Dear Mom and Dad,
I get to sent two things in each envelope, so I’m sending another.
So it’ll be about yesterday. We went proselyting
It was really good! I woke up yesterday morning, way hungry from my fast and was really nervous. I was actually more border line terrified, and not excited at all.. We got our stuff, and went to the Auditorium. I was sitting while they discussed what was going to happen, and I just got this really calm feeling, and just started smiling really big and got excited, and wanted to go. It was really sweet. I know God helped me a lot, and that’s good. I know I can do this.
So we get on the bus, and we start to go to the area. It was probably 12 when we left, and we were riding for about half an hour. We were supposed to teach lessons to like 6 non-members, and then just go tracting, but when we got to the church, we had to wait. It was like 3 o’clock before people started showing up. And THEN for our group, all but 3 companionships got to go with a person, and we were one. So we got to just straight up go tracting, which was good. I was super excited when I found that out, though. So me and Folonier, my companion, and the companionship that rooms with us, Elder Poston and Asturizaga, went out. We were walking down the street, and all the people were really poor. Lotsa dogs, all that. It’s kinda sad, but I’ve always been a little jealous of poor people, because they appreciate things much more, and are really close knit and all that. Anyway, we go to the first door and a young kid comes, and I basically didn’t say anything. That’s how it was the whole time, actually. He would talk, I would listen and saying, “Sorry, I don’t speak Spanish well. I’m still learning.” But it was still really fun. We got like 8 contacts over all. But still. The second house we went to, another kid came down to the gate, and we talked to him for awhile. I bore testimony of Christ, but it was to a little kid, so….yeah. But while we were talking to the kid, his Grandpa came in to the gate, with a big sheep, a sheep, and he went in to the house, but left the sheep out. It let out the biggest Bah! I’ve ever heard. Then it put it’s feet up on the door, and did it again. Last, it jumped, like literally jumped, in to the door. It was hilarious. We went to the next house, and yelled, and some little kid poked his head out, and the teacher with us said, “Sus padres?” and he went back in. So we’re waiting, and I hear and little clink by me, and look down, and they had thrown a rock out at us. I kinda just stood there, not knowing what to do . So we started to leave and another one hit close, too. It was awesome. Great story. I want someone to pull a gun on me, too. Hopefully.
But ,we did talk to a lot of people. One guy, Carlos, lot us in, and he read the Bible and everything, and him and Folonier talked for awhile. He told us we were honorable for doing what we do, but I didn’t get much more than that. I gave a prayer, and blessed him and his mom, who was sick. He actually showed us her, and yeah. So we left, and it was really just easy. Once I learn Spanish, I’ll be able to do it easy. So we kept doing it, and nothing more really happened. Except, we were walking, and some old buy approached, and asked something. We went in to his house, and Folonier ended up talking to him for 45 minutes. We actually gave him a blessing. I consecrated the oil, and Folonier blessed him. We left him the B of M , though. All in all, it was really good.
I learned that I can do this. Easy. Once I get Spanish, there will be no probems. So, yeah, I got nothing else to really say. Every other missionary always leaves a scripture, but I don’t really have any. I was reading in Mormon, chapter 8 this week, and it’s good. So yeah. I love everyone! Miss You! I hope this comes.
Love,
Elder Jace Reber
P.S. They gave us our Quito address for in a couple of weeks.
Calle Robles Guoy (?) Amazonas
Quito
ECUADOR