Baptisms

This week was an ordinary week in the life of a missionary. Nothing big and important happened during the week.

Three miracles happened this week!

Saturday we had two baptisms.  Fernando and Emili.( father and daughter).  When we went to the chapel to fill the font we could not fill the font.  The door was locked and no one in town had a key to open it for us.  So we climbed into the attic part of the building and another elder jumped into the font area to open the door.  It was fun preparing for the baptism, fighting the works of Satan.  I know that this work is the work of God.  

The third miracle is that Ecuador beat Argentina in soccer in Buenos Aires.

Today we had an activity with the Zone.  We played soccer and ate hamburgers.  It was fun.

I have accepted the challenge of Elder Durrant in Conference and am `ponderizing´ a scripture through the week.  I also invite everyone else to do the same.  

The scripture that I chose for this past week is Alma 60:21-22.  It talks about how can we sit on the things the Lord has given us like everyone else in the world when there are people who need our help.  WE need to act and help.  It spoke to me because there are people in Ecuador that are being defeated by Satan and need the help of the missionaries.

The volcano eruption is eminent, it is going to blow.   (The volcano is in Quito, I can't remember it's name but it has had activity since before he left.)

 Elder Espinoza and Elder Draper

Zone Conference on the coast...

 We also got a few pictures from Hermana Richardson (mission presidents wife), that she had taken during their zone conference two weeks before.  One of the pictures shows the missionaries in the zone and he is the tallest but they're are some sitting, so I asked him if he was the tallest in the zone and he said "I am the tallest in my zone, and I think in Esmeraldes as well". I loved his answer.

 They were taught how to make guacamole and muffins.  

Clark gives it the "2 thumbs up".