Instrument In His Hands: That is really confusing... "Ah" "ah".

Hola todos!

This week had it´s ups and downs.

Monday we had a really great Noche de Hogar (Family home evening) with lots of people. I cooked some brownies and they turned out a little burnt, a little vanilla-y and very tasty.

Tuesday we had a really great activity in the chapel. About 50 students use the wifi in the chapel to study during the week and we gave them all a tour. We now have about 50 references for all of the different parts of Riobamba. Wow!

Wednesday we had entrevistas (I forgot the word entrevista in English) with presidente. He really helps me feel good about the work that I am doing here, and that was really nice. Then in the evening we road on a bus for two hours to Ambato for the zone conference. When we got there we roomed 10 Elders in one apartment...(a little dangerous) and bought six liters of coca-cola and 6 family size pizzas. Eek.

The zone conference was really powerful. All of the teachings were applicable to our investigators here in Riobamba, so Elder Gómez and I were really excited to get back to work here. We also had pizza in the zone conference, so I really don´t want more pizza for a while.

My companion and me after zone conference

It has really been hard recently to teach lessons with the members. It is important to teach lessons with members because the investigators need friends in the church to feel welcome and like they can enter the church building. Hopefully we can start getting some better rhythm with the members and their schedules.

Also we had to stop teaching a family this week. They are really great people but aren´t interested in changing their religion. It was sad to see them go, but with the extra time that we have, God will bless us to find people who are more prepared, and in the Guaño family have a seed planted so that one day they will be ready.

Also one of our investigators Asucena moved to Guenca. We won´t be able to teach her anymore but we will definitely send her information to the other missionaries in Guenca.

We found a really great family this week. Family Cardenas. Their mother owns a restaurant and has taught us how to cook a few things. She has 2 daughters and a son, and we haven´t yet met their father. They all are very receptive to our message and want to be baptized but the kids will be leaving for vacations soon so we may not get the chance for a good month.

A lot of the rest of our investigators have been hard to catch this week, but we have a couple of great families planned for next week. One of them lives far north in our sector.

As for me. I´m doing really good. I´m learning that making juice is really easy. Throw fruit, water and sugar in a blender and allí está. And here that is cheaper than buying juice from a store, and healthier too just as long as you clean the fruit well. I bought a couple of nice things from a big market in the center of town today also. Some of them are pictured below. Also my companion and I have developed an ice cream problem. Almost every single small shop has a freezer with ice cream. Anywhere from 25 cents to maybe 5 dollars you can buy ice cream. We have a problem of buying 4 or 5 25-cent tasties every day...

Hope you all are as happy as I am!!!

Elder Cloward

P.S. Maybe you are wondering the meaning of the title. Well in the united states people say "uh-huh" to mean yes and "uh" "uh" to mean no. Here "ah" "ah" means yes... it really confuses me.