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| Elder Kramer Morton in the MTC |
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I'm guessing the boys are admiring
their muscles at the MTC before they
lose them over the next two
years!!!
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A few more pictures from the MTC
before leaving to Ecuador.
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PILLOW FIGHT???
A room full of pillows and Missionaries looks like TROUBLE/FUN!!!
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Ha Ha Ha :) :) :)
July 18, 2014
Hola from wonderful/stinky Ecuador! This has no doubt been one of the
craziest, strangest, most confusing, hardest, funnest, and most unexplainable
weeks of my life! The people here are crazy! I swear there is no traffic laws
here! The bus drivers drive funner then Taylor with his STI! The taxi drivers
have amazing reflexes too! Ive been making a list of things to say so i didn't
forget because so much crazy stuff has been happening!
The comida
here is pretty dang good! the members love to feed the missionaries. The elders
all say that they have gotten fat instead of skinny while here which i sure hope
doesn't happen to me! One time we were eating at the familia Avilas house and the
mom has a baby. and just while we were talking, with no shame she just whipped
her boobie right out and started feeding he baby. But of course I never looked.
Apparently that should happen a lot here this next 22 months...
Yippee.
I have already been to 2 different baptisms, one for another
companion ship then one for ours! I was in a trio but then Elder Barrett left
yesterday. He was a very good guy and pretty sad to leave. both the baptisms
were through a young man named antony. His best friend Luis and his sister
maoly. it was pretty cool to see elder barrett baptize his last convert and to
see antony baptize his sister.
Yesterday was extremely sad to watch
Elder Barrett say goodbye to the ward he has been with for 4 months. He had no
clue how much he meant to them. We took a huge picture with them and they all
said at one time, Gracias Elder Barrett!! I had to try so hard to stop from
crying. especially when i looked over at his eyes while he was giving them all
hugs. He looked pretty scared when we dropped him off at the mission house last
night. I have wondered if I will be like that when my time is up. He said the
time flew by for him these last two years. I seriously love the people down here
and I feel really bad when they try to talk to me and its hard for me to
understand them. I absolutely love playing with the kids!! they are so funny. I
will have to get a pic with the kids in this ward because they are the
best!
Everybody here calls me Spiderman! They all think I look like
the new spiderman guy! so its fun when i always pretend to shoot webs at the
kids. They are very fun to play with. Cant wait til I can actually understand
them. I can pretty much say whatever i need to say but they talk so fast and
weird here that i don't know what they are saying! I just keep praying for help
for when I will need it! Last Friday we were in a meeting with the ward
missionary and his sister. I could hardly understand anything because elder
barrett had a crazy accent and was native to Spanish. So I pretty much remained
quiet. I could tell they were talking about me sometimes though. Then at the end
the ward mission leader asked his sister to give the prayer and she said, ¿yo?
yo no entiendo español... then laughed and said the prayer. Then yesterday at
church i went up to her and said, ...yo entiendo español.. her eyes just got big
and she got an awkward look on her face and walked away. it was pretty
funny:)
Something that has been weird to me is that Robin Williams
is dead!! i saw it on the TV at the airport. its so sad how he went. It just
goes to show you that you can be loved by a million people but if you don't
realize the love that god has for you then you can still feel alone. I think
everybody should go look at the new Mormon message on
lds.org. it was well done and it really applies to
people outside of the church with a different perspective. and how a man went
from the lowest point in his life to joining the church and finding that there
is no other way where we can find more happiness than the joy that comes from
Christ.
One last little story.. So there are dogs EVERYWHERE here.
just all over the streets and all the good stuff. Sometimes they will keep
barking at us while we are walking by, then elder barrett would give them a
really angry look and start walking towards them and they would hurry and run
away. it was hilarious when he would do it. so one time i tried doing it to a
dog on the other side of some fence that was barking at us. I tried to give it a
scary look then it ran closer to us on the other side of the fence still and
started barking even louder. and i kid you not, i almost peed my pants because
when i looked into the eyes of that dog, i saw Satan.. the freakiest thing i
have seen here yet. So looks like I have to work on my scary
face!!
But I love you all. I miss you all so much. I will try to
keep the stories coming now that I'm in the craziest place on
earth!!
<3- Elder Spiderman (Rawson) :):):)
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