We are so glad our testimonies of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is solid. There are many occasions when the "Church" seems to go astray. The right and left hands not in sync. It has been an interesting few days. I added this picture of the "Wheelchair brigade." I'm sorry it is small it would not download larger. There were eight men in these wheelchairs with advertising signs for a cellphone company above them. It was pretty ingenious. That was actually the end of last week.
We have had several days of "too much" going on all around us. On our way to the office Monday morning a woman approached us asking what language we spoke. When I answered English, she told us to call 911 because she needed help. She said all the people around her were out to get her and we were probably part of it all. She started screaming at us in German, and Elder W. told her he used to be the police she went "NUTS." The guard on the corner laughs with us new each time we see him. He knows she was crazy, that's the way our week started.
The mission just received a new couple, the Sister is the "Mission" nurse, the Elder will be the financial manager for the mission. We also got a single Sister who will be the Mission Secretary. They are all fantastic people from Utah. We are also getting a new Mission President in July, interesting thing, Elder W. and I worked under him in the Employment Center in our last mission. He worked in the Welfare Dept. in Salt Lake, so, we already know the new President. We are really excited, the mission needs a real kick in the behind.
Today was pandamonium in the office. I started getting phone calls from our students. They usually do not call us, we call or text them. They all had the same story, they received a text message to phone the PEF office urgently. I had no idea what was going on. Come to find out; Bogota sent out 2000 text messages to all the participants in the AREA. Needless to say we had to do some backtracking, called Bogota and discussed with them to leave our people alone. At the end of the afternoon, we found it was Salt Lake who had a conference call to all Areas in the Church who have Perpetual Education. It was to see if the mass text system would work. Well, it workd. It is very confusing to our students to get conflicting messages. The thing I do the most in the office is TEXT every participant to congratulate or tell them to "pay up." Of course, I do it in love and respect, that means I text probably 300 people each month, sometimes several times each month.
We are both very tired lately, I think six years between missions is adding to the being tired. We also work very hard, at home and at the office. Life in a foreign country is difficult. I have shared stories and incidences to illustrate. It all continues to be amazing and wonderful. Change is alsways good, sometimes hard but good. So we will continue to experience change for the rest of our lives and learn from the changes and experiances that come from the change.
As long as I can communicate with our children, grandchildren and friends I am a happy person and I can do anything. Thank heavens for technology!!!! I am trying to keep up with this blog. I hope it is allowing some of you to see inside Mission Life. There are many opportunities for couples or single sisters "out here."
We love being here and serving our Savior, although we are really not with the missionaries, the Mission is growing with baptisms in many areas of Quito.
I need to take some more pictures for you all to see. We have a Holiday this Friday, so maybe as we go around the city, I'll take the camera.
Until I write again, Love to all.
We have had several days of "too much" going on all around us. On our way to the office Monday morning a woman approached us asking what language we spoke. When I answered English, she told us to call 911 because she needed help. She said all the people around her were out to get her and we were probably part of it all. She started screaming at us in German, and Elder W. told her he used to be the police she went "NUTS." The guard on the corner laughs with us new each time we see him. He knows she was crazy, that's the way our week started.
The mission just received a new couple, the Sister is the "Mission" nurse, the Elder will be the financial manager for the mission. We also got a single Sister who will be the Mission Secretary. They are all fantastic people from Utah. We are also getting a new Mission President in July, interesting thing, Elder W. and I worked under him in the Employment Center in our last mission. He worked in the Welfare Dept. in Salt Lake, so, we already know the new President. We are really excited, the mission needs a real kick in the behind.
Today was pandamonium in the office. I started getting phone calls from our students. They usually do not call us, we call or text them. They all had the same story, they received a text message to phone the PEF office urgently. I had no idea what was going on. Come to find out; Bogota sent out 2000 text messages to all the participants in the AREA. Needless to say we had to do some backtracking, called Bogota and discussed with them to leave our people alone. At the end of the afternoon, we found it was Salt Lake who had a conference call to all Areas in the Church who have Perpetual Education. It was to see if the mass text system would work. Well, it workd. It is very confusing to our students to get conflicting messages. The thing I do the most in the office is TEXT every participant to congratulate or tell them to "pay up." Of course, I do it in love and respect, that means I text probably 300 people each month, sometimes several times each month.
We are both very tired lately, I think six years between missions is adding to the being tired. We also work very hard, at home and at the office. Life in a foreign country is difficult. I have shared stories and incidences to illustrate. It all continues to be amazing and wonderful. Change is alsways good, sometimes hard but good. So we will continue to experience change for the rest of our lives and learn from the changes and experiances that come from the change.
As long as I can communicate with our children, grandchildren and friends I am a happy person and I can do anything. Thank heavens for technology!!!! I am trying to keep up with this blog. I hope it is allowing some of you to see inside Mission Life. There are many opportunities for couples or single sisters "out here."
We love being here and serving our Savior, although we are really not with the missionaries, the Mission is growing with baptisms in many areas of Quito.
I need to take some more pictures for you all to see. We have a Holiday this Friday, so maybe as we go around the city, I'll take the camera.
Until I write again, Love to all.
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