Hey Everyone!
Hope
you all had a great new year! All is good here in Ecuador. I can't
believe I spent all of 2016 in Ecuador...crazy...time flies. But I have
enjoyed every minute. Well some minutes no but there are always ups and
downs. But the thing about the mission is that the downs are that down
and the ups are the highest ups of the ups. There are so many good
experiences that I have had and will remember forever. Here we go with
2017....we'll see what it brings. Oh! one change for 2017....there is
now a second sector in Jaramijo. There are 4 of us here now and I am so
excited for that because that means we will be able to help the branch
become a ward. Double the missionaries, double the baptisms, like
quadrouple the baptisms! Hermana Tirell (from Washington and from my
group) and Hermana Mayo (from Peru, nueva, she just started her
mission). So this will be good.
This
week we went to a nursing in conference in Guayaquil and that was good.
It was the last time Hermana Hawkes was going to be with us and that
was kind of sad but it was good to see the other Hermana nurses and
Hermana Santos. She is seriously so sweet. And she made us peruvian
dessert which was delicious (arroz con leche y masa mora).
Also
I want to tell you about the people here. They are honestly so awesome.
Like I am just so surprized at how many great people there are here. We
are working with varios families and they are what keep me going. When I
feel discouraged or sad or something, I just remember that we get to go
visit them and it always cheers me up. When people just get it, you
feel good. When people recognize the spirit, you feel even better! Like
this week we visited an hermana, Narcisa and we had taught her the
restauration one day and then went back the second day and she had said
she felt a peace that "she hardly ever feels" when she prayed about
Joseph Smith so basically she received an answer about that and then we
went back again and were teaching the restauration to her daughter and
hermana Narcisa pracically taught it to her daughter (Hermana Roylance
just sitting there, jaw dropped, no words). That was awesome. They are
great. THEN we found a golden family of 5. We went to visit them on
Saturday and I was like hmm I don't konw if they are going to accept us
because it's new years and then we went to their house and there was
lots of music and I was like, they're not going to let us in, BUT THEY
DID. Blessings. And we taught all 5 of them and the spirit was so
strong. They get it. Like the hermana cried during the lesson and she
said it was because she just felt so good, such peace. It was indeed the
spirit. Then the dad was like, well at the beginning of the lesson he
was like wow you can speak pretty well for only having 15 months and I
was like yeah well okayish and then at the end of the lesson he was
like, now I get it, now I understand why you can speak so well, it's the
spirit. WOW soooo good. There are no words to describe how we felt. BUT
please pray for them becase they are really good and Satan knows that
and so he's going to work really hard.
I
ALMOST FORGOT. We had 3 baptisms this Saturday... Rocio and Johan and
Dayanna were baptized and it was soooo good. I was so happy. Next week
I'll send you pictures.
Love,
Hermana Roylance
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