It’s been another quiet week, though we did have a couple of
interesting things happen. The president
and his wife, along with the assistants, went to Esmeraldas for a couple of
days to do some training. Sister Allred
stayed with their daughter at night so she wouldn’t be alone. The only problem with going to the mission
home is that it is not always easy to get a taxi. She had such a hard time on Wednesday that
she finally, after more than an hour of trying even with the apartment guard’s
help, called Sister Platts to take a taxi to go and get her. To say the least
she was very frustrated.
Since we have started taking the bus I’ve gotten used to them. The buses and bus drivers are kind of
different here and sometimes make for interesting rides. They have standard transmissions which make
for very jerky rides. Sometimes the bus
drivers seem to think they are in a race and will pass each other. Others don’t seem to be in a big hurry. The other day the driver was one of the “in a
hurry” drivers. In fact, as we were trying to get him to stop for our street
the light had turned green and he wasn’t about to stop to let us off. He let us off after he turned left and then
an immediate right about two blocks from our stop. I was a bit frustrated with the whole thing.
We had a new missionary come this week unexpectedly. Thursday afternoon we got a frantic call from
the mother of a missionary saying that she had heard that her son was being
transferred from another mission and was told that he was being sent to Quito,
Ecuador and she wanted to make sure he was OK.
The Quito mission didn’t know anything about him nor did we. The office elders finally found out that the travel
office had the itinerary for him and that he was coming to our mission. It seems that he had unknowingly done
something illegal while helping an investigator, who lied to him, and had to
get out of the country. He arrived late
Thursday night and we met him at the office on Friday. This will be his third mission to serve
in. His first mission was divided in
July and he was put in the new mission and now he will be serving in our
mission. He has been out 14 months and
was serving as a zone leader as he left, which indicates that he has been a
great missionary. Our mission will be
greatly blessed with his service.
Saturday night we went to the baptisms of a couple who the office
elders have been teaching. They were
married last week, since they have been living together without being
married. They have three darling children. The wife has relatives in the ward and the
family was very excited for them to be baptized. The office elders sang “How Great Thou Art” as
a special number. It was great.
Today Lynn and I received a surprise during church. One of the councilors in the bishopric pulled
us out of Sunday school class and asked us to teach a family history class
during Sunday School. It’s not a calling
but just something they want us to help with.
At first he said that we could just alternate with Lynn teaching one
week and me teaching the next but Lynn told him that simply wouldn’t work since
he doesn’t know anything about family history and I know very little
Spanish. So we will be team teaching,
starting next week. They will invite
several members to participate who they think would benefit from the class. I’m especially excited since this will be my
first time teaching family history since they came out with the new videos and
manuals that the church produced a few years ago. I’ve already downloaded all that I need both
in English and Spanish.
Today we had our monthly senior pot luck lunch with the senior
missionaries. We always enjoy the good
food and visiting that we do afterwards. Our apartment is great for this since we have
more room and a great view of the city.
Sorry no pictures again.
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