Hey family!
So according to your lack of panic and worry in your emails, I´m
thinking that you didn´t hear anything about the recent political
dispute down here in Ecuador. I don´t really understand completely
what happened, but I know that the national police was upset about
some things and kind of went on strike for a couple of days. That
basically means that in the entire country there weren´t any police
for about five days. I´m super glad that I was in Otavalo, where it´s
peaceful, but I heard that there were some pretty big problems in the
bigger cities, thieves and robbings and stuff like that. They called
us while we were eating lunch and told us to go to our apartment
immediately, lock up all our valueables, open the door to no one, and
wait until the Zone Leaders came to tell us we could leave. Not going
to lie, I was a little frazzled and scared. We hid everything of
value as best we could and prayed our hearts out that we´d be safe.
The following days we could only be out until six, but now everything
is pretty much back to normal. We´ve just got to be super careful.
Of corse, General Conference was absolutely amazing. Helped me to
remember what I needed to do to be better and how to better touch the
hearts of the people here in Ecuador. I always bawl my face off in at
least one of the talks by President Monson. He´s such a good example
of a Christ-like person.
I ate a BLT today that was pretty delicious. Forgot to mention that
at the beginning.
Hermana Morris is going home on next Tuesday, so she´s leaving here to
go to Quito on next Sunday. Time flies so fast, I can´t believe that
we´ve already been together for three months, and now she´s leaving to
go home. It´s super sureal. I can´t beleive that I´ve been here for
five and a half monthes...
It sounds like everyone is really great and happy, going to dances,
buying puppies, planting stuff etc. Enjoy the fall weather for me.
I´m stuck in eternal spring. That´s alright though, I like it here.
Love. Love. Love.
Hermana Cooper
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