HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY MOM AND CARTER THIS WEEK. Shout out to them and some president who i think shares a birthday with them.
Goldens
As a companionship we were working really hard but just weren't not seeing the fruits we were hoping for. We were teaching a lot of people and they were all coming to church. The only problem is they couldn't progress. The aren't married which is a huge downside here. Lots of people in Ecuador and in South America just live united without the legal marriage. It is a struggle to find married, like literal married, people. After some time to think we decided we would continue to do our part and leave the rest in the hands of the Lord. After a couple days still nothing. Then this past Wednesday we got a call that there was a young man who attended missionary prep class, and wants to be a missionary but isn't a member. That wasn't the end of it either. We ended up receiving another from our zone leaders saying that a member of there ward has a sister that wants to meet with us. It a matter of hours we received calls that finally put us in chartered waters and we would end the day pretty happy and with 2 baptisms in the making.
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| Elder Shanklin and Elder Fa Asa |
Sketchy Market
So for some of you this isn't really a blessing but for me it was. Today we went shopping to buy a ton of souvenirs because we are in Cuenca and so there a tons of stores that sell awesome things. Today we walk into a store with a couple other missionaries and one of the missionaries tells me to follow him . He goes and talks to a lady and then we all enter a fitting room. Then there is another door in the fitting room and she opens it and it opens up into a huge room with tons of cool things that are reasonably cheap. It was kinda sketchy at first but then it was awesome. We then went to a door in that rooom and entered into a small passageway big enough for one person, then climb 3 floors of stairs and entered into another awesome room. Lets just say I bought some pretty cool things today.
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| Elder Shanklins Zone in Cuenca |
Investigators
We are teaching some families but like I said they aren't married but we are working with them so they can hopefully get married. The family Zumba and San Martin Campoverde are the families that we are teaching and are at church every Sunday. We then are teaching a couple people like Robert who wants to serve a mission, Andrea who has a extreme desire to change her life around for her kids and herself, and Fabian who has a killer testimony of the Book of Mormon and its truthfulness. Hopefully there are lots of good things to come as we work hard with what we had and then look for others.
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| Overlooking Cuenca |
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| Elder Shanklin taking in the view |
Not that much stuff that is super interesting happened this week. We did have another funeral as a couple missionaries are headed home this week!
Thanks for all the support
Life is a sport, make it count
Elder Shanklin
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