Well

Well, I didn't know what to title this email.  

This week was a very normal week in the life of a missionary.  My companion and I taught and shared messages of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  We found some new investigators that have a lot of potential this week.  A couple of these investigators are a family, and we had our first lesson with them yesterday and we spent the entire time answering questions and clarifying doubts. It was a really good opportunity to practice my listening in Spanish.

I love sharing the experience of Joseph Smith and the First Vision!  I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God, and the prophet that restored the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the Earth.  I feel the Holy Ghost testifying to me that it is true.

We have a mamita, a member who feeds us lunch.  They don't really eat dinner, and with big lunches we don't need much food at night.  The day we don't have a mamita, we usually cook something.  

In Esmeraldas there are, I would say about 100 members every week that come to church.

It is hot, for comparison the heat is like Alabama...in August not to bad, but we are in the sun a lot.  I know that here on the coast it would not change much, the temperature, even in the summer.

In Esmeraldas there is a refinery, a lot of people work there.  

We do a lot of door to door contacting.  It is fine, I had gone with Elders Smith and Winward once, back in Alabama .  It is good, a lot of the people we contact here, we can share a message with them. Here on the coast they are a little more open and Ecuadorians are a faith believing people.

A few weeks ago we had a soup and there was a chicken foot in the soup, a cooked chicken foot.

This week I have been ponderizing the scripture, 1 Nephi 8:30.  This scripture is in Lehi´s Dream.  It is describing how we should be in our lives:  Holding firm to the rod of iron, the word of God.