Week 29 in Ecuador

I like being a missionary alot and I am not too worried about the bugs and diseases. This week we worked alot but it also was just kind of a rough week. Wednesday we had an earthquake at 3am and another at 12pm so no one has really been sleeping that much here in the coast. And now we also have to sleep in jeans and shoes and everything with a backpack by the front door for when we have the next earthquake because we are supposed to have more. My sector is kinda dope.  In the picture below Is a river that we went  to pray to find someone to teach. Im also sending you some pictures of damage that was done from the earthquake.

Love,

Elder Roney

Week 28 in Ecuador

I am doing great. During our zone meeting we had to pass an egg to our companion and then if we caught it take a step back.... Yeah I ended up sitting in a bus for two hours with egg all over me. Very cool Brandon got call to Mexico, sounds pretty cool.... I Can email him in spanish but i will have to be careful with some words... words here that are normal arent really good words to use in mexico haha. Dang 8 months goes really fast apparently but yeah i get to call again in 8 months so that isnt too bad. Transfers are in two weeks.  I am about 14 hours from the jungle.

Love,

Elder Roney

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.