week...i dunno..8? or something?

This week was pretty chill! At church yesterday we had 1 investigator and 3 less actives! 1 of which was a whole less active family!! YA HOO!

The most exciting thing that's going on right now is with our investigator William! His wife and kids are members and up until Hermana Hamilton came her didn`t even want to talk us and now he`s talking about how he wants to get the priesthood in time to baptize his youngest son in June!! He hasn`t accepted a definite Fecha quite yet but he keeps telling us "muy pronto mis hermanas, muy pronto" :) He`s just trying right now to stop drinking and as soon as he does that he`s good for baptism and I`m SO excited :) we had a lesson with him and the bishop and it was BUENÍSIMO! haha He`s really comming along and we cand see that he really wants to change his life :) just from these past two weeks I`ve seen a real difference in him and his family!

Hermana Hamilton and I are getting along just swimmingly! haha we really are like the same person...and it`s not even annoying in the slightest! haha!

We saw THE WEIRDEST THING on Saturday. Okay so here`s the story:

   we`re just chillin with a recent convert, Romel, helping him with his English and we hear this alarm go off and it sounds like a tornado warning or something and we asked Romel what it was. he`s like "Oh, it means that there`s a neighborhood meeting right now!" and Hermana Hamilton and I just nod our heads and then he`s like "that...or there`s a robber in the area!" and we`re just like..."¿que?" and THEN we see everyone running through the streets with these sticks of wood and rods of iron and all that jazz and Romel`s like "yup, it`s a robber" and Hermana Hamilton and i just stared at each other like "what is this country that we live in?" we then saw a tiny little lady with a stick in one hand and her child in the other RUNNING to go catch this robber! haha We just died laughing! then the robber came around the corner surrounded by these people and their sticks poised to attack and that's when Romel invited us inside for some food! haha Hermana Hamilton just looked at me and was like "I`ve been here for 9 months and NEVER have i seen anything like that before!" haha!!  If that's not neighborhood unity i don`t know what is. 

Later on Saturday we had this Noche de Videos which was really great and WAY spiritual! we watched the Joseph Smith video and i almost cried! I love that movie!! :)

Another funny moment was when we were contacting on Sunday and we knocked on this door and a little boy opened it up so we asked him if his parents were home and he opened the door wider to a man sitting at a kitchen table completely shirtless! and i just leaned over to Hermana Hamilton and whispered "he BETTER be wearing pants" and she started to chuckle quietly. The man stood up and I THANK MY LUCKY STARS he was wearing pants. they then received us and we taught them the first lesson!! haha this life is SO entertaining!

anyway things are going really great! but i ate the nastiest soup this week! haha It`s called Cebollado its got like sardines, onions, tomatoes, carrots and other junk that i couldn`t even understand. you eat it with these little fried potato slices (they`re are kinda like potato chips but thicker and spicy) and of course...rice. Hermana Hamilton LOVED it and i was about to puke. It`s not fun when you can see the shiny scales of the fish swimmin around in your soup...but it was from a member and i HAD to eat it sooo...gross.

haha Really though things here are fantastic! I`m learning so much and I`m starting to actually have a personality in Spanish which is the BOMB! I love joking around with people! especially all of the elders in my district! Elder Fonseca is our district leader and he was sick the other day when we called to give our numbers and we said to him "usted necesita una bendición de salud?? porque tenemos el Mujerdocio!" which basically means "do you need a blessing of health? because we have the womanhood" (like priesthood but for girls) cause the word for priesthood in spanish is sacerdocio...and woman is mujer.. entonces..mujerdocio.

haha lots of fun being had here in Ecuador! and lots of work getting done too!

love you guys!

Hermana G:)