Family,
I will start off by saying that Pasaje is the most amazing place on the face of the earth. It reminds me so much of my first sector, Naranjito. I just didn’t know enough at the time to realize how awesome it was. Anyway, the sector is massive. We have half the city and a lot of field to cover. For some reason, the houses are nicer than houses in Guayaquil, but the people are more humble. They think more logically and are super accepting. My first day here, I couldn’t believe how many people just said yes without me having to try and convince them or twist their arm. It was just a super successful week and that is what I can be looking forward to for the next few months.
My companion is Elder Espinoza. He is from Lima, Peru. He has been a member for 2 years. He has 1 year in his mission. Pretty sweet huh.. He is great. His converts both received the Melkezidec priesthood this weekend so he is very happy and excited to baptize more. He has been here for 4 months.
I have been enjoying every second of being here. I always tell my companion about how great Pasaje is. I tell him that everything is better here. Even the sun is better here. The sun actually burns your skin, but it is not super humid like in Guayaquil. There are real sunsets here, and when you are off in the banana fields at night, you can see millions of fireflies in the trees and you don’t have to listen to dump trucks and motorcycles passing by. Everything is just peaceful.
The work is also great. The members are so enthusiastic and excited to invite everybody they know to come to church. I was starting to feel stressed out because I didn’t know how to handle 30 new investigators that all wanted us to come to their houses to teach them. But we planned everything out well, and we know what we are going to do. We brought 7 investigators to church this week. Many of our investigators couldn’t come because everyone had to vote here in Ecuador. They reelected their president on Sunday. If you don’t vote here, you have to pay a fine.
We are allowed to do exercise in the mornings so we went to a gym to ask if we could use their stationary bikes and dumbbells and stuff. We paid one dollar to work out for an hour. Today when we went in the morning, we paid the lady and she said, ¨Ño, you guys don’t have to pay one cent to work out here. Everything is free for you two.¨ We had no idea why, but we accepted it. A few minutes later, the owner of the whole complex came in and told us that she is an inactive member and that she wants us to visit her and her family, and that we can work out every day for free. My companion and I couldn’t believe our ears. Just more reasons why Pasaje is amazing.
The branch president says that if we are ever hungry in the night we can go to his house to eat dinner. He sells pineapples, so he gives us tons of pineapples for free and makes the most amazing pineapple juice.
So I am very grateful to be here and hope I can finish my mission is Pasaje. I know that I will only be able to stay here if I work hard and have results. So I am staying focused and I am excited to work hard with Elder Espinoza.
To respond a little to your email, there is no substitute for serving a mission. To learn how to attack the world you need to PREPARE OUTSIDE of the world looking in. No one would throw a freshman in the game at quarterback without making him practice first. There is only one good excuse for not serving a mission. That is if you do not have a testimony of the church. And if you don’t have a testimony of the church, you better hurry up and get one because I am positive that if I didn’t serve a mission, I would have failed life miserably. The growth I have experienced is amazing and I couldn’t have imagined I would have grown like I have. Everything you do in your mission prepares you to face the real world. Every worthy young man SHALL serve a mission. That is how the statement reads in Spanish. German too- I believe.
How is Cam? What is new up there?
Love,
Elder McRae
I will start off by saying that Pasaje is the most amazing place on the face of the earth. It reminds me so much of my first sector, Naranjito. I just didn’t know enough at the time to realize how awesome it was. Anyway, the sector is massive. We have half the city and a lot of field to cover. For some reason, the houses are nicer than houses in Guayaquil, but the people are more humble. They think more logically and are super accepting. My first day here, I couldn’t believe how many people just said yes without me having to try and convince them or twist their arm. It was just a super successful week and that is what I can be looking forward to for the next few months.
My companion is Elder Espinoza. He is from Lima, Peru. He has been a member for 2 years. He has 1 year in his mission. Pretty sweet huh.. He is great. His converts both received the Melkezidec priesthood this weekend so he is very happy and excited to baptize more. He has been here for 4 months.
I have been enjoying every second of being here. I always tell my companion about how great Pasaje is. I tell him that everything is better here. Even the sun is better here. The sun actually burns your skin, but it is not super humid like in Guayaquil. There are real sunsets here, and when you are off in the banana fields at night, you can see millions of fireflies in the trees and you don’t have to listen to dump trucks and motorcycles passing by. Everything is just peaceful.
The work is also great. The members are so enthusiastic and excited to invite everybody they know to come to church. I was starting to feel stressed out because I didn’t know how to handle 30 new investigators that all wanted us to come to their houses to teach them. But we planned everything out well, and we know what we are going to do. We brought 7 investigators to church this week. Many of our investigators couldn’t come because everyone had to vote here in Ecuador. They reelected their president on Sunday. If you don’t vote here, you have to pay a fine.
We are allowed to do exercise in the mornings so we went to a gym to ask if we could use their stationary bikes and dumbbells and stuff. We paid one dollar to work out for an hour. Today when we went in the morning, we paid the lady and she said, ¨Ño, you guys don’t have to pay one cent to work out here. Everything is free for you two.¨ We had no idea why, but we accepted it. A few minutes later, the owner of the whole complex came in and told us that she is an inactive member and that she wants us to visit her and her family, and that we can work out every day for free. My companion and I couldn’t believe our ears. Just more reasons why Pasaje is amazing.
The branch president says that if we are ever hungry in the night we can go to his house to eat dinner. He sells pineapples, so he gives us tons of pineapples for free and makes the most amazing pineapple juice.
So I am very grateful to be here and hope I can finish my mission is Pasaje. I know that I will only be able to stay here if I work hard and have results. So I am staying focused and I am excited to work hard with Elder Espinoza.
To respond a little to your email, there is no substitute for serving a mission. To learn how to attack the world you need to PREPARE OUTSIDE of the world looking in. No one would throw a freshman in the game at quarterback without making him practice first. There is only one good excuse for not serving a mission. That is if you do not have a testimony of the church. And if you don’t have a testimony of the church, you better hurry up and get one because I am positive that if I didn’t serve a mission, I would have failed life miserably. The growth I have experienced is amazing and I couldn’t have imagined I would have grown like I have. Everything you do in your mission prepares you to face the real world. Every worthy young man SHALL serve a mission. That is how the statement reads in Spanish. German too- I believe.
How is Cam? What is new up there?
Love,
Elder McRae
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