Back in Guayaquil

This week was just another week here in Guayaquil.

We started the week off really well with finding some really cool people!  We found a girl who just turned 18 and her sister got baptized just about a year ago!  Her name is Rina and she doesn't really believe in God.  All we taught her was how to pray and feel the love of God in her life and showed her a super awesome Mormon Message called "The Hope of God's Light!"  It is really a super powerful video...but I don't think she was really into watching it right then!  We are going back this week and the goal is to get her to attend General Conference this week to hear the Prophet's voice!  That's really the goal with all of our investigators this week!  GET THEM TO COME TO GENERAL CONFERENCE! 

This week also was a little hard!  I don't know why, but here in this area of Guayaquil nobody wants to go to church! They say it's too early!!!  It starts at 10:30!  Perfect time to go to church!  I think it's my fault because we haven't really taught about the Sabbath Day in a minute. We are really going to focus on this this week! 

Other than that, all is well!  Our investigator is going to Peru this week to get officially divorced and then he will come back here and get officially remarried to his girlfriend here in Ecuador.  I hope it works out!

Well, I really hope you all watch General Conference this week!  It should be a good one!! 

I found this great scripture this week during my study time!  It really helped me feel the love of God and to keep working hard!  

You can find it in Doctrine and Covenants 103:36 - 

"All victory and glory is brought to pass unto you through your diligence, faithfulness, and prayers of faith."

Hope all is well!  Also, if you get the chance to read the new Liahona for the month of April do it!  It's a great one!

Elder Hoole

Photos

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Elder Hoole and Elder Inuma

March 19, 2018 - Huancavilca!

Huancavilca!!!

Well, last Monday night I was with my companion just teaching and doing that missionary thing and at 8;15pm President Moreno called me and told me that I had transfers to Guayaquil and that I would be leaving the next morning after zone conference! I was in shock!!! It gave me 30 minutes to say goodbye to everybody and like 4 hours to pack up!  Haha  It was for sure something else! 

So I am now in Guayaquil again!  Living in the Zone Huancavilca!  My new companion is Elder Inuma from Peru. He has about 14-15 months in the mission.  He used to be a DJ in Peru so we have a lot of the same taste in music! He's chill!  We are both Zone leaders!  Our sector is pretty small.  There are a ton of members, but they just aren't going to church right now!  Funny thing, I swear all the members here have served missions!  We have the mall in our sector so yeah, I have eaten pretty well this last week!  It is super low key and nice here!  Most of the members here just happen to live in the same apartment building.  Right now, we don't really have anybody to teach.  I feel like this happens to me a lot in new areas haha!  We do have a super dope investigator who is progressing!  Se llama Raul.  He's from Peru.  His family members are all members of the Church too!  He just needs to get married to his wife!  We actually went with him this morning up to the north to help him with some paperwork so that he can get married faster.  It was awesome because we got to go with him up North in Guayaquil!  I called President Moreno Sunday night to ask if it would be cool and he said Yes!!!  So yeah, we went up north this morning! 

I also ate a super awesome Ecuadorean breakfast and then came back home and we went over and did some shopping in the local mall haha!  Looks like there are some dope new movies coming out!  haha!

All is well with me!  You all should take some time to read in the Doctrine and Covenants Section 88 this week.  It is full of great scripture!

Elder Hoole

Church in North Guayaquil

Another church in North Guayaquil

Raul and Elder Inuma at breakfast

Awesome tshirts for the family!

Found this at the mall...made me miss home a little!

Normal Week in Santa Rosa

This was a week of a lot of walking and having nobody home! haha! 

We had to travel to the city of Huaquillas 2 times this week and then to another city called Arenillas 3 times this past week to do baptismal interviews.  Huaquillas is like an hour away and it's like straight up South America with a ton of people and cheap stuff to buy.  It's on the border of Peru and Ecuador.  Arenillas is super hilly and is a small city that is about 30 minutes away from Santa Rosa.  We travel by bus to all the cities we go to.  With so much traveling this week, we were so dead tired!  

Not too much happened this past week, but we did find a really cool investigator se llama Danny!  He has a challenging condition with quadiplegia and can't walk or move his arms but he loves learning about the church.  We had some members bring him to church this past week and he loved it!  The only problem is that he lives quite far from the church and is always traveling to get medical help but he is so awesome!  Also, we do have a really cool investigator se llama Johnathan and he's progressing really nicely!  He's been to church twice now and we are hoping that he can get baptized in the next week or so!  All is well with me down here!  Super hot! 

Elder Hoole

Selfie on the bus ride 

Banana fields

Welcome to Santa Rosa

Ceviche!  I fell in love with it.

March 5, 2018

Well this week was a pretty fun week! 

We started off the week with just doing that normal missionary life thing!  We have really been working hard with the members here!  We have a great family here that we are teaching!  They are a family of 6. The parents are awesome!  They love hearing us and have been so much fun to teach!  Last week, we went with some members to teach this family.  We went with a member named Sister Allen! (Yes, sounds like American name but she's from here).  Anyway, we went with her to go teach this family because she's super awesome!  She reminds me of my mommy!  Anyway, we were just teaching Lesson 1 and BAM she just started testifying and preaching and it was so awesome and tonight she invited us and the family to go have a Family Night and watch some church videos and just have a fun night! I really hope this family progresses! 

Also this last week a family of 3 got baptized!  3 siblings!  Angel, Jenifer and Carolina.  It was so awesome!  And it was awesome because the branch went all out and their dad actually came to the baptism and also attended church on Sunday.  Now we are hoping that he progresses too! 

Well, the work here in Santa Rosa is good!  The 21st of March, Elder Montoya is coming down to do a special conference here.  People are thinking that maybe this area might become a Stake this year!  Everyone is really working hard!

I'm doing well!  Shout out to my little bro moose!  Feel better!! 

Elder Hoole

Big Fish

Hillary Hotel

Beautiful views

Cool tree

Baptism day

Me, the siblings, and my companion