La Semilla

Well, this week was a pretty awesome week!  It was awesome because, well, first we had an awesome bautismo!!  It was also awesome because it wasn't too hot down here!  Well, the bautismo was actually really awesome because it took over 20 years for them to get baptized and finally this past week a wonderful family made the commitment, and it was also so awesome because the missionary who taught them 20 years ago came back down to Ecuador to baptize his old investigators and it was just a great experience!!!  So it really was inspiring to see how we can plant seeds of the gospel and with time they can change hearts and turn into a solid gospel tree!  Haha I sure hope that I've planted some seeds here for the next generation of missionaries and that one day I can come down and baptize some of my great investigators! 

Also, this past Sunday we had a multi-stake conference with all of Ecuador and Colombia and that was awesome! We were able to hear some really good talks from Elder Ballard.  Mainly he just talked about how we each need to love our neighbor and keep going to the temple!  I thought it was a nice message!  

Well, that's about it for this week!  In the coming weeks, if all goes right, we should have ourselves a little NOCHE BLANCA here in our sector!  Pray and pray that all goes well and the people who are preparing themselves to get baptized can feel inspired to get baptized this next upcoming week! 

All is well!

Elder Hoole

We had a party with some birthday things that my mom sent to me.

New hat

Special tags for my backpack from a local store

Another religious tag

Just relaxing in my hammock in our apartment

Beautiful sunset in Guayaquil

Awesome former missionary who came down from Utah

to baptize his investigators from 20 years ago!  Plus he brought me a package

from my mom!!!

Crazy bat flew into our apartment.

Me, my companion, and our investigator who also was baptized.