Ecuador Quito North Mission

January 26, 2015 - Week of Meetings

Last week was a week of meetings and sitting in a suit listening to trainings that really were awesome! Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday we had meetings. So it was pretty hard to work this week and we did not have a lot of success, but there is always something good, at the end of every storm there is a rainbow!

Rainbow 1: We have been visiting a member and her kids to strengthen them and to help prepare her daughter for a mission, and she has a boyfriend or something. I don´t know exactly what he is, but I just refer to him with her as "futuro" He has come to church one time before, but has not been super interested in listening to our message, but he came to church yesterday! And he said he wants to listen to us!! And we didn´t even ask him!!! It is the best when the people come looking for us. Saves us a lot of walking.. ;) haha So we are going to visit him on Wednesday! :)

Rainbow 2: On saturday, it was a super rough day. All of our appointments fell and we had to just contact. I wasn´t feeling super good (I have been with a cold) but then, at like 8:45 at night, we found her.. She listened to us, and although she did not have a lot of time, she did say that she wanted us to come back and teach her. And she was treating me like she was my mom too, haha. Telling me all these things I should do in order to fight the cold that I had, and telling me to take care of myself. It was neat (don´t worry Mom, you do it better! :P) but it was nice to have a random lady (AKA future member of the church) looking out for me! :)

Rainbow 3: We have power again!!! hah We did not have power this weekend because the guy who is supposed to pay it is in the orient and didn´t pay it. So it was cold showers and recieving all the reports from the missionaries in candle light this weekend!

Today for P-day, we did a Parrillada, or basically a barbecue with the zone. We made food, played soccer and volleyball! It was a lot of fun! Other news.. This week I am going to get the privilege of baptizing someone. I baptized a mother about a month ago, Alexandra, and this Saturday I will get the chance to baptize her son who had a car accident about 6 months ago and lost a leg. But he is getting baptized this weekend!! WHOO

Final thought. Repentance is real. It is SO real. We had a lot of capacitations about repentance last week, and we learned about how we can have more confidence before God (the talk from elder Klebingat and from elder Robbins). It is an amazing thing that changes lives and destinies!! 2 Nephi 1:15 :D

I love you all!
Love,

Elder Parker

January 19, 2015 - Another Week

We had a couple of sweet experiences this week. The first, one wednesday I was sick with food poisoning (not throwing up, just a lot of diarreah) but I was in the house all day. We went to an appointment in the morning with someone that we had talked to, but I almost threw up there. It was close. hah so we went home. We called the Zone Leaders and asked them if they could come give me a blessing. THey came and gave me a blessing, and in the blessing told me something like if I worked and did the Lord´s work, I would be blessed. After the blessing, I rested for a little while longer, then we went out to work. We had an appointment set with a recent convert, so we went there. I was super excited for that appointment, but they weren´t there. I got a little discouraged at that point, but the a thought came to my head, "Let´s go look for Diego" He is a less active member that is really trying to change his life. SO we went. I didn´t remember where is house was, but I just felt that we should go looking for him. Well, God blesses us and knows where He wants us to be. On the way to the house of Diego, we found him in the street with his girlfriend. He stood up, and asked "let´s go to the house?" And wow. THat was awesome! SO we went and had a super spiritual lesson with him. It was way neat!

The other experience that we had was with an investigator. LUIS. He is way awesome. The problem is that he has to go work for the next 3 sundays and will not be able to assist the church. But! he and his wife still are going to get married on the 5th of February!! And then we are planning his baptism for the end of February! He is awesome. We always feel the spirit super strong with him! It is way awesome!

Today we went to the waterfall again, but this time it was raining and it was way cool! I have some pictures that I am going to send.

The week has gone well. I have just been fighting some food poisoning that I got on Tuesday from some meat that I ate. haha But all good now!

Woops, didn´t include all of the pics.. Here they are!!! I love you all and pray for you always!!

Love, Elder Parker

January 12, 2015 - Changes

We had changes today! I am still in this same sector. But... my companion left to Quito! And now I am with Elder Obando. Another peruano.. yay. haha It should be a good change!

So I realize that I haven´t written much in the past couple of weeks. We have not had tons of time the past couple of weeks. But, I will try to do better in the future. But honestly, not much has happened. The work continues as normal. It has just been kind of a slow change. We did not have much success. But it is a new change and we are going to work super hard in order to have more success and in order to help the people here in this sector!

Questions? There is not much more that I have to say, I am going to send fotos! But things are all going well. I will have more stories next week.

1. A cool foto of the moon

2. We went to the jail to visit somebodies brother!

January 5, 2015 - Keep it up!

I love you all! Keep it up! And pray for the Broncos!

Love,

Elder Dallin Parker

December 29, 2014 - Christmas week

It was a pretty normal week. Christmas was cool. Kind of.. haha On Christmas Eve we had to be in the house at 6 pm, and on Christmas day at 5 pm. But it was good. We went up on top of the house to the terrace and chilled up there for a little bit. Then went and studied, cooked, ate, then later went to bed!

We have finally found someone that wants to learn and know the gospel! Finally! haha after a month of looking and searching, we found him! His name is Luis, and his wife is a less active member. We have been teaching him, and he is super interested. It has been way good. We are just working on getting some doubts resolved. But things are going way good with him!

What else? Today for P-day we just played soccer with some members of the branch, and now I am super tired. But it was way fun to be playing again. I miss it so much.. :/ But oh well! haha You know what else I miss? Snow. So much I miss the snow and the cold and all of that. Honestly. I remember one time it actually got cold and windy enough to where I felt a little sting in my cheeks when I went inside. That was awesome! I miss that feeling sooo much.. haha :)

I am out of time for today, but I love you all and am so grateful for your prayers and thoughts!

Love, Elder Dallin Parker

1. My district in a restaurant on Christmas Eve!

2. An investigator that I got to baptize!

3. Our Christmas Tree! THanks MOM! and family!