Week 27 in Ecuador

Sorry the call didnt work really well. Yeah I did speak spanish to my companion and he did call his family. Great Maddy is gonna be taller than me and Peyton will be better at basketball than me. I will call during christmas though and my spanish will just keep improving until then. I am only in 2 nephi 28.... but i am reading in spanish and its the 3rd time in my mission reading the book of mormon. I hope i get a picture of saylors baptism next month!!! We have set another Baptism for May 28th.

Love,

Elder Roney

Week 26 in Ecuador

I am doing great. Haha spanish.... I have gotten to the point that when i am bored waiting for emails i change the language on lds.org to portuguese, italian, and french just to see how much i can understand in those languages... about 20ish percent. I get to pick the time to call so whatever works for you guys... Nothing really this week it rained alot... when my shoes get muddy i step in puddles to clean them.... yeah needless to say the last puddle was about a foot deep so that was fun.

Love,

Elder Roney

Week 25 in Ecuador

I am still in Quininde. My new companion is pretty cool, he doesn't have a ton of confidence when he teaches so i end up having to talk way more but we are working on that. The people here say that there are like 3 earthquakes everyday but I haven't felt them. My area the homes are fine so we don't have to do any rebuilding. I get to call in like 3 weeks so don't miss me too much. I didn't get the package yet but i probably will in a week or two, It takes longer here in the coast because the zone leaders only go the first week of the month to the offices instead of every other week.

I got charged by a couple pigs and almost eaten by some giant dogs.  It rains here ALOT.  The water is more blue when its not raining.

Week 24 in Ecuador

He is Safe, Elder Roney is safe.  Its like music to my ears.

Well I am alive. It made all other earthquakes seem like nothing... there are a few houses that aren't houses any more and in the mission south of us there are tons of things destroyed. And we are about to have a ton of new members i think because the sisters started praying when they were in the street and people started grabbing at their legs asking them to save them.

We were able to check on the houses of people we visit and make sure they were ok.  I received a new companion. I am in quininde and the epicenter was manta... I cant use google to look up distance.. No but it was a super big earthquake like the one we had were buddy ran for the oreos.... 10x as bad as that one.

Elder Roney



The group of brave missionaries that we close to the epicenter

Week 22 in Ecuador

I wasn't at the chapel yet so i missed the annoucement of the temple..... but it was hinted at by Elder Holland in Feb. when he was here for my stake conference. He said if they keep the temple busy who knows maybe there might be a new one in quito.  My favorite talk was the one from priesthood session by Russel m Nelson.  My week was great but we didn't do hardly anything because we had a ton of meetings and we were only able to work Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday after conference. 

How cute is Cameron and his Companion.  When they have meetings they wear

matching ties.  

Week 21 in Ecuador

I am doing great and i cant wait for easter in the states. Easter here was people sleeping or drinking all week which was SUPER FUN.

We just met with people we normaly do and didnt really find any new people.   My week has been filled with tons of rain so its not been too bad. No baptisms this month but we have some planned in two weeks.

Love

Elder Roney

Week 20 in Ecuador

I dont have any pics this week sorry ive been a little busy to take pictures (im the english tutor and have to do classes for my district thursdays and record information to report to my presidents wife). My week was great... not too many new bug bites which is good. Not really any new investigaters this week because we are focusing on the old ones at the moment. I think that if i get to pick where i want to end my mission i might pick here as a district leader because the district leader gets to go with a zone leader every once in a while to this island thats four hours away in a canoe and they baptize the people that have been taught by the members there. Last weekend they got to baptize 8 people in the river there. Hardest part of the week i think is just that its super humid here but i can live with it. Most spiritual moment was Elder Gallardos talk in sacrament (my district leader).

We dont have any plans for easter. Palm Sunday here is impossible to work because every one is crowded outside the catholic church playing music and stuff so no one is home to teach. I get to watch conference at church but it is gonna be in spanish but oh well i will get most of what they talk about as long as i dont fall asleep (more reason to pay atention). I didnt get the package yet because i am super far from the mission office. I am 6 hours away from the offices.

My companion is great and he only has one change more then in the mission so he likes to work hard which is good. Sector is pretty cool and i can buy clothes cheap here. I am gonna buy two new pairs of pants because the sun kills pants in this country my black ones look like a brownish purple color now. And I also might buy a new suit too here to have another one to wear.