Ecuador, Guayaquil South Mission


Monday, December 2, 2013

Feliz Cumpleanos A Mi Hermanita!!

11-16-13
Hey guys how the heck are ya´ll this week. I´m doing fantastic. This week has been a lot of fun due to trying to get all the missionaries flight plans all set and organized. I was able to organize everything so that no one arrives later than 11:30am on Tuesday. President wanted everyone here before 12:00pm so yeah it was a lot of fun ha-ha. We will be having the training meeting on Tuesday for all the missionaries. During this meeting, president stands up and explains the mission, and then the assistants stand and explain what their job is in the mission, then all the secretary's stand up and explains where their duties are in the office. So I’m going to stand and basically say my job is to make sure that everyone is in the country legally ha-ha. That’s basically what I do and  help president and stuff. So yeah I’m looking forward to it. We will be receiving 24 missionaries next week, and 17 of them are North americans. So yeah we are receiving a lot of North Americans ha-ha it’s a blast! So I'll be talking in Spanish and switching to English when I talk to them on Tuesday! I’m of course going to make a joke during my speech so just imagine me talking to them on Tuesday at like 4 a clock ha-ha.
Okay so this week was a whole lot better. We managed to take 11 people to church on Sunday... so yeah we are getting a lot better. We are working a lot with the less actives to try to get them back to church. The area is really wanting us to work more with converts and with less actives, that’s what the prophet has commanded and that’s what we need to do. So we will be working a lot more with less actives this week.
I enjoy all the emails that come from you guys. I was actually REALLY surprised that Tori is pregnant ha-ha! Tell her and Alex congrats! I’m really happy for them. And that’s awesome hearing that Clint is going to the temple often. I had a fun experience happen to me yesterday ha-ha. So I went to the temple with another secretary in the office. We went in the morning because the temple worker called me and said there is baptismal clothing that he wants to donate to us. So we went and arrived in the temple, one of the temple workers guided us down to the baptismal dead font for us to retrieve the clothes. We arrived down there, and one of the temple workers asked us if we can sacrifice 10 minutes of our time and be witnesses. Ha-ha I had no idea what to say. So I was like.... uh yeah sure. So we sat there for 15 minutes and were witness for baptisms. It was cool. The first time that I have been a witness before ha-ha.
Okay so I’m looking forward to talking to you guys on Christmas. It’s going to be awesome!!
También quisiera decir FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS A  MI HERMANITA. FELIZ CUMPLAÑOS A TI! ESPERO QUE TENGAS UN BUEN DÍA Y MUCHA FELICIDAD. TE AMO HERMANA!! ERES LA HERMANA MÁS CHEVRE EN LA FAMILIA!  (Cassidee's Birthday message)
Okay family thanks for the emails I love you all so much!! keep on with your prayers. can you tell me how you are doing your rotations with the prayers so I know who is praying every night? ha-ha that would be cool. Okay fam have a fantastic day!!!! PEACE!!!
cordial greetings,
Élder Gates
Secretario del Presidente
Misión Ecuador Guayaquil Sur

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