Well it's my first week back in Guayaquil and I miss my mommy more than ever... hahaha nah I'm just joking! But I do miss the wonderful hot showers I had in Cuenca and the nice brisk mountain air! Here in Guayaquil it is really hot and very poor. It's pretty sad, but honestly the Church members here are pilas (awesome) and if we walk in to a member's house, BAM there is food for us! And that is just really awesome!
So the work is progressing. We have a couple of baptisms coming up which should be great for our area. Tomorrow I am excited to be going back into my old sector to work and see my old converts and investigators! Super pumped about that! My companion Elder Oy is from Cancun Mexico. We are already planning on when I can visit him there after our missions!!! So dope!
This last week was hard. The people here can't really understand my gringo accent here and that was really hard for me to realize. And I also had some problems understanding them too. They definitely speak a different dialect of Spanish here along the coast and it's really going to take me awhile to get used to it again! They speak super fast here and don't say the S in words. I feel like I forgot all my Spanish now that I live here! They really understood my accent better in Cuenca!
I did give a talk yesterday in church about the Atonement of Jesus Christ. I only had 15 minutes to prepare what I wanted to say...that is always hard! So my new calling as a Zone Leader is good but it is also pretty hard because to be honest, a lot of the time I have no idea what half of the Spanish speaking missionaries are saying when they have problems. So I just am at the point where when they tell me they have a problem I tell them to say a prayer about it to get their answer! (Yes I do know how to say that at least in Spanish haha).
Not much else really has been going on...Feel free to keep on sending me mail and emails! Thanks for all of the love! GO UTES! GO BENGALS!
p.s. Please eat at Carl's Jr. today!!! That sounds so good!!!! There is a Chili's restaurant in my sector and my companion and I are going there on my year mark so that is exciting!!!
And I am naming my first kid Guazmo! Also...if you want to see where I live, check Guazmo Sur on Google earth!
Elder Hoole
Shoe shine
All I want for Christmas
This is my Zone
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