Hi Mom and family. Today is really weird because I am in
Guayaquil right instead of Loja. We took an 8 hour bus ride from 10:00 p.m. last night to 7:00 a.m. in
the morning today to get to Guayaquil because apparently, since I am new I have
to get some paper stuff done for my visa and so all the newbie missionaries are
in Guayaquil today. We leave to go back to Loja in an hour or so.
Elder Myers is
here today also. He is my friend from the MTC and we talked a bunch and he told me about his
experiences so far. It was really fun to catch up. We talked about a crazy game we made up at the MTC where the Elders would put "dibs" on the sister missionaries there after our two years were up and it was hilarious how competitive it got when it was really just a silly game, but also really funny.
Okay so this week was good and I have enjoyed it. I am trying to have
more faith and be more diligent in trying to learn Spanish because that is the
hardest part by far! The fact that I want to say so much to people but I just
can't and it is so very frustrating.
Unfortunately, we are not having
much success as we keep getting baptismal dates and then they all fall through so I
have been disappointed a lot this week. However, I know that it will get
better and I just need to learn Spanish first so I can teach the gospel and not have
to rely so much on my companion.
Well, I asked my first person to be baptized and she said, "no." Well , I guess there needed
to be a first.
Next, my companion and I saw this goat that was caught on some barbwire
so we untangled it and tied it to a different fence. So I didn't get
any baptisms with my companion this week, but we saved a goat :)
One day we asked a member, Carlos Luna, to help us go around and commit
some people to go to sacrament meeting with us. Carlos has a little Ford
runner car and he is the craziest driver ever and is about 75 or 80 years old and
considering the fact that there are hardly any traffic rules here it was pretty
crazy and I'm very suprised that we survived. ( haha )
We won't be able to Skype on Christmas Day, but will be able to do it on Christmas Eve around 4 or 5 in the evening my time so I'll need to make sure it is all set up and ready to go. I'm glad I have one more pday to get some instructions from you.
I'm sorry this email is so short, but we won't be on the computer terminals long today because we have to return to Loja. Also, I can't send you any pictures today because I heard that it is really easy to get your camera stolen here and I'm at a busy computer terminal, so I don't want to get out my camera.
I'll have to send you a longer email next week.
Love you all so very much!
Elder Lignell
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