Well this week was a pretty good week! We had some really good success and saw a lot of miracles! I don't really know where to start. First I will start with last night! We have an investigator that has been an investigator for 19 years! Her daughter is in the mission field in Argentina and her other son is a member here in the church. She´s also been a mamita (a lady who helps care for the missionaries) for 12 years and has talked with so many missionaries. Well she never really wanted to get married, but for some reason this last week something changed! She told her son that she wanted to get married and she wanted to be baptized! So last night at 6:00pm, my companion and me, the Bishop, Elder's Quorum President, and 4 other members went to her house to talk with her and BOOM!!!! So powerful! We read her some killer scriptures about the blessings of marriage and then her nephew who served a mission in Mexico gave his testimony and he just started to cry so hard and then she cried, and then the bishop cried and it was so COOL! BIG Miracle! She will be baptized the 14th! This week and the next we are going to help her with her papers to get married. Her daughter who is serving in the Argentina mission is going to be able to skype us for the wedding and baptism!!! Pilas!!! We are so pumped! Our goal also is to work with her husband and teach him more about the Church but he doesn't have too much of a desire yet! But who knows?! So that was awesome!
Another miracle we saw this week was something that started about a month ago. We had a member of our ward who was really sick, so she went to the doctor and they told her that she needed to cut her arm off because she had cancer and didn't want it to spread. She didn't feel good about it so my companion and the other companion who was here before me gave her a blessing and BAM - now no more cancer! WHAT!?!? It was crazy when we found out. So this miracle happened in their family and now her niece is going to get baptized because she now knows that God answered their prayers and that this Church is true!
Not much else really happened this week. We are working really hard! My companion is from Mexico and he has been super sad this week with all the earthquakes! But he's feeling better now! I hope that all of you are getting prepared for disasters that could happen too! I saw a dog eat a dirty diaper this week and then next to it just sitting there were two giant dead rats, so that was pretty gross. Lots of really dirty things this week and yeah, I kinda cried a few times using this hole that was supposed to be a toilet. hahaha There are really good people here and one of the members took my shoes yesterday that are falling apart and said that he could fix them up for me, so hope I get to see them back soon and that they are put together! hahaha
Get our your Book of Mormon or just look it up online and read these scriptures I have for all of ya!
1 Nephi chapter 7 and Mosiah 24:16
DON'T FORGET TO WATCH GENERAL CONFERENCE THIS WEEK! SATURDAY and SUNDAY!
Love y'all!
Elder Hoole
Elder Hoole
This man was selling bananas on the street with his donkey pulling the cart.
In the church building
Streets of Guayaquil
Lunch time!
The streets we walk on
Neighborhood stores
This is how many of the apartment areas look in Guayaquil.
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