Dear Mom and Dad,
Merry Christmas until Saturday! I’m glad to hear again that everything at home is going really well. I’m doing better. I think it is a whole lot easier with just two. My confidence has got a lot better. Not perfect, heck no, but it is coming. I don’t know how long it will take before I can completely just talk to someone without fearing, but I can look back now and see the improvement, and its really cool to be able to do that. I mean, last year, thinking of going to a spanish speaking country and trying to communicate with an average Joe would´ve freaked me out, but now, yeah, its daily. Cool stuff. I only have 2 more weeks in this change, and then either I or my comp or gonna leave. I’m thinkin him. But its ok. I am learning a lot more now, and the teaching has been better too. All good. So thanks for everything. The prayers, the support, the everything. Really, muchisimo gracias.
Well, yeah, first off, I got a package from you guys! Thanks. It had the Starburst, Gobstoppers, and Kit Kats in them. Whoo, I was super excited to see that, really. Thanks for that, and I think that it will make this Christmas that much more fun. I’m really not too worried for it. It still, honestly, doesn’t even feel like Christmas. Nobody acknowledges it here. It’s like, we go to a lesson, and nobody questions what we´re gonna do or anything. So it’s almost like it’s not here. It is hard, but I know that we will be fine in our house. We have been going around every night, singing to people. The first night, we went to our sector. We visited Nori, the lady who is going to be baptized this week (ojalá)(that means hopefully.) She had the interview last night, and she has a lot of doubts. We have been praying, and are going to visit her Wednesday, to try to just throw down and help her. We are really excited, because on Christmas, we are having a Noche Blanca, or White Night. All the missionaries in the whole zone are bringing the investigators that they are going to baptize to the Stake Center, and we are all going to wear white. It’s going to be really cool. I’m super stoked. Her two kids are gonna do it, too, so that will be really fun. We have about 18 planned with everyone, and it will be super excellent. But anyway, we sang to her, and it was really cool. We took some candy and stuff too, and she was really just grateful. She is dirt poor, literally, and it was way fun
to do it. She is probably my favorite investigator that I have had so far here. The baptism is gonna be really spiritual and cool.
I don’t know what to get. We don’t really have time to look around much, or get some stuff, but if I see something that I think is really cool, I’ll pick it up. I have been looking for stuff to bring home, but it’s hard to decide what is just crap and what you guys will actually like. Also, like, what is unique to Ecuador. It’s still hard, because I’m not perfectly aquainted with everything yet, but all good. In time.
Wow, Fresh Market really closed down? Crap, that’s not good. I wonder what those people are gonna do. I dunno. They will all find something to do. It would just be really hard for the people that have worked there for so long, like 40 years or something.
With sleeping, everything is good. I have been falling asleep in like 15 minutes every night. It’s just hard, because 8 hours doesn’t feel like enough. We walk 15 miles everyday, more or less, and we teach all day, study for 2 and a half hours, and just work. I knew I would be tired. So it’s ok. Expected.
I’m glad that Hunter is like that. I surely wasn’t. I think if he is like that now, he will probably not have to do some of the dumb crap that I did. Hopefully no. And it’s good to be reading the scriptures. The simplified ones are good now, I think, for them to understand the basic stories, or at least try to. I would like to do something like that when I got back home.
Well, I spoke last week in church, about the reason for the season, and it was pretty good. Like I said, it doesn’t even really feel Christmas really. But I’m still really excited. We are going to go to Quito today, because we have a thing with President tomorrow, and are going to eat at his house and all this good stuff. I’m excited, and it should be fun, because there are two other zones coming, as well. So maybe I’ll see some of the gringos that came in my group with me. Super
cool. Well, yeah. So, important here:
The phone call has to be on Christmas, obviously. But I have to let you know the time to call from there, and the number to call. You guys call me, I don’t call you. I hope it’s not too ridiculously expensive. But yeah, the number to call is:
0059387031991
Yeah, but I am going to call from this number like Friday, just to tell you to call it. Then, if it works, you can call that number on Saturday. I’ll tell you the time to call when we talk for the tiny bit Friday. So yeah, that will be really good. I’m super excited to hear from all of you. The time is supposed to be only 40 minutes, so keep
that in mind, and I’ll try to also.
Well, I love all of you guys. Thanks for the support, and for everything that you have done for me. Continue to keep me in your thoughts and in your prayers. I need it. I know that this is the best thing I can be doing, and that I am helping tons of people. The time has been going fast, and I’m really excited for the day that I can talk regular to these people, and really just get to know them. Then I know the time will just disappear. Anyway, Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.
