Elder Sam Jensen: Ilumina el Mundo!

Hey everyone!

Well that's another week down.. Super close to being done with my training!! Really excited for that and a possibility to go and serve in a new place! Fast week

We had our capacitacion con Elder Hugo Montoya this week in Otavalo which was really cool.. I'm almost at the point where I can understand everything.. like 85% there's just a few words that I don't know.. well more than a few but basically when I don't know those words, I write them down or ask the latinos for help.. soo learning a little more day by day! My accent is still a little rough, only hope that I can develop that eventually and speak really well!

Elder Montoya had a lot of cool stories and shared some really cool points with us!

Also, as I'm sure all of you have heard, the church is in the Light the World program, or en español, Ilumina el Mundo! so as missionaries, we have these nifty lil cards to pass a long to people as we contact or to our investigators or cualquier persona.. But basically there´s 25 days and a bunch of different service actividades to do in these days.. A lot of them involve things that we can't do here in the mish, like use a phone or do something on social media, so President Murphy gave us our own challenge.. so we have a paper to record our service activities each day that goes a long with a scripture.. So that's been really cool.. the only problem is, basically no one accepts our help when we ask.. the other day we had 36 contacts. and passed out a bunch of those cards.. and then asked if we could do anything for them any service and siempre they're like nahh were good rn.. So were going to keep at that.. I really think this is a fantastic way to find new investigators, so really hoping for a successful 3 weeks..

Well we have hope for one baptism in this cambio! Basically the requirements are 3 church asistencias and all the lessons.. Maria is the mom of one our investigators who randomly came last week to church.. so this week we focused on her and turns out she's full pilas!! She has a lot of desires and came to church again this week! Soo we're really hoping we can have the opportunity to baptize her and maybe her daughter in this transfer.. But if not, I'm not going to be upset.. just hoping for her to progress and be baptized.. Even if that means I can't participate in the service..

We had a great Pday today.. The district went to the cascadas de Peguche!! super awesome and really beautiful!! attached a few pics of that.

Nothing really crazy happened.. I did have this interesting soup.. Soo there's this thing called pata... its chicken foot.. Basically it was a soup with 3 patas.. and I'm not a fan.. I forgot my camera that day, so I didn't get a foto, but its souper (haha) weird.. The others were yellin at me, Chupa la pata!! suck the foot!! It's really weird and the flippin toenail like scratches your tongue and eww.. it was pretty funny..

Yesterday in sacrament meeting, this little boy ran away from his mom and had this paper airplane, and started chucking it around the chapel.. it was pretty funny, cause he was like juking the people out who were trying to stop him and just kept chuckin it..haha.. the kids here are funny, and usually when we're walking around they try to speak a little english to me, and they're like soo wrong.. but hey I can't laugh, cause I'm sure I sound like an idiot most of the time trying to speak spanish.. haha

Well that's basically the week.. just preppin for navidad and cambios again!

Love

Elder Jensen