Well another week has gone by. I completed 5 months in the mission this sunday! And before i forget, i want it to be known that tomorrow march 3rd is Magnums 7th birthday! So i want pictures of the party he will be having! He sure is getting old, hes a good dog though. This week went by so-so. We had a couple of good teaching days, then a couple of bad teaching days. The couple that we have waiting on the marriage lisence to get baptised, is STILL waiting on th marriage lisence. We have got a few good investigators. We spent about 3 hours buzzing door bells the other day. ONE lady told us that we can come back another day when she has more time. No one else really gave us a chance. Oh well. We are trying to help the members realize that for us elders to be most effective and successful, we need their help. References from members almost always turn out with success.
As for today, we went to the mission offices to do a couple little things, the offices are in my zone here in quito so we can go anyday of the week. So after we left there we went bowling. 4 of us bowled for a couple of hours and i won every round. Im getting pretty good! It was alot of fun for me haha. After that we went over to one of the mall places and ate in the food court. I had a personal pan pizza from pizza hut and some cinna-sticks! Almost just like home! haha. It was a fairly good afternoon.
I cant beleive how fast the time here is going by! It seems just like a couple of weeks ago i left the MTC and just a couple of weeks before that i left home. So this house we are at is the ´hotel house´of the mission. All of the new missionaries stray thier first night there, all of the elders going home, all of the elders comming for training meetings, everything. So last week was exchanges and so we had our house FULL of missionaries monday through thursday! And when there are 25 missionaries in a little appartment it gets dirty quick. And we´re all 20 year old boys, so of course they dont clean up after themselves, so this morning i got to go through the house and clean it all up again. But it was alright with me. I really really enjoy working! Just that feeling of having accomplished and fineshed a big task, its very sastisfying to me. The other day we went by a building where they were pitting some stone on a wall and it hurt me to have to just walk by. I have never wanted to lay stone so bad in my life! haha. The changes that come over you on a mission are pretty drastic. My first week in Ecuador i was shocked i could get a gallon bottle of water for 1.20 and now i feel like im getting ripped off if i pay more than 1 dollar! All the little things like that i notice once in a while, i grumble for having to pay more than 1.50 for burger fries and a drink! oh goodness. I love ecuador though. I dont think i can say it enough. I love my mission. I have never learned so much about the gospel and the scriptures so much in my entire life! I just love it here!
Sorry i dont really have any news or anything much to say, maybe nextweek i will have a big extravagant story. Love you and all choose the right! Im glad to hear all is well back home. Keep doing all the things you need to be doing and you will be blessed with more work(dad, jared, zach). Dont forget magnums party tomorrow! Hes probably expecting something big so dont let him down!
Elder Morris