Baptisms, Changes, Really Good Week!

Hola Todos!

Things are looking a lot better than last week. 

One thing's for sure - we found a lot more people this week that are interested in our message.

There are three young girls that we found - Anabel, Maribel, and Daniya - who have a sister who is a member and want to be baptized but haven't yet because they want to wait for their sister to come back first. We are going to try to set up a Skype call so they can be baptized and their sister can watch. And their uncle Diego also really wants to be baptized to set a good example for his 2 year old son.

We taught Mónica almost every day this last week and she also passed her baptismal interview! She is so prepared. Although we still haven't found her brother Christian.

Abraham was baptized this weekend and also a family of four that the sisters have been teaching. It was so exciting to see so many children of God make the first step to return to him!

Abraham (on the right) with his cousin, the branch mission leader

The large family and a lot of the branch before their baptism.

On a sadder note, this week is changes, and my companion was called back to the coast. I will have to stay here and be in charge of my sector. How intimidating!

I will really miss Elder Sócola and his goofy spirit. I won´t find another companion to tickle me or point to dog droppings on the ground and say "for you" Also, he won´t get the chance to see all of the great work he started here. :(. And I will have a harder time learning Spanish without him.

I truly feel like he was an answer to my prayer when it comes to learning Spanish, because I had to wait in Pennsylvania for 6 weeks speaking less Spanish so it got a little rusty. God told me if I worked hard in Pennsylvania, I would be just fine when I made it here.  Elder Sócola was the reason that my Spanish grew tremendously and I was "just fine". He loved me and taught me so much.

Gracias por todo las oraciones!

Elder Cloward

A foto of Chimborazo peaking above the clouds during the evening.

It is really big, and marks the northern part of our sector.