Hi family!!
How are you all doing? What did you do for President's Day? I had no idea it was President's Day! haha It's Carnaval here... Basically a country-wide water fight! I only got one water ballon thrown at me today! It's not too big in Quito. I hear it's worst in the coast! But it looks like a lot of fun and I wish I could play! Well, another week come and gone way too fast! Time is FLYING!!! I don't know where it is all going! It is scaring me because I don't have that much time left! And what is left is going to go by even faster!
We found a couple new people this week. Jovanna and Lucia. They both accepted baptismal dates! We gave Jovanna a Book of Mormon and set up a return appointment and when we went back she handed me the book and said that she couldn't read it and she didn't want us to visit her anymore... I'm not sure what happened. I think maybe her family talked to her but it was really sad. Lucia has been busy, we haven't been able to visit her again and she couldn't come to church.
The Villagomez family, we haven't been able to see them too much either. We were able to talk to her one night and she was crying because her and her husband have been fighting lately. It was sad but we gave her some love and hope! But they weren't able to come to church either.
The Aldaz family, we went to visit them on Friday and we found a few doubts that they have. She is very Catholic and doesn't like that we don't worship Mary. Juan Carlos thinks all religions lead you back to God and it doesn't matter which one you join. So it looks like we are going to be teaching the Restoration over and over again until they get it! Alison is still as cute as ever! I still need to take a picture with her and send it to you!
As a zone we do something called a Bufaleada - we go sing to all of our investigators every Sunday and sometimes Wednesday if we need to. Anyway yesterday we were coming home from the Bufadeada with the zone leaders and the district leaders and their companions and Elder Albino - one of the zone leaders - had been sad all day, well for a few weeks because of all the stress of the mission and being zone leader and he just broke down yesterday. He was crying and started hyperventilating and zoned out so Elder Sànchez and I were trying to get him to come back to his senses but he wasn't so we sat him down and his muscles were all tense from the hyperventilation. This is what happened to me is Santo Domingo when I had my little but not so little break down so I knew the symptoms and what to do! So I got him to breathe normally with me and they were massaging his arms, hands and legs trying to get him to relax. Elder Taquez gave him a blessing and he started calming down and after a while was able to get to the house! I called the nurse afterwards and told her what happened and she said it's good to give them milk because the calcium helps! One thing I didn't know! So next time someone starts hyperventilating you all know what to do! Have them breathe in a bag or cover their face while breathing and give them a glass of milk to drink! Nursing 101! haha It's experiences like these that I remember why I want to be a nurse! Oh and Elder Albino is okay now! He is feeling better today!
I love the mission! Even though it is still so hard everyday! I try not to stress myself out because I feel like we take 10 steps forward and 20 steps back every week and I feel like we are never going to lift our program. 3 months without a baptism. Satan is working very hard on us and everyone in this zone. Everyone is going through some personal problem! But trials are to make us stronger! I am so grateful for the Atonement and the Gospel in my life. I don't know how I would live without it. I love you family!! Have the best week ever!!!
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Love forever and always,
Hermana Nelson
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