Travel
This week started out, well as you all know, with a trip to Guayaquil in order to participate in Leadership Council. For me it is a little taste of what General Conference is like. We wait all month to see who the new-bees are and what Presidente has to say about the mission and our zones. We always walk away spritually uplifted. Including this time we had the opportunity to go to the temple as the leaders. Lets just say it was well deserved after that miserable 8 hour bus ride in the middle of the day. Speaking of the temple I learned a ton in this trip and was able to reflect on what I lacked as a missionary, as a companion, and leader. Revelacion is real. The way home was probably even worse than the trip there. We left at 5 in the afternoon, made a midway stop in Cuenca to change buses and then headed to Loja. We spent all night in that bus. I am extremely glad for motion sickness medicine, if not for there I am pretty sure that I would not be alive right now. We arrived alive and happy to Loja and were able to get a couple hours of sleep in our own beds.
American Food
This week because of our good numbers and baptisms that we have had in the branch our branch president invited us to eat food. I was just expecting something super simple, like rice and chicken. He took us to like the coolest restaurant in Loja probably. There were waiters and menus and lots of other stuff like the US. I nearly had a heart attack when I say the prices but he assured us that it was alright. We ended up getting like a large order of meat consisting of chicken, pork, and steak. IT WAS SO GOOD. I felt like I was in like a grill house in the United States. There are perks, not only spiritually but also temporarily for having success in the mission.
Investigadors
This week we are able to start over and finally find our old investigadores. It had been a long time since we had seen each other. We were able to teach him about the Book Of Mormon and recieving his own testimony. He has had some struggles lately but we are working side by side with him so that he can get baptized and continue onward. He came to church again and the members warmly recieved him like before. Always we have been working with a brother and sister, who are like natives here. They also were at church on Sunday and liked it a ton. Hopefully we can get them on the right bath and helped them even more. We recieved many blessings this week as we were obedient and trusted in the Lord. That is not to say that we had our ups and downs this week but we were able to overcome the bads with the goods. Hopefully we can keep that going.
Thanks for all the love and support!
Life is a Sport, Make it Count
Elder Shanklin
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