3.5.12 La Colmena, Ecuador

Family,
Okay, I will start by answering the questions.

1. On every single corner there is a place called a Cyber. It is like a little store with a bunch of computers that you pay to use.  It’s something like 1 dollar an hour.

2. There is no time limit according to the store.  However, the mission president doesn´t want the Elders sitting on a computer all day long so he says to be on the computer no longer than 30 minutes.

3. Again, I could email whoever I want and do whatever I want on the internet, but obviously as missionaries, we are supposed to only use the internet to email ¨Direct Family¨

4. I am pretty sure anyone can email me.  I would guess again though, that president doesn´t want us getting emails from people not in our family.

5. P day.  We wake up at 6 30 like normal.  We study until 10 30 like normal, then clean the house.  The Zone Leaders then have to check our house to make sure it is really clean.  They give us permission to leave the house.  We sometimes go get a haircut.  Other than that, we write the family… and that´s about it.  We sit in the house and sleep or read a book or something.  We have to ask permission weeks in advance to be able to leave our sector.  Most of the time the answer is no.  We are not allowed to go to members’ houses or play any sporting activities.  We buy groceries for the week too.

Anyways, so this week, somehow the work completely flourished! We got a reference from a lady in a different stake.  The referral was three golden investigadores.  They went to church and accepted dates to be baptized as well.  It is highly possible that we will have 6 baptisms in these next two weeks.  Heavenly Father blessed us a ton this week.  Now it is just up to us to work hard and not screw it up.

I got your package this week.  The pictures are awesome.  I was showing them to some investigators and some members and their comments are funny.  They do not actually believe that Gavin exists.  They just think we photo-shopped him in and he is really me when I was a little chubby kid.  They always say "IGUALITO!!¨!" Which means "EXACTLY THE SAME" The pictures of Dantrell, Kyle, and Jared are great too.  I sent a letter to Dantrell today.

Grandpa´s email was great.  I don´t have time to respond to it.  Tell him thanks though.  Maybe I will try to write a response some time and send it in the mail.

So, there is a lot of work to be done.  I can´t think of much more to say.  Keep asking me questions because it gives me something to talk about.  Ask about anything.  It is a lot easier to respond to and it sparks new ideas of things to talk about also.

Love,
Elder McRae