Our newest senior missionary, Sister Harriet Allred, arrived last night. Lynn and I went with Sis. Platts to greet her at the airport and come back with her to her apartment, which she will share with Sis. Platts. Our driver and his wife met us at our building and took us to the airport. The plane arrived on time at 6:35pm. We waited and waited as people came through the door after going through customs and immigration. We got worried when it seemed that just about everyone had come from the plane since there was hardly anyone left but us waiting for arriving passengers. Lynn finally went to the airline office to see if she had been on the plane. They said that she had been on the plane but that she would be a little while longer going through since there was a problem with her luggage. Evidently, when she got on the plane there wasn’t room for her carry on so they said that they would put it somewhere else and promised that she could pick it up with her checked baggage. Well, it wasn’t there when she went to pick it up and it took some time for them to locate it. She was about the last one to come through an hour and a half later. We got her to the apartment about 9pm, a bit exhausted but happy to be here. . She is from Texas.
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| She made it. |
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| Lynn checking her passport. Gotta make sure they stamped it right. |
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| Sister Allred with her new companion, Sister Platts. Even though they will be working in two different missions, they will be sharing an apartment together. |
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| Me with Sister Allred |
As we were traveling to the airport Lynn was talking with the driver and his wife. He told them the following story that I don’t think I’ve shared with you before. This is about Pres. Marcello Trejillo, who is the taxis driver that takes Lynn to deliver the pouch mail to the bus station to be delivered to the outlying area missionaries. If you remember his family was one of the first to join the church here in Ecuador and his brother was the first missionary. Anyway, here’s the story. The missionaries are always calling him “El profeta” (or the prophet). It seems not too long ago, within the last year, three missionaries got into his taxis. He decided to do a little joke on them. He saw their plaques and asked about them and about the church they were from, so they started teaching him about the Book of Mormon and the restoration of the gospel. He said “Yeah, I believe in the Book of Mormon” and he said that they had the Book of Mormon as part of their scriptures in his church as well, which he said was the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They were surprised and asked about how many were members of his church here. He said that there weren’t too many and that he was the prophet. One of the missionaries finally realized that he was pulling their leg but ever since then the missionaries refer to him as “El profeta”. Lynn always enjoys talking with him because he has some very interesting stories to tell as they travel to the bus depots every other week.
Here are some interesting pictures I’ve taken of things we have seen around Quito.
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| This Ecuadorian mother with her baby on her back and her daughter riding in the bottom of the food cart. They work hard to survive. |
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| Interesting means of transportation |
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