Happy Week in Ecuador

Hey y'all!!! This week has been the beeeest! Life is great!!!

Monday, We just had a fun time and messed around. Rested. Cleaned. Ate. I thought it was a great use of preparation day :) Then we had a family home evening with a family in the ward. They are great! It always goes great with them.

Tuesday, We had divisions with the sister training leaders. I was with Hermana Bastidas. She's from Ecuador and just a darling. I love the way she teaches with so much love towards the people. It really helped me a lot :) We had a great day and talked to a bunch of people and found 3 of them who are ready to receive the Gospel. It was awesome! The Spirit was so strong. It made me so happy. We also got hot water in our apartment which is awesome! ha ha

Wednesday, we visited those new people that we met on Tuesday and met some cool new people too. It has been going great finding wonderful new people. That night, my companion and I did our weekly planning and companionship inventory and just talked about everything. We were able to start anew and I feel so much better. I feel like I can be myself again. Our personalities are very different so it was a little hard for a while, but I had sister Finley helping me out :) and God of course. He knows what He does. and He has a purpose for everything. 

Thursday. I WAS MEEEEE. I am me!!!!! ahh I love life. We have zone conferences which are great because we see all the progression in all the people being taught and the missionaries, etc. Its so great. We are there with all the missionaries in the zone and its also fun because I'm really good friends with some of those missionaries, but we only see each other on Thursday. From there, we had our lunch with a member. She loves us so much and gave us sushi!!!!!!! ahhhhh it was sooo good!!! :D We had a great lesson with her and left with our hearts and our stomachs full. hahaha from there, we went to an American family's house in the ward  because they invited us over for Thanksgiving dinner. it was the sweetest of them!!! It was amazing because I was thinking....one of the best places to put in practice the teachings of the Savior is in our families because it's an atmosphere of love, unity, and hopefully peace.... but there we all were at the dinner table and the Spirit was just so strong because thats what it was, an atmosphere or love, unity and happiness...peace. I loved it! They made us (the American sisters) feel right at home. They also had a friend over for dinner and we talked and she loves what we believe and wants to know more! :) She is so ready to receive the gospel. yaye!!!!! OMG from there we laughed off every calorie we consumed that night. If only I could describe the things that happened. hahahahaha lets just say...we're all really short and sometimes we have problems. haahahah

The rest of the days were great :) We had wonderful experiences and met wonderful people. Also a sister from the ward who I just want to be best friends with. She is sooooooo the best!! :) She is 23 and has two kids, but is always home taking care of the kids, so she was soooooo happy to have us come by and visit her! :) Have people preparing to be baptised as well as the other sisters in our ward. Good things :)

After starting over with my companion, I have been able to be myself and life has turned back to normal. It was just hard because she is so serious. But I love life and I want all of you to love life too!!! That's why I am here. I want people to feel this happiness that i feel!!!! You guys are awesome. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is true. I promise. This life is hard, but its hard because its our time to prepare to return with God :) We´re imperfect and learn from all of our experiences!! I share that with you in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

I love you guys and think of you all the time!!!! I hope you all had a happy thanksgiving and have a great week!!! Good luck with finals coming up!!! :) Pray! Pray every day! God will help you. He loves you.

Con amor,

Hermana Tangedal

Feliz Cumplemeses!! 2 months on the mission. Where does the time go?!

This week sped by once again. It was a wonderful week! We had changes last Sunday, but didn't get changed which was nice :)  We met so many wonderful people and enjoyed the week. I'm going to come back ratchet and black because of Sister Finley. Also, we eat so much fried chicken. Its delicious. :) ha ha Well , this week, we had a baptism. Her name is Shesly

. As you can see, from the picture we didn't know how to spell it, so we nicknamed her lil mama...but erased it 2 seconds later. ha ha  we had a good laugh :)   It was awesome. All the ward was at the temple that night, but all the family was able to get there. We started 2 hours late though because we're running on Ecuadorian time and satan really doesn't want people to make covenants with the Lord. The family´s car broke down and they were stuck far away for a long time. Finally, they arrived and we were able to begin :) It was so beautiful, the messages that were shared, the Spirit that was felt, and the testimonies that were born. The family is less active in the church, but they are part of our "crecimiento real" and are slowly coming back. :) They see the blessings in their life as they come closer to God :)

This Sunday the relief society sang in Sacrament and it was beautiful. Even if Sister Finley and I were the only people you could hear...and we were singing alto...and we had so much phlegm in our throats and were so sick. hahahahaha  we have fun. ha ha :) The ward is great. Individually. As a group...they need to learn unity. :/   We´re working on that though! :)  We live right next to the US embassy, so we have like 7 or 8 families from the US and they are awesome :) love them!! 

This week, our quadpanionship break apart and we start working in companion ships. Its a bummer, but it's for the best. We still get much more work done :) I'm excited. Its good now that we know our way around here :)  Life is great! I know I vent sometimes, but I really love the mission. I learn soooo much. I will come back a changed woman. for the better i hope...jhahaha :) and my English will suck! :o    We find our selves asking "how many years do you have?" and questions in English with Spanish grammar all the time. we´re weirdos. hahaha

This week, sister Finley got bit by a dog...on the butt. hahahahaha she only had a little bruise though. The next day, I got bit by a dog on the elbow. He was a frisky dog. he likes duh white meat. hahaha.  That day, sister Finley and I were together while our companions had a lesson just near by. She and I contacted 26 people that night, found 2 new families to teach, and had 4 lessons. It was so good. Unfortunately, we don't get those numbers with our companions, but its OK. We have learned that everyone still learns everyday, no matter how long they have on the mission :) It was so fun. We would go to bus stops and talk to everyone. Find groups of people and meet them all. hahaha. We had a goal to find 2 families. We were in this pueblo, Zambiza, and were like walking down this dirt road...there's no one and nothing. We see way far away a family and were like omg...that's a family! they're getting in the house!! act quick! and sister Finley just yells.... "BUENAS TARDES!!!" and we ran over and found out they are super awesome and were super receptive to have us come over and visit them! :)   

I can testify that we receive so much more blessings and success when our whole heart is in the mission and you exercise charity to everyone. We are given weaknesses to work on them and build them to become our strengths. <<We should all recognize that and enjoy life. God loves each one of us so much and is just waiting to bless us! :) just come to Him. ask Him questions. Pray. He will answer. Its a promise. I know because I have experienced it and see it everyday. I love you all and I pray for you all the time. Stay strong y'all. ªsnaps fingas in Z formationª      The church is TRUE. I share that in the name of Jesus Christ. amen!! !! :)

pics....  

 I loved this talk that helped me greatly this week. Its by President Monson. http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/i-will-not-fail-thee-nor-forsake-thee?lang=eng

my lowest point of the week when i was sooo sick...but still happy!! hahaa

and "lil mama Guerrero" hahahaha I love us. :)

love you!!!

HERMANA TANGEDAL