Bees and a Lighthouse

Hello Everyone, sorry for last week, I was short on time, but this week was actually super awesome..

Loving the coast here, but not  a fan of  the water situation here..  I would complain about having to take bucket showers, but then I take time to remember that a good friend of mine is living in a hut...  Love ya JR..  haha

But ya, this week has been super awesome. We've been finding, not a ton but were finding everyday. The people here are super receptive, but they don't like to progress a lot. But we had a really positive week in working with less actives who are part member families as well. We actually put a date on a little girl in one family and are hoping to activate them at the same time. We got them to church this week and had the parents meet with the bishop. He gave the dad a calling and we are hoping that gets him to do more of his part. We are actually planning on putting some more dates down this week.
 

We had 4 attending this week and we think we can get that number up a lot more as well. Excited for the potential we have right now. 

Almost got robbed this week so that was sick, got to be careful here, its kind of sketchy in some parts, but hey I'm alright, nothing happened, just some super dumb drug addict who wants drug money, so he tried to rob a missionary..   Didn't have anything on me so he was disappointed and let me go, but that was a first, and hoping that was a last as well. God really does protect His missionaries.

Welp for pday today, we had an adventure.. we went to this light house.   We had to basically bush wack our way there through the rain..   We traveled through razor sharp leaves and got cut..   a lot.. but we got there and it was all good in the end, or so we thought. My whole district went a change ago and decided to go again with me. They said inside this little light house we could scratch our names into the cement, so I started to do it as they stood outside and were talking. As I scratched the E in for elder, I heard something buzzing. I looked up and saw a huge bee hive, so I was like, ok, I'm out. Walked back out and the bees started to chase me. At first the other elders were like why the heck is Elder Jensen like smacking himself and jumping, but then they all got attacked too...  sooo we got stung.. a lot.. hahaha. We were probably there at the lighthouse for like 5 min until we had to run back through the razor sharp leaves again..

Fun day. Bought ice cream afterwards so that made up for it.  

Have a great week
 

Elder Jensen

 

 

 

Photos from Ecuador Quito North Facebook Page

 

Esmeraldas Zone Conference

March 1, 2018