm greeting and a Merry Christmas. We wish your family the richest of blessings during this Christmas season. We encourage you to share your uplifting experiences with your daughter in your weekly emails, just as she does with the people she serves. Attached is the Christmas picture of your daughter with her zone.

 

Once again, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2017. 

 

Sincerely,

 

President Rosendo Santos

Sister María Santos

Ecuador Guayaquil West Mission

 

12/19/16: The Best Way to Spread Christmas Cheer...

The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear! How is it aleady almost christmas ?? So crazy.This week we went on a trip to Mapasingue! Our leaders called us Tuesday night right before we went to bed and told us that we were going to have to be in the terminal the next morning to travel to Mapasingue. It`s because my new companion, Hermana Mancuso, sang in a choir for an activity that the mission did in Guayaquil. So we were there from wednesday to sunday morning! And while my companion went to choir practices everyday and then performed in the activity, I was with another hermana, hermana Mendoza, and she was Mary in one of the live nativities that they had in the fair where the activity was Saturday. The activity Saturday was a fair and it was in a place called Concha acustica (something like that) and on thursday,friday and saturday there were 7 nativities and the activity was with 2 other missions, guayaquil south and guayaquil north mission. And in the nativities the people at the fair could take their pictures and then they had to write down all their information so that we can send them their picture slash (I can`t find the slash button on this keyboard..) so that the missionaries can go contact them! And guess who took the pictures in one of the nativities, me! The first night we took 98 photos...and then the next night there weren`t that many people and then saturday there were SOO many people!! We took over 200 photos over the 3 days...

In other news, Gabi Rojas is going to be baptized this saturday, On Christmas Eve! So excited for him. He`s so ready. Yesterday we were teachiing him and he sounded like a gospel preacher,haha. He`s just very deep and he gets really into what he`s saying. Then there`s Miguel Ortega, our best friend. He`s one of the sweetest people ever! He`s like 70 years old, always rides his bicycle to the chapel and his greatest desire is to be baptized! We taught him tuesday and he accepted a baptism date for january 7th! Right after we said the prayer he asked us what he needed to do to get baptized....more to come! 

    We put some chirstmas lights up in the house, found  a nativity scene in a drawer of one of the dressers in our room but it`s missing baby Jesus...and we also found a mini christmas tree that we`re going to put together soon! Hope everyone has a very JOLLY christmas!!! FELIZ NAVIDADDD!!! CHAO, love you!

12/12/16: Photos!