Dear Family,
Hey, yeah, I’m doing well. Had a baptism on Friday, I got to do it, way cool dude, like him a lot, and we are going to have 2 this weekend, too. I’m excited. Oye, while we´re on that, I will be skyping Saturday at like 11 in the morning. It is the only time available. I hope it won’t cause problems or anything. I wouldn’t think so. Crazy that it came so freakin fast, but what can you do?
Lets see. I don’t wanna write a lot, because you can just ask me all of the questions on Saturday, and I don’t like to write a lot. My companion is named Elder Reyes. He is from Honduras. He has 5 months in the mission. I am still District Leader, and have a phone, yes. My whole zone basically has less time then me, apart from Elder Castellanos, the ZL, who has 19 months. It’s way weird knowing that I have more time than anyone here. I’m not sure what to think. I’m in the far north of Quito, in a place called Carcelen Bajo. It’s in the zone La Ofelia, and if you type in "El Condado" in google for Quito Ecuador, that’s kinda close to where I’m at. Pretty far north. Almost at the middle of the earth. Fun, fun! Its ok here. The works been hard, what with it being Christmas and everything, and we have like no one. It’s way hard finding people. Also, my ward, well, is pathetic. Only like 35 people come. It’s sad. But I freakin gave it to the bishop yesterday, who has lost a lot of confidence in the missionaries, due to a missionary right before me who said a lot of dumb things. But whatever. I told him to give me a chance, because I’m different. I’m really excited to boost this ward up, and to try to help these people become reconverted and everything. I think that it´ll be fun.
Sam came by, yeah? We can talk more on Saturday.
Wow, Kyle is leaving. I’m not the only Grandson on the both sides that is serving. It’s really weird to think about, but it had to happen someday. I’m glad that he said something about me. I wrote the letter to Dana, a little long, but good, still. Sound advice from the greatest mission on earth, no matter what he says, haha. Ok. Well,
that’s that. I think that I will be calling Thursday night from here, maybe Friday, just to put everything set on the whole Skype thing. Cant wait! It´ll be a good time. I love you guys a lot, and am looking forward to it. Freak, almost 2012. The end of the freakin world. At least I’ll die at home, no? Haha, well, keep doing the little stuff, God love us, cares for us, and wants us to be happy. It’s our choice to accept it or not. I memorized my favorite scripture last week, in Alma 36:26. Not sure in English, but it Spanish, it is:
"Porque a causa de la palabra de que el me ha comunicado, he aqui, muchos han nacido de Dios. Y han probado, como yo he probado. Y han visto ojo a ojo, como he visto; y ellos saben acerca de estas cosas de que he hablado, como yo sé. Y el conocimiento que tengo viene de Dios."
Because of what God has given me, I am better. I can help to give this to other people. I want them to try as I have, to taste as I have tasted. We can do it, but only to our level. If we´re 25% converted, we´ll never be able to convert someone to 40%. We have to be truly converted, so that others can be, too. I love you guys. Be converted. Do what you have to. The stronger the conversion, the less power Satan has. I know that is a face. I’ll talk to you on Thursday or Friday to call, yeah?
Love,
Elder Jace Reber