Hermana Libby White has been called to serve as a representative of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Ecuador, Quito mission. She will be serving the people of Ecuador for 18 months.
This week was a really super normal week for me!! (Well kind of) Which was realy awesome cause it’s like the first one that my companion and I have ever had!! There were only 4 exciting or not normal things that happened this week.
Our Thursday meeting with the whole zone was moved to Saturday and then my companion and I couldn’t even go!
I ate the most disgusting and weirdest thing on Tuessday. I ate this food called watita which means cow stomach. It was awful I literally never want to eat it again! It made my stomach upset all week long!
Because of the Watita that I ate I was really sick on saturday and didn’t leave thee house. Which is why we didn’t go to the wekly zone meeting.
This is the best thing that happened! One of our investigators is going to get baptized!! It’s really exciting cause he hasn’t wanted to for months but he now has a date for March 3!! I’m so happy for him!!
And Sunday there were cambios! My companion is going to stay in Latacunga and train again! I’m so happy for her cause she loves training! And I am going to stay in the same zone and go to Ambato which is about an hour away! I’m super excited to still be in the same zone as my trainer/mom!!
But that is this week!! I hope this next week is good and I will let you all know about my new sector next week!
Love you!!
Hermana White
This week was just the best week ever!! My companion and I decided to fast this week on Tuesday in order to find new people to teach. It was seriously the best thing ever!! This past week we found 6 new people to teach!! And all of them are really awesome!! And on the other people that we are teaching right now who`s name is Victor is realy really close to being baptized! It is really awesome cause for the past couple of times that we have visited him, he is just like I need more time to sort out my doubts and stuff, but this time he was like I think that I am almost ready!! It is really cool to see the change in him and his family in just the time that I have been here working with him!!
Also, other exciting news is that we had emergency changes! One of the Elders in my district left and went to Santo Domingo( the coast) and a new Elder came to Latacunga! It was a pretty exciting day trying to figure out all that was going on and stuff!
Then today for P-day we went bowling!! It was so fun to hang out as a zone and go bowling!! It was literally the funnest thing ever!!
This week will also be really exciting cause it is the last week of the change and after this week I will be out of my training!! I`m really excited to be a normal missionary at last!!
Happy New Years Everyone!! This week was just crazy here! So Christmas wasn't really anything special, but New Years Eve is just crazy!! People were getting ready for it all week long!! We had almost no visits this week cause so many people went out of town!! But it´s all good! It was really cool to see the different traditions that they have here. One of them is that they buy a creepy little doll and burn it at midnight! I like the sound of the idea but I would never do that! Mostly because the dolls are just to creepy for me to handle! But it was funny cause Sunday morning we walked to the church and counted the piles of ash that were left over for the night before! I think that we were up tp 30 before we got to the church!
Feliz Año! Then today for p-day we went to a tourist town called Baños! It it like an Ecuadorian versian of Moab! It´s really pretty cool! But we went there to go see a really cool waterfall called Pylon del Diablo. I would definetly look up a video or pictures of this waterfall cause it is so cool!! But we went and we actually hiked underneath the waterfall and got soaked and went up and touched the waterfall!! It was so cool!!!
Pylon Del Diablo I think that is pretty much it!! Hope you all had an awesome week!! And happy New Years!! Love,
Hermana White
I hope everyone´s Christmas was really awesome! My companion and I spent almost the entire week making cookies to give to pretty much all of the people we visited which was really nice to do something normalish for Christmas! We also went caroling on Thursday night!! I think that was my favorite part of Christmas week! Then Christmas morning was awesome! Between the two of us, m companion and I got a ton of socks and a ton of peppermints! It was awesome! Then I love Christmas Sunday! The best part of course was the phone call home on Sunday!! It was so nice to be able to talk with my family! It was nice to hear from them and everything, but I think almost harder to say good bye again!
Anyway, hope everyone had a good Christmas and will have a happy New Year!!
I seriously can not believe that Christmas is this week!! It`s only a week away!!
This week was just full of Christmas stuff and I almost got a concussion…maybe!
