Happy General Conference! April 4, 2011

Hope that you all had a great General Conference and that you enjoyed it as much as I did!  

How are things for the wedding coming along?  I hope really well.

Here are some pictures for you all!

1) Hermana Reid and I at the planitarium.  We went there as a zone for an activity a while back and took pictures of our selves there.  It was a lot of fun actually and we learned about space in Spanish, which is always more intense than in English.  

2)This is a cool fruit that only grows in a place called Guayllabamba.  I forgot what it´s called, but it tastes like a mix of a pear and another exotic fruit called guanabana.  Look it up.  It´s rico!  You pull apart all the little sections and suck on it  until the little black seed comes out.  

3)Hermana Reid and I at the Mitad del Mundo (middle of the world).  It was really fun.  We went there as a bunch of the hermanas that are in Quito.  

4) Me next to a shrunken head.  The indiginous of the jungle would cut off the heads of the dead people and shrink and preserve it as a trophy or simbol of remembering.  This one is of a little kid that somebody murders because they were mad at their dad or something.  But it was illigal-fied about ten years ago.

5) One of our investigators is listening to the Jehovah´s Witnesses.  When the other missionary found out that she was listening to us too, she gave her this anti-Mormon magizine from her church.  We didn´t want her to read it, so we asked her if she´d let us borrow it to ¨see what it says¨ which actually meant to put it with all the other anti-mormon junk that missionaries have accumilated in the house over time.  I had folded it up and put it in my backpack and about a week later she asked me if she could have it back because the other missionary was asking for it.  I didn´t want to it be obvious that I had folded it up, so I decided to iron it flat.  It worked out okay, and our investigator never read it, so it was all worth it.  

Well, I hope that you enjoy these photos.  I know that those of you who remember how I looked in my pre-mission life will remember a skinny, dark-haired, woman with beautiful fair skin, and that the girl in the pictures doen´t really compare, but I just want to let you know that I´m working on loosing weight and when I get home, I´ll stay inside all day to get my color back to normal.  Tranquil people, I will be beautiful once again.