Love,
Jace
Merry Christmas until Saturday! I’m glad to hear again that everything at home is going really well. I’m doing better. I think it is a whole lot easier with just two. My confidence has got a lot better. Not perfect, heck no, but it is coming. I don’t know how long it will take before I can completely just talk to someone without fearing, but I can look back now and see the improvement, and its really cool to be able to do that. I mean, last year, thinking of going to a spanish speaking country and trying to communicate with an average Joe would´ve freaked me out, but now, yeah, its daily. Cool stuff. I only have 2 more weeks in this change, and then either I or my comp or gonna leave. I’m thinkin him. But its ok. I am learning a lot more now, and the teaching has been better too. All good. So thanks for everything. The prayers, the support, the everything. Really, muchisimo gracias.
Well, yeah, first off, I got a package from you guys! Thanks. It had the Starburst, Gobstoppers, and Kit Kats in them. Whoo, I was super excited to see that, really. Thanks for that, and I think that it will make this Christmas that much more fun. I’m really not too worried for it. It still, honestly, doesn’t even feel like Christmas. Nobody acknowledges it here. It’s like, we go to a lesson, and nobody questions what we´re gonna do or anything. So it’s almost like it’s not here. It is hard, but I know that we will be fine in our house. We have been going around every night, singing to people. The first night, we went to our sector. We visited Nori, the lady who is going to be baptized this week (ojalá)(that means hopefully.) She had the interview last night, and she has a lot of doubts. We have been praying, and are going to visit her Wednesday, to try to just throw down and help her. We are really excited, because on Christmas, we are having a Noche Blanca, or White Night. All the missionaries in the whole zone are bringing the investigators that they are going to baptize to the Stake Center, and we are all going to wear white. It’s going to be really cool. I’m super stoked. Her two kids are gonna do it, too, so that will be really fun. We have about 18 planned with everyone, and it will be super excellent. But anyway, we sang to her, and it was really cool. We took some candy and stuff too, and she was really just grateful. She is dirt poor, literally, and it was way fun
to do it. She is probably my favorite investigator that I have had so far here. The baptism is gonna be really spiritual and cool.
I don’t know what to get. We don’t really have time to look around much, or get some stuff, but if I see something that I think is really cool, I’ll pick it up. I have been looking for stuff to bring home, but it’s hard to decide what is just crap and what you guys will actually like. Also, like, what is unique to Ecuador. It’s still hard, because I’m not perfectly aquainted with everything yet, but all good. In time.
Wow, Fresh Market really closed down? Crap, that’s not good. I wonder what those people are gonna do. I dunno. They will all find something to do. It would just be really hard for the people that have worked there for so long, like 40 years or something.
With sleeping, everything is good. I have been falling asleep in like 15 minutes every night. It’s just hard, because 8 hours doesn’t feel like enough. We walk 15 miles everyday, more or less, and we teach all day, study for 2 and a half hours, and just work. I knew I would be tired. So it’s ok. Expected.
I’m glad that Hunter is like that. I surely wasn’t. I think if he is like that now, he will probably not have to do some of the dumb crap that I did. Hopefully no. And it’s good to be reading the scriptures. The simplified ones are good now, I think, for them to understand the basic stories, or at least try to. I would like to do something like that when I got back home.
Well, I spoke last week in church, about the reason for the season, and it was pretty good. Like I said, it doesn’t even really feel Christmas really. But I’m still really excited. We are going to go to Quito today, because we have a thing with President tomorrow, and are going to eat at his house and all this good stuff. I’m excited, and it should be fun, because there are two other zones coming, as well. So maybe I’ll see some of the gringos that came in my group with me. Super
cool. Well, yeah. So, important here:
The phone call has to be on Christmas, obviously. But I have to let you know the time to call from there, and the number to call. You guys call me, I don’t call you. I hope it’s not too ridiculously expensive. But yeah, the number to call is:
0059387031991
Yeah, but I am going to call from this number like Friday, just to tell you to call it. Then, if it works, you can call that number on Saturday. I’ll tell you the time to call when we talk for the tiny bit Friday. So yeah, that will be really good. I’m super excited to hear from all of you. The time is supposed to be only 40 minutes, so keep
that in mind, and I’ll try to also.
Well, I love all of you guys. Thanks for the support, and for everything that you have done for me. Continue to keep me in your thoughts and in your prayers. I need it. I know that this is the best thing I can be doing, and that I am helping tons of people. The time has been going fast, and I’m really excited for the day that I can talk regular to these people, and really just get to know them. Then I know the time will just disappear. Anyway, Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.
Love,
Jace