So Tuesday we were preparing to leave to go to Quito for our Christmas Dinner with the President. We were just walking home from lunch and my companion was calling someone and I kinda was looking down at the ground so I wound’t trip and fall and break something when I ran into a sign!! It was this triangular sign and I hit my head on the corner of it. SO my companion started freaking out cause I started bleeding and then the Enfermeras wouldn’t answer or the Elders and She faints at the sight of blood and I wasn’t feeling good so she called the Bishop cause he’s a doctor and we took a taxi over there so he could tell me if I needed to get stiches or do something else. But he said that the cut was fine and to just go home and rest. So we didn’t do anything on Tuesday cause I slept all day. And then after two or three days I was fine. SO it’s all good! Just something really exciting that always happenes to us!
The Christmas dinner was the best!! We had a little conference before and I had to give a talk about the Atonement. It was half ENglish and half Spanish so I hope that people understood it! But President talked about the word evangelio which in Spanish means gospel. And the root of the word means good news. ANd apperently in a lot of other languages the word for gospel is almost the same. So I thought that was interseting! But the food was the best part of the conferenece. There was mashed potatoes!!! I haven`t had those in like months!! It was literally the most delishes thing I ahd ever eaten! And the rolls that Hna Christensen made were the same that my mom makes for Thanksgiving!! I was really happy with the food! The games were pretty awesome to! Just some Christmas trivia games. Then after they gave us presents which was a keychaing and a bar of chocalte we went home!
Christmas Dinner
The other awesome thing that happened this week is that Hna Barraclough and I both got Christmas packages!! They were literally blessings from heaven! Cuase Hna Barraclough had been waiting for 5 months and we were both feeling a little homesick about not being home for Christmas. But we have stuff to celebrate the Holidays!! And we are both so Thankful for them!!
I hope your Christmas Holidays are really awesome!! Love you all!!
Merry Christmas!!
Hna White
And I forgot to say that We had another baptsims this week!! It was this little 13 year old girl who can’t walk. But she is litterally the most awesome person I have ever met in my life!! She goes to church ever Sunday even though it is really hard and she loves everything! Her mom is a less active and can’t read but Marissa reads the Book of Mormon to her every day!! She is so awesome I love her!!
OK this week went by so fast and I can almost not remeber anything that happened!!! I guess something new is that we havea new district leader because of cambios. It´s different but fun at the same time so that´s good.
My favorite thing that happened this week though was that a couple in the ward asked us to teach them how to make apple pie! So wednessday morning we went and made pie! I think that it was the best pie I have ever made to! I don´t know what was different, but it was delicious! We told the Elders and they were super jealous and had me make them another pie today for p-day! So I was pretty excited!!!
Then we had another baptism this week!! It was the parents of the kids who were baptized last week! and it was so beautiful! We sang familias pueden ser eternas (families can be together forever) with them and it was just awesome!! I love this part of being on a mission!! And this family already has a goal to go to the Temple next year for navidad!!! I am so excited for them!!
I think that´s everything that happened this week! I will try to send more pictures!
It was the last week of the change and the light up the world initiative made us do a lot of stuff together as a district and a zone. So it was really fun. One day this week we washed the bishops car. The other day we went to Ambato as a Zone to help a member clean up a school and stuff. That involved painting, moving rocks, sweeping, and weeding. But the cool thing was we weeded with knifes so ya... it was actually pretty usefull. Then we also weeded a member in our wards patio. So once again with knifes and screw drivers weeded in beetween the cracks in the sidewalk. It was pretty fun. And always after the service project they feed us...so that`s pretty awesome!
But the best day this week was saturday. We had 4baptisms!! The Children of the familia Ponton were baptized. This familia used to live in Quito and had wanted to be baptized for forever but then the parents had things that happened and they couldn`t but the kids did. So it was an awesome night. My first baptism!!!
Then Sunday was Cambios. And we all knew that one of us was going so it was pretty sad. We went to a family in the ward and had a Noche de Hogar (Family Night) with them and found out the cambios. Elder Arevelo, our district leader is going to Quito, but the rest of us are staying here and we are getting a new district leader. So I am really excited that I am staying with my campanion for another 6 weeks!
But another awesome thing that happened is that the American couple in our ward. Grace and Benjamen, Grace`s dad came to the Baptism and we talked to him and stuff here that`s different and that we miss from the United States, like peanut butter. You can not find peanut butter here anywhere and if you do it is so expensive! But he went and bought Hermana Barraclough and I a huge jar!! Like a costco sized jar that should last us the whole cambio but probably won`t! We were really happy and are eating it with almost everything!!
