First off, we had another Zone Conferencia with Presidente and it was awesome. We talked about how we can make the baptizme service more of a spiritual thing and how we need to take the baptisms more serious in our wards with the members. It was a great meeting and it even made it better because a couple of days after our meeting, we had a baptizme. It was so awesome. It was probably the best baptizme I have ever been to! Well, first off Presidente Moreno came to our baptizme with all of his family and we were super stressed out, so we spent the whole day Saturday cleaning the church and making sure everything was going to work out as planned. The reason that Presidente Moreno came was because our investigator invited him to come and baptize her! Narcisa de reyes Loma has been an investigator for the last 24 years! She has a daughter currently serving in the mission in Brasil and her daughter has been a huge help for us! If you remember, last Monday Narcisa got married and then on Saturday night she was baptized finally after 24 years! It was awesome and it was so great that her daughter serving in Brasil got to watch it on Skype! So great!
Last Monday in the nighttime, we decided to go and teach an investigator who hasn't been progressing really, but her 2 kids are members in our ward. Well, last Monday night we went over and the first thing she told was that she's ready to get baptized so we invited her to get baptized on the 25th of November and she said to us, "No I want to get baptized this week!" So it turns out that this Saturday we are going to have another baptizme!
The work here in Guayaquil is picking up and it is so fun! We are really working hard and I'm seeing so many great milagros! Fun fact: we walk a lot and all my pants are getting sunbleached.
Yesterday after church, we went back to our house to change our clothes and break our fast. Well, as we left the house my companion and I took a turn and BAM a drugged out guy who looked just like a pirate was right there just chilling. There was nothing we could do. We couldn't turn around because he would've just chased us so we just walked right up to him. When he saw us he started shouting, "BLESSINGS! BLESSINGS!" And then he looked right at me and was like, "Give me your phone and money and everything you have!!!" (low key I had a lot of stuff on me) but I just turned to this guy and said, "Dude we have nothing." And he just said, "Oh ok." And then I said "Oh yeah, haha, don't worry about it." And tried to be chill. But yeah, this dude was really huge and scary but we LIVED!!!! GOD IS REAL, MY FRIENDS!! The story sounds a lot funnier in person, but man right then I was so scared haha!
But yeah, really all is well here in Ecuador!
Thanks for the love and support! I have been out 13 months!!!
Elder Hoole
Narcisa and her family
Presidente Moreno and Narcisa
Presidente and Narcisa speaking with Narcisa's daughter
who is serving a mission in Brazil.
Cute little ward member wearing my name tag
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