I Love My Life!!!!

Hio familyo! Howo areo youo doingo? Myo Spanisho iso reallyo comingo
alongo huho? hahahahahha Dad cracks me up! I read one of his letters
he wrote trying to practice his ¨spanish¨ hahaha so funny!!!! I will
give you spanish lessons when I get home dad! 

(FYI - I sent Jacque copies of the letters Dan wrote home while he was on his mission.  This is what she is referring to!)

Well the new mission
address is:

Misión Ecuador Quito

Calle Robles E4-515 y Ave. Amazonas

Casilla: 17-03-078

Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador

I`m pretty sure you doin`t have to write the Casilla number or
Pichincha, but whatever you want to do! So how is everyone doing? It
sounds like everyone is having a fun summer!! Things are going great
here! We met President Ghent this week! He is soooo tall! But they are
really great, I like them! They are from Cali, they have 5 kids all
married except one is on a mission is Brazil. So they are here alone!
The Sloan`s had 2 daughters with them.. Anyway it will be fun working
with them! Roberto, Gabriela and Dina got baptized this Friday!! It
was a great baptism! The only one from their family that came was
Dina`s mom.. Roberto and Gabriela`s mom said she couldn`t come cause
she had to work. The reason we had it on Friday was so that she could
come... So that really made us sad. I love these people but they
really test my patience sometimes! They have a very different culture
and I jsut don`t understand but that is okay because I still love
them!

So the other day we were contacting and we met this kid who is about
15 or so and he said he didn`t believe in Christ! That made me so sad
and my heart jsut hurts for him. I don`t know how you can`t believe in
Christ. He thinks He was just a normal person and he believes the
Bible is just a book. We made an appointment to go back and visit him
but when we got there he didn`t want to see us. We are going to go
back again but I am just so sad for him.
On a brighter note! We were contacting last Monday and we started
talking to this family and we set a date with them right there in the
street! It was amazing and I know we were supposed to find them. The
daughter, Johana, was moving to an appartment on our street so we went
to see her a few days later and she says she knows she was supposed to
meet us; that we are two angels sent to her. She is a single mom with
a 7 year old boy and she just has such amazing beliefs! She is
basically LDS just not baptized! yet! Anyway It turns out her parents
aren`t her parents, they are just friends. Her mom passed away 7 years
ago and her dad lives in Spain. We haven`t been able to meet with them
but we are going to soon! Johana didn`t come to church though.. We
went by to pick her up and no one answered and she hasn`t answered her
phone. I wish I had a cell phone so I could call her any minute I
wanted to. I will never take a cell phone for granted again. Anyway so
I`m not sure what is going on.. She said she was leaving for vacation
this week but she wasn`t going to leave until Sunday night so she
could go to church. Maybe she ended up leaving. Anyway that`s the
scoop on her.
The Yèpes family is doing well. He had to have an interview with the
president so they won`t be able to be baptized for a few more weeks..
His brother didn`t come to church, I`m not sure how interested he is.
His mom has been traveling cause her sister in law is sick so she
didn`t come to church either. But Jose and Elizabeth are doing well!
I love this gospel and I am so grateful for my testimony of it. I
really don`t know how people live without it. I love being a
missionary and I love all of the experiences I am having. Thank you
for all that you do for me. I couldn`t be here without you and your
support! I hope you have a great week!! xoxoxoXo
Love forever and always,
Hermana Nelson

So the other day we were contacting and we met this kid who is about
15 or so and he said he didn`t believe in Christ! That made me so sad
and my heart jsut hurts for him. I don`t know how you can`t believe in
Christ. He thinks He was just a normal person and he believes the
Bible is just a book. We made an appointment to go back and visit him
but when we got there he didn`t want to see us. We are going to go
back again but I am just so sad for him.
On a brighter note! We were contacting last Monday and we started
talking to this family and we set a date with them right there in the
street! It was amazing and I know we were supposed to find them. The
daughter, Johana, was moving to an appartment on our street so we went
to see her a few days later and she says she knows she was supposed to
meet us; that we are two angels sent to her. She is a single mom with
a 7 year old boy and she just has such amazing beliefs! She is
basically LDS just not baptized! yet! Anyway It turns out her parents
aren`t her parents, they are just friends. Her mom passed away 7 years
ago and her dad lives in Spain. We haven`t been able to meet with them
but we are going to soon! Johana didn`t come to church though.. We
went by to pick her up and no one answered and she hasn`t answered her
phone. I wish I had a cell phone so I could call her any minute I
wanted to. I will never take a cell phone for granted again. Anyway so
I`m not sure what is going on.. She said she was leaving for vacation
this week but she wasn`t going to leave until Sunday night so she
could go to church. Maybe she ended up leaving. Anyway that`s the
scoop on her.
The Yèpes family is doing well. He had to have an interview with the
president so they won`t be able to be baptized for a few more weeks..
His brother didn`t come to church, I`m not sure how interested he is.
His mom has been traveling cause her sister in law is sick so she
didn`t come to church either. But Jose and Elizabeth are doing well!
I love this gospel and I am so grateful for my testimony of it. I
really don`t know how people live without it. I love being a
missionary and I love all of the experiences I am having. Thank you
for all that you do for me. I couldn`t be here without you and your
support! I hope you have a great week!! xoxoxoXo
Love forever and always,
Hermana Nelson