Hey Family!
Hope that Kyle´s alright. Let me know what happens.
Yesturday for the 4th of July me and Hermana Groesbeck dress in red, white, and blue for church. Hermano Saddler (a guy in our ward that works for the U.S. Embassey here) gave us root beer and we had root beer floats. It doesn´t feel like July though. I thought that it might had finally warmed up, but alas, not so. It´s raining pretty hard at the moment...
I cut my hair today. I think that it might be a little shorter than I wanted it. It´s about a little below my chin. It looks bad today because I haven´t done it yet, so I didn´t take a picture. I´ll take a picture for you and send it. Along with that full body shot for Caydee. :)
Let´s see... I never know what to say in these emails. Sounds like everybody had a good time at the reunion. I´ve had a pretty good time here. Teaching the gospel and stuff. We´ve got one family that is really stellar. The familia Salazar. The two sons, Ronny and Hugo Jr. got baptized last weekend and got the Priesthood yesturday. The dad needs to get divorced from his previous marriage and then marry Cecilia so that they can get baptized. The awesome thing about them is that they are more active in the ward than some of the members of 20 years. They go to every activity and it´s really great to see how much the gospel has changed their lives.
Here are some pictures for you guys:
1. Me and my companions eating lunch in a Chifa (Chinese Restaurant) in Rio Bamba. It was super delicious by the way.
2. The volcano Cotopaxi as seen from a moving bus on the way to Quito from Rio Bamba. Very cool. It´s just in the middle of this valley and all of the sudden there´s a HUGE volcano.
3. The Familia Salazar. Basically one of my favorite families in all of Ecuador.
4. All of us at Ronny and Hugo´s baptism. The Zone Leaders had two baptisms too, so it was like a big party of awsomeness!
5. A symese twin banana.
6. Me and Hermana Castro, my mini-missionary companion for two days while Hna. Groesbeck went to Esmeraldes.
7. Us in front of the Bicilica, a huge Catherdral that we went to last Monday for P-day. We climbed all the way to the top!
8. Hermana Groesbeck telling me that I´m the most awesome companion that she´s ever had.
Let´s see... I don´t know what to write about today. Thus I´m sending a million pictures. But I think this email is full and I´m waiting for it to complete attatching so that I can load up another letter with pictures.
I´ll tell you about Ernesto whilst I´m waiting. Ernesto is basically my favorite 80 year old man. It took us about a month and a half, but we finally have a baptismal date for the 17th. He´s super smart and when he reads the scriptures like he´s acting out a play. He writes poetry and recites it to us too. His wife, Beatriz got baptized last March and has the strongest testimony in the world. Ernesto has some crazy ideas, but he has the desire to get baptized, now we´ve just got to get him to pray about if the church is really the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. He never likes to pray with us, but whenever he does, I tell you, it´s like a poem. He uses huge words and I just love to hear the way that he expresses himself to his Heavenly Father.
Now I´m going to start another email so as to send more pictures.
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