Why, hello there! This is Elder Sanders, reporting in for the week! Well, first off, happy Thanksgiving! By the photos, it looks as if you all had a stupendously joyous time together. I´ll admit, I really want one of those indian hats now. (The indiginous hats here are rather like fedoras...literally) BUT! Thanks for the letters, and I always love when you guys write to me.
And BEN IS ENGAGED? Nelly! That´s stupendous! And Amanda? ¡Doble Loco! It sure looked like quite the joyous day, espcially those pies... 8!? What I would´ve done for 1 slice... and I think I do remember Emily, I´ll be sure to have confidence next time we make cookies together. Well, anyways, I´m attaching some pics of our ecuadorian thanksgiving and some other fun ones. As of right now, we have 1 person with a baptismal date (because all of our other ones fell because they didn´t attend church, so we´ll have to set a new one with them) and we have about 7 investigators. I´m doing ok on health, I´m eating very well, and as for meats, I have chicken every day, I had a an entire fish deep fried (entire as in I believe they took it out of the water and put it in the pan.), and some duck, which is really good! (and to answer your question, I´ve stopped gaining weight and my body is now equalizing.) Plus, Elder Gomez and I made some homemade raspberry syrup and salsa. MMM!!!
So, we did have a baptism planned this last Saturday, for the sister of H that we baptized last week. We started the day out good, set up in the chapel, called members and investigators to attend, visited her in the morning, and filled the font with warm water, (no buckets this week)! Essentially, all was going well. A half an hour before the service, we gave her a call to see if we could pick her up. Instead, her mom answered, and said that we was at her college giving a presentation. Apparently, she had this huge end of the year thing at her school planned for the evening, until 10PM, and throughout the whole week was too shy to tell us! GAH! While this was going on, members and Investigators started arriving. The whole evening was going to shambles! So, essentially, we waited a half an hour to she if she could get out early, and in the mean time watched videos with all the guests that had arrived to attend. Well, she never showed up, and the night was sort of a bust. So, we planned to re-do the service Sunday before church, where she could attend with us and get confirmed the same day. And in order to have the font filled in time, we had to get up at 5 to begin filling the font. We waited until it was reasonably early to call her and see if they could make it... and the reply was no. That after a week of interviews, visits, and meetings, she didn´t feel ready and wanted to push it until next week. So, essentially the jist of the weekend was dissapointing, but hopefully by this Saturday, she will be a member of the Church. :)
Well, everything else is good, and changes are next week! ACK! I hope we don´t seperate, Atahualpa & Elder Gomez and I are such a great team! And as for Christmas... People started putting up their trees and lights at the start of november. It´s gonna be good! But alas... I am robbed of those cheeky christmas songs playing in every public venue possible. *sniffle* BUT! I can skype you guys, so start researching it now so I can do it with ya! And they still have not told me when or where I can call you, so stay tuned! (right now, I´m preparing a mega-letter with christmas letters for you guys, so stay tuned! I shall find a post office!)
And yes Erik, I am jealous that you had Wassil.
-Elder Sanders
PS i´m attaching the other pictures in a seperate email!
PSS- HAVE YOU GUYS MADE THAT CEREAL I TOLD YOU ABOUT YET? IF NOT, DO IT!
PSSS- Do you now if Erik and KT got my letters? I don´t know if they´ve written back yet... the suspense is immense!
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