So we got news that we are being kicked out of our house on the 29th, and we still don't have a house. YIKES. Needless to say, we've been doing double duty on not only contacting people to find people to teach, but also to find us an apartment! So, if any of you know of an apartment in Guayaquil, Ecuador, lmk. We actually did call some lady a few days ago, so hopefully that's the one!
An update on the rain situation: It rains every single day, often for the entire day. It's raining right now! But the rain is absolutely beautiful. It is ridiculously hot here, and the rain comes basically to save our lives.
Yesterday, we went to eat lunch with the Bishop's family, which was good. His 24 year old son was visiting, he literally just moved to Quito like three weeks ago. But he and I are pretty good friends! So we were talking for a little while after lunch, and he started telling me about life up in Quito. Basically, he lives in a friend's house, doesn't have a super stable job, and is living there to save up money to 1. get a place, and 2. save up money to be able to marry his girlfriend. Geez! But he seems really happy, and super confident. Anyway, eventually we had to get going. I asked if we could leave with just a little spiritual thought, something I usually like to do after eating with members. I shared Alma 32:27, one of my favorite scriptures. It reads,
"But behold, if ye will awake and arouse your faculties, even to an experiment upon my words, and exercise a particle of faith, yea, even if ye can no more than desire to believe, let this desire work in you, even until ye believe in a manner that ye can give place for a portion of my words."
So I shared this super little scripture with my friend, and when I finished it, he looked at me with tears in his eyes! I didn't know what happened! He said, "I have nothing in Quito. I have no home, no steady job, just a girlfriend and a goal. Today I came home to pick up the rest of my clothes to bring to Quito, but this whole day I've been wondering if I should even really be doing this. If I will really be ok eventually. I've been doubting my whole decision to even move to Quito. I get that I need to have faith, and Heavenly Father is constantly telling me that I need to be there, but still I get scared." He then related the story of Peter walking on water. When Peter started to fall, Jesus said, "O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?" Peter had the most faith of anyone! He had enough faith to even be able to walk on water! But Jesus tells him that he's got little faith! I think that the point of this part of this scripture is that we can have so much faith, and see so many miracles, but still we doubt. I don't know why! But my friend told me that this scripture gave him a little push to have some faith.
Guys, you never know when people need a little pick me up! If you feel like you should say something to someone, do it!
I love you guys!
Elder Jones
Pictures: Just an Iguana... sorry
