Elder Thayne

I liked the letter you sent from Kyle. Super cool! There's a family here, the Gortaire family, that just recently got sealed in the temple. They were the first people I met here, and they were awesome BEFORE getting sealed in the temple. But now they're just amazing. It's incredible what the sealing ceremony does. They're just so much happier and more loving. The difference is huge. It's hard for them to imagine that at one point they had even considered not getting sealed in the temple... Why can't everyone just understand what a difference it makes?! bleh.

This week we had a family night with them that was really fun! About a month ago, I made your recipe of mac and cheese for them, and they LOVED it! Then they started sharing it with their friends and family who are all making it now, and on saturday the hermana did an activity with all the young women and taught them how to make it. And that was what we ate for family night. It's taking over ecuador. Mac and cheese for the win!

This week the whole city of Guayaquil start cutting out the power. Because the whole city is run on hydroelectric power. They don't have nuclear power like in the states. The problem is, it hasn't rained here in a long time. And when it doesn't rain, there's no water. And when there's no water, there's no power. So they've put the whole city on a schedule, between about 11 and 1 there's power, and in the night starting at 5 or 6. Other than that, there's nothing. We're in the mall today writing letters because they have a backup plant. But yeah, it's kind of weird.

Well, as far as investigators go, this week we found 21 new investigators which is totally crazy. We entered a couple houses and they had all their friends over, so we wrote down all the information and addresses and stuff. But this week we lost Martha. I don't know what happened because she was so excited about getting baptized, but now she thinks she needs to wait. She wants to finish therapy before she gets baptized... ech. But oh well, we're just going to keep working with her I guess...

Well not much else this week. But could you do me a favor and send those photos from halloween to my gmail account? I need to delete them from here, but I want to put them on my memory card, which I don't have today. Thanks! Take care everyone!

Elder Thayne

Oh, I have photos too, but I'm getting sick of this computer, so I'll send them next week!