Mom and Dad,
Hey, I’m good, like always. Already have a month out here in Quinindé, and its pretty weird to think and see. Love it like crazy. This last week was nuts. Sooo much stuff happened. We had a couple of baptisms, but with a ton of work and a lot of help from God. I’ll explain later on in the letter.
It’s good to know that you’re enjoying yourselves back there at home. It is weird to think that this is the last round of the holidays, though. After Halloween, wow. The next one I’ll be home. Hopefully not working or doing something stupid, but can’t decide or see that one yet. In a year or so, no? But keep on keeping on, as I say. Sigan adelante. Move forward. Progress. Busca Dios en todo momento. Man, 8 months with Latinos. I’m just flyin in Spanish.
Ok. The stuff. Lets see.
Tuesday. We destroyed two bees nests in the house of an investigator, and I got stung for the first times in my life. Wasn’t as bad as I thought. Murdered like 20. So that was cool. That night, we go to the girl that got baptized. We´ve been working with her for a long freakin time. She says there’s reason she won’t get baptized. We did a whole bunch of questions, and learned that it had something to do with me. Umm, ok. Well, we´ll pass by tomorrow. Excellent. Was worried.
Wednesday. Same thing. But this time, she said surely that it had something to do with me, and she was having a ton of thoughts. Uncomfortable. I asked her "Well, do you like the thoughts, and do you want them to leave?" She waits and says, "Well of course I like the thoughts. But yes." Hahahaha, I busted up a bit. An awkward laugh. Freaky. Thats how all of visits were. She said that she wasn’t gonna get baptized unless the "boy that she liked who lived in a different country that couldn’t do anything with her for a specific reason" got married with her. Basically proposed to me in a round about sorta way. Excellent. Asked if we could have girlfriends. If she could kiss missionaries. Wow. But she’s good now. She got baptized, and I can see a big change in her. Serves me right for all of the jokes that I always made, no?
Ummm, what else. Friday, we freakin hit somebody in our bus. I think we might have even killed the driver, a girl and her friend. I just wake up, look, and feel the impact, and everybody flips and runs out. It was nuts. I was pretty shaky, but what can ya do? The bus company, one of many, is famous for being ridiculously fast. LIke, INSANELY fast, so its scary. But we always do save 30 minutes or so, haha.
Saturday through today, I’ve been really sick. I puked Saturday, have been poopin water, and have felt like crap. It’s not fun. It’s finally starting to leave, but I haven’t eaten anything solid in like 3 days. Thought I was gonna die in the morning from hunger. That sucked.
Well, that’s it. It was an interesting week. I have my first district leader council this week, so I’ll be kicking it over to Quito tomorrow and coming back Thursday. So much to do, so little time. This next Sunday, I fill up 13 months. Its crazy. So nuts. Well, I love you guys a lot, and am super grateful for all of your support and everything. Keep praying for me and doing all of that stuff, because it really is helping me a lot. I miss you, and can’t wait for the time when we can go do something, in the COLD. Oh, I look for that day.
Love,
Elder Jace Reber
Hey, I’m good, like always. Already have a month out here in Quinindé, and its pretty weird to think and see. Love it like crazy. This last week was nuts. Sooo much stuff happened. We had a couple of baptisms, but with a ton of work and a lot of help from God. I’ll explain later on in the letter.
It’s good to know that you’re enjoying yourselves back there at home. It is weird to think that this is the last round of the holidays, though. After Halloween, wow. The next one I’ll be home. Hopefully not working or doing something stupid, but can’t decide or see that one yet. In a year or so, no? But keep on keeping on, as I say. Sigan adelante. Move forward. Progress. Busca Dios en todo momento. Man, 8 months with Latinos. I’m just flyin in Spanish.
Ok. The stuff. Lets see.
Tuesday. We destroyed two bees nests in the house of an investigator, and I got stung for the first times in my life. Wasn’t as bad as I thought. Murdered like 20. So that was cool. That night, we go to the girl that got baptized. We´ve been working with her for a long freakin time. She says there’s reason she won’t get baptized. We did a whole bunch of questions, and learned that it had something to do with me. Umm, ok. Well, we´ll pass by tomorrow. Excellent. Was worried.
Wednesday. Same thing. But this time, she said surely that it had something to do with me, and she was having a ton of thoughts. Uncomfortable. I asked her "Well, do you like the thoughts, and do you want them to leave?" She waits and says, "Well of course I like the thoughts. But yes." Hahahaha, I busted up a bit. An awkward laugh. Freaky. Thats how all of visits were. She said that she wasn’t gonna get baptized unless the "boy that she liked who lived in a different country that couldn’t do anything with her for a specific reason" got married with her. Basically proposed to me in a round about sorta way. Excellent. Asked if we could have girlfriends. If she could kiss missionaries. Wow. But she’s good now. She got baptized, and I can see a big change in her. Serves me right for all of the jokes that I always made, no?
Ummm, what else. Friday, we freakin hit somebody in our bus. I think we might have even killed the driver, a girl and her friend. I just wake up, look, and feel the impact, and everybody flips and runs out. It was nuts. I was pretty shaky, but what can ya do? The bus company, one of many, is famous for being ridiculously fast. LIke, INSANELY fast, so its scary. But we always do save 30 minutes or so, haha.
Saturday through today, I’ve been really sick. I puked Saturday, have been poopin water, and have felt like crap. It’s not fun. It’s finally starting to leave, but I haven’t eaten anything solid in like 3 days. Thought I was gonna die in the morning from hunger. That sucked.
Well, that’s it. It was an interesting week. I have my first district leader council this week, so I’ll be kicking it over to Quito tomorrow and coming back Thursday. So much to do, so little time. This next Sunday, I fill up 13 months. Its crazy. So nuts. Well, I love you guys a lot, and am super grateful for all of your support and everything. Keep praying for me and doing all of that stuff, because it really is helping me a lot. I miss you, and can’t wait for the time when we can go do something, in the COLD. Oh, I look for that day.
Love,
Elder Jace Reber