I can´t believe it´s already October!! I wake up very morning and expect
the weather to be turning to fall but instead it´s just toasty as
usual.
Today we had cambios (transfers). My new companion is
Hermana Sanchez from La Paz, Bolivia. She´s super sweet. I´m glad to
have a Latina companion now because I feel like the Spanish is going to
come faster. It´s funny though. We had a bunch of missionaries together
this morning to receive the changes and it was the first time I´ve met
most of thm. We were all talking together and one of the Latinas asked
me where I was from--los Estados Unidos. And then she asked me if my
parents were Latinos. All I could do was laugh because I´m obviously
super white with blue eyes and goldish brown hair. She thought I had
learned to speak from my latino parents because I speak pretty well. But
we weren´t talking long enough for her to know how bad my grammar is!
This week has been pretty good. We have tons of people that we´re
teaching. We found this new family. There are about members in the
family and they are super humble. They all live in a one room house
about 1.5 times the size of my bedroom. They are all very sweet. I
especially love little Maria--the 2 year old grandaughter. She never
talks but she just stares at you with her little brown eyes. If only she
could come home with me!
We´ve also been teaching some people out in el campo (the country). I
love it out there, reminds me of South Carolina but more tropical. It´s
almost legit jungle but not quite. It´s kind of sad though because a
lot of people can´t come to church because they can´t leave their houses
without anyone there to watch it. Someone always has to be at the house
because people get robbed a lot here. Houses made of caña aren´t the
most secure of structures.
Oh my gosh, I´m gaining wight! I love Porvenir but everyone wants to
feed you a feast! And you can´t tell people no because they´re giving
to you from their heart and from what little they have and you can´t
waste. We were visiting the trips the other day and they´re cousin was
saying that I look fatter (they always tell people here that they´re
fat, it´s not rude like in the States) than in my pictures. I told her I
was going to not eat for a few days and she said, "No! You´ll go home and
they´ll think we didn´t feed you here in Ecuador. You need to go home
healthy." Right.... Oh, I love the trips. They told us that if we were
going to get changed to another ward to come hide out at their house and
we could live with them. But anyways, yeah, diet starts today.
That´s all I´ve got for now. And it´s time to check out. Thanks for
the letters and emails I´ve gotten. I´m working on getting back to yáll
but sometimes the communication is a bit slow. I love you all and I hope
everyone is doing well!!
Love,
Hermana Williams
